Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Bryant

Jackson thanked Claypool for backing the airport, but he did not endorse him. He is neutral in the county board president race.

Vitor Meira

John has been backing me since I started in the IRL and we've got a great relationship and I feel very lucky,

Michael Woolfolk

There are strong economic fundamentals backing not only the U.S. economy but the U.S. dollar right now. We are likely to get two more rate hikes.

Dick Handbury

He?s got a very good staff behind him, both up on the hill (at the district offices) and down at the high school. And he?s certainly going to have the backing of the board.

Joe Girardi

He saw me a lot when he came to the park, because I was always backing up first base, ... He makes you feel pretty comfortable.

Alfred Goldman

We're in the process of making a bottom but probably not at the bottom. After the damage done to people's psyches, my guess is we'll get a bounce, but then spend a month backing and filling in this general area.

Jim Padilla

I think we'll see some degree of moderation, but I don't see any backing off to a large degree.

Jim Zalesky

Oregon State has a great tradition. You've got the backing of the administration, which is key. You've also got good Oregon high school wrestling, there's a good base there.

James Wolfensohn

If you were in a job where it was unclear what the purpose of that job was and what the backing that you had was and who had the responsibility...you would probably wonder...if that was the thing you wanted to do.

Gail Bronson

I think it'll be a good proxy for a popularity contest for James Cramer.

Denis Menchov

I think it all worked out pretty good. I didn't do any work so I wasn't going to try to win the stage. The others had worked, so I wasn't going to try to contest the sprint.

Don Ostrowsky

He was actually an image pulled from our logo, and we had a contest to name him. We thought he would make for a great mascot.

Stephen Jackson

He (Crawford) didn't have enough time to pass so I knew he was going to shoot. I just tried to contest the shot. I contested it and he hit the shot.

Mike McConachie

Having a contested race is probably a tribute to our population growth. There may be a general feeling that 16 years is long enough and is tough for chance. An elected office is not supposed to be permanent." ()

Chris Rock

Have you been watching American Idol? They have Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul judgin' the singin. Paula Abdul?! Gettin' Paula Abdul to judge a singin' contest is like gettin' Christopher Reeve to judge a dance contest!

Tom Marryott

Lafayette gave us fits in the first half. They can really score some points. I was happy with how we played in the zone. We were smart and were able to contest the people we were supposed to contest. We stopped the bleeding.

Kyle Korver

He hit that (three-pointer) over me in the first game of the season. I thought I contested it so hard the first game and he still made it. I was, like, 'Not again.' But he missed it.

O. Henry

In the last 20 years, all these spots and sales promotions and contests were designed to deliver to advertisers, but we've lost sight of the fact that we have to get the listeners first.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Jeffrey Levi

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Larry Anderson

I think the $12 million is just way out of the way,

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

David Carr

I never thought in a million years we'd play like that, ... That was unbelievable.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Stephen LaDue

I was able to aggressively quote it because I had the availability of that product.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

John Atkinson

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Erma Bombeck

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Phil Keoghan

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Joan Armatrading

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

Darren Dopp

That whole quote that he had from Mr. Spitzer was fabricated.

Santana Moss

I could have at least got that quote on a T-shirt.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Mike Patterson

He just saw the same things in me and him.

Danny Aiello

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

Jim Tressel

I didn't really see it at all. All I saw was there was a big pileup.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

Annika Sorenstam

I come from a little town just like she does, ... So for her to travel all the way from Sweden and live your dream, when I saw that headline, I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.