Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Pederson

Backups don't get a lot of praise or glory, but you get to that spot by working hard. He comes from a line of quarterbacks and an athletic family. It's bred in him and he's a sharp kid.

Lori Walker

A wonderful, athletic talent, who is a nationally touted goalkeeper, Lauren brings great shot-stopping ability, a strong tactical understanding of the game, and overwhelming courage and tenacity. She will immediately compete for time in the net.

Liz Nichols

Athletics is a really important sport to us. We have to get them to the position where they can deliver medals and fulfil their potential. We can and do expect athletics to deliver more medals.

Derek Hall

Athletics has found that when on the road, the other institutions drop 'college' or change it to 'university' on their own.

Pete Lembo

At Lehigh, we gave out over $2 million in need-based athletic scholarships, need-based being the key, on our football team last year. We spent as much money as an awful lot of people do on scholarships and attacked recruiting in the very same way you would here.

Billy Donovan

Probably what changed my mind more so than anything else was when I met with (Florida athletic director) Jeremy Foley. In that meeting, it was very, very clear that he understood where things were at, and he understood what needed to happen to try to turn the program.

Muhsin Muhammad

Probably one of the things that I'm most proud of is that Steve is really maturing as a person. I think he's becoming a well-rounded person and I think that is more important than the athletic achievements.

Melanie Balcomb

North Carolina works their butt off, and they happen to be athletic and talented and that's a combination I think is very tough. That's why I think they have a great chance to win it. They didn't let us outwork them. We worked hard, but they did too.

Eugene White

Once we get the proposal from the athletic directors, then I will submit a proposal to the school board. Then, after the school board gets it, we will have a number of community meetings to get community input,

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Michael Zaslow

Originally, the part was an architect, but when they found out I was a pianist, they changed it to a world-renowned conductor and pianist.

Rob Detzel

After Wight went out with his fourth foul (in the third quarter) we got four or five steals in a row. I really thought that changed the complexion of the game.

Luis Polar

The name was changed because we want to have branding recognition for the Hispanic side of the company.

Colta Ives

Drawing really changed the way he painted, once he realized he could draw his paintings in his own quirky way.

Raf Simons

Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.

Hideki Matsui

The situation hasn't changed at all. I'm still thinking it over. But I would like to let manager Sadaharu Oh know what I'll do as soon as he comes back from Taiwan.

Dario Gradi

The sending-off changed the game but we didn't have the quality to finish them off.

Mike McCurry

The standard in the statute hasn't changed in the last week -- it's 'imperil the national health and safety' -- and we monitor the strike conditions and the economic conditions to see if that standard has been met. So far it has not." ()

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Larry Ellison

Back in 1995, it was very clear to us that we had to stop doing desktop software and we don't do any desktop Windows software, ... We moved everything to big Internet servers. Our database is designed for the Internet, our applications are designed for the Internet.

Mohamed ElBaradei

As long as we are making progress and as long as we don't see clear and present danger, let us continue at it ... before we take escalated measures,

Richard Bliss

As parents, of course we don't want him to go back, but he's a determined young man and he wants to clear his name.

Clinton Portis

That play was designed to lose two yards. I spun around a guy and it was clear from there.

Robin Petrini

That picture could clear up this weekend. It should be clearer, but it could be more muddy. That's the fun of being in conference play.

John DiLorenzo

Rae made it very clear in comments to the press that Commissioner Englund did everything by the book.

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Richard Williams

Pricing pressures are definitely an issue for software companies. This strikes me as a clear sign that things are still not getting better,

Dar Williams

And the only word for love is everybody's nameAnd that will always stayIt happens every day.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Jim Tracy

A day like today -- that's something that happens even with an 'ace' of the staff.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

Kim Edmonds

Something different happens every day around here and nothing is ever monotonous or mundane. You may be having a ho hum day and someone will walk through the day who just makes you smile from the inside out. That's what makes it all worthwhile.

Graeme Souness

So what happens when they come back with recommendations, do you think we're going to listen to them? I'm not going to say any more on the matter.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice -- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

George Curry

So the real test of success this time will be not how many people turn out, but what happens when they go home.

Jeff Pentland

We made a lot of progress. I'm not one to put expectations on people, but I think you're going to see a different Jeremy Reed this year.

Michael Waltrip

I was passing Jeremy and just got run over. I just can't understand it.

Bob Francis

I know Jeremy is looking at those sites, but I'm not sure when his work will be complete.

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Robert Galvan

We met the trainers and after a while, we were singing together.

Sheila E.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

Paul Boyce

We could've met a nobody next but that would've been no use to anyone.

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Amy Ray

As soon as they met us, I think everyone was more comfortable.

John Donne

Though she were true, when you met her,/ And last, till you write your letter, / Yet she / Will be / False, ere I come, to two, or three.

Greg Stevens

Tonight wasn't his night. He met his match.

Larry Lessett

There was a lot of burden, a lot of burden, on Tim Parham (this year) and he met every challenge. I'm really going to miss him.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Brandon Sanderson

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Baruch Spinoza

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Baruch Spinoza

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Baruch Spinoza

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Baruch Spinoza

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

Barbara Pym

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

J. Horton

The old Highlander was great. It served us really well, ... We just needed something that was more functional.

Craig Stevens

Straight away there was pressure to give away the spot. 'Are you going to swim it'?. "I don't like taking sleeping tablets but it got to the stage where I needed to rest for my 1500m.

Drew Bennett

Somebody needed to make a play, ... And I couldn't make it.

Laurie Smith

Some people just needed permission to smile again.

Clarence Ehlers

Now it's 30 years later, and you're not needed anymore.

Mike Woodson

Sometimes it's like we are our own worst enemy. We have stretches where we don't shoot. We don't defend. When San Antonio turned up their defense, we needed to turn up ours.

Kevin Spillane

Schwarzenegger needed a victory, and he didn't get it. But it's not the end of the world.

Theresa Lisch

I've turned it more than once and it's pretty stretched out. All it needed was a quick tweak and it was OK.

Richard Seymour

It was time to pick it up. We've got a long way to go but we needed to get things rolling. Improving. We did that.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Kofi Annan

and why did so many turn the other way?

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Fay Weldon

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Fernando Pessoa

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.