Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Bunyi

Oil will continue to be the backbone due to its sheer scale plus the rate of expansion envisaged. I'm not sure if this is enough evidence of diversification or conversely is it just evidence of the benefits of a booming oil sector.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mark Rubin

That's where the oil is. It's the best place to look for oil in the United States, and there's predicted to be more oil there than any other place that we can look for oil in the U.S..

Henry David Thoreau

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

Jane Yolen

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Jorge Posada

Randy is Randy and his power is incredible. But Wang has the best stuff in our clubhouse, no doubt. He'll be our No. 1 pitcher eventually.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Gary Scelzi

Running late tonight gave us a chance to run in perfect conditions, ... I know we won't have conditions like this tomorrow but we did learn that this racetrack can hold a lot more than we've been giving it.

Jeff Banks

Right now, Tyler is doing good in a lot of facets as far as pass protection. Matt's showing a different type of quickness to the hole since last year even. He's really running at a high level. And Marcus has shown some maturity. He knows everything he's doing, he's making the right reads. He's going to the right keys in pass protection. So that gives me a chance for our offense to be able to depend on him.

Richie Zisk

Realistically, when you have a chance at the end of the season to be playing for a championship -- if you get into the championship round, that's tremendous. But just to be in it at the end is what you really want to strive for. It's a lot easier to teach when you're in a competitive situation.

Bill Cowher

The run he made the other night was a classic example of being patient. It was an inside run that he ran inside. But when he has a chance to get outside, he knows what he has.

John Glenn

I've snuck up there and sat down a couple of times just to see what it feels like, I must admit, ... Would I like to have a chance to be in command of a flight sometime? Yes. But I think I am a little old for that.

Alexei Kovalev

I've said many times, ever since I got traded to Montreal, to give that guy room and give him a chance to play so he can show how good he is. You can see the talent, you just have to let it go.

Scott Peters

I've never seen most of the movies. A lot of them are older than me, so the class is a chance for me to see movies I probably wouldn't see otherwise.

Bruce Bochy

It would be fair to say Ryan is searching for his swing a little. With the nagging injuries he has had, he just hasn't gotten a chance to get locked in at the plate.

Shawn Ryan

Do we make it seem cool? I think we do. What we're trying to do is tell Eric's story. I think Eric is cool. ... I don't think there's a video game quality to our show, but I think there is something to be said for having a purpose the way Eric did when he spent his life in the military, for showing the sacrifices that these men and their families make.

Scott Bradley

Eric has been able to pitch a lot of solid innings for us.

Larry Brown

I did it with Rip ( Richard Hamilton ), Eric Snow . How many times do you get to see your team? And he's so current. He played with all those guys.

Michael Palin

And one of them turned to me, ... and said, 'Oh my God! Eric Idle!'

Mike Nolan

We have a lot of offense that we haven't done or shown because Eric has not been a part of it. It hurts, but he hasn't been with us this far.

Dave Brat

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Kyle MacLachlan

Walla Walla is where I make wine, with Eric Dunham. He and I partnered up on a small project for me. We make pretty good cabernet and syrah.

Gary Andersen

When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on and the whole big picture. Eric has a very good grasp of the picture, of our whole defense. He's going to get the guys lined up in the right spots.

Ken Dunn

We're not a big team and we're not as physical, but we don't come up short on effort. Eric had a great game for us and everyone out there gave a lot of effort.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Rod Thorn

As far as we were concerned, we had a good season, with a real nice run at the end. But now, things start over.

Mark Rey

The supporters have been far quieter than the people who have found problems with it.

Kasey Chambers

I've lived more than most 25-year-olds ... but I still have a far way to go.

Kevin Correia

I've always liked starting better than relieving. That's what I want to do. As far as I'm concerned, that's the goal of my career. I've tried relieving. If that's what I need to do, I'll do it, but I'm shooting to be a starter. I've done it for most of my career. I like being in the game longer. I'm a 'feel' pitcher. Once I get through the first inning I feel better, and I work off that. A relief pitcher, one inning is all he gets.

Corey Ostman

AFC is as far away from high tech as you can get. At the moment that's a good thing.

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.

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.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Paul Kariya

Defensively we didn't do a very good job. But over all it was just lack of a 60-minute effort.

Mark Francis

Defensively we did a good job. I thought we had a good performance all around.

Kraig Clifton

Defensively we did a good job. But offensively, we just weren't smooth. We had turnovers and didn't execute.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Paul Allen

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

J. J. Johnson

The thing about Mike is he's so explosive. And he's going to make plays because he's got great quickness and great pad level.

Vic Wolffis

The thing about Kyle is that you can't say he hasn't only looked for himself. He's done a great job of getting other people involved. We've done this as a team.

David Whyte

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Jim Dixon

The hotter and sweatier you are, the better it tastes.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Terry Hall

There were more hotel rooms in our town than we had people.

Andre Owens

We're looking for a win, because we want to be as hot as we can be going into the tournament. We have to look at it that way.

Oliver Cromwell

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking

Henry Renteria

That phone call, or registering on line, is a key step toward getting help.

Eddie Van Halen

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Drew Carey

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Susan Cain

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Phil Jackson

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

Richard Gere

What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find things that are parallel or resonant in the work that I have done.

Eugene Levy

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

Francis Chan

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Dick Jauron

You have a veteran quarterback in Kelly, who is comfortable with his game. J.P. is a young quarterback and plays like one. ... He needs to be better for what he went though last year.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Russ Diamond

It's been over a month now, and the voter outrage is still going strong.

Matt Meinrod

It's seems like every time, people want to see how I've come back from an injury. Considering I only had a month of workouts, I'm happy.

Jim Tracy

Then, it'd be interesting to see what we'll have going into the month of September.

Tom Daschle

That report is now a month overdue, ... We don't yet know what the administration's official position is as a result of their unwillingness to share a report with us.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

Marissa Cook

I can?t look at state yet. It?s not here. I have to concentrate on playing my game.

Jaromir Jagr

Hopefully, I can keep playing like this in the Olympics. And hopefully, I can be even better for the Rangers after the break.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Mariano Zabaleta

But in the second he started playing really good,

Henrik Lundqvist

It was one of the most important saves of my career.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Demetri Martin

There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T.

Clive Woodward

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

Brian Dawkins

I'm playing this game because I'm blessed and want to help this team win the Super Bowl, ... At the same time, I want to be considered the best safety that has ever played the game.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Yani Tseng

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.