Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

Paul Moskal

I think it's fairly close. It's accepted as state-of-the-art science, and it's very powerful evidence in that it's science as opposed to personal opinion.

Craig Waibel

I think the players have to accept some of the responsibility of going in and doing the right thing.

Andrew Ference

I think the NHL just decided it didn't need another dark cloud hanging over it. But I accept that he has served his suspension and paid a huge price in the game and in his private life.

Bill Shepherd

I think the biggest issue for NASA and for the Russian Space Agency and other folks... (is) everybody has to accept some cultural change to make this happen. It's probably the biggest problem in front of us and it's probably one of the hardest things we have got to go work on.

Richard Berthelsen

I think the arbitrator chose to accept not only the Eagles' version of the evidence, but I think he went even further and pieced the evidence together in a way that it really didn't involve. He describes all of the events leading up to the suspension, but ignored the fact that Terrell was a model citizen from the week he was gone in training camp until Nov. 3. If you view, as (Bloch) did, the one week (Reid) sent (Owens) home as a form of discipline, that wiped out all prior conduct.

Robin Cook

It is clear from weekend reports that the violence in Kosovo has continued. We do not accept that this is merely an internal matter.

Joey Mullen

Lack of effort. If you lose that way and you got an effort. If you lose that game, fourth game in five nights, and got an effort, you can accept it a little bit. When you don't have the effort, you can't accept it.

Erik Hassle

L.A. is such an exotic city to me, and it is just a big bubble. If you accept the bubble and accept how isolated it is. It can be a very creative place, and I find it easy to focus.

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

David Parsons

Kids coming out of high school are coached better today. Nothing against the coaches I had in high school; I thought they were great coaches. But everything is so specialized now. I watch Gary Rankin (Riverdale head football coach). He was a teammate of mine at Tennessee. (Riverdale) has a different game plan for everybody they played.

Gerald Doucet

I would not put my money against it.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Helen Oyeyemi

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

Richard Cohen

I was 13 when Dr. King was slain. I didn't have the opportunity to know him. But reading Taylor's books make me feel that I do know Dr. King.

Ashley Johnson

I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Mo Ibrahim

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

Bruce Jackson

Photograph books are very expensive to print, and I don't think a commercial publisher was willing to take it on. But for us, it was interesting because it combined photographs with the essay.

Howard Safir

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

Charles Mathews

There is no crime scene, there are no forensics and we have no witnesses.

Mike Forest

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Jan Eliasson

International issues are national, and so many local issues - migration, communicable diseases, organized crime - end up touching everyone. At the same time there is such suspicion. It is quite a paradox.

Bill Hill

His guilt of this heinous crime is not in question,

Jon Bruning

I'm tougher on crime -- I'm so tough it makes me want to throw up sometimes, ... How tough on crime can we get before it gets to be ridiculous?

Mike Marshall

If there's been a crime committed, there has to be a suspect. And if there's a suspect, it would be nice for someone to tell us who that is.

Bob Beasley

If passed, some of the money would come from the state crime victims fund. As a result, much of the training would be about victims of crime.

Sherron Watkins

I'm not an expert at that. I wish I hadn't sold ? I don't know whether a crime was committed.

Steve Martin

He?s already been to the show. I know the intimidation factor will be out of him.

Tom Benson

I think the fact of what San Antonio did for us -- we had no other place to go where something like this was set up -- that's what made this happen.

Clarence Darrow

What I hope to see for labor is the people who work in factories own the factories

Christopher Hill

I think that the DPRK (North Korea) needs to understand that we need to move swiftly on denuclearization and the fact that denuclearization is the first step in the agreement.

Marc Volavka

It is not a fact that people must get hospital-acquired infections. The goal ought to be the prevention of every single hospital-acquired infection.

Steve Alford

I think some people would say the numbers are the same. But with the casinos, we're fighting a trend and everyone else is going down, ... The fact is, we're not going down. Our people do go to the casinos, but they don't go up there every day.

Debbie Harllee

I think that it has momentum. The fact that a lot of people have approached us says a lot.

John Hickenlooper

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

Geno Auriemma

Last year I didn't like the fact that you never what the starting lineup was going to be. I'd like it settled by the time the first game comes around. I'd like to be settled. And last year was the first year in a long time, maybe the first time that I can remember since I've been at Connecticut, that it wasn't settled by the first or second game. It never seemed to get itself settled.

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

Norman Ralph Augustine

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Mo Yan

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Mary Wollstonecraft

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Mark Haddon

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Moliere

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Haruki Murakami

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

John C. Maxwell

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Joan Sutherland

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.