Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tortorella

I think it's the maturity level of our club. I think we've shown that the last little while. We've stayed with it. We haven't turned into individuals, we've just tried to keep banging away.

Etan Thomas

I'm having fun out there getting more time. Coach has more confidence in me and it's fun. I'm going to keep banging and keep playing hard.

Kathy Roberts

I heard some banging noises. I thought it was thunder and rain.

Eddie Jordan

I'm getting a lot of mail from shooting coaches around the country, ... They are banging the door down to come in and work with our guys and talk to our guys, so maybe I'm going to have to interview some people. No, I don't know. It's been our main guys missing. One game, everybody missed them. They're working on it. It's a long season and you hope that eventually we'll catch ourselves and improve.

Geraldine Brooks

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became 'Year of Wonders,' and lucky for me it found its readers.

Larry Bigbie

I just can't do any running, I can't do any banging around. I think it'll be an easy transition when it is time to play.

Dave Allison

The guys did a great job of keeping the puck in on that first goal. Then they kept banging away and we got rolling from there.

Brian Clark

All of a sudden I hear this banging on the wall and this voice, strange voice crying in the darkness somewhere on the 81st floor,

Drew Henson

It's not as many people as other places, but you have 20,000 people blowing their whistles and banging their drums. I've never seen anything like it.

S. Walker

Relations between Beijing and London are pretty cool. The Chinese are not happy with the way power is being transferred. Britain doesn't really have any military, and not all that much economic, role to play in China in the future.

Tim Jackson

Beijing is clearly an important opportunity for us, as is London.

Peter Yu

The fact that you get a judgment in Beijing doesn't mean you get enforcement elsewhere. If you close down a factory, you're converting a foreign problem into a local problem.

Jim Adams

The European community has taken the lead in this and we expect to meet in Beijing in January. By then we hope to have specific proposals for the structure of a funding mechanism, ... It may well be that some countries are prepared to commit funds before then. But we hope by early next year to have that trust fund available.

Greg Buzek

The entire market in the Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but China is extremely strong, largely because of the Beijing Olympics build-up.

Jiao Yang

These international sport events will help further popularize the Olympic movement in China. They are intended to warm up the Chinese people for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Richard Caborn

We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Martin Lee

The Beijing leaders have gone berserk about the possibility of our capturing more than half the seats.

Allen Johnson

It's been a really, really tough year, but it's been a lot of fun. Every competition is like a world championship final. I am still motivated to continue until Beijing 2008.

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

Promod Haque

What we don't want is to have someone dedicated to solely doing a deal in China or India or wherever, and then they're all by themselves.

Li Jian

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

Tim Adams

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

Jim DeMint

We're opening up their market. I worked hard to put China into the WTO rule-based system.

O. Henry

We think China is a growing regional power and we want to partner with them to manage their gradual rise.

Li Changchun

We are fully confident about the prospect of trade and economic cooperation between China and South Africa,

Mark Williams

To face Ding in China is an interesting thing. The crowd were great to me these days but I think there will not be many people hope me win tomorrow.

John Snow

I think that China remains committed to greater flexibility in their currency and opening of their financial markets, ... It's an irreversible course and we think they're now in a position to move even faster.

Paul Bubb

It can tend to get cold inside Holt Arena. That can be remedied. I am working with the facilities people to better control the temperature. We are looking at a number of different things.

Markus Persson

The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird.

Glenn Kroll

He said he was sick of the cold and the snow and wanted to get down to Florida where it was warm.

Luke Donald

It got considerably colder and it was just hard to keep your hands warm, hard to keep your rhythm.

Tom Bentz

The rally just ran out of steam. We are going to have to see some sustained cold weather to reduce these inventories.

William Story

The rain keeps constantly raining,And the sky is cold and gray,And the wind in the trees keeps complainingThat summer has passed away; --

William Story

The rain keeps constantly raining, And the sky is cold and gray, And the wind in the trees keeps complaining That summer has passed away; --

Geoff Hoon

We measured numbers of people and platforms in the Cold War because we were preparing for an essentially attritional campaign, holding back Soviet forces,

Ron Meyer

He was one of the leaders in the switch from hot type to cold type at the Courier in 1963.

Roy Schmidt

He knows how to win, is a tremendous competitor and a good leader on the floor. Players seem to rally around him.

Bill Stoneman

He is such a competitor that if he can pitch, he will. But he's ready to go; he wouldn't start if he wasn't healthy.

Brad Jackson

He's a great competitor and loves to play in the tough games. He was big tonight.

Ken Hitchcock

He's a competitor -- that's why he got the start. He'll rebound nicely.

Buddy Carlisle

Lance is a competitor and he can shoot, that's a pretty good combination. Lance is just one of those guys who works hard to reach his goals.

Dane Looker

He's part of this family. You know it's more serious than we'd like it to be when he has to miss practice because he's tired. He loves the game so much. He loves the team so much. And he's such a competitor that he doesn't want to miss anything.

Ernie Jones

He has just been outstanding. When he takes the hill we expect to win every game we play. He's a competitor and a guy who just hates to lose.

John Foxe

He is as tough a competitor as you can find at any position. He does well home or away.

Sylvester Croom

He is an intense competitor and he has a knack for making plays, even turning his mistakes into positives. I think he'll get even better as time goes on.

Laura Nygren

Kirby always said he was going to die before he turned 50. I'm praying he gets through this.

Don King

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

Bruce Fein

Katherine Harris is going to live and die on (President Bush's) coattails. She is not someone who has political legs. She is more tied to the president than the ordinary member of the House.

Margaret Levens

Just to watch the smile on his face when a chopper flew over. He died doing what he wanted. That was his passion and I know he was happy.

Michael Arrington

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

Wendy Lee

I think it's a good thing. Any diet that restricts healthful foods in vitamins and minerals is not good in the short term.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

Pat Lewis

I always come on the holidays. We're like family. And Easter is a time of family gathering. God gave us his only son to show us he was our living savior. His son died for our sins and rose again, and that's really important. It's a day to give thanks to God.

Carlos Larreategui

He wants to become the number one opponent of a government that is already weak. This was the only path he could take if he did not want to die politically.

Sheila E.

Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Paul Richard

The weather held off to get it in. The pipe and drums are always great. It's good to see the bands, but I can do without the politicians.

Taylor Lautner

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

Jack Hall

T.K. is ready to get back out and play, but his drums are pretty much a mess, so we have to get him some new ones.

Jeremih

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Pat Mastelotto

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Ashley Tisdale

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

Jim Crace

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

Greg Boyle

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.

Barbara Boxer

They are going to feel very frightened and anxious.

Jamie Foxx

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

Jane Green

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Karen Smith

We're talking about a frightened little seven-year-old girl here.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Ian Thorpe

I think I should retire after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Mark LeRose

He keeps us in games. He's really stepped up recently and made a statement.

Mark Stewart

This was a great finish. We've had great games with them the last three years; unfortunately, we always lost. This was a great win for us.

Kevin Yoder

This was one of those games you don't want to lose at all. You'll give everything to win this game.

Bruce Bochy

This was one of those games where you've got to shower, wash it off, and come back and be ready for the next one.

Eddie Johnson

This was one of those games where everything happened right for me.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Don Budinger

He's been our consultant, that's public knowledge. People are speculating that he's our prime candidate. Obviously we need a globally competent, experienced leader to navigate the road map. Somebody of his talent obviously would come on to our radar.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Guenter Verheugen

In the new global situation, our strategy is more justified than ever,

Ken Ford

In terms of global warming, in terms of price spikes, this would make us really leading the planet.

Raghuram Rajan

In a globally competitive economy, it is very important you insure the individual, you have a safety net for the individual, because they're at serious risk of losing their job and so on.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Alex Salmond

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Winston Churchill

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Frank Robinson

I promise you tomorrow you'll see the Opening Day lineup.

Richard Eyre

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

Yao Ming

It was like if I didn't keep reminding myself, I'd make mistakes.

Christopher Morley

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Markus Zusak

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

Karl Marx

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Richard Holbrooke

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

Richard K. Morgan

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer