Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Ann Wagner

When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.

Niels Bohr

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

John Waters

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ""God is crying."" And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ""Probably because of something you did.

Albert Pujols

I don't try to compare myself with anybody. I don't get caught up in that because then you might take things for granted. I just try to be the best, go give it my best shot, and that's all the manager asks from me every day.

Dan Hampton

I got a little girl, she's 4-years-old. Ten years from now, when she asks me about the Chicago Bears, I'll tell her about a championship, and I'll tell her about great teams, and great teammates and great coaches. But the first thing I'll tell her about is Walter Payton.

Hank Haney

If Tiger Woods calls you up on the phone and asks you to help him, ... you've got to think he thinks you know something.

Carole Hartley

If the town continues to support us and asks us to stay, I'm sure we will continue to do both.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Joe Novak

As a whole, this class is the best athletically we've brought in here.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

Amy Butcher

As a group, we're going to decide the best family for the dog. It's going to be pretty hard.

Alison Vincent

The bottom line is that it's for the kids and the parents so they can all have the best experience possible.

Stephen Stanley

The bottom line is that, excluding the hurricane, to the best that we can tell, job growth continues to be good, as was made clear by the upward revisions to the previous two months.

Trot Nixon

As for my oblique, everything felt fine. I felt good in (right field). I caught a few fly balls, too. I felt reasonably comfortable at the plate. I'm happy with my day and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

Richard Dieter

Commutation is meant for when the law hasn't caught up with society,

Corey Brewer

You would have thought after a while they would have caught on. But we just kept running it.

Erik Hassle

I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012, the relationship I was in ended, and I took the first plane to L.A. where my Swedish label has been setting up base. I felt so much more inspired to write and record than I had ever been, and the songs just started coming.

Thomas Newkirk

There are more financial misstatements and fraud now. There was a time it was a rare day to get caught in a fraud case. In the last year or two lots of big capitalization, nationally known companies have been involved in financial fraud.

Janet Weiss

Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

John Dillon

Don't get caught up in the horror that is Paul Runge. Don't make the jump that only a crazy person could do this.

S. Hughes

Don't get caught up in a competition to be the last one out after work. It's what you do that counts - not what time you leave.

Victor Shum

Cuts in exports of oil will spark off geo-political fears that will make traders think twice about selling. Traders don't want to be caught short.

Pat Perez

Terrible, compared to yesterday. That's about it. I've played four rounds this year, three have been in the wind and I've shot over par every time.

Ed Howat

Sometimes there are problems, but when you compare us to our conference we are doing well. We just need to continue to get better.

Andre Agassi

Pretty amazing. I don't know if I can put in context how this compares with some of my greatest experiences on the tennis court, but I know it's right up there, because this is what you work so hard for.

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Dan Hendricks

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

Paul Kim

The stock is at a premium valuation right now. Compared to its peers, it's got the worst fundamentals.

Allard Baird

Is he better at this point compared to where he was last week? Yes.

Hilary Zunin

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.

Lee Smith

You're talking about guys here who play 25 to 30 games a season compared with 160 in our major leagues. They don't have facilities like we have here. You should have seen them when they got here ? they were taking pictures of the grass on the fields.

Debbie Breen

He thinks he's the manager of the toy department.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Tom Glavine

That's the manager's call. It's always the manager's call. You do what the manager tells you to do.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Dave Williams

I want to show my new manager I can pitch and show my new teammates I can pitch. That's what I'm worried about, just showing them I can win games. Everything else is really minor.

Ken Williams

Do I need a new manager or not?

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Barbara Kingsolver

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Asia Argento

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.