Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

John Carr

The thing I'm most proud of tonight is our defensive play. I thought our defensive guys came out and played with some intensity and enthusiasm.

Bill Wagner

The thing I'm most proud of is that after they took the one-point lead, we made plays down the stretch. In the three games we've lost, we had a lead and then the other team came back and we did not respond.

Chad Cluver

The thing I'm happy about is that he bounced back from that early game. It was a tough game for him, and he came back and played very, very well.

Arthur Hamlin

The thing I am most proud of is what we accomplished my senior year. We had lost 11 seniors and everybody was saying we weren't going to have anything. But we came back and made it all the way to the finals.

Warren White

The thing about this team is that the scoring can come from anywhere. All of the kids that came in played well. Somebody has to pick it up. We can play an inside or an outside game, it just depends on what the defense tries to stop.

Mike Denault

The thing about that is, if you go back and look at most of his shots, most of his points came off lay-ups. He was getting in the passing lanes, anticipating passes and his teammates were pretty generous giving him the ball.

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Stan Gaines

You hear all types of things and you try to not listen to it. I was shocked when he told us this morning. I enjoyed playing for him. I don't know what standard he's being judged by, but I can say nothing but good things about him.

Brian Morris

I enjoyed playing quarterback. But the way I look at it now, with us running the Power-I, I'm in a very important position in the offense. We have a great tailback with E.J. Burgess. Hopefully I can help the team any way I can.

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

Lisa Kelly

We've been through a lot together. We always had fun. We were just a group of friends who enjoyed doing things together.

Greg Baloga

I'm very proud of him. I just enjoyed his intensity.

Rob Ryerson

I'm very excited to be honored by the Maryland Soccer Hall of Fame. It is a pleasure to be recognized for the accomplishments and success I enjoyed through soccer.

Rusty Wallace

I knew when I retired that this is what I wanted to do. I've had a few broadcasting gigs and I enjoyed them.

Dan Daly

I have very much enjoyed the staff I've had the opportunity to work with over the years. The dedicated, hard working staff is the reason that it has been possible for me to have served as sheriff for 16 years,

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Dave Navarro

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Donald Fagen

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Ace Frehley

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Andy Summers

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

Richard Lloyd

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

Richard Lloyd

The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.

Suzanne Vega

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

Tom Mashek

We wanted to be aggressive. We can't sit back and let things happen. I really liked our aggressiveness. We really went after it.

Ann Richards

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Terry Stotts

I really liked the way we competed in the second half. With Michael and Mo out, I was really proud of the way our team competed.

B.o.B

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

Brian K. Vaughan

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.

Vanessa Marano

I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

Gracie Gold

In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it.

Robert Budi Hartono

I've never liked playing golf. I prefer to be on the treadmill to keep in shape.

Donald Sparrow

We had conversations about the type of music he liked and the type I liked. But they were always friendly.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Deuce McAllister

My spirits are down after playing like that.

Alfred Reft

It is emotional. But when we're playing, we're playing and we're not thinking about those things.

George Foster

I'm sexy. And I'll be playing in this game.

Ron Artest

I'm still going to be playing hard, out of control, just wild like an animal,

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Thomas Hardy

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

Thomas Hobbes

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

Thomas Friedman

The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.

Thomas Bernhard

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

Thomas Bernhard

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

Thomas Brooks

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

Victoria Principal

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.