Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maynard Jackson

I look forward to working closely with the DNC under Terry's tenure, ... I look forward to continuing the focus I began in my campaign on rebuilding state parties, election reform and ensuring that no voter and no state is left behind.

Robert Lewis

The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd.

Dinaw Mengestu

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

Dinaw Mengestu

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.

Paul Engle

I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.

Pete Rose

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

Natasha Tsakos

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

Dick Armey

Our guys began to realize the opportunity we had,

J. B. Priestley

Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Drew Pearson

Now, we've got a good group of juniors and seniors, and they seem to be committed to doing the right thing.

Eric Kraus

Gillette is committed to making a difference by driving home the importance of knowing the risks of prostate cancer. Through our strong partnerships, we are executing on the theme 'Teaming up to take it on' to deliver the critical message to men about their health in an effort to reduce the prevalence of this disease.

Marquez Smith

From the day I committed here, that's all I heard.

Nick Saban

If a player isn't performing relative to the so-called investment that you have in him, sometimes you have to make tough decisions. We were committed to the guy. He was committed. If anything, I feel personally responsible that we didn't make it work with the guy.

Mike Johnson

If all 6,200 of us get to vote on it, then we would probably be a little more committed to it because we voted it in ourselves.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't think we were committed as much to the defensive side as we would have liked. That's why we lost.

Kevin Garnett

I don't sign anybody's checks, but you have to be committed and ready to play.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Tom Harris

I'll be honest, ... We always knew that was a low number.

Ricardo Volpe

In these three years, we have managed to make young players shine. Nobody knew them before and, now, everyone's talking about them,

Jean Chretien

I presume Mr. Martin knew what his lawyer was saying,

Rev. Desch

I kind of looked up to him as a man who had made up his mind, because he really knew what he wanted to do in life.

Joe Kernan

I knew Corky from the time we were kids.

Jane Jackson

I'm very lucky to work with people who knew what to do,

Chuck Tursky

I knew it was going to be a tight match. We needed every point.

Crystal Langhorne

I knew it was between us and Ohio State once I saw Tennessee was in, but it just didn't go our way.

Pierre Lafontaine

We're not really competitive yet, but we're sure getting there.