Famous Quotes & Sayings

A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Bobby Bennett

Coal mining is probably one of the best jobs you can get around here.

John Bennett

Coaches are role models. They have to be. That's the way all are. For the kids outside of the classroom, they are role models. Everybody makes mistakes. We're not here to be judged. I wish him the best of luck. I know he will land on his feet.

Sarah Lowe

Coach always tells us it's not necessarily the team with the best players but the best team that wins. I think tonight you saw that. We don't have McDonald's All-Americans. We don't have All-Americans.

Allan Schweyer

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Matt Russell

Colin made the best save of the game. He's the reason we got the momentum going in our favor early in the game.

Brian Wallace

Coin laundries have an innate sense of community. People have a lot of time to talk while waiting for their laundry to get done. The best place to get a community perspective on current events is at the coin laundry.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Scott Silverman

One of the biggest changes we're seeing is more and more consumers are accessing the Internet from high-speed connections. Retailers are able to have richer and more robust features on the Web site.

Liz Eilf

I am really excited. This is our biggest entertainment event and it could generate some really good funds for community services.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Anthony Wall

I am thrilled because this is the biggest check of my career. I was pleased with the way I finished as I played a lot of good shots.

George Galloway

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known.

James Corden

BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall's 'Bad Education,' they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on TV. I think it should always be at the forefront of what is fresh and exciting, and therefore it should be the first channel to exist online.

Emily Hughes

I'm a little sad it's over. This whole experience has been so much fun actually, not knowing what to expect. It's been the biggest learning experience. It's my first Olympics and my first senior international. It's been a big step up from last year. I'll take a lot away.

David Knight

No one has disputed it. We want to be the biggest in the world.

Chris Probyn

This was a disappointing number relative to expectations and certainly consistent with the idea that consumer spending is going to be a much smaller contributor to economic growth in the fourth quarter.

Paul Doyle

What did he run, about 30 meters in the first round and 40 or 50 in the second? You'll see a lot more out of him, he's really looking like he's going to do something impressive ... he's certainly looking like he's in sub-10 form.

Benn Steil

The purchase is certainly no bargain. That would suggest, to the extent they have ambitions for a significant merger, they are concentrating on the London Stock Exchange.

Khaled Hosseini

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

Tod Ruble

We haven't really found anything of the magnitude of this certainly not in Dallas. We're fully capitalized and will be starting all the construction on the site.

Ted Leonsis

We'll look at free agency, but I'm still trying to find where big free-agent signings can help the team. There's certainly no magic wand to wave and the team gets instantly better, but I like the way we're playing and I like the way the players have responded to our coach.

Greg King

Last year was the first time in about nine years we haven't made the playoffs. That's certainly a motivating factor.

Dan Wilson

Certainly the '95 season was at the top of the list, the emotions day after day. All those things we went through were things you never forget. It was just a feeling of accomplishment, coming back from so far back to tie at the end of the season.

Ryan Ford

Certainly it was big win and we're disappointed that we didn't get two. But going into this weekend, we're still in this thing.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Chuck Tursky

I knew it was going to be a tight match. We needed every point.

C.C. Sabathia

I knew I hadn't pitched out of the stretch, but I wasn't thinking about a no-hitter.

Michael Oster

I knew I didn't want to do that forever. I was 26 years old and needed something different, an unusual challenge. So I moved to Western Europe.

Chris Hernandez

I knew I didn't have much time, that I had to take a step and let it go.

Deirdre O'Kane

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Cilla Black

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.

Chuck Darby

I knew he was special from the first day when he took over the huddle. The huddle, that?s the linebacker?s house.

Elliott Ambrose

I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.