Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Mike Sabock

After signing Ryan Diem (now a starting lineman with the Indianapolis Colts), I asked him about the mail he had received, and his mom said he got one letter or more a day from Kentucky and they never came to his school and never called him. It just shows he was on their list, but they never followed up on it. It's crazy.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Mike Easley

Once the high winds come, we cannot get in and get you out. We cannot get there by boat or helicopter or by plane. There are 61 shelters open. There is no reason for someone not to evacuate if they have been asked to do so.

Julian Fellowes

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Jon Fleischman

Dozens of jurisdictions have reached out to us and asked us for copies of this policy. Like with any instrument that provides a resource to find criminals, departments are looking at this to see if this will help fight crime.

Reggie Theus

Defensively, down the stretch of the game, you couldn't have asked for more athleticism and smarts. I put a challenge out to our guards to defend off the dribble and they did.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Cheryl Lynn

Delbert knew me from the choir. He had started a group and he wanted me to be a part of it, so he called me one day and asked me to audition.

June Daugherty

We kind of took on the underdog role all year. And these kids got better and fought hard.

Ken Hamlin

We just knew we had to win this game. This is big. It's a good feeling, too, because we handled adversity. We were down early, and we held it together and fought back. We knew what this game meant.

Tim Zasada

We had a group of kids that weren't going to quit and they fought tonight.

Dwight Howard

Those were back-breakers. We had fought back, and to have Gary hit those were real neck-breakers.

Chauncey Billups

Every time we fought back they hit big shots. We have to give them credit.

Richard Sherman

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

Mac Gifford

She wasn't able to concentrate that well. But she fought back.

Michael Tulloch

But we fought hard all the way to the end.

Scott Skiles

But the guys did what they do and fought back.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Tom Halbmaier

(A win) will be huge momentum for us going into the midpoint and it would be huge momentum for them, too. At the turn it's all about getting in that top four. Right now we've done a good job to get where we're at, but we're not satisfied.

Rick DiPietro

A win's a win. To see 60 shots and lose wouldn't be a good feeling. I'll take this any day.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes. We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Bill Stoneman

A year ago we had a pretty good reason not to make any changes, ... We had some needs at the end of '03 that we thought we should address. After the '02 season, we didn't really see those same needs.

Rich Bonnaure

Baldwin's a really good player. Every time we managed to get it close, he'd come right back with a basket.

Mike Steele

Back when we had good rebounding teams we rarely got to 40 - 40 is a lot of rebounds.

Ridley Scott

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

Shannan Bergen

At home you wanna come out ready to go. You wanna put your opponents down and we did a good job of that.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Dan Kallaugher

Princeton did a great job capitalizing on the mistakes we made and that was a big reason why they were able to win.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Barry Levinson

Personally and professionally, we had a great relationship. It was just a perfect fit. He shared a similar sensitivity. There was an inherent shorthand from 'Diner' on.

Christopher Cross

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Kirk Walters

People say the Big Ten's down, but every year, they have great teams. They always do well in the NCAA tournament.

Cate Blanchett

People tend to look great if they feel great.

Kip Drown

People don't realize that she's a great passer, too, and that she's an unselfish player.

Chad Oberholtzer

We tried a new lineup tonight, and it looked like that might have been too soon. We switched out and we still couldn't seem to get it together.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Emilia Clarke

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

Andie MacDowell

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Mike Babcock

We weren't thinking, we were just kind of going, and that was nice to see. We looked like we could move.

Tim Duncan

Unbelievable. It was great. We just stood around and kind of looked at him. He made big shots and got on a roll there.

Horst Koehler

Twenty-five years ago, the world looked to the Gdansk Shipyard where Poles struggled for their rights and freedoms,

George Brett

When you looked at Toronto on paper and us on paper, we had maybe two or three position players who could have made their team,

Lee Evans

To see the way they looked and felt. It trickled down to me, ... To see how important it is to them made me realize as a young player that this is what you need to be going after.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

Pam Metcalf

Everyone stepped up when we needed them to step up.

Dennis Lindsay

At the end of the day the positive thing is they realized as well that they needed to back off from that.

Freddy Adu

didn't want me that deep. He said he needed me up top to get some offense.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

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Toby Bryant

Corbin turned it up when he needed to.

Martin Freeman

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

Scott Gomez

This one's different because we needed the points. It took us a while, for whatever reason, but when everybody's doing their role, we're tough to beat.

Harry Tholen

Norris has been opportunistic. Every time he pitches we score runs.

Tracy Sutton

The more he pitches the better he is. If he has a very long lay-off, it takes him a while to get back into the rhythm, so we throw him as much as possible. He's a rhythm man. ... today, he threw pretty good.

Ivan Rodriguez

I should take more walks. But I'm very aggressive. In the off-season, I'm going to work on taking more pitches and being more selective. If I'm more selective, I can have some better numbers.

Suzy Buchholtz

Boom, boom, boom, boom, and at 7:40 everyone's gone. Everyone pitches in.

Willie Randolph

Listen, when he pitches if I don't see what I like to see I'm not going to be totally patient. You go by your track record.

Mariano Rivera

I could've thrown 100 pitches today, ... It didn't matter.

Jason Varitek

He executed his pitches real well. If he pitches like that, he's going to win a lot of games.

Woody Williams

Other than two pitches, most of them were pretty much pitches I threw where I wanted to throw,

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Steve Harris

We're having this process stuffed down our throats. Nothing about this plan is acceptable.

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Nick Saban

We are going to have a plan for it,

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.