Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Nikola Tesla

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Bruce Willis

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting,

Craig Stevens

But we really need to look at the Port Arthur region and other areas directly impacted, ... It may still be two or three days before we get a sense of the actual picture.

William Poole

No one knows for certain whether the economy can escape an actual decline in real GDP, but the fact that we have done so to date and that many adjustments are now well along suggests that we have an excellent chance of doing so,

Dean Maki

One way to interpret it is that sellers may have only been willing to sell if they got the prices they were expecting. Fewer got that, so there were less actual transactions as prices continued to rise.

Tony Glinke

My customers will sometimes come to me with a problem they need solved. Or they'll have an idea of what they need, and we figure out how to design a component that will meet that need. What we do here, as engineers and designers is come up with ideas, and then take the concept from design to actual product.

Carl Goldberg

My expectation is that I want to see actual leases. If they have to be redacted somewhat to ensure privilege, OK. But I want to see lease terms -- square footages and rent levels -- to ensure consistency with the original plan. We want to feel assured that there is a real likelihood that they will be capable of securing the construction loans they need to complete the project.

D. H. Lawrence

Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Mark Warner

No case has been more troubling, ... Rest assured there is no case I have spent more time thinking about, praying about and reflecting on than this case.

Bruce Bochy

He's done a terrific job for us, ... I assured him it had nothing to do with the game.

Ivan Johnson

The concept was not a concept that Cox created. We were assured this was fine. Certainly we're big boys, and we check out things. At this point, we're comfortable that no laws were broken.

Doug Marrs

Special teams really hurt us, but we didn't play like we're capable of playing and they played very well. They're a good football team, and they did a great job.

Dave Woodruff

We did over 100,000 pounds of crab, but it isn't enough. My plant is capable of running 1.5 million pounds of crab.

Ben Wallace

Before Larry got here, we knew what kind of team we had. With him gone, we still know we capable of getting it done.

Bruno Latour

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

Tony DiTucci

We got strong play from a few individuals, but we didn't get a collective effort from the whole team. We're not going to win with individual effort. We're going to win when we play together as a team the way we're capable of playing.

Milton Bradley

We're very capable of winning the division. . . . We're going to win it.

Ariel Sharon

That will show if they are capable of running independence of their own and if they are capable of stopping terror ... That is where they are going to be checked if they can run a country or not.

Eric King

We had gotten good defense and good pitching all year. But it was a great game by Shelby. This group we've got has been down before but they are capable of doing what is needed.

Ron Watson

If I had it to nail down to one thing it would be the seven seniors. We had only one the year before. Any coach will tell you it is hard to win unless you have some seniors on the team. It is capable to do, but when you have seniors, it helps with leadership.

Ian Gold

We did not complete the mission and it's frustrating.

Jack Ma

Currently, it seems the second phase has been completed smoothly and even better than my expectations. Now we are entering the third phase of reshaping.

Janet Jackson

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Ned Riley

Today we're in the bottom- fishing mode and there are a lot of people who think the tech correction is complete and we've established our lows for this cycle.

Thomas Russo

Warren comes complete with three skills: a consummate investor, a superb businessman and a great cheerleader.

Alan Curry

We are very pleased that the legal tactics of the defense have been rejected by the court of appeals, and we are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know

David Moore

We just had two Vietnamese students who matriculated here to complete the program. And when they receive their BCC degree, they can transfer to a state university for their four-year degree.

George J. Mitchell

We will strive to complete an investigation that is thorough, objective and fair. Our mission will be to gather facts, not conjecture.

Samresh Jung

The shooters just need to work on their consistency in order to get even better.

Maureen Forrester

He was definitely one of the better pick-ups we have had in a while. He gave us not just size, but he gave us great consistency through the season.

Bobby Bowden

He started kicking better, ... He went 7 for 7 the other day in our last kicking scrimmage. That's what you want - the consistency part of it.

Benjamin Raich

Sure it's nice to be regarded as a leader. I've worked hard for this and it shows I have consistency in several disciplines.

Li Keqiang

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Adam Ereli

The needs are great, and there are ways to do this, to ensure that those needs are met.

Orlando Jones

To be honest, I just didn't want to say ""Thank you,"" ""Please,"" and ""Come again"" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.

Anna Friel

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Rajneesh

If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

Elon Musk

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Thomas Burke

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

John Wall

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Rory Fitzpatrick

Playoffs are always a big jump. I've been through it at different levels and in the NHL.

Nicholas Stern

Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

Sheryl Swoopes

Every level that I have ever competed on, I have risen to the top.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Paul Taylor

I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

Douglas Hofstadter

Irrationality is the square root of all evil

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

Bruce McPherson

then we'll have to go back to square one.