Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

We have to take a new look at our athletic program and decide how we can best maximize our resources,

Keion Carpenter

He can be the best I've ever seen. He already has the athletic intangibles. If he can get the smarts of Peyton Manning, the swagger of Joe Montana, you put all that in one pot, and I'm going to put my money on my guy every time.

Wayne Clough

He brings a unique combination of enthusiasm for sports, concern for the student, experience in athletic administration, business experience and communication skills that are needed in today's complex world of intercollegiate athletics.

Kyle Whittingham

If he had not hurt his shoulder . . . you probably would have seen him as the starting stud linebacker long before now, ... He's just a guy who's a naturally athletic kid - he had 30-something interceptions in high school - and he's a playmaker.

Chris Rich

I consider this group of trainers our peers in sports medicine, ... because they are on the front line. The are always available, even when they are not working. They've got good hearts and the love doing what they do. That's why this honor was somewhat humbling, and it was a difficult speech for me. These people are all dedicated to athletic health care, and that's what I try to do in my community.

Laurie Markatos

Carroll was awesome. She's been pitching well and stepping up her game. She fits right in on the varsity level. She's tall and looks very athletic out there and when she throws the ball, she's a real presence.

Brad Todd

He's good at tying up the other guys, but we want him to open up a little more, which will make him even more of threat. He's an athletic kid, works hard in practice. We'd like to see him take it to the next level.

Mack Brown

We've given them (police) our full support from the athletic department, to the university, to the football team. At this point, no one's been charged and we're moving forward.

Jeff Houston

He was getting to the front of the rim all night on us. We saw that on the scouting report, but he's a little more athletic than what I thought.

Jia Qinglin

We hope to work together with people of all walks of life in Taiwan, enlarge the scope of cooperation and strive for the bright future of the cross-straits relations.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Bobby Lee

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bill Gurley

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.

Bill Gurley

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Bing Gordon

In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.

Billy Beane

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Bennett Miller

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

Barry Sternlicht

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'

Billy Blanks

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

Rep. Flores

This is something we have to take care of this year.

Tom Sanvik

We have really played them tough in the past. We really need to just take care of the puck and stay out of the penalty box.

Max Azria

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

Owen Fitzpatrick

Energy is trading off a bit, and I think that helps the other sectors in terms of it alleviates a cost for a lot of companies. Health care is doing well on the back of Bristol-Myers news, and also Boeing (is) getting another order.

Hannah Watson

Everything has been put into place for the safety of the resident. We made sure the situation has been taken care of.

Royce Chadwick

We went on the road and didn't play as well as we had hoped. But we have the opportunity on Friday to get our momentum going. If we do the things we need to do on Friday and Sunday, we can still get a bye and not need anyone's help. We've just got to take care of our business.

James Lardner

We have entrusted our health care system to for-profit companies.

Richard Lucas

We were throughout the storm. Our medical care has never been compromised.

Arlen Specter

It naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions from our Supreme Court and 4-3 decisions out of the Florida Supreme Court and that is not healthy, ... But our republic will survive.

Tim Henman

At least I know that it's still possible for me to do well even if my time on the practice court needs to be limited,

Corey Parker

We definitely feel a lot better having him out there. I felt we played real good as a team and emotional-wise it was a big lift having him on the court again.

Brian Dartt

We definitely want to use the whole court and pressure you full court. Basically, we want to pressure the ball. If we can do that for four quarters, we're going to get a four- or six-point run late in the game.

Janet Reno

We are pleased that the court has sustained our judgment that Elian should be reunited with his father, ... The court's decision reaffirms our position that only Elian's father can speak for his son on federal immigration matters.

Mike Thornton

We're a team that likes to move, and I think the tight 2-3 was like a fence out there. They had everything jammed up inside and our dribble penetration wasn't working. We like to be able to get up and down the court and we weren't able to do that.

Gil Garcetti

The proponents of Proposition 22 say that (it) doesn't deny hospital visitation or inheritance rights for lesbians and gays, ... But in Florida and Virginia, arch-conservative legal organizations have used similar laws as tools in court to deny lesbians and gays fundamental rights -- like the right to visit a sick or injured partner in the hospital, the right to inheritance, or the right to health insurance.

John Cummings

We have known, as the trust has known and the court has known all along, that the day would come when the trust would monetize its investment in Johns Manville and diversify its portfolio.

Bobby Bayliss

We've kind of done a full court press as far as our doubles lately, evaluating where we are, and we're not worried as much about the combinations. It's about everyone developing better skills.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Ali Smith

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Adolf Galland

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

Donald Barthelme

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Don DeLillo

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

Donald Sutherland

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

Don Kardong

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.