Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Gide

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Marcus Pollard

Joey had an excellent game. He really threw some good balls. When you start playing with confidence, you can do that.

Roosevelt Kiser

Josh is our leader and everything, but we had all our confidence in Chris. We knew as a offense we were going to win this game because we knew the defense was going to play until the end.

Joe DeSantis

Job shows us every day in practice that he can make his free throws. He's a freshman but we have confidence in him when he goes to the line.

Eddie Johnson

I think it's a group where we can have a lot of success. I think we can go in with great confidence and match up really well.

Gina Martin

I think it is a critical number. It's one of the first readings we get on consumer confidence post-Katrina.

Mark Gottfried

I think it gave him some confidence and he got to see where he stacked up. He had a great year this year, and he's improved every year he's been here.

Chris Stephens

I think I played pretty good and I helped the team get their confidence back. I helped my team get their momentum back.

Shawn Chacon

I take all the confidence in the world knowing that I did get out of those jams.

Greg Harris

He knew he was going to run for mayor when he got that money. People who gave to the county party didn't give for that purpose,

Ray Anderson

Harris County and Montgomery County will be part of the group that will do the maintenance work.

Bruce Johnson

It could have been Peggy, or it could have been me, or it could have been the grandbabies. The county needs to do something about this dog business. I think they should have put those dogs down.

Lee Rainie

It is also a reflection of demand. In a county that isn't particularly wired up, there might not be much demand for a county Web site.

Michael Curtis

I think the deployment strategy we have right now for our ambulances isn't the optimum model. The current system we have is a very good one, but with the status quo there is a problem in the outlying areas. If you have a critical emergency in some spots in the county you could be waiting a long time and in some cases, that could be too long.

Jim Russell

I was disappointed that the elected officials at the meeting seemed unconcerned with the obvious illegality of providing off-the-books jobs for illegal aliens. Instead, they should be passing legislation to provide training for local and county police departments to enforce our immigration laws.

Matt Smith

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

Susan Shaw

There is a double standard, ... If someone else in the county were smoking in their office, would they get fired? Absolutely.

Stephen Urban

The people of this county need to know where this money is at.

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.

Tony Couture

Jake?s a great story. He?s played through an injury this year, had some rocky roads but he played outstanding tonight and made some great saves.

Brent DeRuyter

Jake had a great year last season as a sophomore. He should be even better this season.

Kathleen Blanco

Rita has Louisiana in her sights and we must move,

Donald Powell

I think New Orleans and Louisiana need to be safe,

Lorenzo Booker

I'm like from St. Louis on that one - the 'Show Me State'.

Karl Malone

I love it the way Terry always mentions Louisiana Tech,

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

Joe Ward

That's pretty much seeing Louisville before the 20th century.

David Mohney

It makes Louisville a player on an international stage.

Harry Roberts

That Mississippi mud is perhaps the most valuable thing we have in Louisiana at this time.

Julius Erving

LA Clippers should come to Louisville