Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

Judd Gregg

Anyone who knew my father knew he was an extraordinary and special person who brought humor, energy and optimism to all his infinite endeavors, especially those involving promoting and improving his beloved New Hampshire. He will be greatly missed but always remembered.

Marty Brown

The bottom line is that this guy doesn't belong in this league. Anyone you refer to as 'Mister' belongs in the big leagues. I think he's going to be ready for whenever the Twins want him.

Bob Williams

Normally when they shut down every year, Sikeston just goes out and buys the extra power and sells it to its customers. But the prices are so volatile Sikeston hasn't been able to get anyone to lock in a bid, and we haven't been able to either.

Sammy Day

A game like that gives you a chance to play everybody. I don't like to embarrass anyone and I will never run the score up, but I can't tell my girls to go up there and strikeout either.

Shawn Horcoff

After you take that much time off it gives you a chance to kind of step into it easy. Yesterday and today we kind of felt our way into it; we don't want anyone to come back and get sore. We're going to pick it up in the next couple of days and by early next week we'll have our team together and be up to speed.

Tony Spencer

After seeing the mother and child together, it became clear to me that they have a wonderful relationship. She's a great mother. Any attempt by anyone to interfere with that relationship . . . is wrong.

W. S. Gilbert

After seeing (Elliott) tonight, I don't think anyone can say he's not going to start every game, especially in the WCHA,

Bill Evans

Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.

Jack Bicknell

As far as their character, you can't beat either of those two guys, ... Both of them bring something and having two starters is a positive. You don't have to worry about the first guy going down.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Joe Novak

Our earliest ever. We don't beat the Big Ten schools very often. Hardly at all, if they want a kid.

Jimmy Kimmel

Oh, great, ... Three people beating me up. Maybe it isn't such a great idea.

S. Hughes

The Nasdaq stocks that have been the most beaten up are rallying, and that's a positive,

Peter Coolidge

The Nasdaq has been beaten up so much that there's room for a technical rebound if not more. It's still very murky as to where valuations should be and how much more room there is on the downside.

Sam Stovall

December is one of the best months of the year for retailers. Of the past four years, retailers have beaten the market. Typically, everyone says the Christmas season is going to be horrible and they don't want to be in retailers, only to see December do very well for the market and even better for retailers.

Jack Hoffman

Deep down, I know she's beaten the odds. God definitely had a hand in this.

Mo Johnston

D.C. was the better team. There's no way I'm going to stand up here and make excuses when we got beat 4-1.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Karen Best

The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nonsense because I don't understand how cancer, asthma, rhinitis or conjunctivitis falls into that category. We understand that it is a phenomenon, but it cannot be attributed to what is happening at Louis Lynch School.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

Marian Anderson

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise

Abraham Lincoln

Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.

David Greenfield

Seemingly harmless office pools can introduce the lure and excitement of gambling to the 5 to 8 percent of the population who cannot handle social gambling. A company-sanctioned office pool may be the first experience a person has with gambling, and employers need to be cautious about potentially problematic activities.

Paul Leary

Route 18 is a highly congested main artery and cannot handle any more traffic, especially construction generated traffic.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Yolanda Griffith

Once you win one, you're hungry to win another one. So we'll be back next year.

Pam Wilkins

First of all, we have a lot of athletes. You win one year, and they're hungry to win again.

Dwayne Johnson

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

Chris Fitz

We anticipated this. Voters are really hungry to have it on the ballot.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Did you get hungry and eat my colleagues?

Mignon McLaughlin

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Joe Mullen

They're a team that is looking to win some games. They've got to be hungry (in their situation).

Jason Emmons

We were talking to him about it, and I'm sure he's hungry already.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Richard Roby

Right now, I'm playing for Colorado, and that's my focus.

Antawn Jamison

Phenomenal. He's playing the way he's been playing all year. He got it going and he tried to let Caron (Butler) and myself get it going. We kind of struggled a little bit, but the guy's playing awesome, man.