Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Charlie Coles

This was a great accomplishment for the seniors, to go out with a win. They're second to Kent, and it's a close second.

Bob Ford

I think Will has done a superb job and the team has too, obviously. It's a step in this process for a school that went from (Division) III to II and I, and this is not a culmination by a long shot, but to get into the dance is a tremendous accomplishment, when you look at where the basketball team was four years ago.

Robert Clarke

It has been another great year for Honda in the IRL. We've faced increased competition from both Toyota and Chevrolet this season, along with the challenges of opening of our new facility in Santa Clarita, California. This achievement is a tribute to the tremendous hard work and dedication of all our associates at HPD, our teams and drivers, and our technical partners.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Colby Armstrong

He doesn't like to talk about it. He wants to focus on playing. But it would be a great accomplishment for an 18-year-old kid - and, with all the things we've been through this season, it's great we still have something to shoot for.

Mark Russell

He gets the lifetime achievement award. But, it's all pretty equal opportunity. No president ever let me down.

Michael Graves

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Michael Holland

He is the single most successful architect of a financial services colossus of our time.

John Carmack

Hardware wise, there's a lot of marketing hype about the consoles. A lot of it really needs to be taken with grains of salt about exactly how powerful it is, ... The Xbox 360 has an architecture where you essentially have got three processors and they're all running the same memory pool and they're all synchronized, and cache coherent, and you can spawn off another thread in your program and make it go do some work. That's kind of the best case and it's still really difficult to turn into faster performance or getting it to get more stuff done in a game title.

Dylan Walsh

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

Jerry Colangelo

I think Toronto is an ideal situation. There's good ownership. There's talent. There's cap room. He has the chance to be the architect of something special.

Paul Stamp

There is a movement today to develop more security building blocks, and this could help by creating a second layer of security beyond the application level. Embedding security in the chip architecture provides protection from the ground up.

Walt Whitman

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

Winston Damarillo

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

George Fraser

Our architecture is set up so that you can stream any media through any transport, from any protocol to any device with full security built in.

Richard Courtney

Her first commitment is to Donald Trump , but her second commitment (is) writing songs for Garth Brooks .

Ricky Ray

I'm going to give Brooks a call this week and wish him good luck,

Thom Browne

I've always dressed the same. I've never made a fashion mistake. I've always worn utilitarian. I started my collection because I wanted certain specific things, but before that it was vintage and classic Brooks Brothers.

Laura Bell Bundy

Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

Robert Frost

This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the things we love for what they are.

Ron Polk

We had a lot of depth then, when Brooks was cut. Plus, he's gotten better. He's very good defensively. He's paid his dues.

Derek Blasberg

I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways.

Peter V. Brett

Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it.

Jacquie Fernandes

He used that word a lot. He said coaches have a hard time teaching it and some of them are things you can't teach.

Mike Shanahan

He can take some visitors, so that's a good sign. We'll have a number of players and coaches going over there this afternoon, but they still want him to rest. (The doctors) feel very good about his progress.

Rodney Carney

He coaches every single play, and you're going to have to do it, even if we're up 35 or 40. If you're out there playing around, and not really intense, he's going to sub you. You don't want to get subbed. You want to be out there and play.

Jim Larranaga

There are so many great coaches who never get to the major level. I hope that I do represent them here.

W. Hull

I think it's been a jolt of reality for coaches on what they have to do in practice to prepare for games. There's not a lot of sense practicing five-on-five stuff. You need to practice special teams a lot.

Pat Riley

I was concerned about where we'd be, as I'm sure most coaches are coming back (from the All-Star break). We have one game in 10 days, and this was it. We started to play very well at the end of the (first) quarter.

Pete Boone

I think all you can really do (attending games) is see how they conduct themselves, their mannerisms, how the players respond to them and how they talk to the other coaches on the bench. I don't know if any of those in particular are earth-shattering pieces of information, but it's another piece to the puzzle.

Ryan Taylor

I think being jacked up for games helps because you play harder when you are really into it, ... Sometimes I might go over the edge with it. Sometimes I might get an unsportsmanlike (conduct) or unnecessary roughness (penalty), but the coaches can deal with that as long as I am playing my hardest.

Bob Walker

I think Tim Cook would have enjoyed the meet. The coaches I talked to had a fun day and everybody seemed relaxed and enjoying themselves. Not having a scoring meet makes this a totally different atmosphere.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Bryce Kaneshiro

I thought we were going to score one before the end of the game. We had a lot of opportunities on the long throw-ins. We just didn't put it in. I'm extremely proud of my guys.

Tony Battie

It hurts to lose, but we had a good run. We would have loved the season to end on a strong note, especially here at home, to keep that winning streak alive. But it just didn't go our way tonight. We played extremely hard, but just didn't get a break.

Mark Bennett

There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa. It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.

Mark Bennett

There is huge potential for this kind of technology in Africa, ... It's new, but it's extremely appropriate because there are no copper-wire phone lines in much of Africa, and half the people there have never touched a phone - and never will. People are already contacting us about getting into the systems that are going up, but the question is the rate to do it so it remains sustainable.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

Johnathon Schaech

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

Linda Ford

I'm treated very much like a normal person in Germany. They don't look at me as notorious, or famous in any way.

Mitch Gillam

If people quit after 25 percent of anything, there would be some serious inventions or famous people that wouldn't have been discovered. So we're not going to quit after 25 percent. We still have 75 percent of the season to play, so we're just going to keep grinding. Even if we don't find it until the last game, we will have gotten there.

James Graham

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

Tom Izzo

I'm only embarrassed that in front of our two most famous alums, we didn't play with that same kind of tenacity.

Dan Wheldon

I'm very proud of this team. They worked so hard all night long. There are some famous names that have won this race, and to now be on that list is very, very special.

Saul Rubinek

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

Lance Williams

He knew he was better than Mark McGwire. It offended him when people said Mark McGwire might be the greatest player who ever lived.

Ken Dunham

Historically, risk is much higher with Windows operating systems than Unix/Linux. How can I say that, look at all the major attacks. Which ones had the greatest likelihood and impact for 2005? Windows hands down.

Donald Every

I think it's his greatest accomplishment, one that has the potential for the longest-term impact.

Yvon Chouinard

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

Jamie Trowbridge

In the last two years, it has made the greatest leap, and that makes us the fastest-growing subscriber income of any publication.

Vince Young

I guess we would be the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of all time.

Carl Edwards

I'm not the greatest qualifier, and I'm learning a lot,

Scott Graham

I literally have the greatest job in the world.

Jim Montgomery

I remember it like yesterday. It was one of the greatest moments of my life.

Richelle Mead

Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance

Daryl Hall

I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.

Dale Petroskey

This is a historic day at the Hall of Fame. I hoped that someday there would be a woman in the Hall. It's a pretty proud moment.

Ronnie Barker

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

John Gallagher

It's like running into each other in the hall or seeing other people at the library,

Kevin Spacey

When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster.

Terence McKenna

For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.

Kary Mullis

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

John Kendrick Bangs

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

Benjamin Franklin

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinate, and then cook them in chicken fat.

Darryl Sutter

Kipper is always one of the main reasons why we win hockey games.

Mark Richards

I think we've talked about that a lot, about the opportunity and how it's knocking at our door. There's a lot of players who played minor-league hockey for 10-15 years that never made it past the first round.

Brian Burke

I couldn't sell this as a stand-alone hockey deal, and I wouldn't try,

Craig Conroy

He's been a big part of USA hockey for a long time. It's surprising. He's kind of synonymous with USA hockey.

Steve Yzerman

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

Wade Belak

He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.

Phil King

If you haven't seen hockey produce in HD and wide screen, it's terrific,

Al Oerter

It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.

Alexander Ovechkin

If the National Hockey League was in Russia, I would be getting the attention,

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Ernie Grunfeld

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll learn from it.

Shawn Olsen

I didn't come out pitching like I should have. I wasn't really myself. We'll learn a lot from these losses.

Jim Scherr

His appointment to the Olympic team is our issue.

Sammie Henson

I want to be the Olympic champion. . . . Then I'll have peace that no one can ever take away from me.

Lindsey Vonn

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

Eric Heiden

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Cindy Klassen

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Derek Wright

I'm very pleased with our effort--with our attitude. I think we've turned the corner.

Dave Barry

I'm very pleased that we made the top four. But I feel that we could have had a stronger showing.

Howard Wolfson

I'm not going to speculate on his motives, but I'm pleased to see it.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Kevin Flanagan

In San Diego, we don't try quite as hard.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Gabrielle Aplin

I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

Gerald Smith

If not, it's going to be quite a nut.

Lawrence Jacobs

I have never seen anything quite like this.

Lee Janzen

I'm not going to say it could never be that way. But I don't think (Woods) is quite there right now.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Peter Berg

We were simply brushed off by MAF officials.