Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Jason Richardson

As long as I was on the floor, I was going to play like I was healthy. If you think you're hurt, you'll play hurt. I didn't have the same jumping ability so I had to smarten up on how to get my shots to fall. I think the ankle will be a little sore tomorrow.

Arthur Andersen

raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

Sharon Stone

prides herself not only on her acting ability and other talents, but also on her natural physical appearance.

Brent Edison

Property taxes have become an 800-pound gorilla on the back of North Dakota property owners and renters. Property taxes have become so out of balance that they threaten the ability of seniors to stay in their homes, and threaten the dream of home ownership for our young people and working families.

Dale Adams

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably

Scott Sprinzen

Product design issues are also an important concern here, as the companies have shown little ability to foresee market trends, such as the demand for crossover utility vehicles and gasoline-electric hybrids,

Gail Fosler

Probably the most critical impact of higher energy prices is their ability to weaken consumer spending.

Cameron Bennerman

Personally, I don't like shooting a lot of 3s. I want to get some drives to the basket and do some other things. You can sit out there and shoot 3s all game, easy. It's hard for me to buy into that. I want to mix it up some because I have the ability to. At the same time, we have guys who can really knock down the 3s. It made you not want to shoot any more 3s in the first half because we weren't making them, but open shots, you've got to have that confidence you can knock them down.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Brian Jordan

As long as my knee is healthy, I'm not worried about the competition. Right now, my knee is almost there. I need to stay on schedule and keep getting strong. Once I'm full speed, I know I can play the outfield.

Jon Lester

As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

George Santayana

As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired

John Gomery

a small group driven by Liberal interests and personal greed almost effortlessly breached walls built to separate politicians from the treasury.

Brian Phillips

That was 28 years ago. People are wrongfully arrested from time to time. He somehow managed to pass an entire federal background check and remain in service for almost 30 years.

David Bryant

Ragtime' is almost like doing an opera. The voices have to be amazing,

Byron White

Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.

Dusty Perdue

We're playing a very good fundamentally coached team. They play man-to-man defense and they run up and down the floor.

Rene Portland

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

Jason Stein

This team played scrappy and hard-nosed all year long. We know how well Flanagan is coached and that their pitcher would be throwing in the zone. There was no give up, and the kids learned how to play hard.

Brad Barton

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

Taurean Green

Just having somebody that played the game and coached the game, it helps to hear his opinion.

Eileen Givens

It felt like home being back at my alma mater and where I coached for so long. I really wanted this one, and it helps keep that winning streak going.

Bill Clarke

I think it is a great experience to be able to go and represent your school and your program. I have been in a position that I coached in the North-South game, the Alabama-Mississippi game and the juniors game last season. I know what it is like to be in a game like this.

M. Wolfe

I also coached Alexander's dad (Gary). That's the first time that's happened.

Renee Fleming

He coached and prepared me for a 'Rosenkavalier' scenes program,

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Tracii Guns

Actually, it's funny that you mention that, we just started making plans within the last few days. We're going to hopefully do at least three videos for this album. We have tons of live footage and tons of the making of this record on film so we're hoping that by the end of next summer here that it will be out and it will run for about two hours.

Josh Stewart

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.

Jason Gerken

During the final round, we sprayed the ball, left ourselves long putts and made a few big numbers that sent our scores soaring,?. . ?And as has been our problem all year long, we finished poorly over the last few holes.

Greg Davidson

Defensively, we're playing pretty sound. There've been lower-scoring games, but we've been able to pull out some shutouts for a few games.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Herman Edwards

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

Pete Carroll

This is not the same football team, this is not the same offense, ... The players are the same, but they are performing at a higher level because of the guy who is running the thing.

Ben Roethlisberger

This is probably the most nervous I've been before any professional football game.

George Russell

This is one of the most humiliating results in our football history. I did not think it could get worse but it has.

Norv Turner

The wear and tear of playing that type of schedule took its toll on this football team, and we were not a good football team in the second half.

Jake Delhomme

The way that you get people not to roll with Steve is you run the football effectively.

Eddie Quick

This group is mentally and physically tough. We've got a lot of football players and guys that have been with me.

Angelo Wright

This could be football Armageddon for teams having to release quality veterans.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

J. Taylor

Once we got over the first-playoff game jitters we got into our flow. That run to end the first half let us play our game.

Nate Hammond

Once we got into the game we actually played pretty well and made it close. But we couldn't quite hold it together.

Michael Redd

Once we got in (overtime), we knew we were going to win this game. We could not lose this game. It was a game that we needed very bad.

Dominique Byrd

Once we get our little Trojan swagger in the game and we know we have the support of the other 63 guys that are traveling, when we rally around each other, we feel like nothing can stop us.

John Graham

Once the puck drops, it's like a switch goes on, you're ready to compete. It's not the ideal way you would like to prepare for a game but the competitive juices just turn on and you're ready to go.

Matt Kiefer

Once their offense gets rolling, the transition game gets going and they hit 3s and doing the little things, it just energizes them I think. You have to do as much as you can to try and stick with it.

Jim Aldrich

Once the game went to overtime, I really thought we were going to win. It didn't work out for us, but I'm really proud of our young men. They played to win tonight.

Jack Thompson

Once the game is released, it's too late.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Amy Thompson

It's nice for them to interact once in a while with people other than each other and their teachers.

William Wordsworth

Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Jonathan Dimbleby

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Charles Kingsley

[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Desiderius Erasmus

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Blaise Pascal

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Charles Bukowski

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Gary Pruitt

You're the last mass medium here. Everything else is fragmenting.

Edward Hirsch

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

Busta Rhymes

You stop at all of the greasy nasty-ass truck stops and you never get a proper rest. But every night you party like it's the last night that you're ever going to have to party.

Walter de La Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Kerry Packer

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

Phil Robertson

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Maisie Williams

People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'

Don Cheadle

People saw the film and said, 'Wow that was terrible. I wish I had known.' Now you know.

Rodney Clark

People roll down their windows and say, 'Sorry for your loss.'

Armando Navarro

People respond to fear. They respond when their self-interests are going to be impacted.

Joakim Noah

People remember champions. That's the way it is.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.