Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Erin Horn

I think it'll be a good series. We've faced good pitchers before and we did fine.

Jerry Hairston

Guys like Nomar (Garciaparra) and (Todd) Walker, we faced him in the American League, and we're like, 'I don't remember him being like that.'

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Kyle Davis

(Harang) helped by botching up the first two pitches. Then, I was going for the strikeout. I felt good about facing Freel because I've faced him in the minor leagues.

Jimmy Page

I think when you're faced with a plight that's inescapable, and there's something you can do about it, you hope you can make a difference.

Ray Nagin

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

Robert Eenhoorn

When he went the second time through the lineup I thought it would be hard to get a hit off him. He faced hitters like Carlos Lee, and these hitters are usually very good making adjustments after seeing a pitcher for the first time.

Chuck Fehr

We've faced some good pitchers, but some guys have also been pressing and putting too much pressure on themselves. We finally had a good day at the plate.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Jarrius Jackson

He did his job. He prepared us. He did a lot more teaching this year because we were a young team. We have to listen more and do our job.

Rudi Johnson

He listens to what I tell him to do.

Taylor Momsen

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

Daniel Woodrell

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Roy Johnson

I think it should never have been listed in the first place,

Kim Gandy

We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Daryl Sabara

I don't know why there hasn't been a 'Spy Kids' cartoon. You have to bring that up to Robert Rodriguez and see what he has to say. That would be an interesting thing to do with this series.

Kerry Collins

Robert Gallery, ... makes us a better team, that's for sure.

Michael Bennett

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

Robert Brown

And, Robert Browning, you writer of plays,/ Here's a subject made to your hand!

Brad Berenson

They're probably going to turn back to the Roberts model.

Kenneth Branagh

I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

Chin Han

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Russell Tovey

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Colin Angle

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.