Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Scott Berg

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.

Charles Schumer

has an obligation to answer tough questions from the committee about whether his views have changed and whether he would advance a particular ideological position that is contrary to decades of legal precedent.

B. F. Skinner

Guys like Jon were here and working hard when it was not the most fashionable thing to play basketball here at BC. When you see us reach the Sweet Sixteen and advance in the rankings it's because of guys like Jon and others who put in their time and got the most out of their abilities day in and day out.

Mike Gillespie

He's advanced beyond his age in terms of his coolness and composure. He'll give up hits and people will score, but he just doesn't all of a sudden spiral into a mess.

Bernard Siegel

He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he would join the advisory board,

Scott Parrish

I thought we should have had a few more advance to sectionals.

Tom Collen

We've been to the NCAA Tournament the last two years, but we've been one and done. I really think next year, with the talent we have, we could advance to the Sweet 16 and maybe all the way to the Final Four. It could be a real breakthrough year for us.

Mike O'Connell

We're pleased that we were able to come to this agreement in advance of the arbitration process. We recognize that Hal is an important part of our defense and is one of our steadiest and most reliable players.

Rob Jeter

I think we're playing some of our best basketball. We need to do that to advance in the tournament.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Shawn Trent

Kids don't want to come off the field, but we try not to start them on both sides because they get too tired. and we aren't getting as much out of them (in the late stages of a game).

Greg Moore

I wouldn't say all the pressure is on them - we're both going into the game with the same goal. If they feel like they have more pressure because they are the home team and they are in front of their home crowd, then so be it.

Mike Davis

James came to Indiana to do both sports, so ultimately the decision is his. He had a great football season, and I am really proud of him. He has a bright future ahead, and we want to do whatever is necessary to help him reach his goals.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

David Leibowitz

I would suggest that both Nintendo and Microsoft are going to be very formidable opponents. In the case of Microsoft, given the size of the corporate treasure chest, whatever it takes will be spent to move the product.

Pat Callahan

Katie collided with a gate at the top of the course on Sunday morning, losing both her glove and her pole. It didn't matter to her at all - she still won.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

Navtej Sarna

India, as always, wishes the people and the Bhutan government continued peace and stability and fulfillment of their aspirations as they embark on a new constitutional system.

Rick DiPietro

I'm proud of the guys. We could've kind of tanked it after losing six and stuck our heads between our legs and said, 'This one is over.' But we continued to work hard.

Sadakazu Tanigaki

I hope to explain (to the U.S. officials) the Japanese government's continued efforts toward structural reform.

Dirk Nowitzki

Their zone was really effective, I thought, in the third quarter. They continued it in the fourth and we finally started making some. I got open a couple times and made some big shots.

Daniel Chan

The continued improvement in the local job market has underpinned the growth in retail sales. We expect growth will continue as interest rates peak in the second half of the year.

Janna Sampson

I'm glad to hear he's dropping it. Continued harassment of management would not have been good for keeping their focus on the business.

Michael Woolfolk

The hike in March is fully priced in. The hike in May is over 80% priced in. There is already talk of continued hikes after that. Interest rate differentials globally are increasingly favoring the U.S. and it's positive for the dollar.

Rhea Perlman

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

Marilyn Manson

I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And, at the same time I think I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

Alex Jones

Today is an entertainment show that has a news segment. I don't think there's any question that NBC sees it that way.

Jim Balderston

To date, much of the penetration of Linux in the marketplace has been in the back room infrastructure space, tying things together at the lower levels of the stack. Such accomplishments are not to be scoffed at, but represent the first step in establishing Linux as an enterprise and market wide technology.

Pope Benedict

It is just one year since his pontificate entered its final phase, full of suffering and yet triumphant and truly paschal.

Joe Galante

I don't get the sense that Wal-Mart is trying to enter the label business.

Rik Mayall

I am a global light entertainment phenomena, so how can I remember everything?

Agnes Kosinski

He is great. He sings, he's a comic, he does a magic show... It's great family entertainment.

Leonard Susskind

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Gillian Zucker

His name is synonymous with Southern California, making him a perfect fit to get the state of California's largest spectator event under way.

Denis Petukhov

I think it's just an honor to be an Olympian. I think it's the greatest event in the world. I think everybody is going to feel honored.

Martin Laina

I think it's fair to say that we don't want this event to be in opposition with the university. We want this to be as inclusive as possible.

Mark Tooley

I think it's inappropriate to use a children's event to make a political statement.

Brian Noble

I think you have to do both. We want to make it an entertaining event for our fans, but we also intend to field a competitive team. I think the two go hand-in-hand. Fans want to come out and have fun, but they also want their team to win.

Melinda Gilpin

We've been very pleased with the response and interest. This is the kind of event people would want to come to.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Brian Viloria

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

Jenny Pfeiffer

This was a great experience and we would have liked the season to keep going. Next year will be different.

Carol Brady

What we found was that many of the mothers that experience those poor outcomes are unhealthy and uninsured before they ever get pregnant.

Buck Showalter

Going in, that may be the thought. But we want to see, with the experience he had last year, how he's grown from that.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Anton LaVey

The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

Dave Schmidt

He was still a little nervous going into the final. He didn't come out with that fire that he had earlier. But he'll get that back.

Bill Whitley

I don't know anything about that. I am here to represent the town in the matter of the consolidation of the fire department.

George Allen

I don't know anything about any vacancies. We hire and fire the president only.

Dave Soutar

He had a pretty good fire inside, and when he put his mind to something, he was going to make it work.

Joe Hale

He is going to be missed very much. We still don't know what happened we don't know how the fire started.

Bible Bible

He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

Dwight Freeney

I was like, 'What, we signed a free agent?' ... It's big. I think the owner (Jim Irsay) really sees the opportunity to move forward here and make that push.

Joey Porter

I would think somebody would say it, but I wouldn't think he would say it. He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have an opportunity to back up his words and I'm going to have an opportunity to back up my words. It's something I'm looking forward to. I'm ready to get it on.

Bill Stoneman

John has been an integral part in the success of our pitching staff. We look forward to another impressive season from him.

Jessica Wilk

JMU is a big in-state rivalry, and we're looking forward to getting back at it and getting on the right side of the win column.

Annika Sorenstam

I think it's very tricky, ... There are so many different bounces you can get on the fairways, on the greens and everywhere, really. It's not playing long, but it's really tricky. The greens are a little roughed up, so I'm looking forward to a morning tee time.

Johnny Damon

I was watching the Olympics and the ice skating and I saw the pride they had for their countries. That was great. That's what I'm looking forward to.

Sally Davis

He's a very smart person, and in a phrase I'd say he gets it. He's looking very much forward to being aboard the space station.

Kermit Hall

We look forward to a very long and thriving relationship with Ordway,

Peter Rice

We look forward to sharing this perfect gem with the world. It's in the tradition of movies that have worked well for Searchlight, from 'The Full Monty,' 'Waking Ned,' and 'Sideways' to 'Garden State'.

Leonard Burman

It's generating a huge portion of our tax revenues,

Charles Moose

The graphic is generating a lot of information, a lot of calls,

Honore de

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Joe Clark

He was a giant of a man, had an extraordinary impact on the country.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Michael Bergin

I never learned to ignore the hot lights and the giant fans. And it all seemed so ridiculous. Run in place. Look angry. Look at me like you love me.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

Elizabeth Bowen

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality

Cervantes Saavedra

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Charles Schumer

not a panacea, but it's a giant step forward.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

O. Henry

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Mindy Kaling

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

Julia Cameron

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Paul Engle

I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

Mike Carey

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

Paul Ford

Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

Patrick O'Brian

For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

John Shaw

Our offer is the most valuable and the most straightforward, ... Our record of performance is significantly better than Royal Bank's.

Mukhtar Mai

I offer all the riches I've made out of the panchayat-enforced gang-rape to the president in return for justice.

Carter Ham

Clearly, an AAV (Amtrac) does not offer the same protection a tank does,

Jim Payne

If you can only offer one section of Spanish V it makes scheduling difficult.

Mario Puzo

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse (The Godfather)

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Richard Eyre

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

Marcia Barcelli

I know that when he was in the opening ceremonies, he must have just been overcome.

Charles Woodson

I'm trying to make a play. I saw an opening and tried to run with it.

Genesis Rodriguez

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Jeff Cirillo

Even with opening day being what it was, I was very calm, very relaxed.

Scott Parker

It's going to be an opening like no other.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Derek Wright

I'm very pleased with our effort--with our attitude. I think we've turned the corner.

Dave Barry

I'm very pleased that we made the top four. But I feel that we could have had a stronger showing.

Howard Wolfson

I'm not going to speculate on his motives, but I'm pleased to see it.

Henry George Bohn

Every potter praises his own pot.

J. K. Rowling

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Betsy Beers

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Pat Barker

The result was I went nowhere.

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Oliver Goldsmith

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

John T. Flynn

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thrift is a great revenue.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Will Rogers

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Edward Kennedy

It's a ticket of strength; it's a ticket of hope; it's a ticket of opportunity. It's a ticket for victory, and I couldn't be happier.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Werner Erhard

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.

Wayne Dyer

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

Sandra Day O'Connor

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

Warren Miller

You are a unique person, just like everybody else!!

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Katherine Jenkins

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

Patrick Wilson

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Joel McHale

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Donald Trump

The one I saw over the weekend was Mosul and they're talking about attacking. The other problem is, you have a lot of the leaders in Mosul. Well, they're not gonna be there, they're getting out because they hear they're gonna be attacked, so they're getting out, they're going some place