Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Jerry Colangelo

I've spoken with Shawn some time ago and he certainly indicated he wanted to be a part of this thing. He's the kind of individual and player who personifies what you want to represent you.

John Buckingham

These companies have tremendous financial ratings, and certainly their dividend is secure. These are slow, stodgy stocks that are going to reward you.

John Barth

These commodity costs are still something we're wrestling with, but it also gives us opportunities to have different discussions with our customers than certainly we could have had a year ago. We're in a very good position to continue to invest in that business.

Kacey Musgraves

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our buildup for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our build-up for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Jesse Owens

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

Rick Riordan

That's it, cupcake. You're going down.

Sri Aurobindo

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

No! I don’t want to Ouija, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see one tarot card or rune stone I’ll yack cupcake all over you. (Grace)

Mo Johnston

Magnificent. He's been magnificent all season. There is a door open now for the World Cup and I hope he's on it because of his performance here, not only tonight, but throughout his time here has been tremendous.

Sven Eriksson

I am thrilled by this hotel. We have a training pitch five minutes from the hotel and it is not too far for our World Cup matches.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

William Henderson

This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Greene

People are thinking about signing up at gyms, and everyone knows people make commitments and don't stay to them.

Mike Post

This is a total team effort, ... Everyone knows they are just one piece in the puzzle of getting supplies to victims, and they all know how important it is.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

Pete Murray

We had been playing solidly for 18 months, everyone knows how to play together,

Aristotle Onassis

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Kathy Bocock

Brittany knows right now that we're going to have to have her throw a lot of innings. Brittany has that mentality, so I think she's going to be OK.

Mike Thibault

Once we made that first run, they weren't able to match it.

Marcos Baghdatis

I've played him second round, third round, quarters. Now it's the final. So every day is different. I just go into the match and play my game, just try not to make a lot of mistakes, just try to make him play. I'll try to find a solution in the match.

John Corcoran

It was the pivotal match in the whole tournament and it was a big win for them and a big win for the team.

Bob White

It was very frustrating. The talent doesn't match the attitude.

Annika Sorenstam

That's just match play, ... That's what makes it so exciting.

Davis III

You see that in match play, and that's why we don't do it every week. It's a little too volatile to do it every week.

Lynn Beattie

We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.

Jimbo Davis

We've set a precedent that you've got to step up and match us if you think that you're going to win.

Shaharyar Khan

Even if something has been implied in any statement we will pursue it with the match referee.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Bobby Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.