Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Maestri

Their confidence factor is at a high level because they've won so many games as of late. They beat South Alabama and knocked both Arkansas teams out of byes. Not to mention they've got seven players and three starters back from an NCAA Tournament team.

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.

Greg Stringham

We've heard that Lunn is a very hard worker, very good to get along with and that he understands the industry.

E. O. Wilson

We've got a great game. It's going to go on. We'll work something out along the way. These things always get worked out eventually. Maybe not this morning, but eventually.

Tom Collins

We will assess the information from the flight data recorder along with other information that will enable us to focus on certain parts of the wreckage in terms of what to retrieve.

Bill Guerin

We had to deal with a lot of other issues along with worrying about the game.

Mark Page

We had three fantastic years; you have to pay for those along the line. There will be a period where profits will be under pressure. But our numbers say globally it shouldn't be a collapse.

Paula Wheeler

This week she's really started coming along with her bat. She's been working hard at it and I think she's got things straightened out now.

Rob Hafer

Those seniors have been through so much and they decided to not let this one slip away. The girls made it work. It was nothing I did. I was just along for the ride.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Lastings Milledge

I thought about it every day. It got crazy at the trade deadline, thinking of all the possibilities where I could have gone. But nothing's done until they call you and say, 'You're traded.' I feel like I'm here, and as of now, I'm going to stay until they make a decision.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Steve Bennett

I think it's going to continue to be difficult. They won't be working together.

Eddy Curry

I think it's going to continue spreading throughout the league because what players are finding is once they try them they really work. It's not just a fashion thing.

Greg Kennett

I think it's going to be tough playing in Des Moines over the weekend because Drake has a home court advantage. We are going to continue our same strategy, which is winning the doubles point and winning down low. If we keep our course, I think we will be in good shape.

Craig Thomas

I think it's fair to say if I'm going to continue working, I can do more for Wyoming with my seniority in the Senate than as governor.

Steve Nicol

I think it's been a steady focus. So far this year we've done it, and we need to continue to do it. It's good to hear the guys think that way; that's where they want to go.

Rick Johnson

I think it's been a group effort. We've got a ways to go, but we're making strides every day. And it's been through a group effort. I think those relationships are solid, and hopefully they'll continue that way.

David Whiles

I think it's an important vehicle for them to continue to help us meet their needs in terms of system design and usability of the system.

Jim Ewan

We just couldn't make plays. Too many times we weren't successful on first down and that just makes it really difficult to sustain drives. We wanted to be in a position to win the game in the fourth quarter and we were there.

Todd Greene

We have to stand by our president during this most difficult of times. He has a really tough job. But right now I am looking forward to some time off. I'm actually planning a hunting trip with Vice President Cheney next weekend. It should be a good way to relax.

Melissa Arms

Heather tried a more difficult first pass on floor. It's a big risk, and it could have a big payoff. Unfortunately she fell in the meet even though she nailed it in warm-ups. But its good, she needs to make a statement if she wants to make nationals.

Rafael Nadal

He plays all the time inside the court. He returns very fast all time. And at the difficult moments, I think maybe the 15-40, 4-all, he has a lot of confidence.

Iris Chang

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

Lamon Brewster

I felt that after the Meehan fight, which was difficult for me for a number of reasons, I had to make a statement with Golota. And I did that.

Mary Ellen Mark

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Eleanor Mondale

I don't want to name names. But sometimes when actors are monosyllabic it makes it difficult to have a good story.

Erik Morales

He was very difficult to fight. He's very elusive. He never really put up a fight because he was moving around so much. He hit me with a lot of punches, but he also missed a lot.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

Ron Perlman

I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

Susan Rice

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Steve Case

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities...

Sri Chinmoy

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Sri Chinmoy

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Peter O'Toole

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Cary Fukunaga

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.