Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Troy Hudson

Any situation you can put me in, I've been there. You just leave it up to the coaching staff and be ready when called.

Skip Bertman

As far as I'm concerned, John is going to be our coach for a long time.

Mike Ryan

As far as leadership, I have never coached a better kid, who comes to practice and games ready to play. Her desire to win is unmatched.

Wayne Morgan

As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

Frank Hadden

As far as captaincy is concerned I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night,

Charles Wang

As everyone in this room knows, Steve is one of the finest gentlemen you will ever meet in any walk of life. Steve gave us everything he had -- first as a coach of our prospects in Bridgeport and later leading the Islanders. He has been very instrumental in the development of so many of our youngest players. It is my hope that Steve will stay in the organization.

Justin Griffith

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

John Shaw

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

Nick Park

Any Hollywood studio, if they're doing a deal with somebody else, wants to own characters, but we have managed to keep hold of them.

Jennifer Hinson

As far as I know, nobody knows this deal fell through.

Thomas Murphy

As far as we were concerned, it was a legitimate deal with a realistic price,

Antonia Maioni

As a minority government, they are by definition in a pre- electoral mode. Accountability is going to be a big thing. The deal they are going to do with the provinces is another.

Mark Morales

a very private guy and doesn't want to make a big deal of it.

John W. Snow

a very important idea ... which would help deal with the whole issue of long-term sustainability of the Social Security system.

Miroslav Klose

A very great deal is possible with the players we have in the squad.

Andrew Shue

At some point in their lives, people deal with tragedy. It's just a question of when.

Jay Jacobs

A true gentleman. He was a very compassionate and giving person who meant a great deal to this university.

Paul Dana

As a young driver, you dream about an opportunity like this with a championship-caliber team.

Dido Armstrong

At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.

Julie Klausner

Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our dreams, they are riding alpacas or juggling tacos - but that doesn't mean those dreams are necessarily about babies. Look, I'm not Freud.

John Keats

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass / Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Marquand Manuel

Dreams do come true. You've got to keep working hard because you never know when your opportunity will come.

James Barry

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Emily Dickinson

Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.

William Burroughs

Dream long and dream hard enoughYou will come to knowDreaming can make it so . . .

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Alvaro Soto

The quartet will convene on September 20 at the ministerial level, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

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.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Eric Lindros

I've been really working on stick-handling with my head up,

Esteban Loaiza

I've been in the league for a long time. I just have to get it out of my head and think about Minnesota.

Molly Tarlov

I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn't make my life any easier. It's not really about your body. It's about what's going on inside, in your head and your heart.

Dan Peitz

I've never had a horse in the Kentucky Derby. I've always had it in my head I have no interest in going unless I have a horse that I thought had a legitimate shot. And I think this is a mile-and-a-quarter horse.

Chris Shelton

That's why I was shaking my head as I walked away.

Charles Dickens

The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.

Adam Stern

You shake your head and you're like, 'Is this really happening?

Scott Carpenter

As a public relations practitioner, it is a tremendous honor to be included on a panel of the top public relations professionals in our business.

Marguerite de Valois

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

Richard Midgley

An honor. It's just an honor to be here.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

O. Singh

Sublime is that love, which preserves my honor with my Lord Master.

Bob Klein

So when he was 12, he went out and got a guitar. He had to be on the honor roll to get one, so he did and he got one.

Reese Witherspoon

So thank you so much for this honor.

Susan Taylor

Ron loved his time at GW, ... It's an honor for us to be near the school.

Harry Kinnan

There will be wonderful opportunities to honor people.

John Fahey

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Jeffrey Lichtman

This is not the same John Gotti that he was in '92, or even in '99.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Christopher Meyer

There is a smell about things which reminds me of the last years of John Major,

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Marlon Brando

At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

James St. James

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Louis Armstrong

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Ani Difranco

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Dean Heller

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Ali Partovi

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

Michael Kimmel

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

Cecelia Ahern

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Dwight L. Moody

It is our privilege to know that we are saved.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Keith Richard

If he can go in the first round, I want him to go. If he can't, he should pursue some of this other stuff. Honestly, it's unbelievable when you see it every day.

Pope Francis

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

James Payn

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

Mary Quant

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

Joshua Malina

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Michael Jones

So she's got that anti-art school thing going on.

Dean Winters

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

James Dodson

The school was only on lockdown for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Rashida Jones

The school reassured us that everything would be replaced.

Kevin Morris

The school is going from 600 to 800 students capacity,

Jeff Kinney

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Sergei Krikalev

Thank you very much to those who worked with us.

Evo Morales

Thank you very much. I'd like to visit you, Mr. President.

Marge Whaley

Thank you very much for getting that resolved.

Julian Casablancas

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the deafening roar.

G. H. Hardy

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Ishinosuke Uwano

Thank you for waiting for me for a long time.

Jim Fuller

Thank you for this consideration of the residents.

A. Hodge

They are 4-0 for a reason. We know it is going to be a true test.

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Demi Lovato

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

Dean Koontz

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Jan Lindholm

To some extent, this is also true in China.

E. B. White

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.