Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Charles Warren

That was about as close to a perfect round as I could play,

Sol Jones

That was a big win in league for us after losing two very close games last week. I feel anything can happen any night with most of the teams.

Dan Miller

That was a big play. I was pretty pleased with how the guys executed down the stretch tonight. It's good for us to win a game like this, because we're going to play some close games from here on out.

Rona Raphael

Reading it was unbearable, as it reminded me how close we'd been.

Luis Aragones

Raul is a very important player because he is the captain, ... The national team is very close to his heart and he always wants to win. He needs the support of the national coach right now and he's going to get it.

Mark Zandi

Profits as a share of output are close to 10 percent. That's as high as they've ever been.

Don King

Prior to Mike Tyson, we were generating close to $100 million a year. Now, Mike Tyson generates $100 million a fight.

Chris Bates

San Diego is out of step with the rest of Southern California. It is the worst performer.

Ritch Price

San Diego is a team that, like some of those others on the West Coast, always was good and had a good reputation locally, but people didn't know a lot about nationally. (Hill's) been doing a good job out there for a while.

Edgar Gonzalez

It would have been exciting to play with him, and he wanted to be here. But San Diego wanted him there.

Dave Rose

We weren't very good. A lot of that has to do with San Diego State. You have to give those guys a lot of credit.

Joel Schwartz

For places like San Diego County, it is just an extreme exaggeration.

Jandy Nelson

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

Paul Archey

I'm not sure you get a ticket in San Diego at this point, and if you do you'll have an obstructed view. We sold every ticket there in very quick fashion.

Vinny Castilla

They wanted to open up room for Ryan, and that's good -- Ryan Zimmerman is a great player and great prospect, ... The trade will work out for me, too. I'll be in San Diego with a team that made the playoffs this year.

Pamela Adlon

I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

Alex Butler

No question, these guys work hard every day in practice. They understand how I operate and how I work. Not at all do I question their work ethic. I just think we need to play a little smarter. And we've got to finish.

Lane Donati

Normally, I'd have more guys in there. I don't want to run the score up, but I'd like him to get as many points as he can.

Shannon Sullivan

Do you have any big guys in your department?

Carlos Beltran

Delgado is one of those guys that, if he stays healthy, he will be able to get his numbers. He doesn't mind where he plays. He doesn't mind where he is.

Rudy Gay

Definitely. They had seniors and juniors that led them, and a lot of young guys that played big roles.

Brendan Shanahan

Are guys going to get discovered? Sure, we've got over 700 players; we're going to have the odd guy. But I've been playing for 18 years, and I've never heard a player talk about its benefits, I've never heard of a player taking it; I've never suspected a player I've played with is taking it.

John Foxe

The staple is going to be the preparation, guys getting ready to play and understanding that we're playing a very talented team at their place in a hostile environment. It's a huge order, but it's doable.

Alexander Mogilny

The skill level is not up to par, but the guys work hard. That's the one thing you notice. It doesn't matter if it's first, second, third line, everybody's working hard out there.

Jim Christian

The seniors are the reason we play. It's our program, but it's their team. These guys have overcome so much. At one time or another, each one of them hasn't started. But they all handled it. They have stuck through it.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Larry Brown

Antonio would be in a lot more trouble if he went home and hadn't done anything.

Steve Ellis

Anything that isn't nailed down, they pick up and take home to their districts.

Gopal Ahluwalia

The size of a home can't keep increasing. I think we'll see the size stabilize at 2,400 square feet.

Carl Pope

The senators go home and find out, if they vote for this stuff, then the voters are going to be upset. Their own voters don't like it.

Bob Reed

The sellers will have to get more realistic to the market in what they can actually sell their home for.

Jon Evans

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Andrea McLean

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Brian Baker

The success of all of our kids is paramount. ... We can't just lock up everyone. The stakes are high.

Brianne Woodley

I've been able to get a different look at school. Going from public school to private school, I can see things other kids might take for granted.

Jeff Daniels

I've actually been to Tiger Stadium. The kids would love it.

Julianne Moore

The one thing that kids need is consistency.

Bob Lucas

The one thing I can say about Tech kids is they always give 100 percent to the very end.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

The older kids have taught the younger ones how to win.

Bob Monahan

After a sluggish start, our kids played well. Our second unit really made things happen!

Bob Craig

After going 5-15 last year, these kids wanted their season to be something special. We're not setting the world on fire. We're not undefeated. But from where we were last year to where we are now, it's a world of difference.

Kevin Lyman

Some people don't understand: That's what we're going for. They'll say, 'It should go on later. I can't get there until after work.' Well, the kids we're trying to reach can make it. I love that people over 19 come, but this is really for that 13-19 crowd.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Dave Duncan

You never know when you might need help.

John Wilson

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

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.

Stephane Dion

People who have sent their delegates here want real progress, ... That's why here in Montreal, we have to get results.

Lucy Mathiak

People who feel that things are going well will vote for Juan.

Raf Simons

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Bobbi Brown

People used to look out for their brothers. I'm going to look out for James.

Jay Stewart

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.

Paul Adams

People understand it's a robust role and they're comfortable with it. But we're not suggesting it (support for the mission) is so strong it can't be moved.

Josh Fox

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Nik Antropov

It was tough. They are all playing in the N.H.L. It wasn't balanced.

Elena Dementieva

It was another Williams today. She was playing different tennis today.

Arnold Palmer

I've been playing there since 1955, but now I'm not so sure.

Sherri Turner

I've been playing pretty good. I just haven't been making any putts. ... I'm very pleased. That's the second time I've shot that score on this course. It's probably been about 10 years since I've shot it, but I remember doing it.

Dennis Quaid

I've been down to a 1 twice, and every time I get down there I start playing badly. I'm playing like a 13 right now. I have no idea why. It's all between the ears.

Caleb Holmes

It would have been weird not playing on the same team.

Cristie Kerr

The whole team is playing well. We're psyched to play.

Chris Johnson

The whole situation just makes you value playing that much more.

William Hazlitt

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Steve Robinson

That's what we want to do. We want to put some pressure on and just run, run, run.

David Eckstein

That's what we try to do, put pressure on the other pitcher.

Paul Brinkman

This puts a lot of pressure on us. It is unfortunate, but that is the way it is. It could be pretty rough for students.

Carnie Wilson

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Ari Graynor

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Billie Jean King

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Antisthenes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.