Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Gephardt

Yesterday, the president said there would be enough money for people's highest priorities. Despite a number of gimmicks, today's numbers strongly suggest he was wrong.

Tricia Binford

We have some upperclassmen nursing injuries and it was nice to see our freshmen step up and contribute. They're gaining a lot of experience and confidence, despite the adversity.

Guus Hiddink

We played tactically very well in the first half, despite all our problems,

John le Carre

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Julie Cordova

I thought I did okay despite the lack of training, but one of my listeners told me that while I thought I was playing music to take a break, I was actually recording!

Wally Buono

We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys were in a fog. We won, despite ourselves. That's the mark of good team. We're not a great team yet.

Jason Tapp

We hoped to have another win or two, but the team played well despite a few untimely penalties. We gave up five goals due to penalties.

Ray Keller

I felt real pleased the way we were playing in the first half. I felt we were winning the hitting war despite it being 0-0. They had a big return then got some mo (momentum), and we had a hard time recovering.

Tim Hibbitts

I don't think voters are terribly confident, despite what the economists may tell them.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Don Nelson

I think people expected too much from him. He gave what he could give, and there was a limit to that.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Jeff Stinson

Investors should keep in mind that this (auction) process will take longer than most initially expected and will by its vary nature be lumpy.

Jim Titus

In the second game we hit like we expected to.

Robbie Tobeck

I had expected that they might take a center. But the first round? I wasn't expecting that.

Zagat Survey

I had expected it would be bad, but not this bad,

Joe Sullivan

I guess I would've expected them to be a little more prepared.

Peter Kenyon

If you leave the investment aside, ... it will be a huge disappointment if we don't win anything. If you include the investment, however, it will be a failure if we don't win something. That's the way the manager will see it and the way we see it, because we're expected to win things; that's what we do.

Gary Cismesia

I had a real good year. If I could have made a field goal at the end it would have been perfect. It's going to make me train a lot harder in the off-season.

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I'm sure he was glad he was our side of the field,'' McNabb said.

John Updike

In his field - where edge, zip and instant impact are sine qua non - Kidd is second to none.

James Spithill

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

Sanya Richards

I knew that if she got out in front, she would never come back to the field.

Anthony Schlegel

I know A.J. and he wanted to play (at Ohio State) this year. He didn't think anything about it. We just have a great time playing together. That's what your senior year's all about: being with your teammates, being with your brothers, going on the field and having fun.

Chad Tracy

I'm not going to lie, I feel real good right now. It's something I've been working on all year and everything's starting to come together. Right now, it seems like the field is pretty big out there.

Mike Bianco

I'm not disappointed in the loss, but in the way we lost. We just didn't pitch or field all night.

Dan Peitz

I'm figuring we're probably going to be in the back half of the field the first part of the race and see if we can reel them in.

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Melissa Fleming

This should (in) no way be seen as an endorsement.