Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like Coach. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have. I was hoping we would play really well so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in.

Larry Scott

Historically this is a very significant development. We've had some very high-profile matches where momentum has turned based on calls. Now the players know the calls will be right.

Russel Honore

I think it's going to be a lower number, much lower than the 10,000. That 10,000 was based at a time when we didn't know what we didn't know.

Ken Hitchcock

It certainly wasn't based on anybody's poor play and that's what made it such a difficult decision.

Peter Franck

It comes from a time of optimism based on technology. It is a fake; it's clearly not an artifact.

Harvey Bennett

It is a lot of money, but law enforcement with their experience and expertise is used to making informed decisions based on their experience.

Andy Bryant

It is a classic seasonal fourth quarter. The change is that we had judged down from a seasonal fourth quarter based on macroeconomic indicators. It turns out we didn't need to do that.

Chris Watson

I think the jury came to the right decision based on all the facts in the case. I think they came back with the only verdict they could based on all the facts.

Joe Clark

I think the party is narrowly based. And a narrowly based party can't win a broadly based country.

Kristen Swanson

Her sadness scares her, and it scares the heck out of him. It builds on itself.

Scott Kennedy

I think it's a strategy. They'd rather be done early and be working on next year's class now. I think it kind of builds on itself. The earlier you get done one year, the earlier you get to start on the next.

Bobby Jones

He was feeling it tonight and that builds your confidence up. That has a lot to do with it. This was the most 3's I've seen him shoot in a game. He shot it so confidently and he knew it was going in. It just looked nice. Once you get that rhythm and feel, the game just seems like everything is open for you. Everything comes easier.

Michael Kalen

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Ian Gold

You win one like that and it builds our morale, builds our confidence, ... We know there are things we need to get done. But the important thing always is you win. And we did.

Source Unknown

The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.

Kevin Garnett

These games that you win you learn from. It's just that a learning lesson. It builds confidence and character, and hopefully we can carry it over.

Carmine Colace

Not too much went right for us. The other kids got the first takedowns, and once someone gets that he just builds momentum.

Clifton Lee

Any time you can go into one of those big-time colleges and pull out the win or come close, it builds your confidence. You start thinking about how many points you can win by, instead of how many you might lose by.

Viola Spolin

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

William J. Clinton

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

Riccardo Muti

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

Red Auerbach

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Robin Hayes

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Robert Venturi

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

Robert Motherwell

What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.

Robert M. Hutchins

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Sarah Zettel

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Jeff Allen

I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.

John Sunderland

I suspect in due course they will reach a fruitful conclusion.

Rich Beem

Guys skipping this event to go prepare for next week -- are you kidding? This is the perfect course to set up for Augusta.

Hank Bontrager

Golf courses don't really want us very much. But some of them are so generous for letting us play there.

Dick LeBeau

He's a lot faster runner than you would think for a man of his dimensions. But his real strength of course is anchoring and inverting the line of scrimmage and letting us play around him.

Ernie Accorsi

He's got great numbers, considering his injuries, ... If he's healthy he's on a course for a big-time career.

Duffy Waldorf

His shots go so far that they're hard to follow. But I think this course plays well to everyone, whether you're a short or long hitter. If you get on with your irons and putt, you have a good chance.

Serena Williams

I think it's great, I'm actually rooting for her - unless of course she plays me.

Scott Lukas

I think it's an important opportunity to offer a course like this.

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Howard Lee

We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.

Phil Klay

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

Robert Iger

I am encouraged by the solid momentum in our earnings and the financial and creative strengths that underpin these results.

Kevin Fay

I am always looking for creative land deals, but it is not going to happen at that site.

Richard O'Brien

I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

William S. Burroughs

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Alain Vigneault

I know this group and they've got to be looking at the standings. You've got to be motivated and sharp to play these games. I think we're going to be fine.

Teresa Jones

I know that we did lose some very talented players from last year's team, a group that had played together for a long time. (But) when you're on the outside looking in, you see things differently.

Dave McCoy

I knew this was a special group when I had them in junior high. And they've proven to be that." ()

Wayne Gretzky

I like how hard this team played (on the trip) and how unselfish it was. . . . We're playing as a group and that's most important. The outcomes have been better because we're playing better as a group.

Alan Trammell

I'm going to be flat-out: When we started the season, we thought we had a group that we were going to be able to grow and work with and try to get better,

John McCormack

The first group of songs which I give, on any program, are songs which I sing to please myself. They represent my musical taste.

Dan Caldwell

The group we met with seemed very interested.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Pokey Chatman

I learned a lot about basketball. I learned more about life.

Marcello Giordani

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

Elizabeth Miller

I learned what invasive species I have. Even in my own backyard.

Chris Lee

I learned to swallow my pride. Swallow it and walk away.

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Ray Stallone

Well, you have one problem with your rant. We didn't do it.

Mary Matalin

He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.

David Tom

I don't have any problem with it whatsoever, and I wish her well.

Keith Winkowski

I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit.

Shane Matthews

He'll probably throw it at me first, ... But I don't have a problem with that. I kind of like it.

Ron McBride

He never had a problem doing his running. He usually set the pace.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

James Hunter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

James R. Thompson

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

William Albert Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Yvette Nicole Brown

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

Wilfrid Laurier

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

Will Carleton

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

Vladimir Putin

Let us not forget that we have two governmental reserve funds: the Reserve Fund and the National Wellbeing Fund that represent together $100 billion.

Vladimir Putin

I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy resources, such as hydrocarbons, oil and now natural gas, petrochemicals on the one hand and textiles and footwear on the other] to a whole new level of economic cooperation. For example, we are working together on space programmes. Moreover, we are developing and soon will begin the production of a heavy helicopter. We are now tracing the plan for the creation of a wide-body long-range aircraft.

Walter Mosley

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

Yoko Ono

World peace is one project that we have to do together.