Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zubin Mehta

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

Rob Puterio

The overall quality is down, but the competition is up.

Chuck Grassley

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

Carl Sagan

What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

Danielle Brown

We need to keep the competition going. We want to prove to everybody that last year wasn't a mistake. We want to prove to everybody that we deserve to win.

Jerry Angelo

We could have taken a tight end earlier. We want to create competition at that position. There will be some veteran players flushed out, with all the guys who were drafted, and we will look at those.

Miles Avery

We just didn't obviously have enough. Obviously we weren't prepared enough to come in here and not finish fourth. That's our one goal: Relax and just not finish fourth in this competition and just get to the second day and we obviously did not do that.

Robin S. Sharma

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

Kim Pfeifer

We have three infielders and a pitcher who have experience, but the rest of the team are all inexperienced. We have a great group of hard-working girls who are hungry to fill so many open positions and the competition has been great, so in that sense, youth has worked to our advantage.

Igor Luksic

It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

Colm Meaney

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

Kent Baer

We need to improve our depth and some of the safety-type kids may need to play out on the edge.

Chris Deutsch

We can't go 20-plus minutes without a hitting a field goal. Some of that was their defense. They pushed us further away from the basket. And the depth they have helps.

Rick Klimchock

We have very good depth, more than we've had in the past. Our depth has helped us, and we've played a tough schedule.

Tim Pierson

We have two receivers who are 6-foot-4, and 6-foot-5. We just don't have the depth we had before at receiver.

Gary Tague

We have the studs to get a lot of guys to state. We also have the depth to help us at the regional.

Patrick Kavanagh

To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields - these are as much as a man can fully experience.

Steve Yzerman

We have a little more depth than people realized that we have. When I'm ready to play, I'll know whether that's the next game or the following game.

Tony Turina

We've had depth before, but this is totally unusual to have this much production at different positions.

Clark Gregg

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Phil Smith

That would be, in performance, equal to let's say a window meeting the Energy Star standards today.

Rebecca Wagner

That would be a part of any energy policy with regard to pipeline supply that I would propose. It will include conservation.

Mike Davis

We just didn't play with a whole lot of intensity, with that passion and energy we needed to play with to win the game. We didn't really execute, we didn't keep our poise.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy to get anything going. It was a struggle all night. We weren't generating any shots, especially in the third period.

Julian Sensley

We just didn't have any energy left. We couldn't execute anything we were trying to do there at the end.

Jack Rose

We just didn't have any energy in the game. We had a lot of guys that didn't practice during the week (because of injuries) that played in the game. And we just had no fire. I'm real disappointed in that.

Paula Smith

We hadn't done 36 holes in one day since the fall so that was a little different. The team seemed a little tired but they proved me wrong and had lots of energy to focus on each shot.

Carl Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Nick Vitucci

That was great. Our fans have such great enthusiasm. They're the sixth man on the ice for us. It's an intimidation factor.

Erin Delaney

We have a lot of inexperienced players who have really never played the game. They were very enthusiastic about having a junior varsity team.

David Esquer

We've gotta be able to take that enthusiasm and excitement to other places, too. ... When your focus generates to another level, you say, OK, we need to harness that wherever we are.

Jerry Woods

We're very pleased with the turnout, the enthusiasm (of the attendees) and the total ambiance of the evening.

Ron Somers

U.S. industry has never been more enthusiastic about investing in India.

Ken Jennings

Most of them (the offers) were 'Where's the check?', whereas John's venture was very well funded and he just wanted me on board... He did a pretty good sales job. His enthusiasm was contagious.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Lindsey Jacobellis

I was having fun. I wanted to share my enthusiasm with the crowd. Stuff happens. It's just a race.

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Eddie Compass

We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

Robert Tuttle

U.S. forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons.

Peter Pace

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

Bayan Jabr

You can be proud of our forces, ... Our forces ... respect human rights.

Ron Kaminski

It forces one to step back a bit.

Anthony Chan

With all that as a backdrop, there are some real positive forces to stimulate growth.

Bill Self

He's a good on-the-ball defender, loose-ball guy and forces help offensively. Now that he's not worried about making shots, he's shooting better. He's playing really well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

John Brady

The outstanding ones are usually gone. You have to start over with freshman and sophomore talent.

Kevin Campbell

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

Bobby Womack

I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

Brandon Flowers

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

Hutton Jones

That was huge to get that done and for a freshman to come through.

Rose Nix

We have a new set of kids every year and new routines. Everything's fresh for everybody. It's a real thrill for all the girls to make it down to state. We've been there, but it's something new every year.

Dijon Thompson

We hadn't been to the tournament since my freshman year, so it was very big. It was very special to get back my last year. To go out in the first round, it was kind of disappointing, but at U of A, it was tough.

Billy Hite

We'll rotate them every series. You'll have a fresh guy in there at the start of every series, and I think that's important. Whoever is hot at the end of the game will be in there.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Bill Bruford

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Rick Clark

We need to have some time to get some practice in now. We need to get a little rest and work on our timing.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Dan Miller

We have a lot of cheerleaders who come because they can better their routines with the practice they get here with the classes.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

Mark Patton

It didn't surprise me to be honest. I've seen him shoot that same shot in practice.

Busta Rhymes

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

Frank Robinson

Who's it going to be? ... We don't have other starters here.

Cliff Politte

It's a two-way deal. If we're not pitching, the starters are doing well. But if they need a right-hander in relief, I want it to be me.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Arsene Wenger

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Joe Gibbs

We'll probably stay the same way we are with kicking.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Ashley Olsen

Usually when we're working we just stay in the hotel, but it was really nice.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

Billy Sunday

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Chaske Spencer

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

Jason Aldean

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Albert Einstein

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

Abraham Lincoln

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

Two Chainz

Known to act a donkey on the camel-toe, then take the camel-toe and turn it into casserole

John Wingfield

We have to be on our toes every day.

Deepak Chopra

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?