Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Stephen Martin

These new draft policies maintain our strong commitment to the fundamental mission of the NPS to protect and allow for appropriate enjoyment of the parks.

Raila Odinga

These ministers should have been required to resign a long time ago, or to be suspended by the president to allow for a proper transparent investigation.

Stephane Dujarric

The Secretary-General hopes that this positive development will allow the Commission's decision to be implemented without further delay.

Joel Klein

These conduct restrictions are necessary to allow the structural remedy sufficient time to restore competitive conditions in the software industry,

Samantha Power

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Mike Tarlin

The slow tempo doesn't favor our style of play. They didn't allow us to get into our offense.

Ralph Kates

The subpoena is an attempt to compel the reporter to be a secret investigator for the District Attorney's Office and we're not going to allow that to happen.

Linda Sims

Perhaps Hudson's Bay decided that as long as they got a little bit of sweetener, so they could look a bit better, they would take the money and run.

Tom Foley

I've been here. All these players that are here, I've been here since the beginning, I've seen them come up. My heart and soul is with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I want to be here.

Bobby Wallace

I've been offered a better job coaching the 0-14 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Lance Briggs

This is Green Bay. I don't think I really need to say the magnitude of winning in Green Bay and clinching our division in Green Bay.

Peter Kornbluh

This is probably the most important newspaper capitulation since the New York Times yielded to John F. Kennedy's call for them to not run the full story of planning for the Bay of Pigs. By withholding the country names, the Post is directly enabling the rendition, secret detention, and torture of prisoners at these locations to continue. That is a ghastly responsibility.

Katherine Anderton

The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.

Thomas Francis Meagher

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Shia LaBeouf

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

Jeff Miller

Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

Brad Baughan

The team is really holding its own. We have lost a couple of games that we shouldn't have, but that's behind us now because we are getting some key players back.

Tanya Harris

The symbolism behind this is that we are coming home, the residents of the Ninth Ward are coming home.

Bob Howry

The throw wasn't even close. I threw it behind the runner. A good throw gets him definitely. I just tried to rush it. In that situation, you know the bunt is coming. You've got to execute. Get the one out and go from there. I failed to do that.

Ragina Barnett

The thought is still in my head but I'll sleep a whole lot better knowing they're locked up behind bars.

John Chadima

The thought behind (the executive-style course) is that it would tap into a little bit of a different clientele that would come and play the course. They think that you can get through a round there in an hour-and-a-half. For somebody that just wants to work on their game, beginners, somebody who just wants to get through after work.

Mike Lloyd

The thought behind passing the ordinance was about protecting our community from known sex offenders. It's probably not any different than what any other community has been doing.

Elton John

The thought behind it was fantastic but Hyde Park is a charisma-free zone.

Spencer Hoffman

The third quarter was probably the difference in the game. When you get behind like that to a team the quality of BIC, it's hard to come back. We did a great job coming back and tying the game up and going into overtime.

Stephen Roberts

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Mike Heffernan

The rounds played is down about 5 percent this year, ... The season passes are down ... about 20 percent. But even though the number of passes sold dropped 20 percent, the number of rounds played dropped only 5 percent.

Mike Zimmerman

The program dropped off in the late '90s,

Dennis Green

Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- dropped passes and penalties will send out your punter, and that's what happened.

Mike Miller

Where we used to do 10,000 (skiers) a year, we dropped down to 7,000 last year.

Tim Henman

I think I said I would put on a skirt if I dropped serve again.

Cameron Edens

I didn't want to go if we couldn't go as a team. Plus I had been missing a lot of school and if I had missed any more, they could have dropped me from some classes, and I didn't want that to happen.

Ryan Seacrest

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.

Kevin Pietersen

I've dropped six catches and nobody's given me a beer.

Michael Bennet

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

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Sam Brandon

I sit with John and just ask, 'What games did you look at? What did you take from this, what did you get from that?' That's helped me out tremendously.

Ozzie Guillen

I see St. Louis has 95 (wins). The White Sox 90. And we feel like we won only 10 games this year, ... Some people treat my team like a piece of (garbage). And we're not.

John Cullum

I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Andre Agassi

I settled down on my service games and my ground strokes, put enough pressure on him to get that break.

Jami Safrit

I've been relaxed. I will be nervous at school (today). ... it's the really big games I get like that for.

Craig Turek

I've been there many times since I've been to Buckeye. We've lost by a total of 21 points in games this season.

Argus Hamilton

The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

Darrell Waltrip

We usually couldn't do it on Sunday. We had to wait until Monday because were about ready to kill each other.

Mike Bianchi

What is Monday the day the recycle bins are picked up at Isleworth?

John Whiting

We will be in the talks process on Monday morning,

Holly Hatton

We're going to be racing Monday and Tuesday to regroup. We have to get past this big letdown this weekend.

Amy Poehler

President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

Amy Poehler

Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

Aldous Huxley

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

Robert Klein

I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

Martin Brodeur

The opponent was always so petrified of him.

David Taras

He's pre-empting any opponents by saying he's already leaving,

Branco Milenkovic

It has become very frustrating, to say the least, trying to secure an opponent for our man.

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Caroline Wozniacki

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Brent Sutter

We've got to get better and we will get better. That being said, our opponent was a tough opponent. At the end of a day, it's a win.

David Wright

This one's on my shoulders. Those were tough plays to make, but these are the big leagues.

David Martin

We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't make the plays when we had our chances.

Lance Berkman

We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Mack Brown

We didn't want to be stubborn, ... We rushed for 145. We'll take that.

Suzanne Vega

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

Tom Robbins

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Nina Simmons

There is not really a way to stop them - if they really, really want to rush the court.

Steve Wilson

A thank-you to all of you who rushed to Kersey and valiantly searched for Sam,

Todd France

I was trying to tackle Dante Hall, and that wasn't going to happen.

Derek Jeter

The season's not over. What if we win the division? We don't have to worry about Tampa Bay.

George Hamlin

Tampa is always going to be in the picture, unfortunately.

Pacman Jones

I would say I don't understand it. For the most part, I get booed for whatever the Titans do because I'm the younger one. But I can take it. If that's what it is, I'm all right. I'm not complaining.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

Rihanna

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

Phyllis Diller

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Paul McCartney

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.