Famous Quotes & Sayings

BD Wong

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

If Alien was my friend, I'd like to be with him when he went to the dentist. When they started drilling, he'd probably go nuts and start eating everybody. That Alien!

Sharon Creech

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Howard Schultz

It's a great American story and I think it shows the entrepreneurial spirit, that the entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well,

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bobby Shelton

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

Bob Taylor

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Mark Fogel

Basically in the fourth quarter the offense just seemed to really click, pretty much that was the difference.

Olga Kurylenko

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Ned Riley

The focus point of the market this week is going to be tomorrow. If anything, I'm hoping for neutrality out of the Fed.

Ellen Glasgow

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...

Brad Soderberg

It's just disappointing. I don't really have good answers. ... Maybe I will (feel good about what the team has done) at the end of the year. I don't feel good right now. The quality of our play hasn't been good for two games in a row. That's my measuring stick. You focus on the quality and the wins come.

Hugh Johnson

It's encouraging, but let's not forget that the focus is on the third quarter and beyond, and that looks a little gloomier,

Jeff Tjornehoj

It seems to be that a lot of the focus is on what can go wrong, not what can go right.

E. Potter

It seems there is a lot less focus on money. Life there seems more relaxed.

Marcel Jones

It seems the problem with us. We didn't come out with our focus or our energy.

O. Henry

It seems like we've been practicing with more focus than before. Guys are really focused on their assignments.

Michael Redd

It's a serious time, and you've got to focus. But be loose and have fun. You're not going to play well when you're tight and the pressure's on.

Ryan Seacrest

You have been such a great spirit on this show.

Vinny Testaverde

You had a great career. Let's not take any more hits to the head.

Paul Lundberg

You have to give the kids credit. They stayed with it. This was a great win - just look at the crowd, the support.

Jonathan Cheechoo

You have to get the puck to him, he's a great player.

Tim Legler

The Pistons always had great defense, but there were times where this team really had some stagnant periods,

Paul Laurence

When you play a team like St. X, you have to play your best, ... St. X is just a great team, so if we can just even keep up with them, we're pretty pleased. It means we're doing OK.

Dean Ween

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

Cory Yeoman

Wow. What a great game. This was two teams with tough kids that played their butts off.

Gilbert Arenas

We're stunned, too. We did a great job for a team that doesn't give up. We knew it was going to be a hard-fought game. We just tried to keep the pressure on. We were just hot tonight.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Ali MacGraw

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali Smith

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Alexander Grothendieck

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...