Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Gretchen Mol

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with the photographs.

Carol Smith

We need a new police department building. And they are working with 25-year-old dispatch equipment. The city has property, they could have the funds for a new police building.

David Vitter

We need all the federal help that we can get to rebuild the city of New Orleans and our coastal communities,

Jim Tracy

I will work with the mayor and city council to see if we can come up with a phase-in, so it won't be a tremendous hit, ... Murfreesboro City Schools is an outstanding school system, and we want to keep it up to the level it is now.

Shaun Williams

I won't be surprised if the New York fans treat the Saints the same way we were treated in Kansas City - before the game. But once the game gets started I think the New York crowd will go back to being a New York crowd.

Steven Robinson

I wish the city would just back off. You let it sit for 30 years. The people on the south side want their neighborhood back.

Fernando Mateo

I was there not as anything that has to do with the city, City Hall, the campaign, ... I was there as I'm always there: to help my community in whichever way I can.

Alberto Bianchetti

We do know it is measured in the 100 of millions of dollars as the end price tag for the end total for a municipal power system in a city the size of Syracuse.

Og Mandino

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Frank Gillett

I would expect this to be primarily about experimentation.

Robert Long

I would expect a strong payrolls number Friday, and for the market to have some sort of positive response to it, even if it's just very short-term.

Todd Barker

We were missing several girls (for various reasons), and all of them would've placed. I really did expect the guys to win.

Jim Stallings

I do expect 2006 to be a release year.

Brad Doyle

I do not expect all of the snow to melt before next weekend. Far from it.

Rick Ford

He did as well as he could. He hadn't been working out that much because he didn't expect the trade. I thought he was winded and tried to get him some shorter minutes in the second half.

Dave Nosworthy

He's been training with us and I expect him to play.

Thomas Burke

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Doug Larson

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Doug Liman

When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.

Dorothy Stratten

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

Donna Air

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living.

Donna Leon

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

Donald Barthelme

Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce.

Don DeLillo

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

Don DeLillo

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Tom Mihalovich

Sometimes we try too hard. We were trying to make too good of plays.

Kent Mueller

Sometimes we get, I don't want to say unrealistic, but our expectations are awfully high. That's not to take anything away from Madison. We had some lapses defensively, which is not typical. But at the same time, the offense was so good so early, which really isn't typical.

Gerard Houllier

Sometimes we do not know what happens inside ourselves, but the good thing is that it seems a minor thing and he will be back training the team,

Brad Richards

Sometimes those things happen. You put the puck on net and good things happen. Sometimes you are on the right side of the puck.

Ted Epley

Sometimes they just don't go in. We had good looks from inside and out.

Bill Brown

Sometimes there are too many people who tell you how good they are. And Jordan is the opposite. He'll just go out and show you.

Andi Ferris

Sometimes it's harder to hang onto a small lead than it is to come back from one. It's frustrating at times, but it's part of coaching. The ladies did a good job of protecting the ball, and the lead today; we did a good job all-around.

Paul Stewart

Sometimes, it's good to spend more and get quality service that's going to save you money in the long run.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

David Chamberlain

We've got so much stuff. Everybody's help was overwhelming and it was nice to not have to worry about where we'd get the money to pay for this kind of stuff.

Greg Williams

We're trying to help our shooting percentage - get some shooters in here. To lose by three and shoot around 50 percent from the free-throw line - that's not going to get it.

Barry Hannah

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

Kelly Shackelford

We think the vast majority of people in Texas are with us but that doesn't help if they don't show up.

Don Lemon

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

John Bauer

Things have to be coordinated, ... We just can't have people running around doing what they want.

Jamie Johnson

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other.

O. Henry

The whole program has turned a corner. If people didn't know us before, they know us now.

Jennifer Granholm

The will of the American people is stronger than any hurricane's wind,

Michael Garcia

The word isn't getting out so much, and if more people knew, they would campaign.

Jason Hagadone

These are tougher. We're in (the games) and we know we should win them. We've got the people and opportunities to win them. We just need to come through.

Duncan Hunter

These are the people who tried to kill us,

Alex Knott

These are the people that really get things done. There is a premium on them and there is a reason.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.