Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Sandy Baum

What it means is that they'll have to borrow a little more money and repay it at a higher interest rate.

Seymour Cassel

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

Scottish Proverbs

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Dambisa Moyo

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

Don Rahn

You can borrow more, but you still have to pay it back.

Brent Neiser

You can borrow a camcorder or a still camera and take pictures of everything. Or you can walk from room to room with a tape recorder and note everything you see.

Rade Musulin

We can raise rates, we can borrow more money, or we can mitigate. In the long-run, we can lower costs if we mitigate heavily in this state.

Doug Kay

We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) who were not defensive specialists. They were kids that we had to borrow to put in there to makeshift and do some things. We had a lot of people playing the whole way. We probably should have started it like that.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Rebecca Davis

The Music Man' is a big undertaking. It's a huge role (for Dan Hill). It's on his back. The character has developed -- he's just doing a terrific job for us.

Johnny Depp

A few people have mentioned it, and it kind of took me by surprise. I really didn't expect that, ... Michael Jackson was not a sort of ingredient or inspiration for the character at all.

John D. Rockefeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation and character.

Christian Nevel Bovee

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

Karen Moore

someone who reflects the same qualities of character and integrity that Dee Dee did.

Chris Terrio

So we had a couple of long conversations in France and once I thought this script was in pretty good shape, I sent it to her. I knew I wanted Glenn from the beginning. In fact, I had tried to gear the character towards her. Glenn is a single mom who lives in New York and does theater and film. She's a very strong, intelligent person in the way that Diana (her character) is, so I think she made herself very vulnerable to play this part.

JamesOn Curry

Now it's the time for character to be built.

Tom Woods

That's where toughness shows, on the defensive side of things. And I think that's exactly what happened tonight. I was real pleased with the defense, and the intensity level.

John Bliss

Our defensive pressure was a big part in the win. It kind of fueled our offense and gave us some relatively easy baskets.

Tramicka James

Normally I play a more defensive role on our team. But my teammates did a good job of putting me in the position to score.

Byron Scott

Terrible. I thought we started off terrible, no sense of urgency, no resistance on the defensive end. We played like the game didn't mean a thing. It's not everybody obviously, but as a team, collectively, we were awful. We looked more like we were scared than anything.

Kenneth Bacon

There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive measures rather than offensive measures.

Chris Richards

We're a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

Jim Wiscombe

We're a better defensive team when we play full-court pressure defense.

Chuck Hardt

We had a few defensive lapses, but the kids found a way to hang in there and battle.

Norm Eash

Eric has natural instincts and we think he can be a top defensive back in the conference.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Brad Childress

Terrell is a very talented player, but if there's one thing I know about football is that it's about the team, the team, the team, the team, the team, the team.

Tory James

Sometimes we're supposed to be big football players and nothing can touch us. This one hurts right here.

Randy Edsall

Rutgers is a team that has been playing with a lot of confidence. On film right now they are a 4-2 football team, just like we are.

Tom Chute

Rugby's a game of possession, whereas football is a game of yardage.

Dan Morgan

said the stocky Morgan, ''shocked that the school didn't have a football team.

Chad Johnson

Safety, cornerback, it don't matter. I want to play all over. This is the Pro Bowl, man. I'm not just a receiver. I'm a football player.

Jerry Meuschke

Right now, we've got a big hole there. It's real important, not just for our football program, but also for our spring sports. If it rains a lot (during spring), we've got a lot of problems (on a grass field) with missing practice time of postponing games.

Gary Jones

Right now we're not a very good football team and it's my fault. It all starts with me.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Scoville Jenkins

Rafael is a great player. This was a learning experience. He was what I expected, and a little more than I expected.

Ernie Harwell

Radio will always be with us because of its great portability. TV can't give you that.

Amity Gaige

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Jarrod Cooper

Randy shows up to work every single day. I don't know what misconceptions people had (going into the season), probably the same ones I had, but he's a great leader, no nonsense, he shows up and plays.

Steve Rushing

Ramon is a great rider, but an even greater person,

Mark Recchi

Ray is a very smart player. Obviously he's got great talent, and we're hoping he's able to come back and make a difference.

Fred Couples

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Mark Twain

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Steve Burton

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.

Joel Kaplan

Nowadays, it's the kids who have the power. When they don't do the work and get lower grades, they scream and yell. Parents side with the kids who pressure teachers to lower standards.

O. Henry

I wanted to be on the winning side (on the record), but to it was truly unbelievable to have the season we had. The kids just stepped up and played well.

Mary Pope Osborne

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

Luke Jensen

Tennis for me is the same whether I'm playing in a tournament or instructing, ... I just have a passion for the sport and love the game. That's what I tell all the kids I work with about life. Just find something you love to do and be passionate about it and it won't seem like work.'

Ennis Proctor

Sometimes these kids that are well-rounded don't get enough credit. We want to recognize the true scholar-athlete.

Jane Lowe

Sometimes it's not visible, but the kids all know.

Chris Lasoya

Seeing how the kids react, smiling and all, that makes it all worth it. I let the kids shoot me sometimes and they'll be talking about that for years.

Bruce Graham

Pulling kids from line really shakes a lot of people up, ... It is important to keep teachers accountable.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Michael Vaughan

This is going to be a challenging series for us playing in different conditions,

Rick Stansbury

This is a totally different team, so there is no reason to remember. This team was not part of that. That has nothing to do with us playing over there (tonight).

Michael Leighton

The way we've been playing is the way we should have been playing all year.

Austin Croshere

That's when we started doing things the right way. And that's when we started playing better as a group.

Ryan Smyth

That's what we wanted to do is come in here and get the win. We know they're right on our tail and they're playing good.

Phil Garner

That's not bad. For a younger kid, I would usually have them in the 30s right now and they would end up with 55 at-bats or so. I could end up getting him there playing him more than I really want to, but he's getting there.

Vinny Prospal

That's not the way we should be playing at this time of the year.

Mark Sweeney

That's how special he is. I don't know if you saw my ball, but it would have been out at Williamsport. I squared it up. I'm just playing on the wrong field.

Brian Graham

You're playing must-win situations with the pressure of succeeding, and there is no tomorrow,

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.