Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael A. Stackpole

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Faure Gnassingbe

But the contract stipulates that the workers must receive a daily wage of 3000 FCFA,

Julie Rochman

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

Rashard Lewis

The type of contract I'm looking for - I feel like this is my last really big deal - I don't know if they'll be willing to pay that.

Herb Hunter

There are people disappointed out there. We thought the last five and a half years of the ESOP would make a difference in these contract negotiations.

Cathy Mann

Once all the facts were fully examined, it is clear, and now confirmed, that KBR performed this work appropriately per the client's direction and within the contract terms.

Ernie Merrick

Daniel and Steve are very good, solid young players who deserve contract extensions after their performances last season.

Robbie Fowler

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.

Mark Blondin

They won themselves a pretty good contract offer. The members said 'no' and stood up. ... Eighty-six percent sends a message.

Sinorice Moss

No one respects us right now, ... I know we had a decent season, but that's not expected out of a University of Miami team. People expect better. ... We're the underdogs right now, and we understand that.

Bobby Frankel

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

Sean Singletary

I feel I got a decent look at it. It just didn't go in, but there are a lot of little things during the game we didn't do that was the deciding factor.

DeAndre Scott

He's got a decent size list, he's going to try to narrow it down from there. He doesn't have a top three or five, he's just trying to see who all is interested and how he would fit in.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Craig Brown

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

Paul Godfrey

Tim's job was to manage contracts... and he did a decent job on it. But we are re-structuring in a different way.

Gary Evans

We have tried to treat our people like we want to be treated. We try and pay a decent wage and have been fortunate to hire some really good people.

Rick Rudesill

We were getting decent looks, but they were going in and out. The panic set in and we stopped doing the little things to score.

A. A. Milne

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Mia Hamm

I'm a part of a team, and I'm no better or any worse than any single player on this team. That's the approach I've always had and will continue to have. It's not about me. It has never been all about me. If it had, this would have been a really lonely journey.

Paul Roos

For the sake of waiting another week, we can get in two sessions this week and next week. He has done a lot of running, his fitness is very good. He is 50/50.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Lao Tzu

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

Granth Sahib

He Himself is the Immaculate Lord. He who has created, shall Himself destroy.

Benjamin Franklin

He may well win the race that runs by himself

Troy Robinson

We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened,

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

P. G. Wodehouse

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Jimmy Fallon

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Joe Garagiola

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

Joe Torre

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

Joe Maddon

I have not seen the National League enough to know.

John C. McGinley

Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Pope

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

Alexander Pope

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

E. M. Forster

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Pete Carroll

This two-week opportunity for them really makes them dangerous,

Bill Belichick

We got a lot of people an opportunity to play and you never know when that's going to be beneficial.

Mark Sinatro

We can now take this opportunity to reach for the stars.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Steve Irwin

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

Tiffeny Milbrett

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

Tom Osborne

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Sam Altman

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

Sam Altman

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

Mike Bossy

To be honest, no NHL team ever has called me,

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.