Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gavin Miller

That was a big shot. We really needed somebody to step up so we could get over the hump -- because we tied it a couple of times before that -- and get the lead.

Stephen Forrest

That was a big offensive rebound. That and a couple of big defensive plays may have turned it for us.

Vicki Carle

That was a big key to the match because, boy, if you give them an inch they'll go and get five or six or seven points. We held. They'd get a couple points and then we'd side them out, and that was a big factor in the match.

Norv Turner

Randy's struggling with some things, ... He got hit in the head pretty good. He's got some soreness. I'm pleased that we're getting as much out of him as we are. He gave us some life early, made a couple of plays. I'd like to get him back full time, but that might not happen as soon as we would like.

Bob Hill

Ray did what Ray was supposed to do late. He hit some big shots and we got a couple of stops that were real important.

Barry Hyman

Profit taking will be key words today (Thursday) and over the next couple of weeks. The Fed's rate cut yesterday bodes well for the longer term but near term it is an excuse to take profits. Cisco's story is another excuse to take profits in technology.

Lorraine Jones

Probably in a couple of years we might do it again.

Jason Kerr

Our tempo was good. We were willing to sit down and make a couple extra passes. It showed in our shooting percentage.

Brad Andera

Our seniors had a good couple of days, I'd like to congratulate them. And as for our underclassmen, it's time for them to start thinking about next year.

Casey Stengel

A shave, please, but don't cut my throat. I may want to do it later myself.

Barclays Capital

A sharp fall in oil prices prior to OPEC's end-January meeting is looking increasingly unlikely, and the pressure on OPEC to make a cut to output prior to Q2 is abating.

J. Taylor

(The Bulldogs) got so many points off our turnovers it was ridiculous. If we cut down on our turnovers and be patient with our offense, things will be way better than it was at Fresno.

Dale Erickson

A weak defensive start led to strong opponent shooting. Defensively we could have worked harder to cut down the perimeter shooting.

Pat Fuscaldo

Bakersfield took us out of our offense in the first half. We got down big, but it was big for us to cut it down to single digits. ... The second half was a different game.

Catherine Hardwicke

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Hamid Awaluddin

As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line with their rights under prevailing laws and regulations,

Rob Stillwell

As of Friday there were 46 people on our MIA list. We cut off their paychecks and heard from 26 of them.

Sheldon Brown

As long as you're moving forward in a straight line, you'll be OK. But if you have to cut vertically, that can be tough.

Michael Wynne

That, perhaps, is an explanation, but it's not an excuse?and it's not a license to lie.

Ira Glass

Any journalist who doesn't stick to the day's news is sort of part journalist, part anthropologist. Once the excuse for the story stops being - it happened today - then you're square right in the other territory of journalism, which is just straight up documenting of how we live, and what we think of each other.

Brian Schiavo

a poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.

Alexander Pope

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

Jonathan Spira

After 15 years, there is simply no excuse to not having this kind of technology available.

Aaron Nieckula

Submariner like that, you don't see those kinds of guys too often. But that's really no excuse.

Jonathan Epstein

Now it's an excuse so that people can be late. I think it's become a crutch.

Scott Hartnell

Now I have an excuse to grow a beard.

Eddy Curry

Sometimes they will look away from me. When I do get the ball, I try to make something happen so they don't have an excuse not to throw me the ball.

Henry Renteria

That phone call, or registering on line, is a key step toward getting help.

Bryant H. McGill

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

Alain Ducasse

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Jan Garbarek

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Gary L. Francione

People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

Debra Messing

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Atul Gawande

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

Eddie Van Halen

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Deepak Chopra

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

Ted Stevens

The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted.

Tom Coughlin

Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have.

Wes Anderson

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

Charles Howell

The shortest 11 can play is 505. I walked it to the back and it was 513, which puts it longer than No. 13.

J. D. Souther

I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

Fernando Lopez

There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.

Rick Clausen

That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.

Michael Holmes

You're planning to be around for a while longer though?

Jack Layton

Bono is no longer supporting the prime minister's position...niether are canadians.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Ron Zarrella

Don't look for any number near this in July,

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Brian Sullivan

You have a rising tide out there, and it's even better if you're not near the water.

Earl Steele

You have to be able to get them near you before you have to worry about them seeing you.

Pascal Lamy

you have to go as near as possible to the people who want to punch you.

Paul Carter

You go in it or near it and you're dead.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Tim Biggam

Today's sell-off is simply profit taking and valuation realignment,

Shaffi Mather

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering,

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Howard Schultz

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

David Butler

Who's going to be taking the haircuts? It's going to be the pensioners.

Allison Keeley

We see what we need to work on. We're taking it one weekend at a time.

Harrison Ford

It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

Angie Stone

I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.

Michael Biehn

And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

Donald Sterling

I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime.

Hillary Clinton

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

Joschka Fischer

I didn't even know the term 'Jamaica coalition' existed,

Susan Strasberg

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

Sepp Blatter

These are not 'minor concessions' as you term them.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Carroll Shelby

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

Janis Joplin

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

Deniece Schofield

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Edward R. Murrow

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Dave Mustaine

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.

Daniel Pinkwater

Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.