Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

John Schuerholz

Our doctors say that injury heals itself. I hate to lose him for one day (but) it just takes time. It should take no more than that time and maybe not even quite as much time as the 15 days will provide. To be absolutely certain that he is healthy when he returns, we're putting him on the list.

Aretha Franklin

A fellow Detroiter, Wilson Pickett was one of the greatest soul singers of all time. He will absolutely be missed. I am thankful that I got the chance to speak to him not too long ago.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Tedy Bruschi

After I was able to complete workouts and run the conditioning workouts over and over again, I knew this was going to happen, ... I'm not going to jump into something without being absolutely 100 percent positive. And I am.

Bronson Arroyo

The most promising thing (about the trade) is I won?t have to worry about going to the bullpen . . . unless I?m absolutely horrible.

Gregory Geoffroy

Sounds like what we've got tonight is a little bit of Hilton Magic (here tonight). I can tell you that I am absolutely delighted at the outcome.

Sven Goran

Sometimes I feel you should not say too much about a young player, but he is absolutely incredible.

Oscar Wilde

One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Tom Davis

Even though we might have been as talented, we weren't as good (as 2004-05). We didn't execute as good as we did a year ago.

Phillip Woods

We want to execute our offense and get back in the flow of things. Hopefully we can get back to where we were (before the break).

Pat Summitt

This team should not have lost back-to-back games. Kentucky was better tonight. This team has to understand that they just can't go out there and play. They have to execute a game plan and be mindful of one possession at a time on offense and defense.

Robert Stimson

We expect Oracle to immediately execute a round of layoffs targeted at Siebel's back-office and administrative employees.

Roy Green

Losing is tough. I thought we played well enough to win. We didn't quite execute the way we wanted to down the stretch. We got a shot, which is what we wanted.

Robert Nichols

That was pretty nice to get in the end zone. I know what I have to do, I just have to execute and make it happen.

Matt Doherty

I was very disappointed in the first half with the way we played. We were not sharp. Maybe I tried to get them too jacked up. Maybe we were too aggressive. We didn't execute well.

Kim Ensing

We had good focus from start to finish. We didn't really execute offensively, but we won with our heart. I've said it all season long, this team has heart.

James Blake

I thought I played really well tonight. I was able to execute and keep it going. I think he (Brian) got down on himself in the second set and I'll take that anytime.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Ian Kawas

We were fairly nervous, just in the sense that we were the favorites. We're rarely the favorites.

Mark Foster

We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn't have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Stacy Palmer

We really seem at a stage where growth is happening in a fairly spectacular way.

David Dukes

We do this to recognize individuals who report fairly and accurately.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Jay Campos

We want to find out where we're at in the regular season, instead of waiting for the playoffs.

Bob Brennan

You have to use your mind instead of gears.

Mike Stack

We're taking a proactive approach, instead of waiting or seeing if anything happens.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Don Griffin

You can never make a place 100% safe, but you can do some things to minimize the dangers.

Greg Blache

You have to tackle. You're not going to shut him down, but you want to minimize his big runs.

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Miley Cyrus

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

Alan Cranston

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

Al Franken

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

James Wolcott

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

William Williams

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Justin Dentmon

I've never seen so much red in my life.

Mel Sachs

It would still be red when he landed.

Logan Dance

Your skin will turn red if you're not careful.

Jase Robertson

When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.

Matt Hasselbeck

We fizzled when we got in the red zone. That hasn't been characteristic of our team. That's not us.

Fran Theos

The Red Cross, as did a lot of other groups, worked very, very hard.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Herman Frazier

We will sit down with her and there will be reduction of that this year.

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.

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.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Bruce Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Edmund Hillary

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Britney Spears

Success is sometimes harder than failure, because when you are successful, people expect so much more out of you.