Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Lam

We are pretty happy with where we are at so far, especially the fact that the players are backing themselves. Their confidence is coming as much from the pre-season preparation we had, including the tour to Australia, as anything else, but there is still a lot to do. We've won nothing yet.

Eddie Izzard

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. - I claim India for Britain!They go, - You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!- Do you have a flag?- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.

Brian Robinson

We started backing up midnight to 2 o'clock in the morning, which suggests it was Asian-inspired.

Art Hogan

We've been able to handle a lackluster earnings season so far. Energy companies haven't really come into the fray yet, so things may look a little better after they report. Another positive is that we're backing off a bit from the high price of oil.

Jermaine Spencer

When we went in the locker room, we said we weren't pushing. We weren't getting as hard after them as we should. In the second half, we brought the fight to them. Instead of backing down and letting them do what they want to do, we made them step up and play -- play defense and make tougher shots.

John Marshall

We're going to talk to the voters about the issues Colorado cares about. We don't begrudge him bringing in Eastern Bloc friends, but I suspect that the cowboys down at the coffeehouse in Delta are more interested what the candidates have to say about water and health care than whether or not the president of Poland is backing you.

Gero Neugebauer

We're still not sure whether all this is a planned strategy of the SPD leadership or if they are taking it step by step. It put the CDU under initial pressure, but it somewhat backfired, as Merkel's position has received firm and repeated backing from her state prime ministers.

Dore Gold

We've got information about who's backing bin Laden and, in a lot of cases, it goes back to the royal family.

Andy Jones

We like backing experienced entrepreneurs who have built their own companies, who have been in high-growth situations and understand the value of a dollar.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Denis Waitley

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

Norman Taylor

The only commitment has been to study the issue.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Stew Morrill

We've got good shooters. That's finally starting to pay off for us at the line. Our percentages have steadily gone up as the year has gone on.

Michael Levy

We've wanted to be in Napa for a very long time. We finally got a great location.

Jim Lites

We've waited years and years for this announcement to come. It's finally here. It's been years in the making, really starting in 1993 when we got here.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

James Denney

We're finally seeing dividend payers starting to outperform. That's a healthy long-awaited sign that people are seeking out quality.

Eric Nicoli

We're finally seeing a raft of new initiatives from really big players. This stuff is happening all day, every day now.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Audrey Hepburn

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Mary Simmons

We are pleased the proposed generate rate increase will be considerably less than we originally expected.

William Shakespeare

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Toby Young

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

Max Frisch

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Jerry Lewis

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

Robbie Laing

I don't know how how he got away and won that race. I just said to the owners he's six lengths better today and he'll win this one easily.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Gene Upshaw

I won't come down. The players know that. Only the owners can make a proposal.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Mark Basham

They realize they have to be executing. It's not just about a Web site.

Eric Roberts

the sun starts to come up and they don't even realize that it had set yet.

Jim Taylor

After Andrew, insurers realized the premiums they were charging weren't enough,

Chris Browne

Some stuff fell. Before it hit, I realized it was a person who jumped.

Lindsay Lohan

Sometimes being that thin doesn't look healthy. I kind of didn't realize that.

Marcella Anderson

I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.

Justin Tuck

I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don't need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.

Marcia Freeman

The wheel was awesome, just awesome. You can't realize how big the thing is until you see it.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

Edward James Olmos

I don't support violence, period.

Eddie Izzard

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Carolyn Roberts

We've already established our credibility. The Legislature is very supportive of the university system and comfortable with our role.

Martin Freeman

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

Mark Cuban

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Albert Camus

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Timothy Garton Ash

The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.

Thomas Jefferson

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.