Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Branch

King considered himself, first and foremost, a prophet,

Steven R. McQueen

Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.

Greg Warren

I would urge you to consider doing this now, while you?re putting in the new track you just spent $500,000 on because if you do it later, you are going to damage the track.

Denny Chin

I would urge the district attorney's office to give this a good hard look and, instead of worrying about protecting a conviction, consider dropping the matter entirely,

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Stanley Collender

Katrina could easily become a milestone in the history of the federal budget. Policies that never would have been considered before could now become standard.

Greg Raymer

is very good at figuring out his opponent. He knows when to bluff. I consider that one of his strengths.

Michael Walden

I think it can go down more and I think '06 will be a good year. The region is still considered one of the hot regions.

Natalie Land

I take it as a great honor. Just to be considered at that elite level is an honor for me. Being honored like that makes you want to prove that you deserve the award.

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Larry Rice

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

William Ellery Channing

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Walter Benjamin

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Toba Beta

If you say that you never lie in life, you honestly insult my intelligence.

James Park

I just see a lot of listless trading into the end of the summer -- there isn't much conviction,

Thomas Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

Jose Saramago

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Kathy McCartney

I was laughing with the kids. We started the district tourney, and we said our goal was to get to the state tournament. Now that we accomplished that, we want to win this thing.

Joe Murphy

Jake was total dominance on the mound. Brown's homer in the fifth was a big hit for us. It was a good district win.

Michelle Hewitt

I think it (playing the District over two days) is a good idea, especially since we were lucky enough to get a bye.

Mike Meeks

I think it'll be one of the most exciting district track meets we've had in a while. It's going to be a battle. I've got it where there's four teams that are going to score over 100 points and three teams scoring over 130. It's going to be fun.

Tommy Aldridge

It all starts with defense. The way this team turned it around from going 4-8 in district last year, I am as proud as any team I have coached.

Steve Lundholm

It always makes it nice when the team performs this well. I'm not surprised with the way they played. They have been playing better; I hope they peak at the right time with districts on Tuesday.

Kayla Hooper

Having to sit and watch the district tournament was hard, not being out there. But the girls won it without me and I was glad I could just come back and do what I could to help them (in the region).

Tim Casey

He's a winner, no doubt about it. There's a reason he's the district Player of the Year.

Tom Suelzle

I think it's going to be a good district tourney. If a team gets hot, anything can happen.

Jarret Stoll

Guys are dropping like flies. Hopefully one day will make a difference.

Mark Harnly

He's (Davis) tough, and he'd be real fun to watch if I was sitting in the bleachers and scouting, but he's not real fun when he's dropping 21 on you.

Buddy Bell

He's dropping a few pounds and starting to look better. He's got a ways to go.

Daryl Patton

I thought our receivers did a good job. I don't remember us dropping too many passes. It was fun. It was fun to play somebody else.

National Center

It has been dropping quite dramatically, ... It's one of the factors.

Peter Beutel

I think that's going to keep (gasoline and oil) prices from dropping dramatically.

John Hall

We made two passes, dropping our six bundles, and then returned for the seven-hour flight back home.

Brian Kilrea

He wasn't worried about dropping positions (in the draft). He just wanted to play, ... We never advertised it, but we know what he did.

J. Taylor

instead of dropping your hands down into the slot like so ...

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

John Fisher

I was like, 'You're kidding me. How could I be leading, not peddling a good portion of the course?'

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Shacoi Berry

I was kind of tired and I didn't warm up that good before the first match. I got a much better warm-up in before this last match and I wrestled a lot better.

Robert Crandall

I was looking for somebody who could operate effectively and had good personal chemistry.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Brandon Perkins

I was in the right place at the right time. The other side did a good job of containing, and (the quarterback) couldn't go anywhere. I just had to go get him.

Ben Sheets

I was in pretty good shape. I don't know how you could prevent it. It seems like it could happen at any time.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Dominique Holmes

I was kind of upset (about not being able to play much). I tried so hard to play on it, but I couldn't. That was disappointing to me.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Bruce Merrill

John is seen as a hard worker. He's really a low-key person. He's not a person that's been very controversial with issues. He's not a person you hear about in the media very often.

Lindy Ruff

J.P.'s looking real good. I like the way he's skating. We're going to start pushing him harder and harder, get him involved in more stuff.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Nick Greenwell

Kids are naturally going to react to that when it happens. You tend to want to pull up short and shoot 10-footers instead of 2-footers.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Frances McDormand

Here was a way to actually do it with other people, instead all by yourself with a book, ... Here you can get together, read a play, memorize it and put it on stage.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

E. Hicks

I wouldn't say it was a competition. We always pushed each other, whether I messed up or he messed up. It really didn't matter who started. We were working together.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

David Peterson

He's always been that way, ... It don't matter if he's playing ping-pong or throwing marbles. He wants to win.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Pete Carroll

Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia.

Michael Procopio

He walked straight into the recruitment office and he said, 'You don't have to give me any of your speeches.' He told them he wanted to sign up, and he wanted to sign up for the infantry.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Goldberg

Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Andrew Forman

We may just open our own transition office.

Stephen Bailey

He was in violation of policy. He was supposed to report (the incident) to my office. He did not do that.

Charlie Leonard

He was in the office at 7 a.m. this morning.

Ryan Holmes

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

Veronica Roth

You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?" "I changed my mind," I say. Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

Kurt Knauff

We're treating it, where we weren't treating it before. We were just protecting her.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Kate Fleetwood

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Mark Butler

There is a real urgency here and there is an irreversibility. Look at the waters here, there's no groundfishery left.

D. J. MacHale

I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Jan Egeland

We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

Paul Freeman

It's frustrating. It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking, ... It's worrying about those who are down there.

Carly Simon

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Author unknown

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

David Thomas

Worrying about anything but A&M right now is just foolish.

Peter Kinder

You can't be worrying about everything all at once,

Aaron Brooks

So I don't have concerns, but we can't be worrying about that.

Michelle Gomez

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'