Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ewa Kopacz

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Neil Fox

On fellow judge Simon Cowell: "Simon is very demonstrative, very old-school music biz. He calls me darling but he is definitely not gay.

Bill Gates

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

Michael Myers

We'd rather go forward, but we have to play within the defense, and if it calls for us to drop, we drop.

Charles Dickens

He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Edward Wilford

In this environment, you get what the government calls a confession.

Kevin J. Anderson

I just get too many phone calls during the day. If I'm in the middle of a scene and the phone rings, it really disrupts my concentration.

Richard Browne

I haven't even seen it, and I've gotten calls and e-mails about it.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

John Dick

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

John Hodgson

What we're trying to do is establish a holiday tradition downtown, sort of like Westlake Center in Seattle.

Philip Roth

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Peter Spina

Silver is taking center stage ... with the news of Barclays' silver ETF a step closer to possible approval. We have some gold investors moving into the silver market.

Lloyd McClendon

He's really stabilized things for us in center field. And he did a hell of a job for us leading off. Those are two things we don't have to worry about. Every team is looking for a left-handed center fielder who can lead off." ()

Sergio Garcia

When it comes to hitting solid drives, the secret is to swing within yourself. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true. If you swing at 100 miles per hour and hit it on the toe, you won't hit the ball as far as you would with an 80-mph swing that catches the ball in the center of the clubface.

Kong Quan

We hope that this Russian invitation to Iran to hold talks on the 16th about participating in an international uranium enrichment center will help break, or encourage a break, in the current stalemate over the Iranian nuclear issue.

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Barton Gellman

Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

Linda Rosenstock

UCLA's School of Public Health is now poised to house one of the leading reproductive health and population centers in the United States. Thanks to the commitment and vision of the Bixby Foundation, we are able to develop and enhance programs that enrich our students' training and make a difference in people's lives.

Mo Shaoping

The way they have done this shows they know how controversial the charge is.

Rekalin Sims

That's what I want to do. I want to be able to be able to take one, two charges a game, even more than that if I can. I guess in a way I kind of look for them. That's just part of my game.

Jeff Wuite

The outcome was that no charges should be laid.

Vivian Covard

(Benjamin) was put in charge when Josh was born, and he was given way too much responsibility.

William Campbell

There could be a number of reasons why the number of voters is larger in one ward than the other - there could be more people who actually register, or there could be a discrepancy in the number of children, ... One thing that surprised me is that there have been some huge (housing) developments in the city that I figured would have charged the demographics, but that's not been the case.

Scott Draper

We will only charge the students who use these services. This is relatively inexpensive - it's cheaper than co-pay.

Kofi Annan

We have a clear mandate from the Security Council to do whatever we can to work with the government and the people of Iraq to make sure Iraq takes charge of its own future and develops a stable peaceful society,

Savas Kyriacou

Those two people are being investigated at this point. We are still trying to determine what, if any, role they played in this incident. Charges have not been laid as yet.

Phil Lempert

This was a big company that decided to make their cereals healthier and not charge more for the move. This just does not happen often. It's just one more example of our growing commitment to whole grains.

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Dick Vermeil

Todd had an excellent practice, ... He's a good football player. He has never been given the opportunity to demonstrate what he could do.

Jim Campbell

At 47 or 48 feet we have no concern. We have a levee system that is in excellent condition. We feel very comfortable that we are not going to have any problems.

Jim Mitchell

We are very, very fortunate to have someone like Dale step into her shoes. We think that Dale is going to do an excellent job for us.

Evelyn Bean

We are very excited to get Elizabeth. She has a lot of experience and is an excellent player.

Jim Bates

We did an excellent job until that last drive.

John Quinn

We have a very young team, but we have an excellent team and we feel the second half of the year can be good. I've always felt that this tournament, no matter what the outcome is, is great preparation for us for the rest of the season.

Rush Limbaugh

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.

Abdul Aziz

She was really busy: people say that she's done an excellent campaign,

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Casey Moore

Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivation for me.

Dwane Casey

Decision-making down the stretch is so huge. Marcus is going to be a super point guard in this league. You have to take his good with his bad.

John Vigeland

Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.

George Goncalves

Dealers weren't that interested even though we had good indirect bidding.

John Ellinger

D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Mark Sanford

What I've come to learn is that (the Jasper port) would be a private (venture), ... If that's the case, I have no problem with it whatsoever.

Tim Farriss

You have to learn to pace yourself, in everything. Sure, there's a pub in every town. But you don't have to go to all of them, right? If you want to do this, you have to learn to keep steady.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Steve Jobs

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

Pat Summitt

Losing the way we lost is unacceptable in this program. We will learn from it.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Steve Jobs

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

Dennis Long

I'm still learning them as much as they're learning me.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

John C. Maxwell

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Ken Robinson

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Chris Lynne

Zach had a lead, but we lost that with seven seconds left.

Dean Koontz

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Elijah Wood

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

Rob Patek

Right now it doesn't mean a whole lot because we lost (at state). But when I look back on it, it'll be nice. Right now I'm not thinking too much about the records.

Jake Hutton

My senior year, I lost a lot of weight. Maybe that's why. Maybe they thought I was too small or something.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Julianne Hough

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.

Brian Boyle

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.

Joe Glowacki

You could see it moved him, there were tears in his eyes.

Deb Kapp

The banners can be moved around so if you habitually travel on one street, you won't always look at the same banner.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Paul Kariya

We moved the puck well and our power play was good. The more we play together, the better off we're going to be.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Eric Karros

So I wouldn't have played me either, ... Not that you care.

Edgar Soto

I don't think we've played to our potential yet.

Dean Wilson

Fortunately, I remembered a lot of the shots that I played and my strategy, so I'm kind of going about the same thing this year.

D. Lang

For most of the game, we played pretty solid.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Tony Levin

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony La Russa

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

Steven Gerrard

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)