Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nelson

You have to take a long-term approach to global growth,

Brad Bradshaw

The result of the team's efforts is a new Quest that is not only well-built, but looks and feels like a quality vehicle the moment you approach it or open a door.

Lara Ramsburg

The responsible approach to governing is working well for us and too well for us to start veering off track.

J. Taylor

There's so much stuff they've thrown at him. Basically they threw the kitchen sink at him. Just his demeanor and his approach to it, calm, never getting frustrated ... If you practice that way, it will carry into the game.

Joanne Boyle

There's so much on my plate right now, I just take it a day at a time. If I didn't approach it that way, I think I'd lose my mind.

Kekoa Paulsen

There's no cookie cutter approach that we found. This issue in general is something that really begs a larger question.

Ken King

There's no other approach for us to take except being supportive. Darren has faced lots of challenges in his career and he's dealt with them in a positive style.

Tom Julian

The trend this year both on the East Coast and the West Coast is about taking a more holistic approach to what you give Mom. It's more about modern offerings versus the overdone excessive approach of flowers and chocolate.

Ben Phillips

The tree itself just has this glow about it. You can tell it's significant when you approach it.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Willie Randolph

An inch here, an inch there, that ball is through. I don't have a problem with that.

Matt Strophy

Ann got the game ball tonight. She did great getting rebounds, communicating, blocking out and rotating on the ball.

Tom Watson

A putt cannot go in the hole if it's short. I'd rather face a four-footer coming back than leave the ball on the front lip.

Mike Hargrove

A pretty impressive debut, rough luck there in the first inning, but he threw the ball well. He got better as he went along. We'll increase his pitch count the next outing.

J. J. Johnson

Approach-wise, we did a little bit better as far as making him throw strikes. He's effective because he puts the ball on the corner or right off the corner. We had a better plan today as far as trying to get some better pitches to hit.

Martyn Davison

An excellent performance by the girls and I thought we passed the ball very well today. We are all playing for each other and the girls are gelling into a nice unit.

Tim Dillingham

The state continues to drop the ball despite the fact that they acknowledge that more people and more property are in harm's way.

Tony Tijerina

The situation we're in, we've been having trouble scoring runs. It's expected as a fundamental ball club that you have to manufacture runs. That's part of his game, part of his role.

Zach Piller

You've got to take something away. After the Pittsburgh game, there was nothing to build on there. This game, we showed we're going to fight. That's a Jeff Fisher-coached team, that's its mentality. Nobody gives us a chance in any game. What games are we going to be favored in this year? So we're going to fight you.

Jim Finlen

You've got to take everything as a learning experience and build on it. Hopefully the younger guys can see now what it takes to be competitive in the playoffs and what's going on in the rest of the state.

Guy Kawasaki

You say: "My goal is to build a world-class company." Investor thinks: "How about you ship and sell the first copy before we talk about world-class anything?

Jeff Lemire

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

James Koster

You start with the intent, and you build the building around that intent.

George Fox

You're not financing the mortgage insurance and you build equity faster.

Ron Campbell

You're looking at it as something that can help you for the future as much as it helps you immediately. It's more important to build the loyalty with the fans.

Ronnie Chan

You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.

David Healy

This is a young, up-and-coming team and there is hope for the future. Of course the last two results have been disappointing but there is plenty to build on.

Brian Littrell

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Richie Havens

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

Tim Vine

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

Suzanne Collins

But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.

Suzanne Collins

As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.

Stephen Malkmus

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Stephen King

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.

Rosamunde Pilcher

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Jeff Biggers

I found myself in the South. I got picked up by somebody and made a joke about how dangerous it is to hitchhike with hillbillies. He told me to get out.

Bobby Hamilton

I can't think about what happened in 2001 and what kind of season it was. It was a good season. But like I say, I hope I can have a season like that, turn it back around and go to the big dance (this year).

Angelina Jolie

There are so many wonderful pledges that could come in in the next few years, but this winter is in the next few weeks and so many people are in danger of possibly freezing to death,

Bob Castellini

I'm very grateful to Dan O'Brien for the work he did. But I wanted someone in this vitally important position that I selected.

Andretti Green

I'm in shock, Dan ran a helluva' race, ... I feel as good as if I won it myself.

Christian Fauria

I loved that. He always seems to make things make sense. He always has a way of explaining things, and it relates to the vibe that's going on in the locker room. And some of the guys, I know (fellow tight end) Dan (Graham) -- I thought he was going to start fighting right then. I had to tell him, 'I know you're getting fired up; relax.'

John Nelson

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because it's a holiday, are going to be much lighter usage days, and many of the units that went off-line earlier in the week will be back up over the weekend,

William Giles

We're still comfortable with the performance and expect Montecito to offer a 2X performance improvement over earlier versions of Itanium.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Sue Semrau

You stop a player like that if you don't have (to stop) all the other players around her. She picks her moments, she lets the game come to her and she's just very seasoned.

Kevin Cook

You're only as good as your last game, and our last game was pretty doggone good,

Doug Piquette

You're not going to win many with that kind of stat. But we played hard for most of the game and we were able to overcome some lulls.

Orlando Hudson

You're going to see a smile on my face. That's regardless. That's every day, whether I'm going through a slump or whatever. This game is hard enough as it is. We're going to have some fun.

Earl Watson

You're going to miss them and you're going to make them. You can't make every game winner. You might not even make 50 percent of your game-winners, but the ones you make are the ones everyone will remember.

Lori Blade

You're going to have tough shooting nights. But we didn't quit and we got ourselves back in the game and had a chance.

Nick Leaders

You're going to go the rest of your life knowing the last game you ever played in was a win.

Tim Sunday

You never know how a game is going to go. We've gotten off to quick starts in games over the past two years.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Samuel Beckett

Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.

Samuel Beckett

But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)

Sally Ride

If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.

Sally Ride

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Ryan Phillippe

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

John Whisenant

Muggsy wants to pick up the tempo and I told him tonight I think he'll get it done. We lead the league in turnovers created. That's why we are where we are. We're not that much different from a lot of teams on the offensive end.

Rachael Ackerman

One night, I might lead the team in scoring. The next night it could be someone else. It probably would be someone else because of our balance.

Jeff Lenherr

I think they got the lead and thought that was good. They sat back a little bit.

Saddam Hussein

It is a tragedy. I led you for 35 years. How can you lead me out of court? Shame on you.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Garrett Camp

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

Fulton J. Sheen

A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.

Fulton J. Sheen

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Freddy Adu

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

George Catlin

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Zakk Wylde

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.