Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Donna Reed

Just the idea of giving a critically ill person a new chance at life. Every time I think about it I get goose bumps. My son lives on in them.

Brian France

Joe Gibbs has proven that you can take success from one sport and translate it to another. If they follow anything close to his model, and they're smart guys, they'll have a chance to be successful.

John Lucas

John has had a lot of skills for a long time, ... Sometimes, picking the wrong school, picking a system that doesn't fit, you have to go where you can. I think he's in a system now he likes and respects a lot, he's getting a chance to play with high-level athletes.

Ron Wilson

It actually gave us a chance to stop the goal from being counted. But it's just one of those things.

Brian Jensen

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Larry Davis

I think it's a great idea. While my wife's doing the grocery shopping instead of just wandering around the store, it would be a good chance to have my cholesterol checked again.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Wendell Berry

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities

Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Paul Johnson

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

Sigmund Freud

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Daisy Ridley

What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.

John Picano

He's a very popular guy. When we didn't have him, that was one of the most often heard comments here.

John Brady

I didn't really make a comment or think the game was over until the nine-second mark. That's when I realized we were going to win the game.

Ned Colletti

I'd like to talk to him before I comment on that. He has been an infielder most of his career. That doesn't mean he couldn't make the switch to left field.

James Oberstar

If you make a comment like that, those words have consequences. People take note of someone saying something like that, and you have to substantiate those remarks. She didn't.

Paul LaViolette

If you want me to comment on accelerating share decline, I guess I would have to say we don't see it,

Robert Latham

In order for the recovery process to move ahead, public comment on these projects is necessary.

Don Sherwood

I plan no further comment on this personal matter.

Allen Miller

I'm not sure what the sheriff's opinion is, so I don't have any comment on it,

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Greg Shaheen

Just who the committee deems is the better quality team.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

H. Hunt

I think it is most appropriate that the two teams have committed to new 25-year leases, and that the public will at the same time have the parallel, but separate opportunity to vote to complete the original project design with the rolling roof.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Sophie Hannah

I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.

Bible Bible

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

Peter Hughes

Her warmth and understanding, her vibrant energy and her commitment to education for all will be sadly missed.

John Yoo

I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.

Pat Gillick

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

Lou Marino

I think the extent to which that happens depends on how much of the top management would be retained.

Robert Jarvis

I think we've got a chance, an opportunity. A lot depends on how we execute, and our young guys can't let the pressure get to them.

Avery Johnson

I think we're just going to see how it goes. It all depends who we play.

Willie Randolph

He's going to go out and throw and get loose. It depends how he feels. If you're 100 percent sure that he's OK, you do it. But if not, you don't want to start the season with someone aggravating something that sidelines them any period of time.

Manuel Pellegrini

He's full of desire. Besides, his soccer depends more on technique than physique.

MacGyver MacGyver

How you look at the world depends on where you are.

Thomas Bjorn

He's playing every shot like his life depends on it.

Lee Mendelson

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Jose Serrano

They killed children. They killed innocent people and destroyed poor people's houses, ... It's the world's most discredited guerrilla movement.

Dan Grossman

The Senate took the fine work Rep. May did in the House of Representatives and destroyed it.

Philip Hoffman

The movie is about knowing that somebody has lost his soul out there, somebody has destroyed a part of himself. ... The minute he saw Perry Smith, the outcome was inevitable that two men would die -- one literally and the other figuratively.

John Gifford

The most important shipwrecks in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, I would say probably 95 percent of them, have already been destroyed by treasure hunters over the last 30 or 40 years.

Rusty Ladd

Salazar destroyed that little girl's body, just destroyed it.

John Park

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

Bobby Johnson

The storm was so devastating, it could have destroyed our lives as well as it did our property.

David Lee

I think you really have to evaluate and see how things are going and be honest. That goes back to having people around you that are not going to tell you what you want to hear. Instead they give you true advice.

Lazarus Long

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

Karen Evans

As we move forward, we will evaluate possibilities for further collaboration as appropriate, ... Investments within the federal government make up an important segment of the national health IT infrastructure.

Rachel Scott

That's where the whole industry is. We're all trying to evaluate how long it's going to take, how much it's going to cost, all of those issues.

William Parsons

We haven't been able to evaluate that damage. We're trying to safe the facility.

Masayoshi Okamoto

Gains for U.S. stocks should give us a solid floor today, but we'll see sparse participation from institutional investors wishing to evaluate the outlook for the tech sector,

Andy Reid

We'll see as the week goes on. I'll evaluate it and see what we want to do with it.

Tom Crean

Jack and Jackie gave Jim a great value base. He saw how Jack did it and how Jackie supported it. Jim is such a natural leader and a natural competitor. He feels a responsibility to lead people. That's what led him to be a head coach.

Sierra McCormick

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Brendan Morrison

Going into to the game, I knew I had to step it up. There's no sense hanging your head about it. You've got to go out and do the little things and help the team win. Last game I felt good, but didn't get too many chances. It feels good to get the first one. I knew it's only a matter of time before I notched my first goal and got a few points.

Brian Cashman

He's always a bright-side type of guy. He feels he's going to be fine and ready and this is small problem.

Josh Green

I was able to stay in shape, though it's not the same as game shape. All around it was pretty good rehab. I should be at 100%. The only thing is the rustiness from being off. The injury feels fine. It's not an issue anymore.

Al Gore

I don't feel anything other than optimistic, and the team down in Tallahassee feels that way also.

Michael McKean

I don't know whether the result is substantially different, but it feels a little different. I think the only song that I wrote all by myself in this is a tune called ""Killington Hill,"" which is not in the film but it's on the DVD.

Jamie Mahaffey

He feels very sorry that he's not here. He loves the game of basketball. It's something we can't control, and he wishes he were here.

Larry Collins

He feels very confident. He's been very loose and easy-going ... he's ready to go.

M. Thompson

Just to get that hit, it felt great.

Mark Sullivan

Karl Miller once described a role that he had as 'actor-proof.' I kind of felt like that was Justin. He was so well-written, it was kind of hard to not do him justice.

Graeme Smith

(Kallis) said that he got through yesterday's session fine. He felt it with one or two shots, cross-bat shots.

Noah Lowry

Just one pitch. Everything else felt pretty good out there.

Michael Hopkins

Jones had his intensity level up from the start. We felt if we got off to a quick start we could hang with them, but we never found a way to stop Jones.

Sam Perlozzo

I talked to Richie at the time it happened, and we felt if it was going to completely heal, it was going to take about six weeks. You just hope nothing happens to him and he can get through the rest of the month.

Paul Formica

I talked to Kevin and he had nothing but great things to say about Cleveland. I think Kevin is going to take his time and wait until the end. I don't think the Indians are able to give him what he wants, which is five years, so I felt comfortable talking with him.

Mike Holmgren

I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it,

Tim Duncan

I think it's a great situation for everyone, especially myself. I felt good tonight. I felt like I was moving pretty well and not in a lot of pain, so it was good.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Duce Staley

I didn't get involved in an altercation. That happened in the club, but that didn't involve me. I wasn't robbed, and I had my 2 earrings. I lost my bracelet, that's all.

Kyle Williams

I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half.

Ivan Rodriguez

I don't know what happened on that play,

Patrice Lauzon

I don't know what happened, it's never happened before. The lifts are usually our strength and for some reason, Marie slipped.

Arthur Travers

I don't know where the shooting happened or how.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Toussaint Tyler

He talks to you like a normal human being and tells you what he wants you to do.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Sun Yuxi

In some Western countries, including in the United States, some people have ignored the overall development of China's human rights.

Adrian Molina

Immigrants are not felons. They are human beings.

P. J. Harvey

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

William Shakespeare

A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.

William Cole

A hundred standing people smiling and talking to one another, nodding like gooney birds.

Colby Armstrong

A hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old. It's unbelievable.

Jami Attenberg

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

Chelsea Clinton

Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

Mark Jensen

We've registered several hundred players in just a month and a half. We're quite pleased with the results of the soft launch.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Andrea Williams

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not sure it does that.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Leif Garrett

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Karl Rove

Negative politics have always been around.

Kapil Dev

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Joel Osteen

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Louise Hay

Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences, and negative affirmations create negative experiences. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then, only good will come to me. I use my affirmations wisely.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Edward Cooke

He was poking the screen with it, over and over until he ripped it. But he didn't say anything about it, and then he actually incorporated it into his explanation of the next slide.

Dylan Carr

He was good, but I'll be back next year.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Dave Blaney

I don't know where I'm going to be at next year. That's all I know,

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

Jeff Sessions

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

David Trimble

Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

Sarah Wilson

In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Bill Engvall

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

Jon Alterman

There hasn't been a 'peace process' for some time, and I don't see any signs there's going to be one resuming.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Daniel Jones

It just got a little out of hand. Like, it wasn't the way it was supposed to be, and first I wanted you to know that I'm trying to do something about it.

Calandra Terry

You're not supposed to put anything extraneous in the invitations, not even a footnote, but you can put whatever you want to in your newsletter. You can make it informative, but fun, like your wedding.

John Bennett

You only come to those conclusions if you don't understand how the whole thing is supposed to work.

Brenda Jones

Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,

Eugene Wilson

We all were where we were supposed to be,

John Pike

We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.

Jeff Garcia

I don't know if I was supposed to,

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Sabrina Davis

I want everyone to get their say, whether they say yes or no.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.