Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Jackson

We've always hoped that Page 2 would be a destination for people who wanted a good laugh and didn't take sports too seriously. Much of that was accomplished through parody, so it seemed natural that we'd be drawn to a product like the Onion. I think we've always had an admiration for what they do, and when we talked to the folks at the Onion, we found out that admiration was mutual.

Birdman

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

Mark Cuban

This is a chance for these servicemen and women to feel the admiration and respect of 20,000 people, reinforcing for them that we as a nation feel grateful for what they have done for us.

Arto Lindsay

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

Buck Showalter

They're an impatient group, and I say that with admiration. Mentally, our guys are in a great spot and a great frame of mind about what they want to get out of this season as individuals, and more importantly, as a team.

Dilma Rousseff

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

John Howe

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Jimmy Vasser

The Rolex 24 At Daytona is a great race with a lot of history and to compete in it with GAINSCO/Blackhawk Racing is a great opportunity for me. I am proud to be a part of the All-American lineup with talented young drivers like Alex and Rocky. I grew up in admiration of the success of both of their fathers. It will be exciting to race with them, and Bob as well, who proved in his rookie year last season that he's got what it takes.

Auguste Rodin

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

Larry Brown

We started out good. We all talked about respecting them with Allen out. We had a seven-point lead and then we just completely wilted. We had a lot of guys that didn't bring it to tonight and they had a lot of people that brought it.

Mark Mears

We started off a little slow, but I thought the guys wrestled well. Outside of Allen (Park, at 119), everyone's still in it. We've got nine guys still wrestling, and five in the semis.

Nayvadius Cash

G-Rock from the Westside, from Allen Temple. He gave my name, The Future; he was like, 'Man, you the future.' Just stuck with the name.

Maurice Cheeks

We have to get other guys involved. We're not just trying to win games with Allen and Chris doing all the scoring.

Colin Trevorrow

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.

Jack Bicknell

We're basically back to where we were last year. Matt Kubik will start based on the fact he played the most last year. Donald Allen will play early on and we'll leave it at that and see where we go from there.

Howard Inch

They tied Allen Park in their match, but won it on a fifth-man tie-breaker. They're still a really good team, but our kids are figuring out that, if you play really well, you win, no matter who you're playing.

Larry Sabato

They're watching, ... Warner has the responsibility as party leader to come up with someone who can give Allen a run for his money so Allen has to spend down the millions he's accumulating for his all-but-announced presidential bid.

Ron Smith

It's tough to make the distinction between poetry and well-written prose. Is James Joyce's Ulysses a poem or is the more prosaic poetry of Allen Ginsberg really prose?

Madhur Bhandarkar

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Sean Duffy

The other team is trying to set up a straw man with Tim, but I doubt anyone here is going to be running around talking about Dr. Dobson, and his name ID is higher. I'm hoping we can talk about the issues and not have this dueling.

Al Goldman

The performance of the major stock averages didn't make anyone happy in 2005. But when you consider what the markets had to contend with, treading water is not so bad.

Susan Levy

We appreciate anyone coming forward to helping us get my daughter home.

Chris Donlay

We applaud law enforcement for bringing this man to justice. We think this case will send a strong message that we will pursue anyone who tries to do something like this.

Doug Scott

We've accumulated more than 40 awards for F-150 over the past two years. We simply know truck customers better than anyone else.

David Sowerby

We started the year at $42-a-barrel oil - that was a concern, but we could get past it. When we crossed $60, I don't think anyone could question what $60 is going to do to retail sales.

Keith Harrington

West Rutland's defense is excellent. I thought we played pretty well in the second half but our shots just weren't falling. They did a better job than anyone has on Marcy.

John Hoch

We struggled early in the year, there's no doubt about it. But we've been as hot as anyone in the tournament. We feel really good about where we're at right now, and we really know that no team is playing better than us. When you're playing really confident, that's a big weapon to have.

Fisher DeBerry

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Peter Cardillo

The perception is turning toward the fact that the economy is slowing and we can still continue to grow even if the economy grows at 5 percent.

Scott Kessler

The point is that Yahoo continues to invest very, very significantly in this area, and is doing good things, and will continue to do good things, which steps up the pressure.

Adam Ereli

Until and unless we can be sure the food we give is really going to those who need it, then we can't continue to provide aid.

Peter Kelly

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation's trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

Mark Guibert

We are precluded by law from discussing the substance of that exchange. RIM expects to continue communications through that channel.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

William Shakespeare

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

Nate Parker

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Ashlee Smith

We're going to get pushed harder and learn more and be able to excel more in high school and college, be more prepared for the world out there.

Patrick Kane

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Kathy Harper

We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from the lap belt, to thoracic injuries from the shoulder belt.

John Chandler

With no rain, it was like playing on concrete. We haven't had any injuries - this was a preventative measure.

Roy McFarland

We're getting injuries left, right and centre. It seems we're struggling to get 11 on the field.

Ken Holland

With the new CBA, injuries are really going to take a toll on teams even more than before.

Simon Gagne

It's tough news to take right now, especially with the start I have had and everything was going well. Right now, we're going through so many injuries and my turn came.

Jeremy Reed

It's one of those injuries that probably won't be completely 100 percent. But I feel good.

Chan Gailey

It's OK. It's not where it needs to be. Most of that is because of injuries and not having enough time playing together.

Gordon Eakin

We played a lot of players that we usually don't play because of injuries in the second game, but I'm disappointed that we couldn't pull of the second win.

Stephen Schwerdt

Sometimes these type of injuries are frustrating and more time is needed to get it right. We will now back off his training for two weeks and then reassess.

Catherine Bell

We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.

John Dickerson

It's just a matter of time now before he leaves the race.

Gene Strusz

It's kind of a sad day when they all leave after 14 days.

Peter Smid

A man would tell her how much (marijuana) to leave in the room,

Johnny Damon

They know it's a business. They know I wasn't the first to leave and I'm not going to be the last.

Rabbi Zell

They took leave of us doing what they loved. They took leave of us traveling.

Linda Barrabee

For ESPN, it means trying to get people to leave another carrier, and the way to do it is with something different. The market is primed for differentiation.

Thomas Hood

For here I leave my second leg, / And the Forty-second Foot.

Sheldon Yourist

They didn't want to leave until the project was done.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Ben Whishaw

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

August Strindberg

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Michael Moriarty

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Jim Boeheim

We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Jared Dudley

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

Wendy Mead

They play as a team and pick each other up.

William Cotton

They have a right to pick and select who they want...and that's what I'm sticking by- their decision.

Sam Smith

This has been a long process. You have to be patient. Whether someone picks me or not, you just have to want it.

Kelly Herndon

They tried to run a pick play on me, but I read it right and went underneath.

Brad Hawpe

It's not like we're going to sit here on this one and rest on that for a while. We've got to pick back up on Wednesday and come back at them and keep grinding. Because we battled today.

Amy White

They are picking things up really fast. Things went really well.

Alonzo Mourning

It's an unfortunate circumstance. But if I had to pick a time to get injured, I'd have picked this time, before we go into the post-season.

David Brody

It's a little overwhelming for her, ... but she's picking up phrases very easily.

Paul Woolpert

We've proven we can win on the road, now we have to prove we can win at home.

Michio Kaku

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

George Smitherman

We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.

Ron Cosner

She has proven she can probably steal on anybody.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Dave Martin

I think GamesRadar.com still has a lot to prove. IGN and GameSpot.com have proven traffic and a successful format.

Jason Taylor

I don't know that we've proven anything yet. I think we took a step in the right direction.

Travis Ramsey

He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.

Patricia Marx

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

John Chambers

This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

Takashi Sensui

There is no real success for the Xbox unless it proves successful in Japan.

Hiltrud Breyer

There's not a single long-term study which proves there are no risks.

Michael Bailey

What it proves is it's not completely genetic. They have the same genes.

Azzam Tamimi

If the tape is genuine, then this proves what we have been saying all along,

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Bayan Jabr

I will punish them if (an investigation) proves they are responsible for any violations.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Sean Hayes

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Julia Mancuso

We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.

Kent Davison

About time we get one at home, don't you think? It is sort of crazy.

Pete Doherty

It's just some sort of mistake, that's all,

Peter Diamandis

For me, it's sort of a remembrance of 'Star Wars' pod racing.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Charlotte Observer

After all, it takes 18 to 20 years to 'grow a child.'

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Tom Kloza

The wheels are in motion. It just takes a while for it to deluge into retail.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Hines Ward

Each and every day, Jerome is always teaching me something, what it takes to be a professional athlete. That's why I want to win it more for him than for myself.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Emmanuel Soupre

We'll be very vigilant in terms of earnings.

James Bell

If I find any one of you violating the terms of this sentence, I'm going to put you in jail,

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Daniel Kahneman

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Simon Sinek

We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.

Ruth Bernhard

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Waters

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

John Stossel

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Mark Zuckerberg

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.