Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Ben Woodside

I've never experienced that much excitement through eight hours of travel. We could not stop smiling.

Bob Thomason

I've always said you might not ever see a mid-major go to the Final Four. When a mid-major wins a game, especially if it's not a good seed, if they play a powerhouse, getting to the Sweet 16 is like going to the Elite Eight. Going to the Elite Eight is like going to the Final Four, so George Mason has already won the national championship. If they win the next two games, they'll have won the world championship. They'll have to give them a gold medal.

Matt Richardson

I've been around these girls eight years now and I told them I was just as proud of them as I would have been my own children. And, I told them it's been quite a wild ride they've taken us on.

Kristen Schaal

I used to go to open mics in New York when I was starting out, and it was mostly just people who wanted an audience to look at them for eight minutes on a stage.

David Smith

I used to tell people that eight o'clock was eight o'clock, no matter where you were in South Carolina, and that's what I want to instill in these players. The time to play is big time whether you're playing in front 40 people or 4,000 people.

Paul Byrd

I wanted to give our team at least seven, eight innings,

Dave Norton

The ones that got away. That's the name of the season. On the other hand, out of the eight losses there weren't less than 50 kids on a team.

Helen Zille

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

Darren McCarty

That's what prime-time players do. They want the ball, they want the puck. It's what separates the elite from the great.

Todd Jones

The problem is, when you think about it, saves are the only stat where 100 percent is the benchmark. And the elite make it look so easy. There is so much to it.

Hud Venerable

I thought he was at least the co-MVP in the league last year. It looks like he's stronger and he's running harder than he did a year ago. He's an elite player, and he's got a nice group of blockers in front of him. He's powerful, fast and he can cut. He's got the whole package.

Kathy Lanter

I don't think there's any favorite. You're in the Elite Eight. Being the favorite really doesn't matter. You have to go up there and execute. It's that simple.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Bobby Burton

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country. I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn't have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

Lamar Butler

We didn't come this far just to settle. Nobody on this team wants to settle for the Elite Eight.

Dana Goodyear

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Andy White

I slept in today until about 12. I had finals (scheduled), but I hadn't studied for any of them, and I was really tired, so I took a break.

Nancy Evans

This is the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle which will let us get the most prized piece of information about a star, that is, its mass.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Dennis Schain

We did go through the proper process here in issuing the final permit.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Linda Kilpatrick

We're just too inconsistent right now. We're not ready for the playoffs. We're not playing like we should be in the playoffs. Our players need to do a little self-analyzing before our final three games.

Cassandra Schultz

When I look back at the won-loss total (91-24) in my career, I'll see we had some pretty successful years. Going to the Final Four my sophomore year is also something I'll always remember.

Gary Bauer

There is so much work to do with George and so little time to do it,

Michael Showalter

George Pataki is a Baxter, no question. But Mario Cuomo is not a Baxter.

Bruton Smith

I was around George about a half hour once and I knew right then I could do what he did and with less expense. the only thing that is holding me back is a signing bonus.

Harry Belafonte

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Casey Affleck

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

Frances Farmer

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Source Unknown

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Ben Okri

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Alice Cooper

You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Andre Gide

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

Anais Nin

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Anne Carson

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

William Shakespeare

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Tom Malone

As a punter, you get ready to go on third down. This year, we don't even get to third down very much. It's ridiculous how good the offense is. It's crazy. Some games, I didn't even punt at all.

Howard Wolfson

As a strategist, he's as good as they come. I think of guys like him and Mike McKeon as the A-team when it comes to Republican politics in New York.

Bob Howry

As a setup guy, if people are talking to you, obviously you did something bad. Otherwise you go unheard of. I guess that is a good thing.

Brian Thornton

As a senior it hurt not being out there with my team. I would have been good for something -- maybe helping out with (J.P.) Batista.

Chairon Isenia

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

Michael Boyd

As an operating airline, Independence is as good as dead.

John Connell

As a team, we've got a lot of character. I'm very happy with that. They work hard and have a history of being good students. I feel very comfortable with this group of guys.

Jim Lee

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

Derek Brown

As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.

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.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Mark Elliott

Everything we do this year is for us to peak at the national tournament.

Dick Cheney

There's nothing that's more important to us, because at the end of the day, our national security is at stake,

Stuart Sternberg

We've received a lot of national press. It's been positive, and it's had a spillover to a lot of national sponsorship deals.

Pitso Mosimane

Throw in national call-ups and it's been tough for my team.

Leith Kubba

We want this trial to be transparent and a national event.

Rod Wright

We made a pact that we were going to win a national championship. Now, we need to get it done.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Ashthon Jones

Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.

Ashley Wagner

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

Juvenal

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Cameron Bright

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

Cameron Diaz

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Calvin Coolidge

There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!

Cesar Millan

Often we blame the breed, but in my opinion, it's not the breed, it's the owner. The owner has to be the pack leader and provide exercise, discipline, then affection. If you do that, you'll have a sweet, loving, and balanced dog - no matter what breed!

Alan Coren

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

Channing Tatum

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

Brian Gionta

I just worry about the wins right now.

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

Baba Kalyani

In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.

James Beattie

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Clive Barker

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself