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.

Anne Paige

The more I looked into the breed, the more interesting they became. They're fun-loving, they love the water and they want to be doing things with you all the time, and that's what we wanted. We just basically were interested in a dog that would be a part of the family and be with us all the time.

Phil Garner

Definitely saw him more in the strike zone. I saw him down in the strike zone more and then saw him go up (in the zone) when he wanted to go up. That's what you wanted to see. You want to see him within basically the mitt most of the time.

Jed Connelly

Dealers in the Gulf region were out of business for most of the month of September. Basically the entire state of Texas was impacted.

Jarrett Sparks

Coach basically told us to play it one game at a time.

Ken Baker

Denise and Heather were inseparable. They were neighbors. They lived basically on the same street. They spent a lot of time together, especially since both started engaging in a divorce proceeding.

Duane Gubler

Dengue is one of these neglected diseases ... it's basically been ignored for many, many years.

George Long

A petrol bomb was thrown down the turret. It was on fire basically from the back.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Philip Virgo

The big raids will be for project management staff so you need to ensure these staff are content and that means providing clear career paths and training opportunities. Many firms haven't been doing this because over the past few years they haven't felt the need to, but that is going to change with all these public sector projects.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

A.J. Burnett

As long as we go to the playoffs, that's all I care about. I'm going to do what I can to get us there.

Stephen Arscott

As long as we continue to do our job, take care of our clients and make sure we're giving excellent customer service to the contractors that drive their clients in here, it'll take care of itself.

Robert Cullen

As long as we continue to do a good job, our reputation will take care of itself.

Jamie Sharper

As long as we are producing or winning games, that's all I care about. But I do want to get a 10-tackle game sometime soon, and, of course, get on the sack board.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Burt Neuborne

No single person will receive enough to genuinely change their life. This money is symbolic of the fact that while you were still alive, people cared enough to forge a legal resolution.

Steven Shainberg

After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

Brian Howard

(Denton's parents) were very pleasantly surprised. It was very emotional. It meant a lot that so many people showed up. It reaffirmed how many people cared about him. For so many people to come out on a day when it was raining in parts of town was really nice.

Julie Delpy

I've never made the first move in my whole life - I'm too scared. I couldn't kiss someone first. I'm extremely shy. I'm, like, so shy that actually... it's very painful what I'm going to say, but I don't think I've ever been with someone I really loved, because the people I really cared for, I didn't have, you know, the nerve to go after.

Janelle Berry

This is Sonic. We cared for you, you cared for us.

Thomas Griffith

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

Sergey Brin

This was a decision we reached after a number of years speaking to the human rights groups, and specifically people who really cared about China on human rights. I understand why other people might have other views.

John Collison

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Margaret Johnston

Personally I am haunted by the irony that someone like Sheila, whose message to the world was all about nurturing, could have a child who would shoot her.

John Waskin

People spend more time planning a two week vacation than they do planning their financial future. I was taught as a child to save for a rainy day. Today, people think it's not going to rain. And it is going to rain.

Darrell Braden

People can't live on poverty wages and no benefits. Can't figure out whether you're going to feed your child or go to the doctor.

John Walsh

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.

Pete Stark

Often the violence goes to children as well, ... That's pretty scary.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Rod Blagojevich

After years of problems and unacceptable results in the state's child support collection efforts, we have taken major steps during the past two-and-a-half years to turn the system around, and our efforts are paying off.

Wade Horn

The more frequently a child is visited in foster care, the better the outcome for that child.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Shane Jones

Sometimes we take (Weaver) for granted, but any time your hitters look good, you've got to give a lot of credit to your setter,too.

Lamont Bryant

Sometimes these games get personal. All the credit goes to the kids.

Eude Brito

Sometimes I don't give enough credit to pitchers.

Scott Dalton

Salisbury couldn't have shot it any better in the first quarter. But we finally got over that initial burst, and I give my kids a lot of credit for withstanding it.

Steve Ricchiuto

Sales ex-autos were decidedly stronger than people had given credit for. This is an important piece of information on where the economy was prior to Katrina.

Mark Hermann

It was uncharacteristic of our guards to turn it over like we did. But you have to credit them (Lake Region). They have some great athletes.

Al Groh

It was very pleasing to see. That's what a team's got to do. People understand their roles and their expectations . . . That's a credit to their resilience, and Ron Prince did a good job of getting them organized at halftime, as to what was going to go on, what we were going to call, so they were well-prepped. They can feel proud of what they did tonight.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Grace Meng

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Tao Lin

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Aristotle

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Mark Gottfried

This was the definition of a team win.

Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Albert Einstein

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Dean Foster

Even though we had less rest time because we had to play the second game, I still thought we performed with a lot of energy. They've earned some rest, so I guess I won't make them run home from here (Michigan City).

Led Zeppelin

Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.

Mike Purcell

We want to play Mitchell. They have been the measuring stick of where you need to be with your team. We've earned this and we're going to enjoy it. Now, we need to get our kids prepared in just a few days.

Dan McCarney

There's no question he's one of the top recruiters on my staff. He's earned this.

Tim Phillips

The top 10 ladies last year earned more from Wimbledon than the top 10 men did.

John Chavis

Obviously I think enough of (Mayo) to be a starter. That's what we've done, and he's earned that. I feel good about him playing.

Jay Wright

Now that we've got a good thing going here, I'm happier that it worked out that way. Everyone feels they earned it. You kind of know who your friends are. There was plenty of time for people to show whether they were loyal to the program or not.

Steve Hutchinson

Frankly, we get sick of hearing it. You'd think we'd earned respect. All we can do is keep winning.

Tiger Woods

I enjoy tournaments where if you shoot a round in the 60s, you've earned it and you're going to move up the board. I'm 1-under par and I'm in 10th. That's pretty good.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

Jeremy Northam

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Rabbi Katz

This is a simple 16-minute speech, but it's so profound. It's one thing to have read it, but entirely another thing to hear it in its entirety. King's speech is one of the top inspirational writings in all of American rhetoric, ever.

Craig Davis

This proposal is unfair because the entire requirement is placed on the taxpayers of Jackson County.

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Olesya Rulin

I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Daniel Benjamin

The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.

Lewis Clarke

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.

Megan Jasper

As flattering as it is to be the only label on that map, we're not alone,

Hilmi Panigoro

Production (growth) will be (relatively) flat but...the increase in revenue will come from rising oil prices.

Brian Billick

an offensive lineman that just flat whiffed a guy.

Rick Harris

A flat market is normal during the winter months.

Nick Jones

Once you have a flat rate, then the CIO doesn't have to worry so much about how much you spend.

Robert Gottlieb

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

Jim Mendelson

The stock's been trading in a range of $10 to $12. We're at $13 as a one-year target, at the upper end of the range. I think the stock, in a flat market, would want to trade up a bit.

Maureen Allyn

This is still very flat inflation. We do not have an inflationary worry.

Frank Fish

You're not going to spin much at all from a flat jump. It just doesn't make sense in a real world model.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

Albert Einstein

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

T. Harv Eker

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Plautus

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Annika Sorenstam

I don't think I'm going to try and qualify for the Open.

David Marcus

The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it's a ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave.

John Bryan

The ride is set up to showcase South Carolina. We're trying to show off our state.

e. e. cummings

All in green went my love riding

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Alderman Mokros

If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.

Eugene Ionesco

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,

Frances Wright

Credulity is always ridiculous.