Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Nick Vandewalle

Defense has been the key for us throughout the playoffs. We were able to able to keep (MCC) in check, and that allowed me to use some reserves in the second half.

Chris Wilson

Dealing with young people, it's always a new experience. You never know if they're ready until they get out there. As long as they play with great effort, I'm happy. The injuries have allowed us to give some guys opportunities.

Chris Duhon

Compared to this, things like my new contract don't mean that much, ... There are bodies floating in the water. A lot of houses have been destroyed. When all of this is over in another week or so and people are allowed to go back home, what will they go back to? It's a tough situation to handle.

Graeme Cox

Companies are hamstrung under the way they are allowed to operate. You have to just do your own thing. There will be opportunities to bid for work and to get a slice of the pie.

Mark Shapiro

Coco and Grady have similar skills, and we're extremely excited about Grady's future. Coco profiles best as a center fielder, which allowed us to be opportunistic and get a whole lot of value for him, which, in the end, was too much to turn down.

Mark Walters

Coach drew up a couple of plays in the huddle that allowed me to create a little more space.

Steven Drucker

Developing the technology was quite a complex challenge. The automated camera control wasn't too tricky. The automatic connection that allowed people to connect to the games as they were played was more difficult. But the most difficult was video distribution. Eventually we realized that a distributed model with no centralized server was the best route.

E. P. Thompson

Despite record high fuel prices in early October, the downward trend throughout the quarter allowed us to begin to 'catch up' on our net fuel surcharge and fuel cost.

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Owen LaFave

Banks rely on sales for repayment, so if presales fall through the bank has a problem. You have to ask the question: Is Tampa ready for upscale living at that price?

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Jeff Clark

As poorly as we played offensively, our defense held them to 44 points. I can't ask for more than that on defense.

Carly Fiorina

Ask yourself why am I hearing this now? Why didn't they put their case in the proxy statement?

Kyle Boller

Ask yourself the question, if someone booed you when you got hurt, would you feel good about it? ... I've been through some tough times. I know there are people that are supporting me and pulling for me. So those people that cheered, they can do that if they want. They have the right to do it. But I've given 110 percent, and I've worked hard, and I'll continue to work hard.

Andrew Crocker

Ask yourself if you would feel reassured leaving your loved one there. And then visit again. Make a second visit without an appointment, maybe on another day of the week or time of day. See if your first thoughts are still the same.

John Bean

Ask yourself, do you have a sense of purpose in your job and in your life? If so, how does your job line up with your sense of purpose? We have all kinds of people telling us what we should be. We need to find out what we want to be.

Freman Hendrix

Ask yourself ... are you better off today than you were four years ago? I think if you're like most Detroiters you'll say that we're struggling. And I think we need to do better.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

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.

Barbara Jordan

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984