Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Joan Smith

It became a bigger project than what we anticipated.

David Phillips

It became a $400-million hit. Most of that came from insurance losses, but also losses of infrastructure. And sadly, it cost four people their lives.

Max von Sydow

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.

Josh Helman

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

Chris Massoglia

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

Sean Allen

He wanted us to question why a coke headed, alcoholic who's had all of his jobs have failed but one, and whose daddy bought him into office became the President of the United States.

Bobby Cox

He could probably pitch a couple of innings before he became fatigued.

David Page

Contrary to the dire predictions that have become popular over the last decade, the sky is *not* falling on the Y. This research clearly demonstrates that natural selection has effectively preserved regions of the Y chromosome that have no mechanisms with which to repair damaged genes.

Stephen Stanley

Fed officials have made clear that their heightened inflation concerns are related more to the outlook than the present situation. Thus, inflation fears have intensified even as core measures of prices have been exceedingly well behaved.

Brandon Villarreal

Everything we're doing now, ever since the end of the season, is geared on getting us better prepared to finish games. The close losses aren't something we've dwelled on, but it's definitely in our subconscious. We know how close we've been, and we know we've got to be that much stronger near the end of every drill and every practice if we're going to clear that last hurdle.

Elena Silva

The results of our research are clear: Most college students encounter sexual harassment on their campus. Many, particularly young women, are embarrassed, angered, scared and disappointed in their college experience as a result. And, as a whole, college students do not have a clear or shared understanding of what to do about sexual harassment.

Fred Berkenkamp

The response was very limited, and that was a clear message. Those top donors - and I called many of them - they just felt tapped out.

Russell Lewis

There was a clear obligation to take the run,

Tim Mazanec

There's shift in ranges, but still nobody's going to mistake this for a clear trend reversal or anything.

John Podesta

There should be greater judicial oversight of trap and trace authorities, ... Federal law should make clear that such orders should only be issued after a judicial officer has determined that the proper factual showing has been made.

Brian Cashman

There's no promises in terms of playing time or a role. The clear definition was that going into this, like any of the role players, it would not be an everyday situation.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Mark Morris

We didn't know we had such a good example so close by.

Mike Crum

What's cool about here is they won't just get their autographs, they'll get to skate with them and see the pros close up.

Gifford Miller

What I've learned from working in New York politics is that the race is either really obvious, or too close to call, ... And this race is too close to call.

Elisabeth Denison

What it will do is push up first-quarter growth probably close to 5.0 percent, so a nice rebound from the fourth quarter.

Brian Diatte

We gave it away in the seventh. We couldn't close it out.

Scott Palin

We had a few walks, two really costly errors. And they had some clutch hitting. Up until then, we had played pretty well. We just didn't close like we could have.

John Cole

We want to get the game to Doug Brown. He's been our most consistent pitcher, and we think we have a weapon at the end of the game. So if we can keep the game close and get it to him, then we feel pretty good about it.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Robert Waller

Coach (Eddie) Durrence is the master of small ball. If he gets them on, he'll steal, bunt, whatever, he'll get them home,

Gary Brackett

Coach (Dungy) does a great job installing his defense and communicating how he wants us to play. There's a lot of teaching and emphasis on the little things.

Geoffrey Boycott

Coach Duncan Fletcher reckons he already knows 10 of his likely World Cup side. The problem is that half of them are not in India at the moment. For the past two years England have been a poor One-day team and that is because they haven't been able to field a settled side. We keep losing players to injury, illness or paternity leave. You don't know from one game to the next who is going to take the field.

Cameron Long

Coach Dorsett kept us enthusiastic during that last timeout. He told us to keep our heads up and not let the game get away from us. We started running our plays effectively.

Lee Humphrey

Coach Donovan told me at halftime to keep shooting.

Tony Young

Coach doesn't want us to be happy with where we are. He doesn't want us to be happy just making the tournament without winning a game.

Cara Enright

Coach Dixon made us love the game even more and we played our hearts out every single time we stepped on the court. She showed us how to be winners on the field and off.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Kevin Schieffer

I just read the decision, and it is positive. We are very pleased with the outcome and glad that is done. It has been five days short of eight years. We filed for a permit Feb. 20, 1998.

Hunter Hall

I just hope we make their weeks or their days or their months.

Brad Penny

I just didn't locate pitches. All night I wasn't locating pitches. It's days like that you try to get through innings.

Jeff Harris

I just couldn't find it. It was just one of those days where things didn't go my way.

Scott Olsen

I pitched not as well as I could have. I'm incredibly happy that we won. We definitely needed a win. We don't have to spend two days thinking about it. But myself, I could have done a lot better.

John Mendel

(Civic Hybrid inventory) is going to vary by dealer, but they are well under short supply - three days on the lot essentially.

Randy Cross

Being innovative these days is sometimes having the lack of ego or guts to imitate something. Heck, in the newspaper industry, plagiarism is grounds for firing. In the NFL, you get a raise for doing that.

Jeff Wilkinson

Because it's an ordinance change, we have to wait at least 30 days before the ordinance takes affect.

Lazarus Long

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

Andy Reid

We'll see as the week goes on. I'll evaluate it and see what we want to do with it.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jeremy Davies

We had a few turnovers and they capitalized. I was proud of the guys we had on the floor. We put up a good battle.

Bobby Sandquist

We had a few too many fouls, but that's probably the result of it being a typical, physical CIML-type game. It was a good win for us.

Klaus Augenthaler

We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.

Royce Chadwick

We had a few more post players than they did, off the bench, that were able to take it at 'em.

Tim Funkhouser

We had a few mistakes here and there. But for a first game you have to be pretty pleased.

Jason Gehoski

We had a few little things we need to work on, but it's only our fourth time outside. We're doing well. I'm very happy with today. ... (Bullock Creek) is a good team, and I'm happy to come out of here with a split today.

Shawn Rychcik

We want to get all the games in that we can. We know we are going to lose a few to weather up north so we don't want that to happen down south. We didn't get the same opportunity to start getting better.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Ralph Waldo Emerson

O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

Francois Fenelon

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Deion Sanders

I like what I see. I think the league is heading in the proper direction.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.