Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Stern

I would say that the city is making it pretty clear of what they want us to do, and we'll accommodate them.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Jason Wiemer

I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back here and wanted to make sure they knew that. It worked out well. I enjoyed playing here, I love the city and liked the guys here. I looked at the team, watched them play in the playoffs. It was something I wanted to be a part of.

Mike Shanahan

I think it's a better system. There are more opportunities, and because teams have to come to your city to do the interviews, it can be done without conflicting with what you're trying to get done.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Jay Clark

I actually got into Mason City on Dec. 17. I really won't know about Mason City until I get back from Christmas.

John Burke

He controlled the night in the city of Albany. Everything had to go through him, whether you were working with another agency, you had to go through him. If you wanted to make an arrest, you had to go through him, unless, of course, a cop witnessed a crime.

Sunny Mindel

He is recognized as the mayor who led the city from being described as ungovernable to being an international symbol of urban renaissance. Why? Because of the unprecedented record reductions in taxes, homicides and welfare numbers, and the improvement in the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Earl Blumenauer

What would have happened if, last September, Hurricane Ivan had veered 40 miles to the west, devastating the city of New Orleans?

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

David Cameron

Whatever happened to no reverse gear? Whatever happened to the historic turning point? If you keep turning it's not going to be very historic.

Frank Beamer

Whatever happened is unfortunate. I'm not happy about some of the things that happened in the first half. We'll leave it at that.

Henry Reiner

The people they were mad at weren't these people. They had nothing to do with anything. They happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

Patrick Lalime

It happened quick. All I heard was 'plunk' and I turned around and saw it come back.

Donovan Woods

It happened pretty fast. It's still kind of a little blur.

Leslie Brown

It happened much more quickly than we thought it would.

Timothy Conder

The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.

Michael Leavitt

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Stacy Stewart

They better take this hurricane dead-serious or they're going to be dead.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

Lawrence Eagles

The market has coped very well with the hurricane situation on the surface, particularly on the refinery side,

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Paul Johnston

We want people to know we are on schedule, that June 1 (the start of hurricane season) is obtainable and it is our intention to do that.

Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

Lance Armstrong

Ivan was the strongest today. I didn't give it to him,

Leo Nikolaevich

Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Gregg Troy

I think it's important for people who didn't race well last week to do better this week.

Albert Young

I think it's ideal, I like it. You can never have enough backs. Especially after last year.

Tim Winship

I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

William Least Heat-Moon

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

James Osborne

I ran about 60 miles a week over the summer and I'm putting in about 50 miles a week now. So when I start tapering toward the end season it should be interesting.

Tom Taylor

I pushed him a little through one of the miles to get him back on pace and the next mile he totally went out the back door,

John Stokes

Its probably 300 miles to the gallon, I guess,

Gary Chase

They (Framingham) are only three miles away. They aren't in our league, and we don't have to worry about running into them at all.

Alan Culpepper

You don't want the race to go without you, but you know you have 22 miles to go. It's a balance.