Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.

Eric Moulds

He knows a lot of veterans want to win now. The window is closing on the guys who have played 10, 13, 14 years. For me, every game counts now.

Eric Phillips

Her prowess in the closing days was a reflection more of the public's increased confidence in her candidacy than it was any increase in time spent raising money.

Dwight Rawlings

I thought we really played them well, but we had some costly turnovers in the closing minutes which really hurt us.

David Pierce

I was closing up my parents' house this summer, and found a film of my dad throwing a football with me in the front yard. It was like Niles as an 8-year-old-every time he threw it, I'd drop it or it would hit me in the head.

Peter Smerdon

What is a very limited window of opportunity to avert mass suffering in Kenya is closing very fast.

Bobby Cox

We've given Kolb a crack at it, Reitsma a crack at it, and of course, Farnsworth was closing in Detroit. We'll get it worked out. I still think Reits can do it.

Pat Riley

I thought we did a great job at the end of finally closing down and creating some misses.

David Forst

He has exceeded any expectations you would have for someone less than a year out of the draft. Certainly, we probably expected a little more out of him because of the person he is and because of his background, and we all went into spring training hoping he would be ready to contribute at some point this year, but never expecting he'd be closing games in June.

Jody Grove

We must have our freshmen step up and contribute to the team right away. We must keep working everyday to get better.

Michael W. Smith

I don't contribute very often and very easily. I really do fervently think he can (win).

Dijon Thompson

I just hope to come in and contribute to get the championship. That's the most important thing, to get the championship in my rookie year. That would be great.

Robert Plant

I'm very, very pleased to contribute in some form or another,

Adam Cole

I'm a rhythm player, and once I find it, I can contribute offensively.

Gene Jr

I have to go to work where I contribute to my health care.

John Mackey

I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.

Ralph Klein

I'm reminding them to look at the big picture, at what we contribute to the Confederation,

Tracy Campbell

I'm really pleased with the younger swimmers who have come out because they are working really hard and in about two or three months they will be able to contribute to the team in some way. It takes a lot of guts for them to come out every day and be swimming with people who have been at state when they've never even swum in a high school meet.

Brian Martz

I wouldn't say exceeded (expectations) yet. We're still getting there. I would say we've had some young kids, ninth and 10th graders, on our team that have really increased our quality depth.

Phil Goldstein

What you really have is a rogue agency. So many people give the SEC such wide latitude, but they have exceeded (their) legal authority.

Michael Trombetta

He exceeded our wishes. It got him here.

Georg Hackl

I'm too old to race further. I have exceeded the expiration date.

Scott Kessler

It was just a matter of time before the expectations exceeded the results.

Martina Hingis

I've exceeded my own expectations and am happy to be playing good tennis once again.

Rick Waugh

We had another year of record results and exceeded all of our 2005 targets,

John Challenger

The job-cut numbers in 2001 far exceeded anything we ever could have anticipated back in January.

Nandan Nilekani

A big part of Bangalore's problem is that growth has exceeded everybody's wildest expectations.

Terri Johnson

Kirby is playing really well for us. We expected him to play at this level, he just got a late start with football. That three at the end of the third quarter was huge.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Dawn Staley

GW did have a run in them, and we expected that. We were up by eight, and then a minute and a half later, it was gone.

Susanna Moore

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Jim Calhoun

He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.

Douglas Muzzio

His withdrawal from the race was totally typical of the campaign. He was outside the box. Nobody expected this.

Mike Piazza

I think it's important for the teams that aren't expected to be competitive to be competitive for the good of the sport. For players of Italian descent, it's a small sort of way of thanking Italy for our forefathers and mothers.

Nate Harris

I thought we responded great. We expected things like this to occur and the guys have responded and played well.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

James Johnson

I suspect that most people, on balance, had been expecting a referral,

R. Robinson

It bounced right into me. I wasn't expecting it.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

Andrew Davies

It is a fascinating period, but people are expecting miracles - and miracles just don't happen, ... We have to be realistic about how fast we can change.

Mario DeRose

I think the market is expecting a slight increase and so if they don't do anything, I think you'll see a sell-off. If it's increased more than expected, you might get a little pick-up -- but it's keeping the market a little on edge.

Julie Mattson

I think their pressure did get to us. We weren't expecting it. We had kind of that deer-in-headlights look.

Mike Greene

We thought we were going to have a good team for years to come. We didn't have a lot of old guys then. But we weren't expecting the injuries.

Yvonne Hester

We are expecting to surpass 3,000 permits in this year.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Ian Thorpe

I think I should retire after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Mark LeRose

He keeps us in games. He's really stepped up recently and made a statement.

Will Blalock

There are some winnable games from here on out. Hopefully we can make something out of nothing and make a run toward the NCAA.

Tadahito Iguchi

There are six games left in the series so we don't have to feel disappointed, ... We can make this series interesting if we start playing our style of baseball.

Mike McKenzie

The only thing that is going to be normal for us this season is playing games on Sundays and Mondays. Other than that, nothing is going to be normal.

Phil Garner

What worries me is that we've had three games that are pretty much stinkers right here lately,

John Herrera

He knew the structure. I knew him, and I was hoping he would come up and provide a kind of moral support, and I would teach him the personnel side.

Ron Gardenhire

He likes to play and he'll play through anything, so when he has to sit out, you know he's hurting. That's a little scary. I'm just hoping it's not a lingering thing.

Jon Gruden

He's distraught, he's nervous, he's uptight about this, as he should be. ... He's put a lot into this. We're just hoping he can come through this better than maybe we anticipate.

Dennis Ruedinger

He seems to be doing all right. We're hoping by (today) he'll be able to do some light workouts and get some shooting in. It looks like he'll be on pace to do that. We'll be able to go pretty solid on Wednesday and Thursday with him.

Peter Davenport

I thought we played very well, a big improvement and I'm hoping that things are starting to click,

Eugenie Scott

Lawsuits, from my standpoint, are a sign of failure. We're hoping the lessons of Dover can be communicated throughout the rest of the country.

Cliff Reed

I was waiting, hoping for the day this happened.

James Blake

I was just hoping to make it a match.

Brad Arnsberg

He was outstanding. We're hoping for a rehab start next Tuesday or Wednesday. Today he looked good, threw all his pitches (about 65), looked strong.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Karel Poborsky

I do not see any reason why I should be less prepared than in a top-flight team.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Roy Wright

I think we?re getting to a point of equilibrium. I think we?re getting back to the norm.

Tania Zaetta

I think at any point you go it's disappointing because everyone would like to make it all the way through,

LeBron James

It got to a point where it was kind of mental. I've got to regroup.

Houston Nutt

It has been a strong point being able to come out and run the football,

Yorvit Torrealba

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Sasha Cohen

It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my time will come. I just have to be ready for it.

Mike Greene

Hamburg?s not going to show us anything we haven?t seen. I think we?re well-seasoned and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

Barry Alvarez

He runs through a lot of tackles. He's a very strong runner. You're not going to arm-tackle him. You'd better be ready to gang-tackle him.

Terry Hill

He said he was ready to come home.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Thor Hushovd

It is about getting ready for Madrid. But for sure I will try to get a stage here first.

Peggy Fuller

We try to get them ready so they'll be successful in kindergarten.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Wordsworth

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

William Morris

There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.

Will Cuppy

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

Sanjay Gupta

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

William Hung

I have had no professional training.

Warren Cuccurullo

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

Van Jones

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

Zach Gilford

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training.

Paul Preston

The mannequins are cool. But it is only one training tool.

Emmy Rossum

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

Cheryle Simon

The volunteers don't need to know anything about golf. We have training for them.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.