Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Bochy

I've touched base with him just to make sure he is ahead of schedule at this point. He's fully aware of how important it is for him to be in a little better shape to start out spring training than what he's probably accustomed to.

Farris Lowery

That swing at the end of the first half was an example of something happening that we're not accustomed to. We're usually pretty good in that situation ... but not that time.

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Dan Burton

Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,

Jeremy Foley

First of all, Urban has brought together a fan base that was fractured. We were not having as much success as we were accustomed to, and here in Gator Nation people expect us to be successful. People look at Urban, look at his record, and they like what they see.

Greg Davis

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

Charlie Pile

The track here is not suitable to prepare them for the Games and the whole idea is to make them accustomed to the smaller, tighter track. This is 47 degrees at its steepest and calls for a lot more control and concentration so we want to make them comfortable on that type of surface.

Martin Jacques

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.

Edward Jackson

We want to be able to get students acclimated and accustomed to alumni activities early. As a result, in the fall, you will see more alumni activities involving students.

Andy Reid

Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively.

Dave Phillips

The team showed a lot of heart tonight. We're 11-2 in dual meets, so I think that gave us a lot of confidence coming into the tournament. We're a very balanced team and they all gave their best, so I'm very proud.

Ed McClanahan

The teams are pretty evenly matched. What it came down to is they got more balanced scoring and they got the shots they needed in the fourth quarter to pull away from us and get the win.

Eric Tyson

I've long loved balanced funds, especially for skittish investors, because the bonds mask the volatility of the stocks. When I was doing financial planning, I saw that people often had a hard time keeping in mind the overall portfolio, and a balanced fund kind of forces them to do that.

Thomas Powell

Don't live a balanced life. Live an integrated life.

Hosni Mubarak

encouraging, balanced and gives hope for the peace process to move forward.

Alex Rodriguez

There's probably 15 or 16 offensive categories, if you want to be a baseball junkie. I may have led in 10 or 12 of them. I think being a balanced player and saving a lot of runs on the defensive side was a major factor. Ortiz is an unbelievable offensive player.

Jamie Newberg

What Urban Meyer and his staff did this season was so impressive. They have filled all their needs and that's the most important factor. But they did this with some great players. This class is also so well balanced from top to bottom.

Scott Yates

We were pretty balanced last year, and we'd like to keep that balance. It makes it more difficult for the opposing defenses.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Larry Garrison

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.

Demian Bichir

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Nat Cole

I've worked too long and too hard to play in some little joint for $65 a night, ... In New York, jazz fans support you. In Atlanta, unless you're booked in a club where folks can drive up to the front door, you're out of luck. If people have to look for parking, forget it.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Don Logan

The narrowband business is a highly profitable business, and it's going to continue to be so for a long time to come,

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Paras Adenwala

Demand for power equipment is very much there but supply is not. It is a good situation to be in. Business prospects are good.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Ayad Allawi

As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had, ... I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

normally ministers of defense visit countries where there's that type of activity.

Sue Kelly

The United States must remain ever-vigilant in finding and freezing terrorist money around the world, and we need to demand similar vigilance from all countries around the globe,

Audrey Tautou

When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.

Alex Thiermann

Countries have far exceeded what is science-based and they have further complicated the losses to the industry.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

James Woolsey

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

Whoopi Goldberg

Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.

Tony Russa

See, that's the kind of question that will end the session faster than a pause. You got something else you want to ask? That thing was over the day after, wasn't it? There was nothing that happened.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Anthony Hopkins

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.

Hal McRae

You're trying to be ready for everything, and you're not ready for anything. We'd like for them to be ready for the one pitch, the fastball. That's where you start. We go from there. ... All timing comes off the fastball. You've got to be a fastball hitter first.

Jeremy Mayfield

We're going way too fast here, it's not right.

Atul Chand

This will perhaps be the fastest transition from ramp to store.

Markus Steinbeis

Telecoms and tech stocks (also) still get hit by France Telecom's sales warning.

Bonnie Wright

I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.

Mitt Romney

we'll end up being the France of the 21st century.

Jerome Bonnafont

France wants to be a partner in the development of Saudi Arabia.

Napoleon Bonaparte

France will always be a great nation.

Leslie Fiedler

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

Alain Juppe

This is the trial of a man, but it is also that of a system and a regime. France must look its past in the face,

William Shakespeare

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Barbara Kingsolver

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Bailey Chase

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brenda Song

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Brendan Fehr

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Jane Campion

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Tori Kelly

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Jack Kelly

For the year, Xerox's revenue growth should be in the 5- to 6-percent area. In the second quarter, they have to start making progress of about 4 to 5 percent,

Peter Graves

I wish this season were two weeks longer, as these men and women are getting better by the week. What's really pleasing is that, to a person on this squad, the technique improvements and the growth in speed and tempo are really on the upswing.

Stuart Rossmiller

If they're going to get a venture-capital rate of return on what has traditionally been a slow growth business, they will have to revolutionize the educational publishing market.

Jean Cocteau

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

George Herbert

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Bill Rodgers

I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up.

John Pilger

Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately.

Brad Childress

Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore.

George Ryan

I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here.

Gil Dufour

We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

Michael Small

We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.

Nigel Barker

Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.

Philippe Perrin

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

Michael Boss

The traders are for the most part are out. So we're just biding out time.

Donald Trump

You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan, with Saudi Arabia.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Hillary Clinton

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

Christine Lagarde

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.