Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Dinkins

It is our job each day to give the students of Akron our assistance in obtaining the best education possible.

Steve Marks

This is the classic situation where you have a Cleveland organization working with an Akron organization to put on an event that benefits the whole region.

Paul Allison

Dr. Small is the steady hand guiding the Akron Public Schools during challenging times.

David McGrew

I didn't have any ties to Akron before moving here with my family and opening a business in 1995. I just fell in love with this place.

Derron Smith

It fit me and felt like home. Akron has good players and good coaches.

Stan Joplin

I can't speak in general, but I know I would rather play Miami and Kent State and Akron at home instead of on the road. Obviously, on paper, the East is pretty good. They have a lot of veterans.

Tom Blake

I think it's great that that's where Jeff and Mark want to go. I'm not surprised about Mark going to Akron because he went to summer camp there as a sophomore. With Jeff I was a little bit surprised because Illinois hasn't recruited him that much.

Dan Rice

We've been trying to eliminate minor gaps... and to line up the resources for our biggest challenges in Akron and Cleveland.

Tracy Roller

We have the team to do it - we have the potential to do it. Akron would be a great chance for us to prove we can do it.

Francois Trahan

The post-Fed performance of the S&P 500 could prove to be the biggest surprise of 2006.

Dorothy Rothrock

We are at risk of losing some manufacturing, but the biggest risk is we won't get any expansion of current manufacturing. You're not solving the problem. You're just moving the greenhouse gases to another location.

Monica Procar

We stock what we know are our biggest sellers. Then we stock seasonal, and our prices are very reasonable.

Rupert Murdoch

We're in pretty intense discussions with the biggest cable companies, and making quite considerable progress. You can expect something fairly soon.

Michael Gardner

We started four sophomores and a freshman. So that will definitely help us as far as having players back. We'll come back and hopefully we will have matured, because that was our biggest thing. There should be more parity next year, and that will have different teams in the mix.

Lucien Engelen

We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision.

Alberto Martinez

When you subtract the million dollars Charlie Crist raised from the biggest casino owner on the East Coast, he doesn't even break a million. Republican voters won't remember how much Charlie Crist raised, but they won't forget who he raised it from.

Tim Lewis

We have to get rid of mental mistakes. We've had four touchdowns called back by penalties and that can't happen. The biggest thing is we need to get into some kind of regular routine. The way things have been going has been anything but routine.

Paul Mainieri

We have no reason whatsoever to take Cleveland State lightly. They've lost a lot of tough games this year, and this will probably be the biggest game of the year for them.

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

China Mieville

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Bear Grylls

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.

Denis Waitley

Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.

John Phillips

The other team played pretty well. If we eliminate that one inning, we could've had the game.

Gene Caslin

We're starting to click. We've been playing a lot of 1-2-2, just a flat-iron zone, and we're forcing teams to shoot it from the outside. We're trying to eliminate all of their penetration and that's what's happened the last (few games). I think we're going to be OK.

Jay Grossman

We're going to eliminate 3,000 management positions, as we've always said, and those are not going to necessarily be layoffs,

Deron Williams

We're still in it. We haven't been eliminated yet. We've just got to keep fighting.

Mark Everson

We're moving aggressively to reduce the tax gap, ... But no one should think we can totally eliminate the gap. That would take Draconian measures and make the government too intrusive. We have to strike the right balance.

Matt Zimmerman

It's just your normal PDA, but we have software on it that allows us to eliminate trying to remember to write down data.

Curtis Joseph

They played hard for a team that's eliminated (from the playoffs). Once they got that second goal, it seemed to give them a lot of life. . . . The last seconds, I thought we did a good job. We need to play like that with a lead and learn how to keep a lead.

William Donaldson

This 'hard' four o'clock cutoff would effectively eliminate the potential for 'late trading' through intermediaries that sell fund shares,

Michael Pittman

It's all up to us. Coach, he's doing all he can to help us and as a player and as a grown man we got to eliminate the penalties and eliminate the turnovers out of our play.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Charlaine Harris

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

Louis C. K.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Geoff Peters

A lot of times you've got teams that worry about what's going on up top. They don't worry about what's going on in the minor leagues.

Ruben Escudero

There were some small, minor things that needed to be upgraded, and we complied with that.

Stacey Hallahan

I told them it was minor surgery. When I was out for two weeks, they didn't know why.

Marisa Williams

It's a terrible place. Women are mistreated there. Minorities are mistreated there.

Jon Rauch

It was a very minor surgery. It was more a cleanup than anything else. It wasn't like a labrum or rotator cuff tear. I bounced back quickly and I'm ready to go.

Dominic Modise

As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to remember where you come from.

Jamie Shea

The Russian incident, while colorful, is really a minor one.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Chester Jourdan

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

Boris Yeltsin

the strength and resources to wipe out terrorism.

David Straus

It would put a strain on the resources big-time.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Trevor Harris

We'll have the same water resources 40 years from now, that we have now.

Darryl Franklin

We all know there is not the resources and wherewithal to do all the things in the plan.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.