Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Jackson

They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. They got it righted and played good defense to get back in the game. I knew that Kobe would find a way out there to help us win.

Corey Dillon

They almost burnt me with a Marlboro or something. They threw hot coffee on my leg. Or maybe it was hot chocolate. It was hot, though. It burnt my leg a little bit. It's not a big issue.

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

R. Inge

The way he's been pitching lately, we almost feel obligated to go out there and get him some runs. Confidence is the key in baseball. When you feel confident, you're going to put up good numbers.

Jeff Johnson

The waterline was almost at the top of the basement when they began dewatering. I am amazed at how fast they've been able to remove so much water. I didn't expect this much progress for months. Amazing.

Ken Tower

These are things that people can be nervous about and, yes, they're concerns. But let's face it: the world has trouble almost every day. It's probably not a major factor for our market.

Jeremy Friesen

The rift, if not civil war, within the Liberal party also presents an almost Herculean task for any new leader.

John Pratt

The richest man in the world got wealthy even though his company sells almost nothing tangible.

Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

Anna Quindlen

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

Cindy Margolis

I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.

Cindy Margolis

I call my children "My Hundred Thousand Dollar Babies Before They Were Even Born"!

Cindy Margolis

Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it's the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially.

Cindy Margolis

Yeah, baby! I didn't get to keep the pink baby doll outfit, but I wish I did because people are always telling me I should wear it.

Chuck Yeager

Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale ... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.

Cindy Crawford

Nothing I have accomplished has given me more confidence than birthing my children at home naturally. I was so high after delivering my children-not just because I had a new baby, but because I was so proud of what my body (and mind) were able to do. I strongly encourage women not to give this power away.

Alfred Austin

When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

Mark Takano

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Brad Turner

They haven't changed defensively since 1991 when we went there and Coach Rush was the defensive coordinator,

Didier Lombard

What has changed is the pace of evolution.

Willie Nelson

What has changed is that nothing has changed. . . . That's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Bonaventure Kalou

What has changed is our state of mind. We had not seen this for a long time.

Levon Kendall

We were kind of talking about it, joking around. It didn't seem like (the Big East tournament run) had much effect. It seemed like we could have lost in the first round and it wouldn't have changed much.

Mathieu Garon

We gave them the game. We were up four, but in the second period we took a couple penalties, the momentum changed and they were on their game.

Christian Bale

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Paul Dugan

Therapy has totally changed these days. When I first started up in town 18 years ago there were 10 chemicals (medicines to treat cancer), now there are 50.

Dave Piepenbrink

Pitchers want to play for him (Reed). He's got a lot of experience and he's done a good job with the staff.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Deirdre Lovejoy

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.

Philip Howard

In the rich cities, an Internet user who spends $1 actually gets more out of their experience and finds more Web sites in their language.

Mohammad Khan

In the past decades, all the time our people have had the experience of fighting,

Mark Gertler

In terms of his stature and experience, Kohn would be a natural person to turn to for the vice chairman's job.

Ned Yost

In terms of experience and guys getting better, we've taken that step. We've made the strides that we set out to make this year as far as big-picture stuff.

John Sullivan

If you're interested, please show your support for this proposal. No experience is necessary.

Miguel

If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

Dennis Smith

A year ago, I think I filled my tanks in the $1.15, ($1.18) range, and this year, we're pushing $2.25 to $2.30.

Jim McPhail

We have to come up with a person to fill the unexpired term, which will end on June 1. We are pressed to get a majority party member and need to have a special meeting.

Sam Smith

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Robert Herjavec

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

Tony Romo

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

Richard Branson

From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

Richard Branson

I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things.

Richard Branson

Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!

Richard Branson

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Richard Branson

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.