Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

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.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

James Hardway

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

John Sarbanes

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

Michael Ward

The special prosecutor basically supported what we had told the Board of Elections all along,

Rhett Miller

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.

Pete Carroll

The thing I like is that I'm in charge of everything, so I can structure things the way I like. I get to wear all the hats. There are a few guys in the NFL who have that opportunity, but not many. You basically have to win a Super Bowl.

Dom Capers

The thing I was the most disappointed in (Sunday) was basically the fundamentals of our team. Our tackling, our blocking, there were far too many penalties right now, it's a gut check and a character check for our team.

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Ping Chew

The budget should put the country's deficit reduction effort back on track.

Dick DeVos

The budget problem we can deal with, but let's get people in Michigan back to work. Having someone who understands the realities of business sitting in the governor's chair would make a big difference.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Earle Holley

The budget is going to be OK. We're not going to have a windfall of money, but we have resources.

Ron Faust

The budget hasn't kept pace with the need. We're doing more with less.

Russ Williams

No real changes in the budget coming from Frankfort will be reviewed; we'll only discuss any suggestions to be voted on at our June meeting.

James Klein

Companies want to be able to plan and budget for their pensions, and that's been hard in the current environment.

Sandy Miller

Despite the success of our efforts to increase productivity and rationalize costs, the impact of September 11th and the continued recession in the travel sector has left Budget Group with a level of non-vehicle debt greater than our operations can reasonably support.

Michael Barker

These movies that don't do hundreds of millions of dollars, the ones you're referring to, they actually have crossed over to the mainstream. They're not, they're just not doing blockbuster movie business. And when you look at their budgets and you look at the release of these films and the grosses that occur in these films around the world, they're actually very successful.

Maureen Kelly

Thank you very much for your entire budget.

John DePasquale

Right now we are in the escalation mode, and right now our budgets are absorbing that. We're still moving forward.

Lisa Snell

School districts are regularly complaining about the need for more money, and so they need to systematically go though their budgets and consider privatization and sharing services.

Bob Djurdjevic

These companies, in their own way, all are in trouble and cutting back their capital spending and budgets, and that's why the IT services vendors are feeling the pinch as well, ... That cannot be said of the small and medium-sized enterprises, which is typically Sun's bread-and-butter marketplace.

Carolyn McLaughlin

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

Charles Leonard

This will mean a significant decrease of monies in the budget.

Jack Mitchell

We're at 83 percent of our budget. I'm sure we'll run over.

Judy Burns

This way, there will be some transition, and new principals will have input on budgets and what's going on at the schools next year, and the schools will get a chance to get to know them.

Gail Evans

The more credit you give, the better it reflects on you.

Cate Williams

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.

Steve Ricchiuto

Sales ex-autos were decidedly stronger than people had given credit for. This is an important piece of information on where the economy was prior to Katrina.

Chris Davis

I've been pretty lucky getting scoring chances, and I'd like to credit that to playing with Stephen Werner a lot. He gets the puck on my stick a lot. I've been lucky to be able to finish off some big goals for us here.

Mack Brown

I used to really worry about it. I used to fight it, and it used to make me mad and now I understand sometimes when you win one, you get too much credit and therefore when you lose one, you get too much criticism. I understand we're probably OK until next Saturday ... and then it probably will be I just can't win any one of them again, but that's all right.

Brandon Martin

I've never had a game like this in my life. All credit goes to my receivers. They just ran great routes, and when I had to scramble, they found ways to get open.

Tom Izzo

They are a never-quit team. I told my team when we were up 16 that they could come back. They deserve more credit than we do blame.

Craig Fields

They are a great second-half team. Give them a lot of credit. They are experienced in these situations and just know how to win.

Troy Schaefer

They are a good hitting team, no doubt about it. I thought Ryan had some of his pitches up today early on. But you have to give credit to their team.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Gore Vidal

This is not at all bad, except as prose.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Larry Bell

We ran really well, ... We worked them really hard Monday, looking ahead, except for one kid who wasn't there, and it's pretty obvious who it was. She had her legs today, and that was a big part of it.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

David Todd

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

George Hagerman

The technology has not only as much promise, but even more promise than wind energy.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Barbara Jordan

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Brian Tracy

The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.

Jane Yolen

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

Aristotle

A promise made must be a promise kept.

Kristy Curry

We will be better. I can promise you that.

E. B. White

We're going to win -- I promise you.

Andy Goldsworthy

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Arthur Helps

Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,