Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

John Grady

Patient care volunteers work with the team, of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other disciplines. There are 24 hours of training required and medical and background checks because they go into the homes to provide practical and emotional support for the patients and families.

Christine Callies

In Nasdaq, we've been in a confused bear market for a while. The background environment, particularly in the economy, is not as bad as people think.

Lawrence Story

I guess we had talked about his background and questioned him about Medicare. He said he had no problems with Medicare in the past.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Kevin Boyd

Katie is a creative, technical player who can impact a game from any position. She is easily one of the top players coming out this year.

Chuck D.

Joey is a phenomenal talent and his knowledge of the sport and athleticism are off the chart. Now everything is coming together for him.

Luis Fernandez

Juan Miguel is coming as soon as he receives the guarantee from the Justice Department and the INS that he's going to receive the custody of his boy,

David Leibowitz

I suspect that software is going to drive this generation of products much as it drove the prior generation. Nintendo has proven itself a master of coming up with software that has play value.

Nick Saban

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

Steve Nash

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

Seth Shostak

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Leif Johansson

There is a growing interest in the market to reduce fuel consumption. We now have a technology that is interesting from a commercial viewpoint . . . for a hybrid market for heavy vehicles.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Peter O'Meara

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.

Brett Hull

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

Glenn Matthews

In hindsight it was probably naive of me to make a promise that with commercial realities you can't really keep. But I'm not making any excuses. I made that promise and I regret not being able to keep that promise.

Roger B. Taney

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Don Reynolds

In a lot of ways it's been like a dream come true for us. The theater is designed in a really neat way because it invites people to a downtown experience. It's more of a theater that would accommodate a night out on the town, compared to the cookie-cutter model of some of the commercial development chains.

Casey Affleck

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

John Heisler

The five places we've had the most conversations about and also had people from those sites wanting to talk to us have been Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas and New Orleans. I think when (athletic director) Kevin White has been talking about sites and years, he was talking philosophically. There are no deals in place yet. We've got some work to do.

Carlos Ruiz

It's hard you know, ... It's a lot of games - this team played last Wednesday in D.C. - it was a hard game over there ... well for the fans, I feel very, very sad. Everybody has come here to watch FC Dallas and Dallas can't win at home the last three games.

JR

Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.

Karen Kalhoefer

There are some teams in the tournament we see all the time in the North Dallas area. There's others we don't usually face.

Renaldo Wynn

We've got a lot of Dallas fans, even in D.C.. I've been here four years, and I've just been getting sick and tired of hearing about it, what they're going to do. So you don't even know how enjoyable it was for us to get this win and get a sweep. It hadn't happened since '95. It's unbelievable. It's something I'll definitely remember.

Jackie Smith

We stepped off the plane in Dallas and it was 72 degrees. From zero to 72, that was nice.

Renaldo Wynn

Moments like that you never forget. And I'll never forget this Dallas moment.

Damon Stoudamire

That (2003) Dallas team kind of reminds me of this Dallas team. It was fun to be a part of. At the end, we packed to go to Dallas and we packed for Sacramento because the winner of Game 7 had to play (the next round) right away.

Mathieu Garon

You want to play every game as a goalie, ... If (Murray) wants me to start here or in Dallas I guess we'll find out. Right now, I don't know.

Mark Wiley

He could elevate a team to another level when he pitched, which is the sign of a guy that's on his way to being a great pitcher.

Tim Whitehead

He has elevated his game at a time when we needed it the most.

E. B. White

He is guy who elevates people around him,

Tom Donahoe

I like to see it in three years. You probably should be seeing some things in the second year that make you feel good about the guy and then the third year he should be able to elevate his game. If not, you have a problem. It's probably not going to happen.

Randy Johnson

I pitch and my teammates expect us to win and for me to put us in a position to win, and I didn't do that. My slider found too much of the middle of the plate. I didn't have a sharp one going down and away. Unfortunately, my pitches were elevated today, and I paid the price.

Ted Dellen

I'm not worried about our offense. The guys that are missing shots, they're good shooters. Once that starts going, it's going to elevate us from a good team, to a great team in February.

Kris Benson

I had a nice slider tonight and I was able to elevate a few pitches on them and get fly balls.

Al Leiter

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.

Julie Ann Emery

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

James Leal

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

William Butler Yeats

For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?

Kevin Johnson

I think it shows in our free-throw shooting. We were 12 out of 26 from the free-throw line. It took us too long to get into our offensive sets. We will improve on that by next season.

Jane Garvey

I think with every increased security measure that we put in place ... that will improve as well.

Martha Stewart

I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle.

Jim Tracy

We talked about the things that are necessary in order to dramatically improve this club. That was the gist of what I was trying to get across. There are intangible things that are necessary. There is a different mindset that we have to take on.

Ron Jirsa

We've been through the league and we've seen what we need to do to improve and we've addressed those needs (in recruiting).

Drew Neitzel

We just have to learn from this and improve with that lineup.

David Hall

You do see things instantly as they change.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Steve Albini

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Joe Gibbs

I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Jeanine Pirro

I don't even have to listen to the people because I'm a New Yorker.

Rafael Benitez

I could show you a list of controversial incidents.

Henry Garza

I can listen to an oldies station all day long,

James Steinberg

I am here mostly to listen and understand the perspective of all the parties involved,

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Rafael Benitez

Today, every time we shot it was a goal.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

Omar Minaya

He has a real shot to make this club. He's not here for show. He's here to make the club.

David Aebischer

He faked the shot and I pretty much went for it.

Sammy Mejia

He made a tough shot at a big time.

William S. Burroughs

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Michael Ryder

I just shot it, and it went in five-hole.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.