Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Kevin Boyd

Katie is a creative, technical player who can impact a game from any position. She is easily one of the top players coming out this year.

Chuck D.

Joey is a phenomenal talent and his knowledge of the sport and athleticism are off the chart. Now everything is coming together for him.

Luis Fernandez

Juan Miguel is coming as soon as he receives the guarantee from the Justice Department and the INS that he's going to receive the custody of his boy,

David Leibowitz

I suspect that software is going to drive this generation of products much as it drove the prior generation. Nintendo has proven itself a master of coming up with software that has play value.

Nick Saban

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

Steve Nash

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

Mike Browning

I take my hat off to our guys because they could have easily given up being 17 points down, coming off a back-to-back the night before.

Chip Sodemann

Just making the conference tournament is huge for us. The MIAA has a lot of pride, history and tradition in its programs.

Dale Brown

It can't be taken for granted. No other Louisiana school has gone to it. Only six Southeastern Conference schools have made it.

Jim Thompson

It always feels good to win a conference match away from home. The girls played well on a golf course that we had not played well on before.

Mel Blasi

Golf is a funny game; anything can happen. Our conference is strong and well-balanced. There are no guarantees.

Michael White

He said I might be tied for the Big West Conference record for injuries.

Scott Maddox

I thought we responded well to our first conference loss. We knew a fast start was important and the guys did exactly what we needed by jumping them early.

Barry Hinson

I think the conference race is already done. I think Wichita State is going to win the race. I think what everybody else is trying to do is to get the highest seed they can get for the tournament, or finish as the runner-up.

Mike Loyd

Whatever happens this year, we won't be able to use inexperience as an excuse. Most of our guys have been there and done it before. It may take us a little while to hit our stride, but I fully expect us to contend for the conference championship.

Brent Erickson

The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Chris Scelfo

What matters is we're playing. We'll play in the parking lot at Popeye's. I guarantee you I'll play in the parking lot at Wal-Mart if that's where they tell us to play. That's all we have is football. We've lost everything else.

Roger Ferris

There is no guarantee we will get anything.

Gary Cooper

We're only looking to have fun. It will be fun. I can guarantee that.

Mark Johnson

I will be nervous, I guarantee it, but hopefully I'll get over it real quick.

Frank Robinson

He'll listen to anything I tell him, but I don't know how he'll react. I can't guarantee he won't react to something on the field.

Robert Nozick

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Walker Percy

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Winston Churchill

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Zig Ziglar

You measure success by how much good you do for others.

Iqbal Sacranie

This is a long overdue measure but nevertheless is a welcome first step.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Tom Peters

What gets measured gets done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Mark Thompson

Risk and reward tend to be symmetrical. If you want to be a high-value company, you have to take more risks.

Aaron Lowe

Being (here) has been wonderful. It's very rewarding after all of this time.

Mike Padgett

The thing is, he's been pressing so hard. To see him come on top like that, it's truly a reward for him.

James O'Boyle

It's very rewarding work. There's a lot of variety; I can sit here and do books, write checks, wash cars, garden, embalm. That's what makes it interesting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Juvenal

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Louis Hinnant

In a tournament like this, you've got to get something in your system.

Inaki Saez

You don't give anything away in a tournament like this,

Michael Collins

This is the one tournament where I tell folks, this is not a sport.

Yani Tseng

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Cassie Johnson

We will be here until the end of the tournament to watch the USA men's team. Hopefully, they'll get to the finals.

Steve Elkington

The tournament is wide open, I would say now.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Kirk Triplett

That won the tournament for me, for sure.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Woody Allen

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

William J. Clinton

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

Will Ferrell

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!