Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

Randy Halcomb

I usually choose a player, but Robby expressed to me that he wanted to take it. If a player is ready to step up and take the challenge, I will give him that opportunity. He got the job done.

Gary Smith

The music we choose is very diverse. And that's deliberate. That's part of the message of the convention.

Randy Winn

After my senior year in high school, I was playing in some summer league and a scout said, 'If you keep after this, you might be able to make some money doing this.' So I knew I'd choose baseball.

Stephanie Herseth

South Dakota enjoys a wonderful quality of life and a dedicated workforce, and it is easy to see why John Morrell would choose to expand here. I am pleased that this expansion not only will result in new jobs for Sioux Falls, but also because it demonstrates John Morrell's long-term commitment to the region. This expansion also reflects the talent and dedication of the folks who already work at John Morrell.

Ron Dellums

Now I choose to make a personal decision and to empower myself to regain my life, ... It's important for me to now move on.

Chris Bell

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

Greg Allen

Teams will always feel some sort of pressure. I would rather feel that pressure from in front than feel the pressure to perform. We like having a target on our backs. That way you choose to prove if you are good enough.

Nathaniel Bronner

Sometimes there is no easy way out, but there is always an easier way out and a harder way out. Choose wisely.

Earle McCurdy

The money just goes around in circles anyway. We'd like to have it all untangled, particularly the retroactivity feature." ()

Mike Gardner

And there is a difference between the neighborhoods in south Tempe near Circle G Ranch and the neighborhoods near University and McClintock.

Carla Bley

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Daniel Handler

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

Susan B. Anthony

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

Green Day

TrŽ: I told my dad "Yeah Im going to be a drummer" and he said "well you can if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time youre standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance". And I did all that just like bam you know?

Robert Clarke

We didn't know what to do, ... I mean we had never been to victory circle and we didn't know the procedure. Looking back, that was pretty funny.

Ray McGovern

We all move in our circle of friends and neighbors. ... One must never try to do something like this alone. It requires a community, no matter how small.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Mark Klein

A Day without Latinos. They closed the plant because a lot of people walked out.

Jim Steel

Some refineries have made repairs quickly and will be running normally in a week or two. About half of the refineries that closed will take a lot longer to get back on line.

Fran Calverase

No matter how hard they seemed to have closed the door, somebody higher up can say you should have looked at this. I'm not faint of heart at this point, anyway.

Johnny Smith

Sometimes they'll have a lane closed and it doesn't even look like they're working.

DeAnn Sampley

Romania was closed to Americans at this time.

William Morris

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips.

Mary Shelley

The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have preceded the event which has crushed my hopes yet there seems to be a necessity in doing so, and I obey the impulse that urges me.

Aiko Nakamura

The roof being closed should have helped me so I'm very disappointed.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Tom Goguen

There are also some 30 kickbacks that we are starting to use in the mainstream of the operating system.

Ted Shaw

Things went as I expected. I think Roberts's opening statement was eloquent. I've seen him in court. But the question for me is who is he.

David Rakoff

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

Richard Read

You are really playing a positioning strategy here, ... You don't want to throw 'Chicago' out there while 'Lord of the Rings' is still going strong, or opening on the same weekend with blockbusters like 'Gangs of New York.'

Scott Podsednik

Every opening day is special, but this one is really special.

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Mike Lamb

Run in packs. That's the thing to do.

Keyshawn Johnson

Run the ---- ball. Run the ---- ball.

Hilary Clinton

say you are going to run in 2008!

Steve Davies

Realistically, if you want to win a state championship, you have to play tough competition, ... You can't run from them.

Markus Persson

I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

Josh Smith

I've never seen them run that fast. It was like they were running from the police. It was so funny.

Greg Ostertag

I've run out of gas. I'm tired of being on the road. I just don't have it.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.