Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isiah Thomas

I would say that right now we're pretty satisfied with where we are. I don't think we will be actively out shopping and trying to make a deal or anything like that.

Laura Eimiller

Investigators are actively looking into what other crimes he may have been involved in around the country.

Robert Joseph

Iran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons capability and, if successful, the weapons could embolden the leadership in Tehran to advance its aggressive ambitions in and outside of the region, both directly and through the terrorists it supports.

Rhonda Britten

Intention is living in the present, actively choosing the future while being aware that in each moment your state of mind is up to you.

Caleb Carr

In rooting around for something to grab onto, I latched onto the past and people in the past who I felt were strong, actively ethical characters.

Jerry Falwell

I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'

Felix Rodriguez

CITGO employees are actively participating in relief efforts in those cities where the company has a presence and evacuees are being received, ... We continue to monitor the situation and stand ready to help in every way we can.

Benjamin Tal

Canadians of all age groups are not saving enough actively by putting money aside for a rainy day. How much savings is enough is a matter for debate, but most Canadian households would likely benefit from building a little nest egg.

E. B. White

In December, what (Albertsons) meant when they said they were no longer for sale is that they are no longer actively seeking bids. That of course doesn't mean any entity is prevented from bidding.

Scott Wood

There is no favoritism when it comes to run blocking or running routes, ... If all I'm going to do is run-block ... as long as the team wins, I don't care.

Marty Simmons

The guys worked really hard to get out and contest shots, and we did a much better job of blocking out. We got off to a good start, which is always important. We're just happy to come away with a win.

Jose Gomez

Their linebackers did a good job of blocking the middle, so we had the option to kick it out,

John Base

The city told me I need to move my boat. I don't know why. My yard is well maintained, and I am not blocking any sidewalks.

Paula Berg

It's not as simple as blocking out New Orleans.

George Gwozdecky

Stripping the puck, blocking shots and making quick passes up ice are more the things he brought to our program.

Robert Lambert

After the storm passed, those trucks were completely blocking Causeway Boulevard. The storm threw them like toys.

Kirk Hinrich

It's real frustrating. I got two blocking calls I didn't think were blocks. It's just frustrating, that's all. I really don't have anything else to say about it.

Jim Noonan

It's hard to get rebounds when they make all their shots. We actually did a good job of blocking out, but everything dropped through the net.

Bob Woodward

Journalism is a contact sport, ... I was 29 when people who really knew how to shoot were around.

Aaron Brink

He knew who I was and that I was a fighter, and he said 'I'd like you train me, will you teach me?' And I ended up training this kid and then I ended up losing contact with him.

Pierre Dupasquier

It could be contact with some part of the bodywork.

Sylvester Croom

He says he feels a lot better. We'll see. There will be no contact at all with him.

Margie Long

He is not being looked at in any particular way, except that he was in contact with the victim before he died.

James Frey

He fabricated an evaluation report. He fabricated the evaluation report from us, using the logo from an envelope. We have no idea where he got our envelope because we had no record of ever having any contact with him.

Colin Clarke

He ended up playing 90 minutes last week when we didn't really want him to because we are trying to ease him back. It's an injury in a place that he is going to get a lot of contact so we have to take it slowly.

Bud Selig

Physical contact between player and fan in any fashion will not be tolerated.

Eric Katzman

Our recent contact with a sugar refiner indicates the pressure is not over and actually could increase due to poor crop yields.

Livy

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

George Baker

At our twentieth reunion, we had a picnic at Cascade Park. It was 1951 and most of us had little kids. There were games and contests and it was a lot of fun.

Mike Ferda

Because of the weather (rain) in the previous contests versus Hamilton and Browning, we weren't able to run the option that much. It opens the outside running game when teams load that many defenders near the line of scrimmage. It's the part of our offense that we need to run.

Bob Parsons

Go Daddy(R) gives money away all the time. We do it with contests on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. A happy employee is a productive employee, no doubt about it. Giving more than people expect is one of my favorite parts of the job.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Jenny Lehman

In addition, there has been a lot of donations made online and through the 800 number, but that figure is the money that has come directly through our door.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Jerry Graybeal

I haven't heard directly from anyone. But I have heard from some of their representatives that they're interested.

Paul Nolte

The ISM report did have a big impact on the markets, and part of the reason is that the economy is now more of a service economy. And services are going to be much more directly and more immediately impacted by the higher energy prices we have seen.

Arthur Lewis

The insistence by CBC on the need to be able to hire more temporary workers can be traced directly to the corporation's serious funding shortfall,

Chris Hammond

A happy employee will lead directly to happy customers.

Toby Miller

It will save us time to take it directly to the public for a vote.

Tom Ridge

Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,

Jackie Wagstaff

I think she did her job as well as she was instructed to do her job.

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Van Jones

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Sarah Dessen

I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check." -Cora

William Bratton

Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder

Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

William Peter Blatty

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

Warren Rudman

If you talk to mayors, to governors, to police chiefs, they are just not ready, and we had better get ready,

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Ty Cobb

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

Michael Coleman

I never thought I would say this, but I can't wait until we get the (regular) umpires back. We still have to play ball.

Mark Hoppus

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

Lindsey Graham

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

John Irving

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Ron Polk

Umpires are umpires, but he (Smith) was just incompetent.

Drew Curtis

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Ronaldinho

My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

Ronda Rousey

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Woody Allen

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.