Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Busiek

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

Curt Schilling

Hopefully, it's something he's at peace with. He's a classy guy. I wish him the best. It's a tough situation, I'm guessing, because from a pitcher's standpoint, you've got to be a backup catcher that has to catch Timmy. That represents a whole new set of challenges for whoever that guy is.

Jim Martin

(Holy Ground) is the only one that we advertise. We do have to have a backup plan, and that's what we're working on.

Alan Trammel

He's used to this. A backup catcher's job is to be on call. ... Plus, he's a great team guy. His teammates love him. He'll do whatever it takes.

David Oliver

He's living up to the role Dallas drafted him for. He could be a backup or start in the NHL. He's turning into a winner with a young team in front of him.

Andy Reid

Garcia is a guy who's had a lot of success in the National Football League. He knows how to win football games and he's been to the Pro Bowl multiple times. He's a very smart player and is very familiar with our offensive system. He'll be a great backup to Donovan.

Lee Trevino

But I can understand only three Australians and eight Japanese in the field. The Japanese buy more in the pro shop. They just backup a truck there and take everything. They're not dummies up at Augusta. They said, 'Invite more Japanese, they'll buy a lot of stuff. The Aussies, nah, they won't buy anything. The beer isn't strong enough for them.

Jon Oltsik

Mission-critical data that goes missing could result in legal liabilities and regulatory compliance violations -- an intolerable situation. One would expect that security-conscious organizations would include tape encryption as a standard security defense. Unfortunately, this hypothesis simply isn't true. In a survey of 388 storage professionals, ESG found that only 7 percent of users reported that they always encrypt their backup data while 60 percent said that they never do. There will likely be many more instances of lost tapes, which may lead to embarrassing public disclosures and expensive notification efforts.

Dale Patton

Jason is our starting tight end, our backup fullback, slot and quarterback. He has to learn four positions every week. He did a great job for us.

Edward Fitzgerald

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light

James Anderson

Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.

Brandon Gray

It was the number one Super Bowl weekend opening of all time.

Vernon Davis

I sit back and watch guys like Heath Miller coming in as a rookie and doing things like he has done, going to the Super Bowl and making plays. That is something to be proud about, a guy who played in the same conference as you. I know I can do it because I have a good work ethic.

Walt Harris

This is going to be their bowl game. We are going to be ready to go. That's my pledge, to our players, and the people who support our program. We are going to be working hard to get prepared.

Larry Fitzgerald

Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.

LaDainian Tomlinson

We needed a victory bad, ... We needed to get back to even so we could feel good about ourselves and the direction we were going. It just happened to be the Super Bowl champs and their 21-game home winning streak on the line.

Antonio Gates

Tony has definitely set a high standard at tight end. He's done it year in and year out. This is just my third year and I'm upcoming. He's been to six Pro Bowls. I have to get to six Pro Bowls to say that.

Phil Savage

You don?t win the Super Bowl in March, but you certainly prepare to win. These are three additions that will improve our team and make us better. So it?s exciting here in March, but what really matters is what happens on the first snap in September.

Laila Robins

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

Christine Elise

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

Jamie Dixon

We've seen them and we're familiar with them. Having a short turnaround as far as playing them, at least it's good that we're familiar with them.

Gordon W. Allport

What is familiar tends to become a value.

Cecelia Ahern

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

Jan Koum

Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;' I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

Randy Sanders

I'm familiar with what he teaches and he does a good job.

Vicky Hartzler

We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

Chang-Rae Lee

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Herman Edwards

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

Gianluca Vialli

You should take your time and do it now and again, like watching football

Brett Favre

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

Brian Urlacher

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Brian Bosworth

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

Brian Bosworth

Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Tony Stewart

I've been doing this for 26 years and I've played mind games with people and I've had people play mind games with me,

John Brady

I've never had a player have an injury like that. Usually it's a matter of tightening up a shoe and gutting it out. We lost Kevin for seven games and he's still not 100 percent.

Kelly Savoy

The whole purpose of the tournament was to get in as much games as we could, and I think we were sharp in everything we tried to do. We played with a lot of intensity and desire.

Doc Rivers

(The win) was huge. You know going out on the road having lost two tough ones (if we lost this one) would not have been a good scenario for us. At least we know we can hang in games and win.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Bobby Abreu

These are the only games where you can say what you're going to throw.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

Rick Carlisle

Anthony Johnson played a terrific game. He's playing with great aggressiveness and savvy and understanding the pulse of the team he is running.

Walter Cronkite

An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.

Henry Mason

And that was a great help to us in selling Lance on Wisconsin.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Rick Carlisle

The way it happened, there were some guys open for a split second. The timing was just off enough that we couldn't get anything.

Craig Kowal

The season has been so enjoyable. Not just because of where we are, but to see guys like (seniors) Heath Waller and Josh Bjerke mature into leaders, and the development of our younger players. They've all worked so hard to get to this point.

Brian Jordan

These are the teams you worry about, the guys who play the spoiler role. Now the pressure is on.

Mark Mangino

These are the guys that laid the foundation.

Doc Rivers

The rich get richer. It's always the wealthy guys that win those games.

Smoke Laval

This is a rebuilding year. But you can't say that around here. These new guys don't know any better. They don't realize we're usually doing better than this. It's the veterans we have to make sure aren't trying too hard.

Derek Waugh

This is a really big win for this team and for our program. To get this win is a big testament to the way these guys have hung in there and worked hard all season long.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Greene

People are thinking about signing up at gyms, and everyone knows people make commitments and don't stay to them.

Mike Post

This is a total team effort, ... Everyone knows they are just one piece in the puzzle of getting supplies to victims, and they all know how important it is.

Auguste Comte

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Janet Leigh

I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

Desi Arnaz

If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Charles Moore

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

John Irving

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Dennis Roland

I'd give up having the most wins for that national championship.

Uli Hoeness

I believe, like the rest of the country, that the national team is a catastrophe.

Alexander Garvin

He's not just significant in Philadelphia; he's significant as a national figure.

Ben Smith

As a young kid, she was an offensive whiz-bang.

Brian Hill

That's just our nemesis with this team. We can't seem to keep them off the offensive boards.

Gary Ernst

You have to respect every player. Each player has his own offensive identity.

Courteney Cox

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Bill Self

If we didn't make those outside shots today, it would have been an ugly offensive game. You have got to make shots when teams do that.

J. C. Ryle

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Eminem

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Eminem

I find you offensive for finding me offensive

Tom Brady

Hey, Warren why are you dogging my offensive linemen,

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

John Gregory

a sense of well-being so profound that I did not want to go to sleep.

John Thornton

As a pro player, you want to be respected.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Clint Zandt

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime.

George Hagerman

The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.

Jinny Sims

The teachers of this province are not going to be broken.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Azita Ghanizada

Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

James Wan

If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.

Socrates

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, Average people from their experiences, Stupid people already have all the answers.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Alain de Botton

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Janet Napolitano

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

Derrick Rose

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Derrick Rose

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

Craig Ferguson

These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than a picture of Anthony Weiner with his clothes on.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.