Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dewey Mitchell

I think most people that have been involved in athletics would point somewhere down the line to some coaches that affected them positively. I was very fortunate, I had many coaches that affected me positively.

Craig Ray

Without a doubt we have been handed as extreme a challenge of rebuilding on the Gulf Coast as imaginable. But Mississippi is a great state with great people, and already we're welcoming golf, gaming and other tourists to the rest of the state. This will help the state and the state in turn will be better equipped to help the Gulf Coast and its residents affected by Katrina the more visitors we host. So the best thing we can and will do is to keep keeping on. We want visitors to come see why Mississippi is a special place and judge for themselves why Mississippi is considered a rising star of the golf-and-gaming world.

Don Carty

Without a doubt, the weakening U.S. economy caused a reduction in business travel that affected our performance in the first quarter.

Geoff Smith

We don't think Carl will be affected in the slightest in a negative way.

David Rosenberg

We estimate the near-term loss in terms of output, employment and income in the affected area coupled with the surge in energy costs that impacts everyone will offset any future rebuilding by a factor of two to one.

Himanshu Patel

We estimate production at the affected plants is around 1 million units annually, indicating around 4,300 units of lost production for every day these plants remain down.

Ray Lovell

We estimate 120 homes were affected by that flooding, with six that sustained major damage.

Hannah Vick

We encourage everybody who is affected by the disaster to register with FEMA.

Carol Peters

We really want to protect the public from a potential hazard especially with situation of grass fires (and) how it affected our area.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Nicole Brown

We also asked the congregation to write family bios and a brief message to the future congregation of 2105. Also included is a gift to that congregation, an engraved Wedgwood crystal bowl.

Craig Stevens

We already know that the true capacity of Yucca Mountain is significantly greater, that's why we've asked for a change in the law.

Chad Caldwell

We already heard talks of it happening so we had a public computer sit out in a lobby and asked people to vote. When they sat down to vote, most of them couldn't because it said they already did.

Dirk Koetter

Everybody had their doubts if Rudy was ever going to be able to play, and he's been awesome in this whole camp. I love the way that guy's worked. He's improved everything we asked him to. I hope nothing happens to Sam, but you've got to have more than one guy.

Dallas Baker

Everybody else would take the chance to go to college. They look at the Marines as some hard-nosed stuff you can't make it through. I asked him about it and he said if he had the chance he'd do it again. He said it was one of the best experiences he ever had.

Marcus Miller

Everyone was talking about her and telling me I had to check out Donny's daughter, ... I had a gig in Japan at a festival and I wanted to bring in something new, so I asked her to perform. She was just so musical, so fantastic. Every once in a while she would hit one of those notes that would make you think of her father. We've been working together off and on since then.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Reggie Hayward

They were in great position to kick the field goal and win the game, ... For a second there, I thought about scooping it and trying to score, but my common sense kicked in. It was like, 'Get the ball. Live another down.'

Michael Geist

This has been a common trend for years as file sharers move between services.

Tom Schlesinger

It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.

Wilford Kale

It's more common than you'd think, unfortunately. In the waters of Hampton Roads, we probably lose six to eight people a year.

Stan Gehrt

It's very common to see them sitting by a roadside watching traffic go by. It's speculation, but we think they're taking notes mentally, looking for gaps and when they occur. And they probably teach it to their pups.

Stephen Tenby

It's very common in the first year of life, even in the first three or four years of life. It's more serious in the first year of life because small infants can get dehydrated very fast.

Bill Curry

It's very common in the bookselling industry to reference the Times list.

Mike Singletary

Playing coverage isn't about speed. It's about technique and studying film. Jeff Ulbrich understands that. He's the ears and eyes of the defense.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Donald Rumsfeld

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Daymond John

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

Andrew Weil

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

Chuck Hogan

Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.

Chuck Grassley

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

Alonzo Mourning

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

Anne Robinson

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

Daniel Kahneman

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Anthony Eden

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

Clayton Christensen

Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Daniel J. Boorstin

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Cullen Hightower

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

Cullen Hightower

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

Clare Short

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

Leslie Nielsen

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

Phil Gramm

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Phyllis McGinley

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

Julian Barnes

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Julian Barnes

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Joss Whedon

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Joseph O'Neill

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

Justin Halpern

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Miyamoto Musashi

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Sheldon Adelson

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

Shaquille O'Neal

Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

Kurt Schwitters

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

Thomas a Kempis

Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, Who said this? but pay attention to what is said.

Shannen Doherty

Playboy and I have had some talks about doing it and in what manner it would be done. Aaron Spelling did not pay me money not to do it - that's completely false.

Leonard Cohen

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

Linus Torvalds

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Mary Lou Retton

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Princess Diana

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Princess Diana

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Leontyne Price

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

Lev Yilmaz

I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

P. J. O'Rourke

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,