Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teller

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

Tony Crescenzi

His testimony is apt to be consistent with the notion that the Fed is still in a tightening mode and inflation is rearing its head,

Wayne Ayers

We're nowhere close to the Japanese example. When you have real deflation as they have in Japan, consumers expect prices to be lower, and they defer purchases, which makes the spiral worse. That's not an apt description of what the American consumer has been doing.

Eddie Kramer

I think 'caretaking' is a very apt description, ... I feel like we've nurtured them along. It must be 10 years ago that the Hendrix family got the rights back and in so doing we have been literally caretaking all the wonderful music that Jimi left us.

Jordana Brewster

I went to an all-girls school and then I started working when I was fifteen, so I'm not very socially apt when it comes to dating.

Frank Hadden

I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night. We have a number of candidates and we will be assessing leadership qualities and their aptitude for the job over the next few weeks.

Rick Peterson

He has the aptitude to learn that. He understands he has the weapons it takes to flip a line-up three times and not become predictable.

Neil Chethik

The man is apt to believe that she's OK with some small gesture. It could mean a small gift or a back rub.

Alex Czajkowski

Everyone bets on baseball and there is no bigger player than the Rocket. He is apt to have a real impact on whatever team he signs with, so fans will be watching closely. Only a few teams have pockets deep enough to sign him though, which could signal his return to New York or Houston .

Bob Kurtz

I was looking for something to do this summer, and I enjoy baseball a lot. Baseball and radio are a nice combination.

John Hart

Jon is young, but he has the qualities that you look for in a leader, ... He has the respect of everyone in the organization, the business department, the baseball people, the veteran scouts. He's going to be a great leader.

Mike Black

John has been one of our leaders this year. He stays steady from a 38 to a 40 all year. Our number two is Drew Waldrop, who is averaging a 39 or 40. He is just joining us back from the baseball team.

Richard Lapchick

I think in general, where he has had the influence, baseball has done well. Where he hasn't had as much influence, at the team level, there's a lot of room for growth there.

Paul DePodesta

It became clear to us that the inefficiency in decision-making in baseball was vast.

Alan Trammel

Guerrero is not human. He is an incredible baseball player. There is now way you can pitch to him.

Brad Arnsberg

The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?'

Pete Rose

had been an alcoholic or a drug addict, baseball would have suspended me for six weeks and paid for my rehabilitation.

Mitch Lukevics

He's a bright, young, energetic, up-and-coming quality type manager. He has the baseball knowledge, but he also has great communicative skills.

Konstantin Kosachev

I would welcome more flexibility from Tehran in connection with the well-known Russian proposal on joint uranium enrichment, and not place bets on the demonstration of some new types of weapons.

John LaMattina

We're of a size and can do enough different things that we're not putting all our bets on one specific area,

Mark Oliver

When they're no more good for bets and fights, they cut 'em loose.

Daniel Negreanu

He has ace-queen, which really surprised me. He played it the only way he could to get all my chips, because if he bets the flop like he was kind of supposed to, then I would've just folded.

James Paulsen

This was not a year for macro-sector bets whoever bet on sectors, or indexes other than energy, got extremely frustrated. This was the year of individual stocks.

Minoru Shioiri

Investors have taken risky one-sided bets on a rising dollar this year. Some will likely continue cutting dollar holdings through the holiday period. That's limiting the yen's losses.

Stephen Briggs

If you were to have heightened trouble at Grasberg, all bets are off.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

Ralph Axel

I haven't experienced a lull in trading like we've had in the last couple of weeks in years; it just seems no one really wants to make any huge bets going into the FOMC meeting, because they could say anything.

Frank Black

Kim reminded (guitarist) Joey (Santiago) she liked my song and maybe she'd do a lyric on top of it, which is fine, because I've written lyrics for it like three times and have never really been satisfied with it. 'Gigantic' part two is in the works! And it's going to be bigger and better than the first one!

Brian Murphy

Kilgore had some ideas on transportation, but they weren't exactly great ones. He certainly never brought them home as part of a bigger message.

Brian Murphy

Kilgore had some ideas on transportation, but they weren't exactly great ones, ... He certainly never brought them home as part of a bigger message.

Chris Clarke

I would say this game is much, much bigger than the first one. It will give us a chance to see how far we've come and where we stand.

Brad Wick

Kenny is one of the toughest guys I have ever met, people just cant see how he can go in with these bigger guys like he does. Its the shock he gives that bigger guy when he hits them that makes them know they are in for a fight.

Jane Smiley

Just look at movies. As movies are getting bigger and bigger and more expensive to produce, the screens that people are looking at them are getting smaller.

Jesse Jackson

Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a personality,

Paul Walsh

Katrina was a hurricane on steroids. For the rest of the year, the pre-hurricane effect -- now renamed the ?Katrina effect? -- will have a bigger impact on consumers that usual.

Bobby Allison

Just remember, ... my grandstand's bigger than your grandstand.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

John Barton

Jake has done a nice job, but all three of our receivers have, but people worry about Jake on the deep ball.

Morris Gleitzman

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.

Stephen Sondheim

It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good

Derrick Williams

He can throw a real nice deep ball.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Scott Harris

Helena is a deep team and very experienced. If we knock off one or two teams in doubles we have the possibility of winning the match.

Joe Logan

Half-court execution is something we've worked on. We still look to run, but as you get deeper into the MAAC, you have to score in the half-court.

Torrey Smith

I'm just a receiver. I don't want to be labeled as a deep-threat guy, which is always going to happen because I'm always going to be able to run past people until I'm slow. I watch some guys who are very good at being deep threats, but it's like people don't respect them doing anything else.

Barry Bonds

Just seeing everybody, all the fans out there was just incredible,

Craig Wilson

I think it's a great step, not only for the club, but for Jason. He's proven over the last two years what he can do. It lets the fans know that Jason will be here for a while. It's outstanding for him and for us.

Adam Dunn

I think it's a great idea. It gets the fans into (the game) and gives us something to look at.

Nikki Burish

I think it just shows how much women's hockey is growing and how good it is to all the fans out here.

Stacey Koerner

Her fans are her fans. Even if they do want to see any of these new shows, they're not going to leave her show.

David McGreal

Here's the thing about dunking, especially at the high school level. One, you don't see it that often. It gets the kid excited, the team excited, the fans excited. Then there is the intimidation factor.

Mike Peterson

There is no better feeling than silencing the crowd, ... When we were walking off the field, fans were looking at us like, 'We know it's not over. It can't be over.'

Dave Williams

I think it was more joking than anything else. The fans know the game and what went on. To me, you get traded for a guy like that, it's a compliment, and it gives me an incentive to keep working hard.

Matt Hasselbeck

It had to be 90 percent Steelers fans out there.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Mike Hargrove

He kept a good-hitting ballclub off-balance and we were able to scratch out a few runs.

Mark Nicholas

He knows his subject inside out and has a sense of timing and a wit that few people can match.

David Nalbandian

I'll be damned if I'm going to Houston to sit on my butt for a week.

Paul Tagliabue

I really thought it would take longer for Houston to get another team,

Barbara Morgan

I'm living here now. This is my place. I'm not going back. People in Houston have been wonderful to us,

Chris Palmer

Donna (Palmer's wife) and I have made a lot of friends in Houston during the two times we've lived here. We'll always maintain those friendships. I'm just sorry it didn't work out the way everyone wanted.

Jim Lovell

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

Jim Lovell

Houston, we've had a problem here

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Chase Utley

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.

Kris Benson

He's going to make a big impact on all of us.

Felipe Alou

It could be too late but an impact he'll make. It may not be visible big time, but it will be (impacting).

Bob Lohn

I think the practical impact should be quite small,

Ken Simonson

I think the impact is going to be nationwide for construction.

John Beck

To get a player of his caliber, they said they thought they were very blessed. They said he has the potential to be an impact player very soon.

Tony Tan

He has left an impact not only on the United States but on the whole world.

Richard Lamm

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

Rodney Stark

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

Sarah Lacy

To me, the last mile of the Internet that very few people have successfully really done. And this is like micro local. Things that really impact your life. And noone's leveraging that yet.

Jerry Krause

I wrote, 'He's as smart a young player as I've ever seen,'

Ben Chandler

I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy.

John Madden

He could do it as a player and he could do it as a coach, because they respect him. That's what it's all about.

Charlie Coe

He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.

Justin Fishman

GW has always had talented players because of where it's located.

Chris Morris

He's a very experienced and uncompromising midfielder, and I like having that type of player in my squad.

Kelvin Sampson

He's a unique player and he kind of does what we need.

Dave Tippett

He's a tremendous player who does everything so well. And he's going to be especially important under the new rules.

Michael Barrett

I think it?s going to be a lot more like home. I think players are going to end up spending a lot more time here.

William Gibson

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

Henry Rollins

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Jude Law

You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.

Paulo Coelho

He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !

Joseph Stiglitz

When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Eddie Vedder

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Robert Frost

Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

Robert Anton Wilson

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Warren Buffett

Returns decrease as motion increases.

W. S. Gilbert

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ben Kingsley

I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.

Jack Wagner

If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvania taxpayers,

Kenneth Fisher

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

Shimon Peres

It's a very sad day and a very serious situation. And the first and most urgent task is to return from shooting to talking,

Skyler Green

It'll be a tight game. One long punt return could make a difference.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Joss Whedon

Can't stop the signal

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Roseanne Barr

In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, "Sorry, we're open.

Robert Reich

All the signs are that they are going to split off,

Shan Foster

It's amazing; I can read street signs but I can't make a 3-pointer.

Wendy Suehrstedt

It's at that time that the big signs will change.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Susanne Villarreal

That's why those signs didn't go up because somebody called and complained about them.

Tom Bentz

There are some signs that things are getting better.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Willie Williams

We just have to go there and finish. This is a different team from 1995 and, hopefully, we will have a different result.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

Jack Rio

I think we're right there with a clump of teams that are on the verge.

Brad Joyner

I think it was huge. (Rocky Mount) is going to be one of the better teams in the conference.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jim Kinyon

These teams know each other well enough that we know what to expect.

Bryan McCabe

It will be tough. Not many teams go out there and win too many games.

Devan Downey

They were one of those teams that we were so much better than them, we thought we could turn it on and off.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Turner Gill

I'll be watching right up front. Won't everybody?

Gavin Henson

I'll probably be watching it at home, with Charlotte.

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Madonna Madonna

I had the same thing when we were watching Live 8,

Brenda Johnson

It was surreal, just watching her. But this wasn't her first rodeo.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.