Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Michael Wright

THE RON CLARK STORY is the true story of one teacher's courage to leave his small hometown and head to one of the most challenging public schools in the country. We are proud to have an actor the caliber of Matthew Perry bringing his talents to such a memorable, inspirational story.

Tori Kelly

After I shower and put in all my products, I hang out with the diffuser with my head flipped over for five to seven minutes. But before I use a hair dryer, I'll towel-dry my hair. Actually, drying your hair with an old T-shirt is a great trick. It helps to get all the extra water out, without bringing on frizz.

Janet Hubbell

The real focus here is bringing some sort of order.

Tim McGuire

The town will be the first to see it. Things always change and we want a firm plan before bringing it to the town. We want to find a project that works for everyone.

Bill Cowher

We mixed it up and did a good job of dropping eight and bringing pressure and trying to disrupt them and get them out of their rhythm. They hit some big plays there in the fourth quarter, and we were fortunate to get out of there with the win.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Jeff Evans

My teaching is by way of starting out with something small, bringing it big and then bringing it back locally,

Maurice Evans

But defensively, my role never changes. Bringing effort and running the floor, that part of my game never changes.

Craig Benson

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

William Williams

The business of love iscruelty which,by our wills,we transformto live together.

David Healy

The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.

Steve Bennett

As our customers run their businesses or manage their personal finances, dealing with tax requirements creates a lot of opportunities for Intuit.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Don Logan

The narrowband business is a highly profitable business, and it's going to continue to be so for a long time to come,

Mindy Lubber

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Don Bohanan

These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully complete them can do college-level work.

Ruth Johnson

The writing contest is a way for teachers to get kids writing. It gives them a purpose, a real-world experience. They get feedback from others and not just from me as their classroom teacher. They have a wider audience.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Gary Blair

This is the deepest recruiting class that the Big 12 has ever had, top to bottom. These freshmen can play.

Bobby Cox

That's why he's classified as one of the big young hitters in the entire Minor League system. They tagged him right, that's for sure.

Aretha Franklin

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Art Buchwald

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Brian Henson

"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.

Alan Feduccia

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Craig Barlow

Saturday is moving day. You don't win a golf tournament on Saturday, and by all means I'd like to have a few holes over, but I'm in great position.

Richard Wagner

Quite a few said they would sit out in the back yard or go to a pool in order to maintain their tan,

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Tim Cox

The students have been great and have worked very hard,

John Bunting

We've seen some strange things happen at the end. This time around doesn't guarantee anything in the future, but this time around we didn't have any strange things happen.

Alexander Lukashenko

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Anthony Albanese

You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

Tom Hanks

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

Mason Cooley

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Les Wright

We were negotiating very hard for our own position, and from our perspective there was a guarantee of traffic, so that wasn't too much of a concern,

Howard Stern

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

Iyanla Vanzant

There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Junior Seau

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Mark Schmidt

We use them to get our guys together and get on the same page. We have a schedule of what we are doing and how we go about it.

Johnny Damon

First of all, what do you guys think about this? Obviously, keep on snapping away.

Joe Ryan

(Benson) is so important to our offense that we need two guys to replace him, ... I thought (Ramer and Finn) did pretty well, but they can get better.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Susan Goldstein

to get these people out of our neighborhoods and hopefully out of our state.

Randy Winn

We all know what type of player he is and what he can mean to this ballclub. Hopefully, that's a little premature and hopefully he will be able to play this season.

Derek Smith

We've got a lot of pieces moving around right now. But hopefully the pieces that get plugged in will come in and do what they're supposed to do.

Wing Goodale

This week, for him, is going to be a pretty important week, and hopefully he or she will be able to get enough food.

Carlos Sanchez

We feel proud as Latinos to have the first Latino with a school named after him. Thank you and hopefully we can have another one in the future.

Joey Sindelar

What are you going to do? They know you feel like a jerk and we've all done it. Hopefully it won't be the last time I'll ever have the pleasure of putting one in that water, because that would mean I won't be here.

Robbie Reiser

We tested in Martinsville back in the spring but still didn't quite get the setup right for the first race. We've addressed that issue and hopefully will be better this weekend.

Ronnie Arnold

These allegations are disturbing. It was improper and unprofessional, but you see these things out there where kids are harmed emotionally and physically every day.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Shaheed Saleem

I've been here before but none of these kids have. This team is already winners because of what they have accomplished this season.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Harv Bainter

You saw how many different looks we had. We played up to 20 some kids tonight.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Ayelet Waldman

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

Aubrey O'Day

I love that my career has been documented and I can look back one day and share it with my kids.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Ariel Pink

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Billy Bob Thornton

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

Deborah Tannen

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Rick Daniels

We've tended to be passive and reactive when it comes to recruiting companies. We've got to start being active and make ourselves stand out.

John Brady

We never really got ourselves into a rhythm on offense. It seemed like to me we were always struggling offensively to get something accomplished.

Nicole Scherzinger

We don't take ourselves too seriously. I don't think we're trying to be anything that we're not. We're not, like, trying to reinvent the wheel or anything.