Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Stoyer

Do we think he has the same value he did two or three years ago? Absolutely. He's certainly has been the cornerstone for our business, lending credibility and brand awareness, allowing us to create a golf company within Nike.

Ryan Barrett

China enforces stability from the top down. Allowing everyone to gradually buy into development allows India's stability to take root from the bottom up.

Manase Hopoi

I don't think we played our best. We were losing gaps and we were allowing the O-line to get to our linebackers. So I think we can correct some of those things and get a lot better when we play UCLA.

Miron Bleiberg

I would have liked to have seen 24 players in the squad and they could have fixed it up by allowing us to put players on three or six month contracts.

Deion Sanders

I thought I came back to win a Super Bowl. But I found out in the middle of last season that's not what I came back for. I came back for these men inside the locker room. It wasn't about playing with those guys, it was about allowing those guys to see the man behind the persona.

Michael Rushford

You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through.

John McCallum

You know I just want to find my parents, and give them a hug for allowing me to be able to be here, and not go through something like that, because that is just something terrible, what they are experiencing right now, and just the fact that I was able to go down and help is great.

Barbara Taylor

I came here to show resentment to ... lesbians and homosexuals coming to our shores. I saw with my own eyes two people kissing. I'm upset with the government for allowing them to come here.

Bryan Larrison

I can talk and talk about Hundley. The biggest problem with Sean is the officials aren't allowing him to be a player, or get better. They're not allowing him to finish a game. Referees are burning him. He's spending an average of eight minutes in the (penalty box). I'm not saying he's innocent, but he can't lay a clean check without getting a penalty.

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Dwayne Johnson

If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

Daniel Tammet

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

Daniel Suarez

For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

Albert Camus

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

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.

Gary Mitchell

This is probably the biggest name show we'll have all year.

Roy Williams

This could go on three or four or five weeks. I only had to put up with it for one week, even though it was on the biggest stage.

Josh Childress

That's my biggest goal now, two in a row. Last year I said if we won two in a row I was cutting my hair. I'm not saying that now.

Arlen Specter

biggest challenge of the year and perhaps the decade.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.

Randy Carlyle

The result is the biggest negative. Our effort was good, we had chances, but we just didn't bury the puck.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Veronique Keyser

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

Rip Hamilton

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

Dan Lipinski

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

M. Wolfe

Our slogan is 'Money for Nothing, Checks for Free,'

Kevin Cosgrove

The one thing about Steve, he's got a tremendous motor. But he still has a ways to go as far as his checks and things like that. We're looking for the exactness in his play, and that's got to continue to develop.

Kirk Douglas

Because I love you, I will be checking up on you, ... You have honored me and I thank all of you.

Katherine Miller

This one looked like we needed to have it checked out,

Lamar Butler

I e-mailed my teacher. I said 'Man, I can't focus, to be honest with you. I've been playing basketball, it's NCAA time, we're in the Final Four, can I get an extension?' He hasn't replied yet. I'm going to check my e-mail when I get back to my room.

Jonathan Cain

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

Tom Brady

I was so nervous to go out to practice because I was competing every day. I swear to God, I would lose sleep, ... I'd wake up and check the weather to see how windy it was going to be because I knew I was going out there and throwing. You'd learn valuable lessons about competition, and I approached every day in practice like it really was the game.

Lois Nelson

I would say check out the results from the surveys on Medicare.gov. it has a list you can compare in all states that have homes receiving Medicare and Medicaid.

Alma Garcia

I would go unannounced and observe. I would look to see if the children have activities. If the operation is clean. If everything looks safe. I would also check on our Web site.

Chris Hill

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

Bruce Krall

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Dean Ellis

Friday, from 3-6 p.m., the players will help pump gas, clean windshields and hand out free tickets to people at all four Holiday stations in Marquette County.

Paul Epstein

Further, the lack of clean water during a drought interferes with good hygiene and safe rehydration of those who have lost large amounts of water because of diarrhea or fever.

Mike Rowe

FYI, the Honey Truck driver, a great guy named Les, used to be a psychiatrist. He quit his practice to clean septic tanks for a living.

Johnny Thomas

From what I hear, Hammond was hit harder than we were so it's probably good we're playing the game a couple of days later. It should give them more time to clean up. Considering everything that has happened with this hurricane, we're just happy to be playing, regardless of what day it is.

Jon Tester

From the beginning, this hasn't passed the smell test. This smells like a barnyard that needs a cleanup. It's time to clean up Washington, D.C., and we should start with Conrad Burns.

Bible Bible

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Robert McKinley

If someone rips you off, it's a real mess to clean up.

Jimmy Fennig

No -- we're still going racing because that's what we're here for -- we've still got eight races left,

Mike Flaherty

We're holding teams to less than 40 points, on average, during the last eight games.

Patrick Darby

We're happy from the standpoint we have eight in the semifinals and everyone is still alive. Everybody has shown pretty good enthusiasm.

Mark Dacey

Considering when we were 4-4 after eight games, for sure we were starting to thing a playoff spot might be out of our own grasp.

Denny Green

And we have about eight guys who can play guard or tackle.

Jeff Price

Another night, in September, we had eight fires in a row.

David Chase

We have eight more games to go; and we want to win them all. If we can win a title, people will think we're for real. We can't take anything for granted.

Travis Paquet

We were down by two with eight seconds left to go, but they made some foul shots and we couldn't convert.

James Todd

we already know the views of the other eight justices on the court, why shouldn't we know how he would have voted if he was on the court?

Tyler Haynes

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

Ellis Hobbs

The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.

Louis MacNeice

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We finished this one. We made it hard though. I told the guys that they are kind of hard on their coaches.

John Shepard

If Andrew's the guy that finishes it, Andrew's the guy that finishes it.

David Carrier

I have a new home here in El Paso, I'm by myself, so I am going to try to get finished with school and open up my own shops.

David Wright

Hopefully, it will kick-start me to finish strong,

Mike Maroth

Good teams find a way to stop the bleeding. For whatever reason, I think we're just trying too hard. Things aren't always going to work out, and they haven't, but you've got to do the things necessary to do the turnaround and get back on track. We just haven't been able to do that. We need to, because we're getting to the end of the season and it's important that we do finish on a positive note.

David Perkins

By then (15) they have had their own kids in their development programme for two years. They prefer our kids to finish their schooling in New Zealand.

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Life seems endless, life seems to go on and on until you lay on your death-bed!

Rick DiPietro

If you have any pride or love for this team, you can't go out and lay eggs. This is a big time of year, regardless of the situation. We've got to come out and play hard.

James Rosenquist

I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.

David Duval

I want to sit down or lay down and try to let it rest.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

Richelle Mead

I'm always at least ten minutes early.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Jeff Berliner

The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,

Ben Feldman

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

Elie Tahari

Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.

Roger Rosenblatt

The problem with death is absence

Tony Fadell

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.

Tom Holt

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

Tina Fey

Whatever the problem - be part of the solution

Toby Hall

Electric. His stuff was electric. That was unbelievable. Even some of their lefties were saying they had no chance.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He's saying that she couldn't see the evidence, couldn't see he was guilty.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Martin Edwards

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail,

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Reggie White

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.