Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

Herman Frazier

No question, it can bring in money for us. But the most important thing about it is it eases the transfers of tickets between the fans, and it gets people into the stadiums quickly.

Rick Tolman

Normally we rely on a lot of it moving out down the river to export points as we bring the new crop in. In the short run they will have to build piles on the ground and hope that it doesn't rain.

Justin Torres

After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss for the... families,

Justin Torres

After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss, ... We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susans homecoming with the world.

Gretchen Dykstra

After September 11, many people around the world built temporary memorials and now it is time to build a permanent memorial to pay tribute to those who died and to bring understanding to future generations.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Charles Curie

These new data serve as a wake-up call to parents. Mental health is a critical part of the overall health and well-being of their children.

Marie Okabe

The Secretary-General calls on all Liberians registered to vote to do so in a peaceful and orderly manner, just as they did during the first round on Oct. 11,

Sam Sheppard

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

Fred Green

The strategy, in its simplest form, is to get what I call a disproportionate share of new people moving into the market.

James Dolan

The strategy didn't call for them to be this good this soon.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

John Sweeney

A record 53 percent of nonunion workers say they'd join a union tomorrow if given the chance - that's the highest percentage in 20 years. It is our job to reach out to them.

Scott Downs

A point of emphasis with us right now is that we do not have a virtual returning starter at any position. That's the way we want to go into spring drills. As a staff, we are now evaluating our players on the field. We've had a chance to observe them through winter conditioning, but now let's see where we're at as a football team.

H. Hart

Anything that's going to give me a chance is worth doing, ... Hopefully I can show them I can play some third and then find an everyday spot.

Herman Demmink

Any team we think has a chance to compete for a national championship needs to be able to take the show on the road.

Marsha Blackburn

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

Curtis Granderson

Any of the the 30 ball clubs have a chance at success, and the fans know that. It keeps everything exciting.

Mark Dennis

Any of these projects stands a better chance of going forward in the next year with an earmark. If not, we have to go back next year. There's always a push back that could occur.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Bai Ling

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Carson McCullers

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carol Burnett

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

Alan Garner

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

Bruce Lee

Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Sheila King

The team played very, very well. We played a 32-minute game and did what we needed to do from start to finish.

Sheila King

The talk after the game was playing for 32 minutes. And playing 100 percent for 32 minutes. I don't think we got that tonight.

Chris Spivey

The third quarter says it all -- it happened so quick. That was pretty much the meat of the game -- we got off to a good start, then got outscored.

John Gibbons

The thing about this game is that it doesn't wait on you.

Eduardo Najera

The thing about the fouls is that it slows the pace of the game and all the fouls just keeps us from running.

Romeo Crennel

The thing I've been talking to my team about is that even though it's Ohio, it's still one game and we still have a lot of games we're going to have to play after this one.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jon Oringer

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

Barclay Tagg

Probably good judgment and good sense would say not to run, but there is only one Kentucky Derby.

Chris Long

Personally, I can't wait until we start playing those quote-unquote 'good teams' that everyone says we haven't played yet. I think we'll do well. People are going to find out we have some very good players on our team.

Doug Liman

People used to want to see the same old thing, but nothing in the marketing of 'Stealth' made it seem truly original. All I remember from the trailer is the airplane, not the characters. And all I remember from the trailer of 'The Island' is the concept, not the characters. 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' 'Batman,' 'War of the Worlds': Those trailers were about characters. That's good for the movie business.

Herbert Greene

People turn it up on us and instead of going (forward), we start going backwards. That hurts us. And then we get where we can't get good shots.

Pam Richardson

People think things are working. So why not support the people who do a good job?

Gene Stamm

Our test scores are going up significantly. Teachers and principals are doing a good job.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Lee Humphrey

That's not a lineup that we've played with a whole lot during the year. But we kept the lead. That's what we wanted.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Greg Genske

I wouldn't say that. I'd say he's kept an open mind.

Judd Gregg

She was a very pleasant young woman. She might have kept it and for all I know it might have been the winning ticket,

Mike Ramsey

She's got no case. Never has and never will. If Ms. Pirro had kept her mouth shut, none of this would have happened.

Chamberlain Oguchi

Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was going to fall.

Dr. Beebe

Cheryl was my friend. She kept looking for me (whenever she didn't see me).

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Kathie Brown

Bob's got us on the right track now. I'm not sure Michael knew what he was doing.

Shane Koyczan

I was never meant to be this thing...

Nabil Sha'ath

He told me he meant everything he said in his speech.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Josh Harding

I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a lot for me that he was there.

Peter MacKay

This was not meant to be a slight to anyone.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Ronny LeMelle

Back then, we were like two different teams. We weren't setting screens. We weren't executing. Our offense was having problems.

Dominick Romero

We wanted to slow them down, to get them out of their offense a little bit. We're not going to play 'lights out' for 32 minutes, but this was just a good, steady 3A win.

Phil Simms

Did they time it up right? Is the offense the same, or will it take a step back?

Larry Allen

We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference.

Martin Luther

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Mark Smith

On offense we executed well and because of it we got off some quality shots.

Jimmy Smith

He's what makes this offense go. When he's back there, we're at another level.

Patrick Thornhill

I didn't have to play all 32 minutes, I was thankful for that. They ran the offense well.

Matt Kiefer

That zone really threw us for a loop. We didn't run our offense like we should. Then Horner just went off. He was on fire. There's nothing we could do.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Crystal Moore

I used to get in a lot of trouble and stuff, and I used to be into anything.

Brian Goorjian

Rowdy's (Sheridan) in trouble ... but I think C.J. will be OK.

Frank Dagostino

That's why we're not in the trouble of some of the other condos in the area.

Drayton McLane

You're going to get me in trouble with the commissioner (Bud Selig).

Brandon Sanderson

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Cardinal Richelieu

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Charles Barkley

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

Bruce Lee

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.