Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Peter Diamandis

Prizes change the public perception about an issue. The more prize money, the more the issue is seen as important by the public.

Ed Watson

Probably not all the employees will be going with us. For at least the next year there probably won't be a lot of change in their lives. They will have time to plan.

Brian Hill

Personally I derived a lot of satisfaction from the way we finished up, but still it's disappointing to not make the playoffs. Of course, I didn't realize that we'd have to change our team in the middle of the season. What would make this year more satisfying is if we pick up where we left off next year.

Jan Smith

People think you change a newborn, you feed them and rock them and that's it.

Toshihiko Fukui

People think the withdrawal of monetary accommodation is about to get under way. People can price it in before any possible change (in monetary policy) on a global basis,

Mark Lyons

Our seniors have been exactly what you'd expect -- good leaders, playing well. It's quality over quantity. Our goals don't change from year to year. We want to get to the playoffs and then take the next step.

Didier Lombard

Our environment is changing, and we must change with it.

Ali Hewson

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

Bob Brenly

I don't think he derived a whole lot of satisfaction from being a closer. It just didn't ring his bell. We think giving him a job he wants, we think he could be something special.

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Sheryl Swoopes

Somebody said to me, 'Well, you went in at halftime and you had nine assists, and you only finished with 10,'

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Steve Squyres

Once we've finished the rest of the list, we'll start the descent.

Mark Mazzoleni

Sometimes they go in, and sometimes they don't. The thing is, we finished our scoring opportunities.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

David Moorcroft

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

Brad Thor

After 9/11, if people made movies about terrorism, the U.S. was evil and Muslims were misunderstood: 'Lions for Lambs,' 'Stop-Loss,' 'Rendition.' Well, all these movies didn't do particularly well. In Hollywood, people scratched their heads, but the reason they didn't do well is because in Middle America, people want to see their values triumph.

James Altucher

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Carrie Coon

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it.

Bruce Buchanan

That used to be his sanctuary, out in the middle of rural Texas where he could get his mind off his troubles. And now his troubles are right down the street.

Jessie Davis

That's my truck on the road. I see it. It's in the middle of the road.

Sami Abdulbari

You pull a lot more as a guard. You're always in the middle of the action.

Richard Johns

There are more valid arguments for fifth-grade being in the middle school than not.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

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.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Mike Grier

Roy kind of jumped their defenseman. I don't think the defenseman saw him. He was able to pick his pocket and he just threw it out to me. It was kind of just a bang-bang play.

William Hatcher

I shouldn't have picked up my dribble. I'm a better player than that.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Roland Kampmeier

They all picked on me. It was survival of the fittest.

Jonathan Stamp

Bruno (Heller) deliberately picked out stuff which is shocking, arresting, surprising,

Wyclef Jean

When you pick up The Carnival, you get the big genre.

Paul Adams

The race is too tight to pick a winner.

Chris Devine

We were really down losing. This will pick us up.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

John Stocco

But you never realize really what it's like until you're actually out there in the spotlight,

Salvation Army

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Gibril Wilson

I didn't realize that the punt was short. It was unfortunate. ... You've got to make your own breaks, so it's all on us.

Kurt Warner

I didn't realize that, the little things you learn.

Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all