Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Jess Bosque

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

Mike James

He couldn't be stopped tonight. He basically beat us by himself.

Ray Lewis

He didn't mean any disrespect. He was just basically saying he wasn't happy. Some people aren't happy with their job or their wife, they say it. That's all it was, him voicing his opinion. He has a right to do that.

H. Hart

He denied fighting birds here or being involved in fighting birds, ... but he basically stopped talking about it once we showed him what we had found.

Marcus Trufant

He just said basically that he expects a lot out of me and he wants me to play like it.

Nick Fazekas

He just ran into me and that was basically it. The ref saw something that wasn't right and threw him out.

Michael Greene

He knew when to put the pedal to the metal if some defendant needed a harsh penalty but his first inclination was always to make someone better. He was basically a wonderful, kind man whose chambers were always open. In the 18 years that I've been here, I think the system is a better place because of judges like him.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

Rick Forney

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His vision on the floor is tremendous and he showed that.

Brian Cupples

The floor was really open. We were able to get to the basket. Our kids made plays.

John Washington

The floor plan has expanded about 30 feet,

Stephen Braveman

The floor is a nice place to be when you're trying to be quiet and have intimacy. You can't hit your head on anything, and you have more space to spread out.

Billy Donovan

They like to go up and down the floor and we like to go up and down the floor. The team that executes that phase better is the team that will win the game.

Mike Davis

That's a surprise, to be honest with you. But I think the students, more than anything, want to go right to the middle of the floor to their team.

Dexter Williams

Every time we've taken the floor lately, we're setting some kind of history, at least with our school. I guess we're just history in the making.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Jason Calabrese

Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.

Joe DeSantis

John is the kind of player who can give us something positive or something negative. Tonight he gave something very positive.

Ken Lucas

I think in the long run it will prove to be a good thing for the team and myself that we gave it a week off and let it heal. I hate to miss any game, but I think it was the right thing to do.

Gary Defina

He usually swallows his rebounds or hands it off to the defense. The other night (against Rampart) he gave up a goal with 50 seconds left in the game, and it went into overtime. In the first shift of overtime, he made a great save, and we went back down and scored.

A. Johnson

(Greenspan) gave those words of reassurance. Today will set the tone, and, on balance, tomorrow should be positive.

James Sullivan

Greenspan gave no hint of an end to tightening.

Quinn Shephard

The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Martha Washington

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Tim Ruskell

We lost our two starting receivers to injuries at various times. If we didn't have Joe, we would have had a skid. We wouldn't have had our 11 in a row and we wouldn't be here.

Jim Daley

Injuries occur and they are always unnerving and you always have to adapt. Sometimes, you have more notice than the end of the week.

Venus Williams

Injuries are part of sports, but right now, (I'm) solid.

Simon Gagne

It's tough news to take right now, especially with the start I have had and everything was going well. Right now, we're going through so many injuries and my turn came.

Chan Gailey

It's OK. It's not where it needs to be. Most of that is because of injuries and not having enough time playing together.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from the lap belt, to thoracic injuries from the shoulder belt.

Stephen Schwerdt

Sometimes these type of injuries are frustrating and more time is needed to get it right. We will now back off his training for two weeks and then reassess.

Fred Zimny

You're doing 80 and 90 mph sometimes, and that's unfortunately part of the sport. They happen, and 90 percent of the time there's no injuries or no serious injuries.

Mariangee Bogado

I was looking at the scoreboard a lot. I knew I had the no-hitter, but I think it's all mental. I was just thinking about getting everyone out.

Tamba Hali

I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.

Pete Fenson

He just shook it off and played the way we knew he could play.

Army Sgt.

He just refused to go until he knew he had a welcoming place,

Jeremy Rowell

He knew what he was getting into. He's such a physical player on offensive side. I don't think he'll have any problems transitioning to defense. He understands how to get after the football.

Jeff Backus

He knew what he was doing. It's a letdown, but we move forward.

Alan Alda

He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.

Danny Medina

He knew our system so well. He knew what plays to run and what to stick with.

Cindy Cook

He knew my address, my name, knew we'd just signed up with Telstra, that we'd just moved in over the weekend, it was scary.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Before Veeder

When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Robert Keats

I don't know where their number comes from.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Jonathan Scott

I had three things to do: being physical the whole game. Win the game. Put on the Hat.

Kendall Simmons

That's something I'm not worried about. You just have to try to outwork them; that's it. They want you to come at them, but you just have to be more physical than them and I know we'll be able to do that.

Steve Peck

Any time you play a rival, you're going to have a little more physical game.

Kelly Greenberg

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Adelaide Kane

Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

David Jones

I'm surprised he won. He's just punching it out there.

Bruce Cutler

They figuratively punched him around until he said something.

Jamar Butler

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Tim Kaine

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Jeaniene Frost

Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer. Breath tickled my neck as he laughed. "I know. I'm truly gifted.

Brian Metcalf

We knew. We didn't want that knockout punch to come.

Saoirse Ronan

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Sara Paxton

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Wesley Morris

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Samantha Bond

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

Mikhail Prokhorov

Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.

Mila Kunis

It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

Miep Gies

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

Ntozake Shange

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,