Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

S. Walker

Playing a top-15 football team in the country, not a small achievement. But we do have a way of making it interesting. 'Why can't we do this easy?' I kept saying in the fourth quarter.

Alexandra Robbins

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

Stuart Clark

Interactive Data posted excellent 2005 financial results. In 2005, we surpassed the $500 million milestone in annual service revenue, an achievement that reflects the organic expansion of each core business as well as the contributions from our acquisitions.

Bonnie Hammer

In Sir Sean, AFI has found a perfect honoree for its Life Achievement Award. A celebration of his outstanding work guarantees a tribute as entertaining as it is deserved.

E. B. White

If we beat the All Blacks on Saturday it must come close to the achievement of winning a World Cup.

H. Hunt

I'm really honored to receive this lifetime achievement award.

Dave Clark

He's a big kid, but he has great reflexes. He can come out of goal. He has great hands and a solid goal kick.

Brian Henderson

I think it's a realistic goal for us, too.

Mike Thibault

I think the maturity of going through last hear helps us. We need to come out and get ready to go right away. We've been through it now two years in a row. This is our goal when we started out and now we're here to go about it.

Bill Donabedian

We're on track to hit our goal of 50,000 people.

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

John Ashcroft

It is our goal to return parts of the Iraqi people's past. In doing so, we hope to return pieces of the Iraqi people's future.

Christy Setzer

It is our goal to hold him accountable. He's (in) leadership, and he's also been in office a very long time with minimal opposition.

Josh Nielsen

I think that's the goal of just about every band.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Thomas Needham

He seems to be a very highly regarded young man.

W. S. Gilbert

It didn't get high enough to ruin any files.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Waverly Person

It's a major earthquake, but it's quite a ways away from population,

Roberto Torres

The TRUTH sometimes scares people. In order to skirt the truth they start to major on the minors as opposed to majoring on the truth that is before them.

Harvey Pekar

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

Johnathan Frakes

No, I was a psychology major in college.

Tom Hudson

It's like putting someone out in space for the first time, ... It's not yet to the moon or to another planet, but it is a major milestone.

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

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.

Charlie Lewis

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

Bon Battu

He has no personal problems whatsoever and will be back training next week.

Shimon Peres

He indicated he may do it in the first part of next year.

Ricky Bennett

He doesn't throw it a whole lot in games, but at least he's trying something he can work on going into next year.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Tre Cool

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Travis Barker

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

Travis Barker

My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.

William Friedkin

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

Steve Collins

It's been a while since we've really been tested.

LaDainian Tomlinson

It's been a while since it's been like that.

Cameron Crowe

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Brie Larson

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Amanda Beard

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Thomas Cahill

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

Michael Phelps

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

Seth Godin

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Nicholson Baker

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.