Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Shih

I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Buck Showalter

Joaquin was outstanding. His background is that he struggles from the fourth through the sixth. It's been a challenge, but today he was outstanding,

Grant McCasland

He comes from a really tough background as far as growing up in Brooklyn and he's helped really helped our team by being someone who can go and get a tough basket or a rebound. We're going to need him to be successful at the regional tournament.

Nick Saban

He is respected throughout the league and has a strong background in player personnel,

Mikhail Baryshnikov

No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Arnold Fielkow

I think it's important to let the presentation be made. Because I think you have to give some background to it.

Kantathi Suphamongkhon

He has management skills, and he has international experience. He is dedicated to the work of the international community. So he has the strength, background and experience, ... We feel that he is appropriate for that position.

Russell Baker

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

John Grady

Patient care volunteers work with the team, of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other disciplines. There are 24 hours of training required and medical and background checks because they go into the homes to provide practical and emotional support for the patients and families.

Jason Keller

Kentucky may not be on the top of the international terror hit list, but grants like this make people safer on a day-to-day basis.

Ivan Turgenev

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to thisGreat God, grant that twice two be not four.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Alan Thompson

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

John B. Hood

I'm willing to grant that public support for incentives is greater than it used to be, probably reflecting more concern,

Bertrand Russel

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted

Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

Jay Jacobs

The MAC will help us. We'll just have to do some shifting around if the SEC grants the request to move the LSU game. If it's not Temple, it could be another MAC team. I don't see that being a problem.

Jesse Reynolds

I have been very impressed with how rapidly she has picked up on these issues.

Jeff Kennett

I have been very impressed with Alastair, but this won't be a presidential decision.

George Allen

I am inclined to support him. I'm very impressed with his record as I looked at it.

Bill Gates

I am impressed by what I have seen today.

Phil McNichol

I'm just very impressed with the team we've been able to field.

Frank Coleman

That really impressed me; it's a significant figure.

Ryan Giggs

Some said he had too much influence, but I don't agree. He impressed me from the start.

Tim Sheldon

I've been trying to get them to play with a little heart. We've been in this situation before and we've let down. They impressed me today.

Aaron Guiel

You're impressed with the outcome, but not impressed by what you saw up there.

Christine Quinn

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

Paul Farris

I am the mayor whether they like it or not.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Jerrold Nadler

I don't think she's pandering. She's saying what she believes. I don't think she's pandering any more than the mayor could be said to have been pandering when he said the same thing.

Alex Padilla

I find it weird that he lost. He has been mayor for a while.

Gillian Jacobs

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

Rudy Giuliani

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

Jim Cavanaugh

We need to know and we need to know now whether the mayor is in or whether the mayor is out,

John Boland

We've had conversations with the mayor for a room for veterans to meet and it's been very positive.

Vladimir Guerrero

I swung after they took me out (Thursday), ... I just wanted to make sure I could tell (manager) Mike (Scioscia) I was OK. I didn't want to wait until (Friday).

Brandon Graham

And it was me, Troy, Jerone, Mike and Anthony.

Brandon Siler

That's sweet right there. I couldn't even have the possibility of doing it. That's so sweet. We've got the utmost respect for Mike and the things he's done here.

Terry Stotts

They obviously made Mike a priority. They didn't give him any open looks.

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Tom Arnold

That's funny, Mike Tice. Is that your joke?

Dan Rooney

Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.

Shaun Alexander

Mike said from the very beginning, that we are always going to be the 'other' team.

Derek Schulz

Mike plays with a lot of passion in everything he does. It showed tonight.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Sandra Cisneros

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Steve Mariucci

You can see from watching that we have more team speed and quickness. That's exciting.

Rajon Rondo

It was a completely different style of play. I had to speed up and be more vocal to keep up with the other players.

Mike Lorello

They were talking on TV about how much more speed Rutgers had than Pitt, and you could see that. They got a lot of talent everywhere.

Jim Lanzone

It's like we have put everything we have on speed dial.

Steve Gregory

It's going really slow. I wish it'd just speed up so we could get out and play.