Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Rekalin Sims

Randolph is quiet. He doesn't really show anything until he's out there on the court. I can almost guarantee Randolph is going to punish these guys.

Wayne Brown

Really and truly, almost all mistakes go back to basics. People need to have good, building-block learning behind them so they can become their own best critics and maintain good discipline about the fundamentals of flying.

David Farber

Realize that almost anybody can write a book, ... I even wrote a book.

Kenneth Fisher

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Paul Polzin

Prices this high and lasting this long will almost certainly spur investment.

Stephen Malkmus

Primarily I was doing the music here alone in the house, anyway, with the drummer. He helped with the engineering and plays on almost every song.

Christine Link

Programs such as this almost always prove to be ineffective in gathering information on possible terrorists. Even though they are created with the best of intentions, they only serve to reinforce stereotypes and cause innocent people to be subjected to government scrutiny.

Darrell Arthur

(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

Gerris Wilkinson

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Eric Hallman

Fiscal year 2007 starts in July, so we're closer than you think.

Larry Hill

We have elected to go with a name because we want to be closer to the community we serve.

Ron Crawford

We could start to make a name for ourselves in Little Rock. Part of that comes back to facilities.... I've been all over the country and we've played in every kind of venue you can dream of, but nowhere have we been are there better facilities closer together.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.

Roy Oswalt

Brad, he's the type of closer that has amnesia, he won't thinking nothing about it next time he gets out there. He'll come out at the end of the next game, and I'm sure he'll be lights-out just like he always is.

Charles Stross

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Babe Ruth

What the hell difference does it make?

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Barbara Mikulski

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Brian Tracy

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

John Morton

These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,

Dave Nonis

The style of game they play is fairly open and they have some offensive weapons.

Chris Mudd

I've always been able to, when I first meet someone, get a good read on their personality, and I'm fairly observant, so I can tell what people will do and won't do. I pick up on that quicker than some.

Colin Love

Notwithstanding Steve Rogers' pure qualities as a footballer he will be remembered as much for the way he played the game - always cleanly and fairly and in the true spirit of sportsmanship.

Anita Allen

Sometimes it's fairly obvious they're trying to hide their face. That's a first tip maybe they are trying to hide something and it's obvious from the picture they aren't who they say they are.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Dennis Yaw

You need to find out if they have been fairly consistent.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Daddy Yankee

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else.

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Barbara Jordan

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

Barbara Kingsolver

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Arthur Koestler

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Ayn Rand

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

Brendan Behan

You made one mistake. You married me.

Jamie Dimon

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

Stefan Hell

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

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.

Jim Boeheim

Every game's tough, and you have to play well every game. We've got to start playing better or we're going to struggle.

Jarrad Woliver

As soon as we sat down and started playing, we immediately started playing really well together.

Briana Matthews

As the season wore on, you could see our development. We got used to playing with each other. I thought we would be practicing today.

Sam Brandon

To me, I think you're always playing for your future,

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Jim Brown

This one is a very competitive tournament. There's probably 10 teams in the top 20 there, at least.

Lynn Meger

There's not a lot of differences between their teams in that district. There aren't a lot of differences between our teams.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Randy Schaedig

From that standpoint, this isn't really much of a change. We play all those teams already anyway.