Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

Jose Vistan

Investors were relieved that contrary to expectations, Labor Day ended without any violence.

Robert Pastor

In the short term, there may be people who think that pushing democracy is contrary to our interests.

Samuel Coleridge

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

Marianne Williamson

The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.

Dick Marty

These two facts are significant because they indicate methodology, logistics and personnel for this kind of operation ? operations which are totally contrary to the spirit and the text of the European convention on human rights.

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Carl Williams

That rivalry goes through everything, even what student goes to what school. Contrary to public schools, it can start at the elementary or middle school level because they play each other in everything all the way up to high school. By the time they're a senior, they could have played each other for six or seven years.

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Megan Smith

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

Jeff Baker

I'm not saying we don't need a high school. I know we do. I just think our priorities need to be with the elementary and middle school.

Tom Jones

The elementary schools are doing a great job, but the middle schools are losing future music students.

Lori Stephenson

The high school will work nicely for the carnival, but we are looking very forward to getting to the elementary next year.

E. P. Thompson

The future of elementary consolidation is not decided,

Aimee Bender

I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

Steve Alford

It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.

Richard Askey

It's possible to do it in other ways. Japanese elementary schools are not exactly the same as the Singapore, and they're done carefully.

Joe Blodgett

When they extended their zone, the floor shrunk. It was like playing on an elementary school floor for us.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Dennis Luquet

He could have more strikeouts, but he just wants to get you out as quickly as he can. He just quietly goes about his business.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Lamar Owens

I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different level ... To come out and play the way we did was phenomenal.

Siobhan Finneran

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Marco Sullivan

I think it's great, personally. Now everyone's got to perform. It's another level of intensity. Everyone is kind of picking it up.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

Stephen Lewis

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Joe Davis

Whatever level you're at, loss prevention pays well.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Susan Jovanovic

He'd be out on the track, running on his sled in the middle of the night.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Lynn Kimbrough

It could be something criminal. We're in the middle of the investigation.

Adam Mueller

We're pretty pleased with where we're at. We're right in the middle of it, and it's going to be a very important weekend for us.

Larry Wortzel

We're in the middle of methodically moving through this.

Todd Wilkinson

We're in the middle of it. We're rolling now. There won't be any let up.

Paul Kariya

We're in the middle of a rut right now, and we're going to have to get ourselves out of it. It's a very competitive conference, and we have to win some.

Henry Winkler

I think this is the most important depository in the Middle West.

Dave Pirner

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Lindsay Davenport

I was just able to eke out the second set, and the third set I just played a lot better and she started to make a lot more unforced errors.

David Duncan

Kirby was 8 of 15 from the field. That's pretty good. She played well.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Tiger Woods

I think I played really well - even though I had three bogeys, I think 10 birdies usually offsets that.

Leonard Little

It can't do nothing but get better now. We've played the worst that we can play.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Myron Rolle

He just told me not to put any undue pressure on myself. He said if I just relaxed and played my game, the big plays would come.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Sandra Bullock

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Sol Wachtler

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

Mary McGinnis

I really wanted to thank them for their valuable public service, I was really quite surprised. Writing isn't my big skill.

Novak Djokovic

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

Bill Womack

It's a pretty big rivalry all the way around I think. They want to come up here and play well, and we want to play well.

Frank Robinson

A rivalry has to be cultivated. This, in time, could be.

Ryk Neethling

What makes it important is the kind of rivalry we've been talking about with Australia, with England, with New Zealand, with Canada.

Justin Marshall

The rivalry between those two is on a different scale to the one New Zealand have with South Africa, which has more tradition and respect.

Bruce Arena

This is probably the fiercest rivalry in the group.

Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Aaron Williams

Honestly, you always have to put the teams with tradition up there, ... It's always a big rivalry for us.

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Aaron Johnson

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Alexis Gordon

I thought the school would never be done.

Diane Benczkowski

I think we?re suppressing our residents, school and students.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Deirdre O'Kane

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

Dan Ross

I thought we'd be sixth or seventh after the first day.

Doug Castellari

I thought we had a shot at about seven matches. It didn't work out for us. They're an experienced team. We wrestled tough, but they were the better team.

Rick Riordan

Great," Percy said. "Seven of us against Hercules." "And a satyr!" Hedge added. "We can take him.

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Lamar Hunt

The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.

Bob Vaughan

You can tell we're nearing the end with our seven seniors. They can feel it, and they're hungry.

Keith Tkachuk

It's up to the Blues. We don't have much to work with ... seven days. But whatever happens, happens.

Brian Buckley

It was just one of those days. St. John's Prep, if I'm not mistaken, had seven firsts, so they were just on.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Robert Plant

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Wietse Venema

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Robert Jordan

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

William Halsey

The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.

Walter Mondale

Remember, ... you have six years in the first term, not six days. Don't be so impatient, charging into everything.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Peter Cardillo

I think the market's going to probably start the year on an up trend,

Brian Finnerty

I think when we start to get strong numbers, that's when we take off again.

Mike Bradley

We're off to a strong start in 2006.

Pat White

We've got to work off this and keep going, do what we're doing, start a dynasty, I guess.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Sam Abell

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

Nelson Fields

Our better students tend to op for the (Bachelor of Arts) program.

Bill Walker

In effect, the out-of-state students here are subsidizing the in-state students.

Allison Scagliotti

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

Mike Butcher

I just watch guys. It's like, when the student is ready, the teacher will come. That's it.

Willie Tuitama

I'm just being a better student of the game.

Jason Mraz

I'm just a student at all of this. I'm not trying to teach anyone, ... In an educational system all students are supposed to be equal. I'm just trying to be an equal.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.