Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Ganis

This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based business. His success with the Redskins has been nothing short of phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing when he paid a then-record $800 million for this franchise.

Judy Shaubach

This isn't about beating Central or any other team in our league. This is about being committed, focused and mature enough to play to your ability every single inning. If we do that, the wins will take care of themselves.

Scott Allen

This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.

Charles Wald

The weather is improving, and we're flying around the clock more, and we have the ability to service all of Kosovo, ... So we're just taking the fight to the whole area.

Larry Noble

The whole culture is based on the ability to raise funds. Most of the ones who are running for the leadership are very well-connected in this fundraising community.

Trent Duffy

The White House and the administration are cooperating with both the House and Senate. But we have also maintained the president's ability to get advice and have conversations with his top advisers that remain confidential.

James Sung

The upgrade is based on the company's demonstrated ability, as reflected in improved operating performance and capitalization, to successfully operate in the challenging New York State regional market.

Bruce Schneier

The way to fix this is we need a better ability to know where to look. It's the drinking out of the fire hose problem. Turning up the fire hose isn't going to help.

Mike Magee

This deal will allow us to expand our coverage significantly and give us the ability to share our common resources and top reporting skills.

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Dennis Smith

saw some people in distress across the river near the Mexican bank, and that was reported up through Border Patrol channels and relayed to Mexican officials.

Kevin Hawkins

These results confirm unequivocally that retail price deflation continues, with price deflation across the board showing a month-on-month decline for the third time this year.

Phil Koperberg

The RFS is working in China, Malaysia, Bhutan, South Korea and Indonesia. We regularly send firefighters to the US at the management level to help with some of their enormous fires. Our losses are lower in comparative circumstances and we are generally ahead of the pack in terms of managing the fire issue across the board.

Shawn Hall

This is a scam. It doesn't affect a lot of businesses 200 last year out of millions across Canada but when it does strike it can run up bills of several thousand dollars in just a couple of days. We're just encouraging customers to take a few simple steps to protect themselves.

Dan Danner

This is a resounding victory for thousands of small-business owners across the country who for decades have fought to liberate themselves from an unfair and punitive tax on their life's work.

Mike Chung

This is a reflection of all three domestic manufacturers lowering incentives across the board. It's a good and positive first step, but that's what it is - a first step in the right direction.

Jeff Francoeur

This is going to be a neat opportunity. It's going to be great to be able to go out there and have 'USA' across my chest. It's certainly an honor.

Kirby Wadsworth

Towards the end of 2006 and into 2007, you're going to start to see integrated ILM and CDP solutions, where CDP literally feeds the ILM infrastructure. Everything flowing through a CDP stack makes it really easy to apply policies to the data without impacting the online data flow. And that's where I think you really start to see the power of this. Not just in the instantaneous recovery or the DR components of it, but the long-term ILM integration.

Michael Jackson

We're in the planning. Classes will start late this year or early next year. We want to train people with viable marketing skills and rudiments in entrepreneurial skills. You learn and apply it however you best need it.

Vint Cerf

We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.

Naya Rivera

I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

Martin Scorsese

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

Hasso Plattner

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Les Smith

We've implemented a system which converges the application process with hunter education records. As in 2005, clients can purchase their license at the same time they apply for a big-game tag. The program fills in the verified hunter education records when the hunter purchases the license through the big-game tag draw process.

Alan Furst

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

Dennis Smith

We talked to our doctor and had him tested and he said he definitely did not have ADHD.

Cory White

He was definitely dominant on the mound today.

Tony Parrish

I always look forward to doing things that promote the game. This will definitely be an event that we'll look back on, and see it as a turning point in the international game.

Kevin English

I would definitely say he was not over-confident. He has a lot of confidence, but over-confidence is not something he has.

Chuck Caldwell

I would definitely not feel comfortable. I'd have an open mind, but I wouldn't be comfortable.

George Erdahl

I would definitely have to put them as the favorite. Whoever wins it is going to have to go through them.

Jesse Broderson

She was definitely on her game today. She's playing smart, and it showed on the back with seven pars and two bogies.

Sherill Baker

She's a veteran so she's more experienced and I'm sure she's going to help me out with plays and showing me the ins and outs. I'll definitely be there to listen to her.

Tracy Roller

She's definitely understanding, defensively especially, our system. She is finding a place on our team for sure.

Dick Hill

Higher oil prices are all we'll look at in the future. No way is this going to be like 1982 or 1987, where the market collapses and we'll be back to $1 for a gallon of heating oil.

Josh Bidwell

It was pretty obvious to me at the time that I wasn't the future for the team at that position,

Paul Kim

They will be motivated as to what they should in the future to help each other,

Neil Armstrong

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

Paul Gauguin

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

Margaret Beckett

Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

Seth Greenberg

Shawn Harris was magnificent tonight. ? If I was Kreskin and I could predict the future and knew he would make a play (at the end to win the game), I would have put him in.

Pete Seeger

I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

William Arthur Ward

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

William Arthur Ward

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

William Joyce

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

William Irwin Thompson

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Butler Yeats

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

Walter Savage Landor

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Walter Dean Myers

I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.