Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamal Crawford

He's a calming influence for us, a great veteran, a great leader and we're going to miss him.

Ian McIntyre

He's been outstanding back there the last two years and he's a calming presence. We're going to rely on him more than ever. He's a very hard worker and determined to improve.

Steve Hawkins

He makes great decisions and plays at a fantastic pace. He has the game under control and is a very calming influence on us, which we need because we're a very young team. So it's a very different season for Brian.

David Eckstein

I'll take my chances, win or lose, ... It's a calming feeling to be up at the plate at that time.

Devan Downey

I'm just calming down and playing. My teammates are trusting me. I'm not so worried that I'm going to make a mistake and they're going to be mad.

Dan Daniel

I mentioned to a mutual friend this morning that he had a calming influence on me. Which I needed in that transitional period following the departure of the great Joe O'Brien.

John Markell

Any time you have goaltending like that, it has a calming effect.

David Eckstein

It's pretty calming to step to the plate in that situation.

David Eckstein

It's pretty calming to step in there in that situation. I don't know why, but it's a feeling that comes over you. (The fans) are so loud, but you just understand it's you versus him ? that's all that matters at that point.

Emme Kozloff

Kevin Turner was seen as an up-and-comer within senior management ranks, so the departure does result in a loss of talent.

William Ernest Hocking

This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

Gary Schatsky

If you have a choice, pick a different departure date.

Neal Shapiro

important to me that my departure not be used in any way to diminish the accomplishments of this news division.

Tom Tomasello

The drill we are going through for it looks very musical and it makes a whole lot of sense with what we are doing. I think it will be a very entertaining show. It's a major departure from last year's show, which was very straightforward. We just wanted to march well and play well. This year it's much more theatrical.

Kenneth Branagh

This is a very exciting departure for me as a filmmaker,

Robert Poole

It's important for people to understand it's not a total departure of the government. The government is still a player in protecting the public's interest.

Kenneth Lay

There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.

Natalie MacMaster

When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Walt Miller

He knows how his mother was, he'll make suggestions and pass on information. He has quite a following there.

Tony Bui

Harvey kept going, 'Who's that guy following you around?,'

Paul Anderson

He regards it as a very sensitive matter and will be following up when he returns.

Jim Knight

It could have been even higher. We had some come in on that Friday (March 31) that we didn't process until the following Monday.

Sheldon Jacobs

The people that are still in (the Steadman funds) just are totally unaware. They are not following their investments, and that's the first rule of investing -- to follow it.

Theophilus London

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

Lynn Franco

We think a lot of that is reaction to the spike in prices at the pump following Katrina.

Malcolm Hoenlein

He did it as a convenience to a friend and has disassociated himself from the group.

Atharva Veda

Grief is a friendly reminder, a good task-master; even a better teacher than joy.

Matt Hasselbeck

What you find is that the better you are at listening, the better friend you are, the better person you are, the better player you become.

Rich Falasca

He's always positive, never negative. He's just a friendly guy that we can relate to.

Linda Kent

Last Look' is a devastating look at humanity. A friend who saw me in it said, 'My God, you look like you're on nerve gas.' It's people relating to each other badly, people trying to tear each other's skin off.

Linda Kent

Last Look' is a devastating look at humanity, ... A friend who saw me in it said, 'My God, you look like you're on nerve gas.' It's people relating to each other badly, people trying to tear each other's skin off.

Juli Lax

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly person and responsible. She thought it would be a good jump for me.

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.

Abdul Aziz

I will not go back to that village where I lost my wife, my relatives and my friends.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Jim Fuller

Jake had a great meet. We kind of ran him to death, too.

Joe Archuleta

Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Frank Galati

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

Bob Lilley

Joey and J.J. matched up well up front. We were unlucky not to get a second and third.

Patrick Sparks

Joe was in there mixing it up. That's what we needed.

Al Horford

Joe was all over the place. He was terrific.

Dave Joppie

Joe Scott, that's another quality start for him, and he got in the win column.

Bobby Bowden

Joe is not with us and that's all that I can say about it.

Phil Collen

Joe has been wanting to do this for 20 or so years,

Paul Kane

Joe Barnes was the racer. If they want to do a one year memorial, that's great, but Joe would've just wanted us to go out there and have fun.

Udonis Haslem

I threw my mouthpiece at the ground. Looking at it on TV, I could see how Joey would think I was throwing it at him.

Ramel Bradley

I think we've all been waiting for Joe to come out and show what he can do. In the past, sometimes me and Joe have questioned what we're supposed to be doing on the court, but you can see him getting more comfortable.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

John Holub

I haven't seen anything mentioned on that at all.

Dick Cheney

Not one of them mentioned any of it, ... They're all very thankful where they find themselves right now.

Mayor Boswell

About 80 to 90 percent of the things mentioned were already in motion.

Adrian Joseph

A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been trying to do all season - be that third-leading scorer on the team.

Paul Cellucci

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.

Debra Pegram

We've never mentioned our record at all. I know that a lot of people probably talk about it, but we just worry about trying to get better for our next opponent.

Kathleen Kenyon

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Brett Hall

Just this morning is when it first emerged.

Ashley Donnell

I watched the news this morning and I was shocked. I saw the picture and was like no, it can't be.. you must be talking about somebody else.

Carl Jung

I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end.

Two Chainz

I am so far ahead I'll see you niggas in the morning Two chains on, my first chain started cloning

Alain Vigneault

He will practice with us (this) morning and we'll probably take him on the road. I'm not sure if he's going to play yet.

Richard Petty

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

Rebecca West

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup ...

Richard Bach

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Ryan Hall

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

Xi Jinping

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

Will Rogers

There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.

Wendell Berry

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

Kim Dae Jung

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

Mark Hanna

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

Mark Hulbert

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

John Henry Newman

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Greg Chappell

Saurav and I share a strong and mutual respect for each other going back a long time. Thankfully, it was strong enough to survive what has occurred in the past week.

Skyler Green

I was like, 'Some, but not much,' ... He told me I needed my rest. I get some, but it's been hard.

Jamie Moyer

He didn't panic, but if he let it play out another one or two more fingers, he would have got right to where he needed to be.

Jerry Dorsey

He decided, for personal reasons, that he needed to be off the board.

Kenny Smith

He just did whatever it took to win. There was nothing he didn't feel like he couldn't do. If it needed to be done, he would try to make it happen.

Gerald Wallace

He is their superstar, he is their go-to man. When they needed a win, they went to him. He pulled it out for them and did what he had to do to get this team a win.

Mike Sullivan

Hannu made the timely saves when we needed them,

Mark French

When he needed to be, he was very good. They had some quality scoring opportunities early, and he made some real nice stops.

Fernando Clavijo

Today, for us, it was a playoff game. We were playing on the road, and we needed to do whatever we needed to win.

Andre Boutte

I thought we played hard, and we did what we needed to do to get the win.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Ariel Sharon

I thought we could reach a period of respite before a cease-fire, ... But this is a war situation we are experiencing now and negotiations for a cease-fire will take place under fire.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Richard Pennington

He eluded us for a long period of time,

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Dave Allison

In the third period we were a totally different team, but we can't wait on our effort.