Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Kiefer

As far as Marcus White goes, he did a good job for us, getting the ball in the basket and getting in good position down low.

Carolyn Porco

As far as I'm concerned, we just hit the ball out of the park. This is the Holy Grail of modern-day planetary exploration, evidence of liquid water somewhere else in the solar system.

Colleen Flynn

As far as a business owner, it's getting us all together and taking pride in our city. It's a very simple thing to do, and it'll increase your business, increase your employees -- the whole ball of wax.

Tom Hockenjos

As for the rest of the year, of course I hope we'll keep hitting then ball and the pitching matures. And of course, we want to improve that defense.

Dan Sullivan

As for the fumbles, we run to the ball pretty well and when you do that well, that's what happens.

Philip Hoffman

As a producer, as someone standing outside the film, we knew that the story wasn't going to shine (Capote) in the best of lights. What happens to him, and it's not pleasant, begins his downfall. This guy dies at 59, without writing another (long-form) book. So that's the story. We're just telling the tale of the events that got that ball rolling.

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Bobby Boswell

As a team, I think we're coming around now, and that's the important thing. I didn't expect to score a ton of goals in my first year, but we have guys who can put the ball where they want it. And if you know they're coming in and you know where to be, you've just got to finish them when they get there.

Tim Chapman

As a post player, she dominated. Her jumping ability, her post moves were excellent. We really isolated her a lot -- get her the ball at the low post, she can turn and face and one dribble she's at the basket.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Greg Copeland

As contentious as last night's meeting may have been to the general public, when you've been through controversy as I have been I think (the council has) more in common if you're listening for it. It's hard through the clapping and yelling and shouting to hear what everybody is saying. I was trying to listen. That's a role I see as mine, to bring these very folks together to hear what they're saying.

Bill Dodson

As commissioner I have the skills to negotiate and the skills to work with and through people and to bring groups together and work for betterment of everyone. Regardless of what you say, if you don't bring all groups to the table, you can't negotiate a compromise. But if everyone is involved a compromise can be reached and everyone is much happier.

Tim Atwell

As a senior, I think she deserves that right to try it if it is do-able. It would be nice, if she does go in four events, to find a relay that can go down on its own and possibly bring home a top finish. We just need to find the right combination and get some people healthy.

Glenn Crellin

As a result, we should see a stabilizing in prices to bring them more in line with inflation.

Scott Jones

As a team, we know what to expect and how to prepare for the big meets. We have been a contender the last two years and the team has taken it upon themselves to be in a position to bring home a championship this year.

Daron Malakian

As a writer I kind of go crazy. I even had, like, at least 20 or 30 more songs to bring into the band. But we had to stop and get into the studio at some point.

Rodney Harrison

As a kid, I always dreamed about being an Oakland Raider because I think what they stand for really fit with what I bring on the field, ... Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be.

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Tom Goldstein

As a result of our investigation, we've determined the information did not reach its destination, and is missing and presumed lost.

Shyam Saran

As a humanitarian gesture, we are willing to release Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails. The verification process is still going on to determine their nationality,

Tim O'Brien

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

Josh Teeples

Determination. I was just determined that I was gong to do it this time.

Charlie Brotman

The starting time of the parade is actually determined by the length of time of the traditional brunch,

Jamie Zuieback

After further review, it was determined that it would be appropriate to grant humanitarian parole for this child.

Toni Chovanetz

After interviewing the passenger, it was determined to be appropriate to release him at this time.

Saeb Erekat

so the truth can be determined once and for all.

Lori Walker

The rhythm for our team in the first half was strong. We are starting to see some personality emerge and in the second half we were determined to pull things together. The game was really flowing together for us.

Maurice Cheeks

Our energy got us back in the game. But you've got to play perfect when you get down 28 points or so.

Max Schneider

People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'

Samir Haj

Defensively we tried to hold off in the first half because we felt we had enough energy in the second half be able to make good possessions and try to attack. That's exactly what happened.

Mark Bartelstein

Antoine is thrilled. This was a grueling process trying to put a sign-and-trade together. This took a lot of time and work and energy from a lot of people.

Barry Hyman

A rebound in energy (prices) could be one of the excuses for a mid-December trading peak (in stocks).

Richard Falkenrath

A port is where chemical, energy and oil facilities all come together with a large number of people, with quite limited security on the water.

Clark Chapman

The seniors have never made the states. You could tell that their energy was real high.

Bill Richardson

The strategic petroleum reserve is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day. This is a price problem. We don't want to manipulate energy markets.

Anthony Chan

The significant number of headwinds such as rising energy prices and the prospects of rising short-term rates are taking their toll on the economy,

Willie Randolph

The team's been playing well and we'll just start another streak tomorrow.

Paul Marsh

Something has got to give. They are playing too much and there's too much travel.

Shawn Lewinski

Once we scored that first goal, I thought we were going to get going. Unfortunately they actually settled in, they started playing their game. I think we relaxed, and that was a big mistake.

Larry Stevens

So much of what we're doing is playing catch-up.

Marc Crawford

Right now Todd is playing so well, we could probably play him in net.

Ed Coyle

Quincy's getting better and better with every game. Right now, he's playing well. He's playing like a senior.

Dereck Whittenburg

Psychologically for us, we're the underdog every game. So Xavier (today) will be like playing on the road. We're used to that.

Doug Gottlieb

I've never sensed in all the three years I was playing for him and the six years since I never once suspected that (Sutton) was back drinking.

John Higgins

It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.

Shawn Mendes

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Charles Haynes

This is not a Sunday school course. I think the legislature didn't do its homework, didn't think about the ramifications of this.

Amy Lee

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Brian Tracy

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Daniel Goleman

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brittany Daniel

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Mike Sillinger

He always makes the right shot, the right move. He's a talented young player.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Alain de Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Robert H. Connelly

This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site,

e. e. cummings

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

Drew Barrymore

I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.

Duke Ellington

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

Todd Fischer

You've had all year to do it and, hopefully, it doesn't come down to one tournament.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.