Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Luis Aragones

On paper they are inferior to us so our aim is to score as many goals as possible so that we don't lose out to our rivals on goal difference.

Gareth Thomas

I didn't know how it was going to go. Carrying on playing means the swelling is going up and down. It could have gone in the first five minutes or the warm-up. Whatever happened I had to play before the England game. My next aim is to get the strapping off, because it's holding my knee in place and is so tight I can't run tidy with it. It will take more than this to stop me playing.

Donna Newman

Most of the talking was done by me. My aim was simply to educate him.

Roger Collis

One should aim for state of the art travel, which is about getting the best value for travel, not the best price,

Larry Lamb

One must ... aim to stimulate, educate, coax, coerce, cajole shock when necessary but, above, all to entertain. No newspaper, and no newspaperman, should ever be ashamed to entertain.

Tzipi Livni

One can assume the lifestyle of the Palestinians will change even though this is not the aim of the government.

Roman Hamrlik

I scored on some lucky shots tonight, that's all I can say. I just aim at the net and they went through. We are happy to get the two points. That's all that matters.

Martha Thomas

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Gerris Wilkinson

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Patricia Baker

The fact that drivers don't get paid if they don't race, consumers relate to that. Race fans are much closer to drivers than they are to stick-and-ball players making $50 million sitting on the bench.

Merlin Lahm

She's been in OK condition, and she's getting closer to race form. She was running great times last year.

Jim Aumann

She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game.

Jimmy Howard

I have been dreaming of playing in the National Hockey League all of my life, and to get one step closer to that goal is special.

Pam Robinson

I have a very difficult time moving west of Metcalf when you have families driving past one, two or three elementary schools that are closer than 21.

Peter Capaldi

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

Marcus Gronholm

I didn't expect to win. It's a new car, it's a fantastic result. I thought I could win before the last stage, not earlier. Everything is possible. We had our problems this morning. I was expecting Sebastien will be closer but I knew it would be a good fight here, I was sure about that. Petter had so many troubles in this rally, he couldn't show his speed. We have to wait for Mexico to see what he can do.

Bobby Cox

I thought he was hitting closer to .300. He's had a lot of big hits.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Herbie Hancock

But in jazz, the song may be written by somebody else, but how you treat it is entirely with your notes and your expression.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Lucian Freud

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

Edward Hirsch

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

Lorenzo Carmon

Some people will wait until they see the pipes going in the ground to come sign up, but it gets to be more expensive when you do that.

Anna Nicole Smith

It's very expensive to be me.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

Philippa Gregory

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.

Abdolkarim Soroush

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Mike Shula

We've got some work to do. I think we made a small step.

David Baltimore

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Edward Snowden

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

Ronald Fisher

The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution of species, must cause this zone to be crossed and perhaps recrossed relatively rapidly in the course of evolutionary change, so that many possible gene substitutions may have a fluctuating history of advance and regression before the final balance of selective advantage is determined.

Tig Notaro

As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.

Sam Harris

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

S. Jay Olshansky

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

Tim Cook

I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.

Vanilla Ice

Drop that zero and get with the hero!

Steven Pinker

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Michael Ian Black

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.