Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Fitch

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

Jerry Wainwright

You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole season.

Tom Jurich

We've said it from day one, that if this arena was going to cut into anything at the university then we weren't in favor of it. We reluctantly went downtown to be a team player and to be on the river to go in accordance with the task force and to be a full partner.

Wayne King

Don't get me wrong: It would be nice to have this type of arena here, but not at Lawson Creek Park.

George Platt

But by the same token, I don't think that the arena itself will be enough of a destination so we have to have other things as part of the plan, too.

Ron Holt

Basically, the idea is that the arena needs to be near an existing district rather than rely on creating its own district,

W. Hull

I'm also not going to cut my nose off to spite my face, because I also know that-without sounding egotistical-there are some people who bring the 20,000 or so fans into the arena to watch. And as much as I'm older, I think I'm kind of an exciting player at times.

Matt Osborne

Getting to the Arena is a huge step for our program.

Gene Doris

From my view of things, that is where I want our program to be. And I still fully believe in the fact that keeping the arena configuration in the way that we did this year because you've got to take the necessary steps to get there.

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

Taylor Jacobs

We can't really control that. We have to do what coach says to do. We just need to capitalize on all of our opportunities, but that's something that's really not in our hands.

Phil Kendall

There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed phenomenal levels of subscriber growth. In particular, Russia, India and Indonesia saw major growth in new users in 2005, up 40-50 percent over 2004 levels.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Lee Humphrey

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

Eric Patterson

The only time we'll have to play a Broward or Dade team is if we play them in the state championship. We're looking forward to that.

Gary Smith

Bret Harte stuck it to us last year. We learned a lesson. Our kids are looking forward to playing them again.

Jamal Mashburn

I look forward to retirement life. It's been a great time. I've learned a lot, but now it's time to move on.

Bob Richardson

I look forward to resolving the security problems in the State Court.

Dan Wheldon

I look forward to proving a point to him.

Alex Ovechkin

I look forward to playing Friday and in the Olympics.

Jay Hood

I look forward to next two years, ... And hopefully, many more after that.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Hugh McColl

Without question, reading has been the foundation of whatever success I've had in my life." ()

Hill Harper

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

Robin Wright

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

Jay Blanton

This was and is a registered foundation that was in good standing. We look at each of these on a case-by-case basis.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Brian Regan

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Michael Oxley

What the law really does is enshrine the principles of honestly and accountability that I learned growing up in Ohio ... You never get in trouble by doing the right thing,

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

Tim Wallace

I'm pleased with our progress. 2005 was another growth year for us.

Francis Gaskins

Their rate of growth is high. A lot about investing is getting in the market segments where the rate of growth is high.

Kenneth Fisher

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

John Ruskin

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

John Ruskin

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mason Cooley

Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

Mason Cooley

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

Mason Cooley

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

Charles Moore

In the same way that it's multiple sources, it's multiple solutions.

Ann Veneman

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Silvan Shalom

I don't think its the real position of his party.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Kim Priez

It's very controversial and we don't have a position on it.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We are not in a position to propose a specific plan.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Dennis Hastert

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.