Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

George Hamilton

The skill development came along but we never quite came together as a team. It could have been because of the small injuries and other things along the way, but things just never clicked.

Ken Purdy

The subsequent phases will enable us to continue going south along Town Branch, with the ultimate goal of ending the trail in the vicinity of Felts Park, ... This will definitely give area residents an opportunity to get out and get some exercise.

Dan Miceli

I've been around young guys. I guess I get along in the clubhouse and with the bullpen guys. If I can help them in any kind of way, I will.

Rebecca Ferguson

I've always been interested in beauty. I studied it when I was 16 and 17, and I know it's a good idea to invest in something alongside my music.

P. James

I waited so long for this, I'll keep signing all day if they want. The process has been rough along the way, but it's all over with and it feels good to be a Texas Longhorn.

John Collins

The museum should boost Swansea by turning it into more of a destination. And along with all the other investment, it's really making local business much more confident about the future.

Robert Kabushenga

The Movement Secretariat along with other organs of this system will go into abeyance as soon as the multiparty system comes into operation.

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

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.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

David Akin

This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.

Michael Vaughan

This is so special to come to the palace, meeting the queen here and being here with all the rest of the boys.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Michael Nutter

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

Jennifer Baker

The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come to meet me for lunch.

David Calhoun

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Miley Cyrus

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

Alan Cranston

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

Al Franken

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

James Wolcott

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

Arthur C. Clarke

He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Daniel Kahneman

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Sylvester Stallone

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

Ross Perot

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Rush Limbaugh

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

Steven Soderbergh

The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.

Thomas Friedman

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Thomas E. Mann

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Robert James Graves

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Swami Vivekananda

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Tom Robbins

Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.