Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Francona

They had this thing kind of mapped out. I don't think this is a real deviation from the plan. I just think they wanted probably to test him further with better hitters. I don't think he got challenged a lot (in Double-A). They let him go through the order more than once. I think they wanted to have him maybe face a little better competition.

Jonathan Todd

They should have challenged the decision nominating him, which outlined the terms and conditions of his relationship with the Commission.

Tony Wise

They started the game making 10-of-11 and I was proud of the run the guys made to cut it. Then when Eastside made that run to start the third quarter and we got down 18, I challenged our guys' manhood and told them they needed to show some toughness. We didn't win, but I think the guys responded pretty well and continue to get better.

Allan Ray

For a freshman, that was a great play, just having the confidence to go up there and make a play like that at that time in the game. He went up and challenged him and made a great play.

Brent Sutter

There were a couple of players who were more responsible about it than others and I challenged them. I told them, 'Buy into the program or you don't play and how embarrassing would that be if you're sitting in the stands at the world junior championship and you're a good player?

Larry Wachtel

It's a good rally and it's got some legs for a few days, but I wouldn't go nuts chasing after it. It's going to be challenged in the near future.

Jason Alexander

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

Lance Armstrong

This is the guy (Ullrich) that has challenged me and our team,

John Conyers

This is the ultimate acknowledgment by the government of this woman who challenged the laws of her state to help end segregation,

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Robert Johnston

We want to substantially put greater emphasis on customer service and customer satisfaction. We really want to revitalize the spirit of the organization. It needs to be a much greater competitor.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Jerry Rogers

We spoke with more than 50 financial institutions and each of them gave PCS top marks for customer service, conversions and system capabilities.

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Anne Stevens

When you talk about what is Lincoln, it's about reaching the American customer who has reached his goals, reached his dream and wants to be rewarded for that.

Niklas Zennstrom

Until now, we've been primarily focused on PCs. But our customers want a more ubiquitous experience. And, with a service for mobile phones, we plan to deliver this.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Chelsea Leyland

I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

Derek Brown

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Chellie Pingree

With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.

John Brewer

They scan it for $20 or $30 at most and on eBay get $175, $165, something like that.

Carlos Garcia

It's one thing if you're face to face with someone, but if you're jumping on eBay trying to get a last-minute lift ticket, you're probably going to be the victim of a scam.

Brett Hull

Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

Kara Swisher

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

David Stewart

Yes, there are opportunities to make money. But there are also opportunities to lose money. If the supply on eBay exceeds the demand, you may find yourself with an Xbox when you didn't want an Xbox.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Andrew Zimbalist

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

Peter Cardillo

We're seeing some profit taking but a strong build-up in inventories could send the price of oil under $60 and that could reverse market psychology.

Margaret Whitman

We'll see which one of those works for us and is cost-effective and that's how we'll refine our marketing mix going forward,

William Shakespeare

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

David Gross

AARP does not think the solution is to regulate drug prices. We think there are market solutions.

Steve Cernak

A big part of our market is people who don't want to fly.

Patricia Chadwick

It's just another number that the market will go through.

Jim Hertel

It's as competitive a (grocery) market as you'll ever find in the U.S..

Andy Parsons

A lot is to be said about getting it to market sooner, but it's the question of what you are going to play on it that matters.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Edith Wharton

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Arnold Newman

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

Bill Moyers

Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Charlaine Harris

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

Charles Horton Cooley

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

Bill McCartney

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Chris Nelson

That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.

Ichiro Suzuki

In a tournament like this one, it's important to be the team that scores first.

Phil Mason

We would have been up by two scores had we scored on that drive.

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Bill Moyers

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Handy

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.