Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Mitch Kapor

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Andrew Brunette

As players, I don't think that's any of our business. There's nothing we can do about it. This is between Marian and the Wild organization. It's not between any of the players. We basically come to play and we still have a job to do. The season is not going to stop. We have a job to do and we can't worry about his situation. That's something that he believes in and he's making a stand for it.

Gene Luen Yang

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

Eric Benker

That's where the mentors come in. We make a commitment for at least one year to meet with a specific student weekly. We shoot hoops, play board games, help out a little bit with homework if needed basically we become a friend.

Ed Garcia

Rain not only produces all this water, it causes people to close their doors and lock their windows. That basically locks in the humidity.

Dennis Gartman

People who have been with me for 20 years know that when I say watershed that means a major shift. I've been a dollar bull for a long period of time, have basically been neutral for the past several months and am now turning to becoming a dollar bear. This move through $1.22 is definitive.

Stacy Pak

Our sense is that the holiday season has not been particularly good so far, that this past weekend's sales were less than spectacular and a New York City transit strike was basically the last thing the retail sector needed.

Ben Bernanke

As long as there's not permanent damage to our energy infrastructure, the effects on the overall economy should be fairly modest.

Paul Levinson

Oprah has been in such a unique position that it takes more than just her performance (Thursday) to undo the damage that she did with Frey's book.

Giordano Bruno

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

John Kilduff

Demand destruction fears are trumping fears about damage to oil facilities. It's not just Katrina that is hurting demand. High prices have strained economies, especially in Asia, and demand is being curtailed as a result.

Jeff Davis

A really strong employment report might do some damage here,

Felix Gonzalez

The structural damage is everywhere. And the winds are still strong.

Mike Huckabee

The term I'm using to describe it is 'apocalyptic proportions,' ... There is no way to describe the level of damage we have.

James McIntyre

The thing we're happy about is that there wasn't as much loss of life or property damage as there might have been, ... This is still a dangerous situation.

Bob Slaughter

The ones that are not on yet are probably the ones that are going to require more time and attention. Now we are really getting into the tougher part of the job. I don't think that people really understand the magnitude of the damage that's been done.

George H. W. Bush

as a president it goes with the territory.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Shaun Alexander

We have an unbelievable team, an unbelievable group of fans. Prayer works. I get knocked out and guys step up. One guy goes down and another guy steps up.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Andy Nash

As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Alice Sebold

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?

Andy Rooney

If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

Anne Frank

I want to go on living after my death!

Rod Thorn

As he pointed out, there's a history of things with him - not just the fight. But I think there will be a lot of teams that will have an interest in him at some level.

John G. D. Clark

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Janet Fitch

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

Kathy Smith

As a historian, I'm very thrilled to be here because it is a moment in history for our city.

Joe Thomas

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Karen Wagner

That's where the history is, and that's where it should stay.

Anne Stevens

Norfolk has a wonderful history and reputation, but this is part of the total 'Way Forward' turnaround strategy.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Brian Jacques

Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got the say, ... If you don't, it's like putting your kid in an orphanage.

Rodman Philbrick

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Robyn Hitchcock

As an amorphous, shapeless kid that wanted to be a singer but didn't know how you went about it, that seemed like a starting place.

Ron Scott

As a kindergarten teacher, I feel secure having her here. These kids are young, and they rely on her.

Michael Clarke

A year ago, we saw what that kid could do when he got in a groove. He put on a nice show out there in muddy conditions.

Charles Coe

Randolph has come up big last two weeks. He's a strong kid and deceptively fast.

Jeff Boogaart

Ramsey has a 6-8 kid and two quick guards. They played us tough and they've got some kids who take up a lot of space in the middle.

Al Martin

People up here liked the quieter versions. But kids would like the rock 'n' roll version.

Harold Chitwood

Our shots would not go down and we were down by 10 at the half. In the second half, they were too much for us. They were quicker than us and they had a lot of kids to keep running at us.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

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

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

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

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Nastassja Kinski

I've really learned that you have to be a lot with yourself mainly with yourself.

Jessie Pavelka

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

Jamie Hyneman

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Jascha Heifetz

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

Janos Bolyai

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Blaise Pascal

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Blaise Pascal

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Aristotle

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Cory Doctorow

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Ayn Rand

We [entrepreneurs] required that you leave us free to function -- free to think and work as we choose ... -- free to earn our own profits and make our own fortunes ... Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Octavia E. Butler

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Tom Shepard

Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,

Robin Sutton

Pretty soon, we had to start turning down donations.

Joe Pinyan

Quarterback is wide open. We don't know who's going to start Friday.

Tom Craft

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

David Butler

Who's going to be taking the haircuts? It's going to be the pensioners.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

Carl Sandburg

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Janet Yellen

In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

Jane Smiley

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

Diane Cilento

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.