Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavia E. Butler

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

John Lynch

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Patrick Stewart

You have to realize that Brian has practiced with us, maybe three times, but he's played 20 shows. But he adds rock 'n' roll attitude.

Dana Williams

When this first came up I thought, 'You've got to be kidding. Why would you want to play with us?' ... We are very fortunate. He adds a very big sound to the bottom line.

Sergio Garcia

My good shots seemed to be bad and my bad shots were bad. So, you know, it all adds up nicely.

Byron Dorgan

Frankly, I don't think his next-year's budget adds up,

Pete Carroll

I don't understand. We've played in that setting for years, and I think it adds to the game and the excitement of it.

Bill Self

I expected it to be tough, and this would have been a great atmosphere no matter what. Usually, when Kansas comes to town it adds spice to the game. When we don't play well on the road, our chances aren't good because usually teams are pumped to play us.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

I don't think it's anything serious. It just adds more to the bad experience of losing.

Wayne Madkin

The stadium's great and very exciting. It was really loud, and it was a whole different atmosphere out there.

Ellen Stofan

If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.

Gene Kitts

The primary purpose of the drilling from the surface is to determine the atmosphere at the (accident site) just to give rescue teams more knowledge what to expect.

Rogers Johns

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Robbie Laing

There's no better atmosphere than what we played in tonight. It just can't get better than it was. There cannot be a better college basketball atmosphere than we had tonight.

Stanimir Stoilov

We played some decent football and the boys were in confident mood today. We also missed several opportunities, which could prove fatal on another day. On Thursday we will be under heavy pressure and the atmosphere will be different, but we must be prepared for that.

Martha Grimes

I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

Byron Scott

I think the energy in the crowd has been a tremendous boost to our team. We've got a lot of young guys and they feed off that type of energy. When you have a college atmosphere and you have a young team, this is what they like to play in front of.

Cameron Crowe

I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.

Jermaine Jenas

They are a great team and we have a lot of respect for them. But we are very confident at the minute and, on home soil, why shouldn't we fancy our chances of getting a win.

Claudio Piron

This raises the chances of an easing in French and German rates before the year end.

John McWhorter

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

Dan Haren

We had some chances today, but when it comes down to it, it's the pitch I made to Ramirez. I just look back at it and I'm mad at myself. I let that pitch get away from me. The loss is because of me.

Jim Brunelle

We had some chances in the second half, but we don't know how to finish.

Nate Leaman

We got a lot of power-play chances and I think our (special teams) units were getting a little tired and frustrated. We were getting a little too individual.

Andrew Price

We got a lot of chances in the second half but we didn't convert them. But we'll take the one-nil advantage.

Rich Rodriguez

When you make somebody one-dimensional, your chances of winning the game are pretty good.

Bob Hill

There is a lot to be hopeful for and the focus is here. I wanted to keep the team focused on improvement and that was my goal when I took the job. I think it got to a point where I felt good every night about our chances to win. And that's what you want, to go into each game with a legitimate chance to win.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

Daniel Barcelo

While the refining outlook is expected to remain highly profitable through 2007, the equities have for the most part priced this in.

Hector Ruiz

We had a fourth quarter that was better than most people expected and, frankly, a little healthier than we expected.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Jay Haas

No. 4 really turned things around. I never expected to make four there.

Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Tim Cox

The students have been great and have worked very hard,

Drew Brees

I couldn't say that was our motivation, but obviously we all knew about it. But Kansas City's 8-4 now, and we've got to go there. So there are plenty of tough tests ahead.

Chuck Neinas

The blue-chippers wouldn't even talk to Kansas State,

Mick Caba

It was interesting talking to Lyonel. When he played for us he was oozing with confidence. When he was at Kansas he was the same way.

Bill Kurtis

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

Channing Tatum

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Ryan Diggs

We were all pumped up at the start of overtime. I thought we had the momentum. I was never nervous.

Jill Scott

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Jim Brown

This one is a very competitive tournament. There's probably 10 teams in the top 20 there, at least.

Lynn Meger

There's not a lot of differences between their teams in that district. There aren't a lot of differences between our teams.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Nikolai Gogol

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

Chris Isaak

I put music on and I drive around town.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.