Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

As far away as we are, we are still very close to becoming a good team. When we decided to break this team down last year, letting Antoine (Walker) and Gary (Payton) go, we understood what that would mean. We still hoped to make the playoffs and that's disappointing, but I think this team will be better sooner rather than later.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

Anika Noni Rose

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Shashi Tharoor

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

Chris Woodruff

The bull industry is becoming like the racehorse industry.

Bobbi Henson

A whole new world of applications are becoming mainstream, and people really benefit from a broadband application in conjunction with those applicants.

David Garis

Australia's economy is increasingly showing some soft edges and inflation is tame. The risks of another rate increase are becoming much less pressing.

Jill Lepore

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

Lou Gerstner

That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different industry than just a few years ago.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

David Vitter

I'm very excited to be at least some small part in the effort, ... This is a great, state-of-the-art facility that can be used for many events, especially the equestrian and 4-H activities. It also is a broader resource for education and economic development.

Hiroichi Nishi

The impact on the broader market will be short-lived.

Robert Martin

We're not doing this because we think there will be no jobs and this will be a safety net. We think it's what musicians should have, what young musicians deserve and need. Our view is that musicians need a broader education.

Jim Melcher

the market is, and has been, for the last five years driven by about the same 100 companies, but if you could see money moving down to the broader market, we've got some real values, a lot of good companies selling really cheap.

Kofi Annan

There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's be quite honest about that, ... I've tried to get them to understand that in our interconnected world, we need to look at issues in much broader terms rather than narrow national interests.

Evan Walters

There were some unforeseen things like a lot of communicating between the company and manufacturer. It gave us a broader view of how business is run. There were bumps. It wasn't a smooth ride. We had to go back and correct things.

Peter Jankovskis

It might be part of a broader gaming strategy. Maybe his next acquisition will be some sort of video-game company.

Jerry Jasinowski

It really is a broader international issue that requires the general consensus of countries that intellectual property protection is critical to growth and productivity.

Jody Grove

We must have our freshmen step up and contribute to the team right away. We must keep working everyday to get better.

Robert Plant

I'm very, very pleased to contribute in some form or another,

Jalen Rose

Everybody wants to contribute and help the team get a win, and obviously I'm no different,

Ginette Hemley

Problems that threaten species like the destruction of habitats and natural resources often contribute to poverty.

Jimmy Roy

Definitely, you have to think you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you shouldn't be at this level. I think I can still contribute and help this team win.

Robert Freeman

An uninformed public can do no good. Only with information can we contribute and improve the way we live. Ignorance really is not bliss. The more secrecy we have within our government, the less accountability.

Fred Eckhard

The secretary-general hopes that Prime Minister Vajpayee's visit to Pakistan will contribute to the improvement of bilateral relations.

Marisa Fassler

The strong focus on infrastructure delivery in the budget, together with an intention to improve the quality of government spending, means fiscal policy should ultimately contribute to sustained higher growth in the economy.

Diane Lane

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Eric Howe

I think what makes a strong team is being able to have a group of girls where maybe not one of them is going to lead the all-around every single meet, but having that handful of girls like we've had this year that can really push on in a single event every meet. That's what we've been doing.

Valentino Castellani

It has been a great celebration of sports. We learned that fair play and respect for your opponents are strong values of this fantastic event that we have lived together.

Jean Brown

It is not so much what I did, but that the event was recognized.

Zhang Hao

It is hard to go from one event to the next in such a short time. But we had a nice performance today given the short practice.

Craig Stevens

I was just speechless. To go in there (Olympic Trials) thinking, just hoping, to qualify for one event at the Olympic Games then to qualify for three events. I couldn't explain it.

Jason Swanson

We look for event films, films that are larger than life.

Chris Smith

He was really instrumental in getting this event started.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Jim Harris

Between the foreign competition, which is subsidized, and the high price of natural gas, that has made them noncompetitive and shut them down.

Chris Mauro

Everyone's scrambling to find new suppliers, foreign suppliers, anybody.

Dave Phillips

As it is right now, these guys are stacking up on talent, and they're able to get foreign skiers that we're not able to get because they can pay for all the tuition, ... They're able to go into Russia and to France, and they get these up-and-coming international stars.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Larry Finucane

I think we will improve. I hope we will, but we haven't really done anything yet.

Adam Greene

It got our attention. Before that, in our minds we weren't sure if we'd make it. It made me want to make it a lot more. I can't speak for the others, but I hope it worked the same for them.

John Kinsey

I think this is something we live with on a day-to-day basis, unfortunately, and hope that when we get these violent swings they provide an opportunity for longer term investors.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that the president will now send us a nominee for Justice O'Connor's spot in the mold of Judge Roberts,

Antero Niittymaki

I was watching on TV. You hope that someday you're there.

Kojo Annan

I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I can be forgiven.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Richard M. Nixon

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Robert E. Lee

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Samuel Johnson

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Vivien Leigh

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

W. H. Auden

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Roland Barthes

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Voltaire

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Confucius

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things

Walter de La Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Kerry Packer

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

Phil Robertson

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.