Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

George Hamilton

The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.

Dan Miceli

I've been around young guys. I guess I get along in the clubhouse and with the bullpen guys. If I can help them in any kind of way, I will.

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Nevil Shed

Somewhere along the line it would have happened, but in this case it happened at the right time, early during the struggles during the '60s. There were so many athletes out there wanting just to show they have the same talent as the white folks.

Rick Carlisle

Team unity goes a long way toward success in this league. San Antonio and Detroit, those teams have been the most together, along with being very good. That's got to be a big part of our goal.

Joseph Cirincione

telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were.

Ian Campbell

Ten years before fellow Dutchman Dirk Hartog landed in Western Australia, Captain Willem Janszoon landed the Duyfken at the Pennefather River, Cape York Peninsula, before going on to chart 300km along the Gulf of Carpentaria,

Tim Hodel

Ten percent does sound astronomical, but we've taken some zeros along the way.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Jim Ellis

Temperature will make or break you, and it broke us this year. This is the worst I have seen it for the hot water.

Michael Huff

Sometimes he'd break into the open field, he'd try to give you a move and try to make you look bad, so it got intense. But if we hit Vince, we probably wouldn't play that Saturday. So we had to back off. Stay away.

Austin Corson

Sometimes I would race in two races, get a one race break and get back on for the next race. After that third race I would collapse when I got off my sled.

Mark Peterson

Realistically, we were trying to get the bunt down and (Glover) fouled the first one off and it ended up being a good break for us, it turns out.

Nick Nicholson

The sales produce virtually all of our net, ... we just try to break even on the races.

John Cunliffe

The scale of the operation is very large. We're glad we got a break in the weather.

Dick Enberg

said Simms. ''It's a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It's so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There's less time to talk. With only two guys, Troy will be able to set it up, and decide what he wants to show and tell. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it. I'm also sure he liked Cris and working with him. But this is about freedom.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Mike DiNovo

We decided that if they said he could go, he was going to go. I think it was a lot just to get him on the mat. He did not want to go down quietly.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Ellen Simon

We have decided to make sure that we are the safety net for our patients and our community,

Chad Cassel

We have Dearborn this weekend and then Iowa State. Those games are going to decide where we end up for league playoffs, so it's important that we win all four games and it starts Friday night.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Mark Zandi

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Melinda Gates

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Brian Fabbri

All guns seemed to be firing at the same time for the economy in the third quarter.

William Hornbarger

The idea is that the Fed has a little more work to do, but inflation doesn't look to be a problem and the economy is showing trend-level growth.

Barton Smith

The Houston economy has not been booming. It's been growing, but gradually.

James Cash Penney

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Masayuki Senda

There is a possibility the Fed may raise rates three more times to 4.5 percent before pausing, to keep inflation under control.

Robert Kiyosaki

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Eric Barden

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Edward Hyman

My guess is the Fed tightens but, as you know, it's a toss-up ... it's a 50-50 shot,

Mike Boss

Now the odds are 85 percent that the Fed will move again.

George Soros

I don't think you will see the Fed jumping to interest rates,

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Orson Scott Card

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Jason Boyd

We tried to pressure and trap in order to pick up the tempo.

Ed Byrne

We weren't going to get into a situation by where this had to come off the table in order for that to happen,

Donald Knuth

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

Cat Osterman

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Frank Shorter

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Ginger Rogers

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

Jennie Finch

College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

Greg Norman

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Robert Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

Tamora Pierce

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Ray Allen

Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

Chris Pearmund

For the first year of production, the wines will be made somewhere else.

Corey Claitt

I just wanted a different environment. I wanted to be on my own. I wanted to go somewhere and be by myself.

Jan Roberts

I'm averaging somewhere around 21 and a half, which is disappointing considering the window sticker told me I'd be averaging somewhere around 31.

Marie Osmond

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

Tom Perkins

We'll have to find some way around it. There probably is a way...I suspect something will come up.