Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

William Goldman

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

John Martin

As far as the extent of residential housing (that should go downtown), we missed the boat in 1997. The view taken since 1997, to push forward with the extent of housing that the city has done, has been absolutely correct and it'll be proved in the long run.

E. O. Wilson

As hitters, we got dominated. This is lucky. (Clemens) absolutely shoved it down our throats. That's why you give all the credit to Kip for keeping it close.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

Graham Shear

Ashley is absolutely adamant that he will be proceeding with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport as he remains entirely dissatisfied with the result.

Larry Miller

As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed. One thing I always know about Jerry, he is absolutely trustworthy and always doing the best that he can.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

Rich Becker

As a team, we played great defense. We are absolutely a defensive-minded team.

Carlos Rodriguez

A new refinery is important now for the short term because we'd like to have cheaper gasoline for our transport sector and industry. We have to take advantage of Mexico's offer because we're not going to exploit our own petroleum resources. We won't put our biodiversity at risk.

Aaron Shea

Any time our defense can get us a pick and put us in good field position, we have to take advantage of our opportunities. We did it on that day. My boy Ty had a bad day. Anthony Henry played his butt off.

Olusegun Obasanjo

any time he chooses to take advantage of it.

Chris Woods

A season like this doesn't come around very often. The kids realized the opportunity, seized the moment and were able to take full advantage of it.

Joseph Stiglitz

Asia has become the source of finance, the source of savings. It now has the human capital to manage that well. Why doesn't it take the advantage of that opportunity to try and create financial markets that work better for the people of Asia.

Danny Ferry

As a team, you do not have the advantage of the Bird (rule). But you do get a better opportunity to learn more about the player and build a relationship. (Murray) has done a very good job for us.

Kevin Flynn

As a board, we don't see any advantage to breaking Drake up.

Mike Surber

Arsenio - he's probably the player of the game. He's been playing a reserve role all year long. He had a chance to step up and he took advantage of it. He hit some crucial free throws at the end; hit a couple jumpers - he was really crucial in the win. He came up big for us.

Josh Duell

As a kid I always wanted to play for Siena. I remember going to games at Pepsi Arena with my dad. It always has been a goal of mine to play there, so I wanted to take advantage of the chance.

Natalie Peters

Any time our speed is on base, it just puts that much more pressure on the defense. The last thing I said to Jackie is hit the ball on the ground and get Gammon to third. That's all she was thinking and she did a really nice job.

Willie Randolph

Any time Jose hits a home run, I try to forget it real quick. I let him know that he needs to forget about it real quick, so I don't get excited about home runs. He knows I don't like for him to hit the ball in the air. But he's got some pop.

Jim Yatzek

Any game is possible for us to win with Jill, but we need to find more people to put the ball in the hole.

Bruce Bochy

Any runs you give up hurt you, but we got the ball we're looking for at first base and couldn't get them out at home. Pedro threw great. Give him credit.

Mike Butcher

As far as the ball coming out of his hand, it was pretty special. It's that easy coming out of his hands. As relaxed as he was just throwing fastballs and change-ups, his delivery, the fluidness, the ball jumping out of his hand and the life he had, it's going to be nice to see when he lets loose.

Keary Colbert

As far as getting the ball, I don't have so much pride where I have to have the ball or it's like, 'Get me the ball,' ... It will come when it comes and when I do get my opportunities I have to make plays. At the same I have to do other things as far as blocking or clearing out a route so that someone else can get open. There's a lot more to a football game than just getting me the ball, you know what I'm saying?

Carlos Pena

As hitters, we definitely know when we hit a ball well. But then you see where it lands, and you say 'Whoa.' That definitely felt good.

Alexis Kendrick

A shot like that doesn't happen every day. It still feels like a dream, but it's just one of those days. Nine times out of 10 the ball would've rimmed out, but it just happened to go in. The basketball gods were looking down on them today.

Courtney Harrness

As far as pitching goes, it was pretty even. Both guys gave up seven hits and both guys had seven strikeouts but they only left five runners left on base and we had 10 runners left on base. If half of those guys score, it's a tie game and we're right back in it. Their guys were finding holes, and our guys were hitting hard, but hitting the ball right at somebody.

Sam Ibok

As far as this mediation is concerned, this is as far as we can go. The AU has exhausted listening to the arguments on both sides.

Mark Stewart

As far as the girls go, it's pretty much us and Spring Hill. And any one of our guys can come in here and shoot in the low 70's. Our goal all year for both teams was to win state, and this is just another step we have to take to get there.

Rich Dubee

As far as presence, both of them had a good presence out there and both look comfortable out there. I was impressed with both of them going out there for the first time in a new organization.

Lance Berkman

As far as who has the edge, it's probably a break-even deal. I think both teams are equally qualified to play in these games.

Valeri Nepomniatchi

As expected, it was a tough match. Both teams went for attacks.

Joe Jimenez

As every parent knows, kids have long used ketchup to personalize their food. Heinz is bringing fun to food with a ketchup that physically and intuitively encourages both control and creativity.

Bill Richardson

As both the United States and the European Union expressed, we remain concerned that any cut in production has the potential to lower stock levels and contribute to volatility in the market,

Mike Bellotti

As both of these men have shown, they have great resiliency. They're tough mentally and physically, and they bring something to the table when they enter the game. They don't drop their heads or hang their heads when they're substituted for.

Richard Pinkham

As both carriers are principally point-to-point travel at this point, it seems not overly likely that the two low-cost terminals will be in competition with one another for passengers, especially with a five-six hour drive separating them.

Rekalin Sims

The bye factor is huge. You get the extra day off and you're ready to go on Friday. That's crucial for us.

Frank Skaggs

A crucial part of your plan is communicating it to your employees. Be sure everyone knows what they'll need to do should disaster strike.

Tim Wise

Stops at crucial times. That's what we need to win big games.

Michael Gray

One crucial factor in whether or not (visitors) come back to London is the quality of service they receive in hotels, shops, tourist attractions and any other leisure outlets.

Christiane Amanpour

now is a crucial stage of the peace process

Jon Giordano

Quick starts are crucial for us. If we can do that, we play much better when we're controlling the tempo and controlling the pace.

Steve Francis

It was tough. We made a lot of mental errors at the end of the game that kind of solidified the victory for them. On the other hand, we didn't get stops when we really needed it. I guess it was a lack of communication. I'm not really sure. It was at a crucial time in the game.

John Samples

It would be hard pressed to say that the State of the Union is as crucial as it is often said it is.

Semir Osmanagic

These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid. We can see the surface is perfectly flat. This is the crucial material proof that we are talking pyramids.

Gerald Walsh

People got their money's worth. Lincoln's a good team and they're fighting for that fourth (playoff) spot. We're happy with the win.

Freddy Robinson

No one wants to go home at this point. We're fighting to keep our season alive, and we'll come with everything we've got.

Paul Robeson

Once we are joined together in the fight for peace we will have to talk to each other and tell the truth about each other. How else can peace be won?

Christopher Macgowan

Dealers will have to fight for every sale.

Chris Paul

Anything can happen. As long as we have a chance, we're going to keep fighting and keep playing.

Ronald Koeman

Anything is possible in football. Everything is open. We're going to fight until the last minute - just like we did in the first game.

Stephanie Dujarric

The secretary-general is greatly troubled by the worsening security situation in Chad, resulting from the ongoing fighting between government forces and rebel fighters.

A. Johnson

The technology and resources are there to effectively fight this. We just need to work smarter to do this.

Patrick Faure

The target is to be next year really fighting for the title.

Hanan Ashrawi

Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.

Kasey Kahne

As Mark was reeling me in, I was doing all I could to go fast. I was giving about all I had those last 30 laps.

Ron Gardenhire

Radke is going to be in the rotation, Silva is going to be in the rotation, Lohse is going to be in the rotation and we're just trying to get them through it. We're in the first month of the season, so you've got to keep giving these guys the ball. What they've done around here and how well they've done around here for such a long time, you just have to keep giving them the ball.

Patricia Fripp

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Donna Karan

No question about it. I think she's told us that. You know it's not about us dictating, just giving her tools for her to do it.

Emily Francis

Northwestern has been scoring a lot of goals, so I think they will be a handful for our defense, but they also have been giving up of a lot of goals. If our backline comes ready to play and our frontline starts scoring some goals this weekend it will be great.

Debbie Murry

The money from the foundation, is not only giving us money for the extras - it's helping us with the necessities.

Michael Landis

Aren't they great? We've been giving them out to our customers.

Bobby Smith

Stuff like that happens in baseball. We have been playing well and when you are giving it all you have sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. You just have to get ready for tomorrow and get back to playing well.

John Doran

Asher Woods kept saying, 'I couldn't get him. I couldn't get him,'

Kevin Turner

The big story of our team this year has been our old stalwarts. Someone had to pick up the slack, and they have kept our team going.

Rich Anderson

(Azevedo) didn't have his stuff today but he just kept kind of competing.

Ken Goldstein

Productivity is the wild card. It's the one thing that has kept the tension between prices and wages on a low simmer.

Torry Castalleno

People started liking The Donnas name, so we kept it but merged the music styles.

Chris Martin

Off the bat, I played bad. But I didn't let that get to me. I just kept scrambling.

Eric Gutierrez

No one was going to quit. We kept plugging away.

James Saville

and that's kept a lot of the newspapers happy.

Jacob Tamme

The second quarter took it out of us. Losing takes its toll on anybody...we kept playing hard, though.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Dedrick L.

To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Darius Walker

Hopefully, he'll be rooting for us. We'd rather have him on our side.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Phil Donahue

We'll be staying right here in the neighborhood,

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Mari Adam

The trick is staying in the game. If you opt out, you lose.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

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.

Elton Brand

We want to be one of the top teams in the West, and we think we are.

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.