Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Karl Hobbs

I would think most teams will try to go inside from an offensive standpoint because we will be down an inside defender. I think that will be the biggest challenge.

Matt Mathes

Katrina is undoubtedly the biggest problem for the country right now. We had to look at national priorities.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Annika Sorenstam

Just the scoring part, which is the biggest part. I mean, I'm working on everything and at least the last week I've been hitting it really well. I'm hoping that it's all turning around. I really am.

Mike Scioscia

John Lackey is probably the biggest story. He was terrific for eight innings.

Charles Ramsey

John is our biggest weapon, but he's a much better player than he demonstrated tonight.

Orlando Hudson

John Gibbons is the biggest reason we have started the season so well. He has the respect of the players.

John Mayall

I think initially people like Johnny Lang, they seemed to be a novelty at the time but nowadays there are so many blues guitarists.

Chris Young

He could start for any team in the Blue Ridge, River Ridge or Seminole that I've seen.

Don Lucia

He'll also get some time on the blue line.

Cindy Sheehan

greeted with overwhelming support, in blue (Democratic) states and in red (Republican) states.

Larry Penley

Guys have watched Tiger for a decade now and seen him overpower everyone. They've taken that as the blueprint and are finding ways to throttle everything up even more.

Dan Auerbach

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

Alan Skrainka

What you have going on in this market is a flight to quality, which is the blue chips, as tech stocks are priced to perfection.

Charlie Hood

He's a great, great kid and a blue collar worker. It's nice to see him get the opportunity.

Ron Wilson

He's got no fear. He'll stand his ground at the blue line all day. We need more guys like that.

William Penn

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

Henry Paulson

In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.

Amanda Walker

If you need a prescription drug, you may be able to find it at your local pharmacy, or a less expensive generic version may be available.

Woody Johnson

I think all of us feel good that we got something done. We look forward to working a lot harder to try paying for it. It's a very expensive deal.

Todd Sloan

Because it is so expensive to install, we only put it in those locations where there may be a large number of crashes.

Mitch Basefsky

If we tried to fluoridate now, we'd have to find a totally different strategy to make it work, and we don't know if we could find a way that's cost-effective. We do know it would be very expensive to fluoridate on a well-by-well basis.

Louise Driver

I really think it will work well because the most expensive thing on the list is $4.50. So, if you felt you wanted to order, but didn't want to spend a lot, you could.

Nicholas Perna

This is more expensive than most of the rest of the state.

Chris Poland

There's very little mitigation going on, and it's because it's so expensive to do, just like it was so expensive to fix the levees. So I think we would have the same reaction: Why didn't we fix those buildings? Why didn't we fix the infrastructure?

Greg Norman

I would say with the technology we have today, with the equipment, if you put that in Jack Nicklaus ' hands, he'd be a superior golfer than Tiger Woods .

Padraig Harrington

It can be quite a frustrating golf course. One of my strengths is to stay patient, and that's probably why I have performed well here in the past.

Ben Curtis

Here I'm not worried about the cut, I just want to go out there and play good golf and try and get in contention.

Bob Miller

Golf is still in her blood, and there's always a glimmer of hope.

James Kamte

Golf is my life. Since moving to Johannesburg I have spent most of my time playing golf and this has helped me to improve mentally and on the course.

Hale Irwin

I think it's great for golf. I don't see any problem with it, if it helps our sponsor.

Brian Boucher

I think it's because as a golfer, you always feel you can get better. That's what makes golf so unique. No one ever perfects (his or her) game. There's always some part that you feel needs improvement and can't wait to work on.

Matt Hasselbeck

What else is he going to do? You can only play so much golf, or do so much hunting.

John Hackney

We're off to a good start in round two. There's still plenty of golf left.

Karen Olson

Kids don't leave without a green slip in their hands.

David Briggs

Greenspan sparked a reaction. I guess people like to be verbally reassured that we can get through the oil prices.

William Sullivan

Greenspan is suggesting that the recovery is going to be slow and that there are obstacles to a swift rebound.

Richard Alley

Greenland presently makes the largest contribution to sea level rise,

Federico Lorca

Green how I love you green.Green wind.Green boughs.The ship on the seaAnd the horse on the mountain.

Dan Green

What we do not get are the names of those people peering out from those lush, green trees.

Linda Larson

Here in Green Bay, there's a terrific need. But this is an opportunity for me to do something internationally and globally. And I feel like it's a calling.

John Daly

I three-putted 17 (from 30 feet) before the 72 holes was up, and the green on 17 was a lot quicker than any green all day,

David Cole

There is a increased realization that a green revolution is about to begin, ... This is a real shift in technology.

Ernesto Zedillo

I will not permit these homes to be rebuilt in the same places,

Alex Inglethorpe

He is homesick and wants to stay away. I am disappointed, but the South West is not for everyone.

Freida Pinto

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Scott McDonald

All three homes were destroyed, ... There were not a lot of things taken. A lot of things that could have been taken that weren't.

Jim Shelton

This is a lot of infrastructure to put into place for the number of homes we are going to see for the next five, 15, 20 years.

Mark Solomon

The homes aren't properly secured. The locks aren't strong enough or aren't properly engaged.

Thomas Lee

Not necessarily. There are seasonal homes, and some things that look like homes are actually businesses.

Keith Wilkins

That protects their habitat, but it also protects homes and businesses. That's a win-win for everybody.

Thomas Hamilton

The vast preponderance of nursing homes respond quickly to citations, ... necessary in only a small percentage of cases.

Tom Allen

There aren't as many unknowns. I want to maximize our players' strengths by being multiple.

Michael Strahan

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Brent Brede

They can really score and because they can really score, you've got to maximize your own possessions.

Debbie Ryan

A lot of people think it is important about starting, but it really isn't. It is about trying to maximize the talent that you have on your team.

Joanne Davis

They're trying to maximize what they can do out there.

William Lerach

They feel they want to maximize whatever recovery they can.

Timothy Noah

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

John Fithian

The reason movies are released in this sequential pattern is to maximize profit for makers.

Keith Trauner

We were quite vocal about trying to maximize value. We thought it was worth a lot more.

Anthony Warrens

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Devon Williams

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Woody Allen

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Jack Hughes

This park was not set up to preserve the mountains and the glaciers, it was set up to preserve the elk herd. It was originally Mount Olympus National Monument, to preserve the Olympic elk.

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Scott Kaden

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall.

Shannon Burns

We don't have mountains and aquariums and polished wood flooring,

Harvey Mackay

We will move mountains to keep the team here.

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Richard P. Feynman

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.

Richard Wilbur

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Russell Brand

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

Roz Savage

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

Roz Savage

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rose George

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Steven Sacks

You could do projection work onto these other buildings. You'd need permission, of course. Unless you own them.

Dave Hill

Damien will be watching on TV but it's not the same. That's why I've been out to watch Slavia. But if there is a problem he sees that we don't see, I'm sure he'll get onto us.

Marcus Aurelius

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Harland Williams

The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

Graham Cluley

The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers.

Jack Messman

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

Robert A. Schuller

I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

Mark Rosenbaum

Thousands of students are placed on uneven playing fields,

Bill Steele

Unlike soap or deodorant, which can be placed by marketing, shaving is very much performance.

Jannie Brenner

We placed second. This is the first year of the team, and today, we've got first- to eighth-graders here.

Glenn Fisher

We still have our sights set on the WCHA (title).

John Joly

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Maria Sharapova

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Virginia Woolf

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

Vincent D'Onofrio

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

Wong Kar-wai

We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

William Wordsworth

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

Sarah Palin

The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.