Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

George Steinbrenner

Billy Connors was just great. He brought Jaret Wright along great, was patient and he stuck to him with great success.

Mark Ross

Black River Falls has good singles players. But we're a little farther along with our doubles teams.

Blake Lively

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

Benjamin Booker

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Joe Tiller

As the season went along and losses began to mount, we began to examine everything. We probably made the change out of frustration more than anything else. We just weren't executing the offense. We felt like we were leaving too many plays on the field.

Ernest Thompson Seton

At night we reached the Indian village of Pelican Portage, and landed by climbing over huge blocks of ice that were piled along the shore.

Seth Greenberg

Let him get through tomorrow, and we'll figure it out from there. I wanted to give him some freedom to figure out how much he can deal with and give him some time to grieve without having to put him on a schedule.

Darren Howard

I like the situation. I like the team. It's a matter of getting a deal done.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Dan Veru

A lot of their publications deal with the Internet, targeting professionals who write software for the Internet. So, in that way you're getting to play the growth in the Internet; the growth of programmers, so on and so forth, without necessarily being right in the fray of it all.

Phil Noblitt

This is a big deal for the parkway. The essence is that we're trying to meet modern traffic safety engineering standards without compromising the historic design of the parkway. It's going to be tough.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Whit Ayres

Well before this happened, I was glad the '06 elections weren't being held this summer. The country's in a funk, and it was in a funk before Katrina. But there's a great deal of time for that mood to change.

Juwan Simpson

The players see it as just another practice. It's a big deal for the fans, and that's why we do it.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Uli Hoeness

I hope the manager and the team can overcome all of this. It is not easy to go into a game after spending so much time with legal prosecutors.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

R. Robinson

They got a lot of easy baskets in the first half shooting (near) 50 percent to our 20 percent. We just didn't play at the same intensity as we do when we play state schools.

Max Kurz

They are easy subjects, very cooperative. They seem to enjoy being studied.

Larry Brown

You don't have players on the team that can't play a style that's comfortable for the coach. Isiah and I understand that. He knows the guys I like in the league. It's not easy to make trades. My job is to find out what these guys can do and if they can do the things we think will help us be a good team for the long run.

Terry Francona

There wasn't a whole lot that was easy (this season),

Vince Young

There was no taking it easy on me, ... I was really talking a lot of noise. I was purposely doing it so they wouldn't hold back.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Andy Grove

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry

Amy Pascal

The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.

Amy Klobuchar

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

Amy Klobuchar

In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

Ally Carter

You were right, Hale. It was a bad job. It was a bad call. You were right to leave." "Kat..." Hale tried to reach for her, but even in the sand, Kat was quick and sure on her feet, and she moved nimbly away, leaving Hale with nothing but a fistful of salty air. "Thanks for coming back and helping me find her and all, but..." She looked at Gabrielle, who stood leaning against Simon, still bruised and almost broken. " I think I've got to take it from here.".... She was sure right up until the point when Hale said, "No.

Alex Meraz

I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.

Alex Steffen

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

Boethius

Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.

Alice Cooper

Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.

Anna Akhmatova

The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.

Alastair Campbell

One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

Alastair Campbell

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Albert Claude

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.

Albert Brooks

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

Albert Camus

And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

Albert Camus

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.