Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Billy Tubbs

I enjoyed coaching at Lamar the past three years and appreciate the hard work the players put in to making the program better. This will allow me to get back to doing the job I came back to Lamar to do in the first place.

Jim Johnson

Go back into the days when Maryland lost the ACC championship to N.C. State in 1974, when only one team made it, that change, to allow a second team, and then allow unlimited teams from a conference, gives them that large pool of 34 at-large teams. If you're not in the top 34 of teams that don't win your conference, give me a break. You've had the chance to win games. You have no reason to complain.

Brad Smith

I was pleased with out effort tonight. I was able to clear the bench and allow some players quality play time.

Eric Holder

I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.

Jacqueline Salame

If we don't enforce laws of the historic district and allow things to slide, then it's unfair to homeowners that live in the area and do obey the rules. We don't have anything to defend. We are just doing our job.

Mike Kelley

If we don't ask for something that would allow us to be fully funded, I don't want the commissioners to not be able to fully fund us.

George Robertson

If there were to be clear and unambiguous evidence that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic was meeting the conditions, and that he seemed to be doing so, then we would consider a bombing pause to allow an orderly withdrawal of his forces,

Doris Meissner

She spoke on various sides of the issue, ... She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how much she did not want there to be a forcible transfer, but she also spoke about how she would never part with him, about how the family would never allow the transfer to take place under the conditions that were required. There were many contradictory statements.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Frank Robinson

I felt like I had to take a shot early,

Rod Coleman

I felt like I had to make a statement in a situation like that. It was time to finish them off.

Sherry Phelps

I felt I was passing the torch from one generation to the next.

Matt Schaub

I felt I was inbounds; I tried to make sure I got my foot on the ground and dove, making sure to stay inbounds. The official called me out, so I can't really do much about it.

Brandon Hamilton

I felt I was getting stronger as the game went on. My stuff was working all night, and I felt good.

Larry Robinson

I felt I was being out of character.

Billy Gillispie

I felt it was very similar to Texas' zone. I thought that helped us.

Steve Rives

I felt it was time to move on. This was not a quick decision, and after laboring over it for over a year, I just felt it was time.

Billy Carlisle

I felt like we did have some missed opportunities. That's always scary in a big game. But it's also a good sign.

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.

Matt Copeland

Turnovers were the killers tonight. One minute, it's a one-point game, the next minute it's seven points.

Shannon Sharpe

We don't score 30 points a game. We don't have a receiver who can go and get you 180 yards. We don't have a quarterback who's going to throw for 350. But I'll tell you what we do have: A team that's going to the AFC Championship Game. All them big-time offenses, you know where they're at? Home watching us.

David Gallop

We don't run the game for betting. To have it regulated to suit punters would see the tail wagging the dog.

Matt Koff

We don't really have any stars. But we do have some depth. Jasmine Green and Katrina James went into the game and made some big plays for us when we needed them.

Neil Roberts

You hope that every game is not close, but in this game it doesn't happen that way. The disappointing thing is when we give up two restart goals.

Byron Scott

You hope, sooner or later, the young guys understand and get it. When you have a lead like that, you can't come out in the third quarter and think the game is over. Maybe a loss like this, when we know we should have won the game, that will do it.

Marcus Ginyard

You hear that a lot. Maybe that's just the way people see it. But you can't really be worried about that. You've just got to get out there and play the game of basketball.

Chauncey Billups

To have those nerves to make those plays at the end of a game isn't something you really can be taught. It's instinct I think.

Abby Wambach

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Carroll O'Connor

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Jody Bass

It was a huge win for us. We got on a good run in the third quarter.

Lynn Meger

These seniors were great leaders. They were all good students and great people.

Marshal Cohen

Is it a challenge, but the good news for them is that it has been a sleepier brand, so it's not as if they are trying to maintain a property at its peak.

Craig Krenzel

I showed up at the team meeting (Saturday) and nobody told me to get out, so it's good news,

Caroll Spinney

I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.

Matt Lee

I should be happy but right now it doesn't feel so great. It's a good accomplishment but I know it could have better.

J. B. Smoove

I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Alex Gibney

One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.

Alex Gibney

Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.

Albert Pujols

I don't know why people say I'm not supposed to be doing what I'm doing. I'm just trying to do my job. I'm blessed, and I'm glad that I'm blessed.

Albert Pujols

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the author himself David Stockton. The theory suggests that if we take care of the people at the top, if we cut taxes for the wealthy, if we make sure they are doing really well, then the investments that they make in the economy and the jobs that will create, will make everything grow and it will have a trickle down effect on the rest of us.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W.] Bush administration.

Debbie Ford

It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Liam Payne

I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.

Libba Bray

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Libba Bray

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

Libba Bray

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

Lester Bowie

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Frederick W. Smith

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Jon Ronson

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

Jon Krakauer

the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.