Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Vladimir Radmanovic

I don't think we're going to play football in the playoffs. Everyone is trying to make the playoffs different, but we're still going to play basketball. Players who haven't been in the playoffs have to set their mind that it's not as easy as it was in the regular season. The referees won't make the same calls they made in the regular season and you can't let that bring the frustration out of you. That's the biggest adjustment.

Bob Djurdjevic

Global Services results are disappointing, especially a $2 billion drop in its backlog in the fourth quarter. And a 9% decline in new contract signings? That means that the biggest IBM unit is losing more business from its backlog than it is signing.

Tony Wingen

If this wasn't the biggest win in school history, it's right up there with any of them. It was fantastic. To prepare to win, carry out the game plan to perfection, and actually win the game, it was like winning a championship.

Pat Metheny

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Rachel Yeggy

He was definitely one of my biggest fans.

Alan Johnston

He was wearing a skull cap, and it was the biggest lift for me, personally. I came down to my office and cried because I knew everything was fine.

Al Frost

I got him a good one, right on the neck. I might give him another one before the night is over, I'm sure. Kyle is a strong kid. He's big and physical. He was a JV kid last year. This was definitely the biggest win in his life.

Curtis Preston

Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized.

E. O. Wilson

For us, to have her here for Black History Month, is just a real coup.

Darrell Smith

No disrespect or anything, but it's like y'all aren't doing your jobs. It's like y'all don't have respect for the black community.

Don Haskins

I see five black guys on the first-team All-SWC team.

Mark E. Smith

I saw a piece out of the wharf and I thought maybe it was from the storm, and then I saw something black in the water and then I realized it was a car.

Cindy Aillaud

I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.

Mark Whitby

I saw a chap run on to the train, ... He was running so fast he half sort of tripped. He was being pursued by three guys. One had a black handgun in his hand.

Bob Geldof

Irish Americans are about as Irish as Black Americans are African.

Ben Chappell

People need to know about the person who saved black people's rights.

Mackey Sasser

The way we came back in that game was something special. The guys never quit. That's what winning teams are made of.

Scott Green

The way we came back from that loss and responded in that match showed us we could be a top team.

Sean McDonnell

The way the skill guys have practiced all camp came out in the scrimmage today.

Felipe Alou

The way the guys came back in the ninth inning, after what happened two nights ago, it shows these guys are serious.

Jonathon Modica

This game was similar to the first one, really -- we started out slow but came on in the second half. I just tried to provide some leadership.

Will Brown

This game was lost in the first half. They came out, made the first run of the game, got us on our heels and frustrated us a little.

Kobe Bryant

This decision came only after reviewing all the evidence -- testimonial evidence and physical evidence. The standards are the same in this case as in any other case,

Tim Chapman

That's what we want to do. You can't slip up in tournament time. So we came out really focused, jumped on them early and got that big lead. I thought the girls played hard even though we were up by 20 or so. They still had the intensity and that's what I liked about it.

Scott Gordon

That third period was outstanding for us. We had I don?t know how many grade A chances. Certainly, Montoya came up huge for them because it could have easily been three or four goals for us.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Frank Gillett

I would expect this to be primarily about experimentation.

Robert Long

I would expect a strong payrolls number Friday, and for the market to have some sort of positive response to it, even if it's just very short-term.

Greg Miller

We haven't spoken since, but we expect everything will be fine.

Chuck D.

Long time coming. You never expect that. We're usually more consistent.

Henning Kagermann

Looking forward, our overall pipeline is healthy and we expect stronger software sales in the second and third quarters,

Bill Kennedy

Look at all the exposure she's had. You'd expect it to be a lot like Kelly Clarkson.

Dana McClintock

Look, 170 million Americans have watched the Olympics at some point. You couldn't expect a repeat of Lillehammer. That was magical, lightning in a bottle." ()

Ashu Kakkar

Markets looked poised for further gains. Expect volatility in the short-term.

Calvin Coolidge

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Albert Einstein

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

Albert Einstein

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Albert Einstein

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!