Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

Katrina and Rita altered the fabric of our society,

Mr Howard

I'd like to think that I could wave a magic wand and send the world oil price down, but you know and the people who think about this will know that it is impossible for an individual country to alter the world price of oil on its own,

Joe Biden

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

Keith Brown

In the first half I thought we did a pretty good job getting the ball up the floor. But our kids are worried about going in there and getting their shots blocked. We altered some shots in the first half, and we talked about it. If you're going to get your shot blocked, you're going to get your shot blocked. You have to just keep going at it.

Samuel Butler

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence

Lanny Smith

I knew that the two previous times I drove, the help defender either blocked or altered my shot. I knew I had to get the shot up quick and high off the glass because they have some athletic big men. And that's exactly how it worked out.

Jack Prelutsky

I'm incredibly excited about Awful Ogre. The ogre is my alter ego. It's a day in the life of an ogre, from when he gets up until he goes to bed.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

The IAEA meeting is paramount on investors' minds, because it has the potential to alter the demand supply equilibrium.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

The IAEA meeting is paramount in investors' minds, because it has the potential to alter the demand-supply equilibrium.

Scott Wood

There is no favoritism when it comes to run blocking or running routes, ... If all I'm going to do is run-block ... as long as the team wins, I don't care.

John Base

The city told me I need to move my boat. I don't know why. My yard is well maintained, and I am not blocking any sidewalks.

Paula Berg

It's not as simple as blocking out New Orleans.

Jim Noonan

It's hard to get rebounds when they make all their shots. We actually did a good job of blocking out, but everything dropped through the net.

London Fletcher

They did a good job of blocking the run and getting us in defenses where our secondary guy was the cutback player,

Curt Miller

They weren't doing a great job of blocking her out. We mentioned to her early on that she could have a really great rebounding night.

Chone Figgins

They have to really be on their toes, ... The outfielders have to charge balls, the catcher's got to be wary of blocking balls, pitchers have to pick at the corners, and when they pick, that means throwing more pitches.

Teddy Williams

It's more of a passing offense, instead of lining up and blocking most of the time, ... It's made for me.

Roger Craig

It's getting your race plan -- or game plan -- together like professional football. But it's all about you because you don't have 10 other guys blocking for you. I'd love to have some linemen out in front of me, but the cool thing is you set a goal for yourself and it's all about you.

Daryl Hall

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Gene Rasmussen

(In the first half), I thought offensively we tried to rush some things and forced some things, instead of just letting things happen. We did a much better job in the second half, and defensively we played much better in the second half, too.

Randy Dunn

In one sense, we have now a much better picture about (how) various groups of students are doing, because this law has really forced us to peel back and look back at performance for various groups of students.

Carl Hagelin

Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

David Murphy

I just forced myself to relax today. I've been very tense up at the plate.

John Harsanyi

I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.

Rick Barnes

I keep harping on turnovers. They forced some of those, some they didn't.

Ellen Gerton

The great thing is they are freshmen and sophomores (that are playing). It's forced time, but it's time that they need I know it will pay off.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Skyler Green

Guys are trying to get back to normal as much as possible. It's getting better, but it's not quite there yet.

Ron Gardenhire

Guys are trying. Guys are out there playing. You've also got to score some runs, too. Our starters haven't been getting it done. Our offense has to pick them up.

Scott White

Guys are sore. It's very, very demanding. But he's really challenging us to play through it.

Robert Esche

Guys are putting the onus on themselves to get this right. It was an ugly win.

Justin Leonard

Guys are little more relaxed here, ... You don't have the media buildup. The intensity is there, but for whatever reason the pressure is different. This event, you don't think about it until you get here. With the Ryder Cup, six months out people start talking about this and that. The next thing you know is we're all white-knuckled.

Darrent Williams

Guys are going to make plays. You've got to come back and fight.

Tony Bethel

He's able to find guys when they're open. And if they're not, he's open. He's going to score or get fouled. When you play with a big guy like that, it's a lot of fun.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Phil Garner

He just likes going out and pitching, doing his job and saying, 'Thank you very much,' and going home.

Randy Foye

He's a big part of what we do. If he's out for the year, we just have to come together as a team. We still have a job to do.

Brian Sears

He's a superior horse, and Brett does a wonderful job with him. I knew he'd have him in peak form. He knows how to top them off.

Claude Brown

I thought we were more disciplined than that. We made too many mistakes and had too many penalties and Steubenville did a nice job of capitalizing on them.