Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Dugan

Soon as I could walk and threw my first baseball, I have dreamed of this moment of playing in the major leagues, and now I have an opportunity of a lifetime to accomplish my dream.

H. Hart

There are two things we could do -- re-bid it or re-design it. It's the call of the agency. They'll make the decision on which way to go from an operational standpoint. The armory stands on it own as a building as far as we're concerned. Operationally, they may be able to accomplish that work somewhere else.

Claire Buchan

Well, he's said at least $550 billion. So, as I said, there are a number of ways to work with Congress to try to accomplish this, and we're in the process of doing that right now.

Brian Sabean

I don't see either route to be a surefire way to accomplish what we want to do. We're going to be challenged in the market and challenged in terms of trades. But as I step back and review our situation, the division, the league and the rest of baseball, we're in a heck of a lot better shape than some other teams.

David Bailiff

I appreciate people noticing but the guys need to let that go and understand we have a tough football team coming to town. Now we did lose. It was nice to go toe-to-toe with them, but that loss counts the same as any other loss on our schedule. We have got to move on. We have got to understand that there is a lot of season left and there's a lot of things that we want to accomplish this season.

Chris Goodman

If Don wasn't here for me to turn the program over to, I wouldn't leave. I take a lot of pride in what we've been able to accomplish in the last 20 years.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I don't want to take anything away from them, because they put together a great effort. You definitely respect them as a school and as a team, but just from watching them on film, we thought there were definitely some things we could accomplish as far as getting sacks and getting in the quarterback's face.

Richard Gregg

How we accomplish a task should not be judged only on the manual procedures involved but also by taking into account the internal controls that we have in place to mitigate the risks involved and ensure the integrity of the data.

Andre Agassi

How she helps me is with understanding the subtleties required to accomplish this task,

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

William Shakespeare

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Christina Greenberg

My grandmother is a Russian immigrant and, as a child, I always dreamed of going to Russia and opening a nonprofit there. I learned Russian as a teenager through studying books in the hopes of moving there.

Gary Kemp

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

James Burrows

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

Martin Brodeur

I've played enough in the NHL to know most of these guys. Most of the time I know their tendencies. I've been lucky. I've been fortunate to make some saves and help us win some games.

Paddy Moloney

We had such a nice time making that album. It's always a joy to work with such talented musicians. I'm very fortunate that such great players perform with us.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Al Northington

We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Scott Downs

I'm just riding a wave right now. Pitching right now is fun. I'm going out there and keeping my team in the game.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Louis Auchincloss

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Jo Coudert

It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

Edward Bach

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.