Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Joe Lobendahn

As an individual, my goal is, of course, to have more (tackles) than I had last year. I still need to get an interception -- that's one of my goals, too ... and a touchdown, too. Honestly, as a defense, you're going to see us running to the ball more, everyone just swarming the ball.

Mike McCue

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.

Bob Vetere

As a human, to just buy him a dirty old tennis ball is just not enough, even though he doesn't care. I feel better because I've given him something more than just a tennis ball.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch.

Scott Kinsaul

The Burt girl is a great ball player. She can shoot the three, she can drive and she can dish off. She is a complete player.

Ned Yost

The bullpen just struggled. They hit the ball hard and they found the holes.

Dusty Baker

The bullpen hasn't gone the way we scripted. Guys were going two innings and you can't use them the next day. They told me Aardsma was throwing the heck out of the ball in Triple-A.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Gus Van Sant

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Gary Helmig

Competition is a much bigger factor than they're acknowledging in the press release.

Charles White

Companies need to get bigger so they can be competitive because there is no real pricing power.

Dan Gable

Coach Gable is the spokesman for wrestling in the United States and there?s no bigger name in the sport than his, ... It was significant for our program to get the kind of exposure we need to present to the wrestling community not only on the local level but all over the country.

Roger Kubarych

Companies use language that's worked in the past, so prospectuses become bigger and bigger mountains of words,

Steve Gervais

Cody's by no means peaked. I just see a young man who's going to grow and get bigger and better. He's got a lot in front of him.

Michael Sheldon

Despite the Democratic National Convention, the biggest story of the week has been energy prices. That's prevented the market from seeing a bigger rally off these oversold conditions.

George Perkins

Any place there was a crack no bigger than my little finger, they were coming in. That place was eaten alive,

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Philip Virgo

The big raids will be for project management staff so you need to ensure these staff are content and that means providing clear career paths and training opportunities. Many firms haven't been doing this because over the past few years they haven't felt the need to, but that is going to change with all these public sector projects.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

A.J. Burnett

As long as we go to the playoffs, that's all I care about. I'm going to do what I can to get us there.

Stephen Arscott

As long as we continue to do our job, take care of our clients and make sure we're giving excellent customer service to the contractors that drive their clients in here, it'll take care of itself.

Robert Cullen

As long as we continue to do a good job, our reputation will take care of itself.

Jamie Sharper

As long as we are producing or winning games, that's all I care about. But I do want to get a 10-tackle game sometime soon, and, of course, get on the sack board.

Geena Davis

As an Independent, she has no party backing, ... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

Michael Gibson

As a direct result of his lack of leadership in this regard, fine revenues were down approximately 20 percent this last fiscal year, which causes a financial hardship on the city and our citizens, not to mention a safety hazard for his failure to properly enforce our traffic laws,

Christine Albertus

Realize what causes hearing loss and use common sense. If you're exposed to loud sounds, use ear protection.

Kary Mullis

People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.

Justin Baldoni

People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Steve Simmons

Any kind of glitch causes problems that send tremors through the whole industry.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Glenn Kroll

The situation was what it was. It didn't cause me to stop being friends with him.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Tom Rosenstiel

Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Frank Anderson

Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.

Mac McArthur

These prospective locations are farther from homes than the locations in the past. We're very sensitive to that concern.

Carl Icahn

I have never called Dick Parsons a moron. I don't think Dick Parsons is a moron. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

David Hill

We have some people here who think it goes back farther than that, but 33 years is all we can document.

Jeff Matthews

For the most part, what we're seeing is folks are ... selling their houses down in Montgomery County, moving farther west and making that commute down (Interstate) 70.

Johnny Walker

I am kind of excited, but I don't want just that. I want to go farther than that.

Andre Roy

I had to do something. (Neil) said, 'Your guys are running our guys.' I told him, in the playoffs, that's the way it'll be. You better stop whining and get used to it. The farther you go in the playoffs, the rougher it gets.

Winston Churchill

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Grady Sizemore

Throughout the at-bat, I just kept going farther and farther, ... I wanted to see how much they would let me have before they stopped me. They never did, and I told Skins, 'I can take this.'

Bobby Frasor

We had expectations of making it farther than people thought we ever could have made it. We even said we could win the whole thing -- that's how good we were playing. It just wasn't in the cards.

Dan Starkey

(Baker) got his feet set and he hit the shot with confidence. We were fortunate we hit some big shots down the stretch.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Daniel Kerr

Now I've got 3 feet of water, so I can't plant.

Ben Crenshaw

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

Charles Kennedy

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Ari Fleischer

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

Daniel Handler

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Bret Easton Ellis

And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Jim Calhoun

On the way down here, it was just a really happy team. They really felt they played well. ... It's going to be a different kind of game (tonight). Over the next 24 hours, at the team meeting (Sunday) and at the shoot-around (today), we'll get an opportunity to really tell them. With only six games to go, there is significance to the game.

Mark Drown

(After the first goal) we go back to the Nike commercials where we try to out-dribble everybody. At halftime, I told them, 'Do you wanna go try out for the Nike commercials?' . . . I told them to keep it simple, and I felt like we did that in the second half.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.

John Dern

The name (World Headquarters) had a higher level of importance than was felt appropriate.

Delta Burke

Actually, I think it's interesting that when I put the weight on, I was already with him. I don't know, maybe I felt safe. And he likes me like this. He likes me whatever size I am.

Robert Edwards

Actually, I felt good in practice, I moved around well, but I think he (coach Don Mathews) told me that they're holding me out,

Beth Puchtel

Dreaming. Numb. Totally numb. We walked out and said, 'What just happened?' He just obviously felt like a million dollars.

Ike Whitaker

Definitely, in the short time I have been with the team I felt like I have done enough.

Charles Adams

You peel the back of the tape off, so when you go around the door, it seals those gaps off.

Michael Greco

There are some significant gaps in people's knowledge,

Craig McCaw

Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.

Richard Cobden

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Jean Piaget

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

Del Ruiter

I said it all season long, we don't have many outside shooters. Therefore, we have to work it around and see if we can find the gaps in the zones and work it on the inside.

Arsene Wenger

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

James E. Faust

The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

Gerald Celente

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

Chairon Isenia

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

Marc Guggenheim

As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.

J. J. Abrams

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

David Johansen

Arthur, be a good Latter-day Saint, do your job, and everything will be fine.

Stan Kroenke

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.

Mark Johnson

The Buckeyes lose all their linebackers to graduation. So there is a good opportunity for me there.

John Purtteman

The big thing now is there were a lot of good pieces in place, and now it's keeping them on board. Tom did a great job.

Tom Izzo

The Big Ten's going to miss Dee Brown. He's good for this league. He doesn't talk it, he walks it.

Donald Rumsfeld

A very smart weapon, a good weapon might work 85 to 90 percent of the time. The rest of the time it doesn't work right. Now that's a very good percentage, ... But it means that there is one out of 10 that is not going to do what it was intended to do.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Jason Kubel

No problems at all to report. It hasn't been sore in a long time.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

David Freeman

You're trying to put all of this in to solve problems you caused.

Scott Bullock

Blight 50 years ago entailed serious problems and neglect,

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

Valentino Castellani

We are very satisfied and committed. We don't have any structural problems. Everything is working. ... We will have always some small problems to solve. What is important is to solve them quickly.

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Aziz Ansari

I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"

Demi Lovato

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

Daniel Handler

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Blaise Pascal

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Brad Williams

I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

Barry Gibb

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Brian Greene

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

David Nicholls

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Donna Reed

Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

Ernie Roberson

These new registrants are everywhere; they're spread all over the state.

Katsuhiko Machida

The old way of doing things was just spreading us too thin.

Tony Blair

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Angela Ross

We're all spread out now. We just come here - it's just like she was Big Mama.

Winston Churchill

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

John Vaji

If you let them get up on you, they?re going to spread you out.

Rick Sparks

True. I just wish they could spread it out a little more.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,