Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Srivats Sampath

Oil Change will detect all of the hardware and software on your PC and ... compare it with our database.

Emily Martin

Once we figured out where the game was and what time it was going to start, we did a pretty good job. But it was kind of weird at the start. I'm just glad we found out about the change on time.

Mike Donato

Actually, it was just a change of heart more than anything else.

Jeremiah Gertler

The more high-profile a recommendation by the Pentagon, the more likely they (commissioners) have been to change it.

Jim Cooper

The mood has been loose. We've done everything exactly the same way. We can't change who we are now. There are some nerves naturally. But hopefully they'll have them too.

Kent Redfield

The money situation doesn't really change the dynamic too much.

Richard Madden

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Wayne McCants

Right now they are classified as an exotic.

Tom Wopat

These classic shows deserve to be revived. Otherwise, people have no context for these great songs which become such a visceral part of our awareness.

Don Bohanan

These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully complete them can do college-level work.

Ruth Johnson

The writing contest is a way for teachers to get kids writing. It gives them a purpose, a real-world experience. They get feedback from others and not just from me as their classroom teacher. They have a wider audience.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Robert Morris

This is a straight forward story. There's a high probability that they hit their (quarterly results) numbers in the coming quarters. This is not a one or two-year phenomena -- it's something they can extrapolate into the future with world class distribution and product.

Jim Daniels

This is not an easy thing to get right. You can start sounding like a health class or too sophomoric.

Jim Daniels

This is not an easy thing to get right, ... You can start sounding like a health class or too sophomoric.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

John Wallace

Publicly he's saying one thing and in the court he's saying another thing.

Sue Bird

This is huge, especially because we're in a position to get a home court in the playoffs. It was not only a win, but a win on the road. Hopefully we can take this momentum to Houston.

Briann McDonough

This is great because we lost to them earlier in the season at home and you don't forget someone celebrating on your home court like that. I feel like we have something to prove in this tournament.

Diane Goodman

This is the first time the Supreme Court has upheld a judgment of parentage between a same-sex couple,

Ralph Neas

This is the first time in 11 years that we've had a Supreme Court vacancy, the longest time since 1823.

Jimmy Ray

This is not a court system, not a sheriff's system. This is a single criminal system, where all the pieces work together. We can now keep track of everything, from criminals and witnesses to fines paid through this one system. It's a fantastic tool for us, and it's only going to get better.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Kevin Watkins

on debt at least it sounds encouraging, it seems there has been some progress.

Brian Redican

The state's doing it tough. And the fundamentals of weak house prices and record household debt mean there's not much light at the end of the tunnel.

Martin Feldman

It would be imprudent for RJR to pay down any of its existing debt,

Richard Bove

It would have been difficult for Goldman not to do well. Goldman is more oriented to equities than debt, and stocks rose throughout the period.

Dick Bronson

I understand that some debt disappears. But this steep incline ... this is serious stuff.

Ron Gidwitz

These are programs that the state right now can't afford. We're already in debt.

Mike Wilson

This is a practical, rational restructuring of the debt.

P. Herbert

A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Miroljub Labus

There are no financial means in the country.

Alan Greenspan

Because it is a highly leveraged operation and one which requires very sophisticated hedging of interest rate risk, it's imparting a significant potential systemic risk to the American financial system,

Robert Kiyosaki

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it

Jeff Byrd

Theres no financial return to us, but its something weve needed for a long time,

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the P.B.G.C. is not improving.

Thomas Sowell

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

Suze Orman

If the relationship between you and your money is harmonious, regardless of how much you have, your financial transactions will be harmonious as well.

Tony Blair

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

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.

Doug Beard

Putting on three hockey games is something we do all the time. It's all the other things that go into it.

Dale Tallon

Realistically, we're 10 points out of the playoffs with some games in hand. But we've got to get it together. It'll take 92 to 96 points to get into the playoffs, so in the next 48 games, we'll need 64 to 68 points. It's possible, but it won't be easy.

Grady Sizemore

These are all big games for us and this was a huge win. It would be tough to win all of the games we have left, but if we keep playing the way we're playing now we should be all right.

Earl Boykins

The scoring will come. The most important part of the playoffs is your defense. We are playing well on defense. You win games on defense.

Rod Brind'Amour

The schedule is just kind of crazy, there's too many games. There's no time to just get away from the game.

Kip Drown

I've told our kids we have to go and play 40 minutes to get to come back home. It's not like we're a typical six seed where we have to win three games on the road to win the title. Hays has no better talent than we do; the team that steps up and make plays will win.

Jennifer Grubb

I've tied many games as a player. That's part of the game of soccer.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Ruben Patterson

(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.

Ben Caspit

One day, the prime minister might find himself in one contretemps too many, too late. It could be, incidentally, that that is where he is today.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Ron Gardenhire

He's staying within himself right now. He's been working very hard. Hopefully it's going to pay off for him.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Waisale Serevi

I've spoken to all of them and they're interested to play in Melbourne.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Oprah Winfrey

You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to me all the time - they say, 'Hey Oprah, I just wrote a book,' or 'I'm a singer,' but you're the first person who ever made that true.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Nolan Ryan

You never rule things like that out. We would be interested in seeing where the (Marlins) ownership is on that.

Boris Spassky

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Brian Tracy

There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Daniel Clowes

I don't think anything to do with who publishes the work matters at all, as long as they're not compromising to get published.

LaVerne Knox

I don't mind being in the shadow right now. What matters is where you are after that game.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Jeff Gundy

What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Claire McCaskill

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

M. Wolfe

People say you have to be a member before you're serviced. No, you do not,

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Jason Chaffetz

Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

Troy Vincent

That's his right and that's our fiduciary responsibility to protect him - any member of our association.

Eric Swalwell

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

Lawrence Wilkerson

When I rationalize for myself not resigning, I did it by saying, 'This is the only sane member of this administration.

Trevor Noah

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

Brad Thor

After 9/11, if people made movies about terrorism, the U.S. was evil and Muslims were misunderstood: 'Lions for Lambs,' 'Stop-Loss,' 'Rendition.' Well, all these movies didn't do particularly well. In Hollywood, people scratched their heads, but the reason they didn't do well is because in Middle America, people want to see their values triumph.

James Altucher

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Carrie Coon

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it.

Bruce Buchanan

That used to be his sanctuary, out in the middle of rural Texas where he could get his mind off his troubles. And now his troubles are right down the street.

Jessie Davis

That's my truck on the road. I see it. It's in the middle of the road.

Sami Abdulbari

You pull a lot more as a guard. You're always in the middle of the action.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Anna Kendrick

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Joe Gibbs

We think somebody who's 24 years old is going to be playing here a long time.

Scott Heffley

We didn't make the switch until the season had already started but now they seem to be getting comfortable with each other and anticipating where each other is going to be. Right now they are just playing off each other and working really well together. It seems if one is scoring, the other one is getting the assist.

David Kelley

We got as much out of this team as we could. We've been playing undersized and outmanned all season.

Kobe Bryant

We want to go into the road trip playing with some momentum, playing with some kind of rhythm.

Jason Ferguson

We weren't up to playing the way we were supposed to play.

Aziz Ansari

I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"

Demi Lovato

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

Daniel Handler

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Blaise Pascal

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Brad Williams

I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

Barry Gibb

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Brian Greene

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

David Nicholls

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Allen Iverson

If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.