Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Charlie Coles

This was a great accomplishment for the seniors, to go out with a win. They're second to Kent, and it's a close second.

Bob Ford

I think Will has done a superb job and the team has too, obviously. It's a step in this process for a school that went from (Division) III to II and I, and this is not a culmination by a long shot, but to get into the dance is a tremendous accomplishment, when you look at where the basketball team was four years ago.

Robert Clarke

It has been another great year for Honda in the IRL. We've faced increased competition from both Toyota and Chevrolet this season, along with the challenges of opening of our new facility in Santa Clarita, California. This achievement is a tribute to the tremendous hard work and dedication of all our associates at HPD, our teams and drivers, and our technical partners.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Colby Armstrong

He doesn't like to talk about it. He wants to focus on playing. But it would be a great accomplishment for an 18-year-old kid - and, with all the things we've been through this season, it's great we still have something to shoot for.

Mark Russell

He gets the lifetime achievement award. But, it's all pretty equal opportunity. No president ever let me down.

Tracy Lefteroff

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Gordon Smith

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.

Joe Gordon

To even consider getting involved in the broadcast is not possible.

Simon Cowell

I thought the song was boring. It is 'American Idol' and you've got to be as broad as possible.

Greg Sullivan

I think we're starting to get it. We're living in a different world than five or 10 years ago. And there's incredible value in the feedback we get from the broad developer community.

Terry Palmer

I think this needs to be broadcast a lot more in the coastal communities and the fishing communities.

Jonathan Adelstein

I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later,

Michael King

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Jim Higgins

We may end this round of talks without any deals getting done. The next round of talks may be more in the nature of niche acquisitions than broad combinations.

Eric Moulds

He knows a lot of veterans want to win now. The window is closing on the guys who have played 10, 13, 14 years. For me, every game counts now.

Dwight Rawlings

I thought we really played them well, but we had some costly turnovers in the closing minutes which really hurt us.

Peter Smerdon

What is a very limited window of opportunity to avert mass suffering in Kenya is closing very fast.

Bobby Cox

We've given Kolb a crack at it, Reitsma a crack at it, and of course, Farnsworth was closing in Detroit. We'll get it worked out. I still think Reits can do it.

Pat Riley

I thought we did a great job at the end of finally closing down and creating some misses.

Chris Kramer

Instead of closing our eyes, turning our back on (real-money trading), and just hoping it will go away, we instead decided to embrace it and make it legal or sanctioned for those who wanted to take part in it. It's a big experiment for us. It seems to be working out.

Jan Wald

Integration is going full-speed ahead. I don't think they would be concerned by a two-week delay in closing the deal, even though there's an interest payment.

Ulric Kenny

In our experience, first quarter funding figures are usually high because of the backlog from the previous year. Pre-Christmas closing means deals often drift into January.

Mike Sillinger

I just think it's one of those years. For whatever reason, we've struggled closing teams out. The same thing happened (Wednesday night). We turned the puck over, and it's in our net. You've got to be firm with the puck.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Seth Shostak

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.

Maria Rodriguez

What we want is the deal they promised us -- if we paid them, we were covered.

John Jay

Having them being released is a good thing. People make a big deal about it because it's an unknown.

Deborah Silverman

had a great deal of success with this program. We've set a number of sales records in the past few months, and we thought it was important to extend for the month of September.

Rebecca Loos

He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the whole thing. He's just a very different man.

John Yoo

I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.

Pat Gillick

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

Long Yongtu

There are still a few months. It depends on WTO members.

Bob Woolmer

It is all about how you perform on the field. It is a mental game and how well you display your talent depends on one's confidence.

Lou Marino

I think the extent to which that happens depends on how much of the top management would be retained.

Robert Jarvis

I think we've got a chance, an opportunity. A lot depends on how we execute, and our young guys can't let the pressure get to them.

Avery Johnson

I think we're just going to see how it goes. It all depends who we play.

Willie Randolph

He's going to go out and throw and get loose. It depends how he feels. If you're 100 percent sure that he's OK, you do it. But if not, you don't want to start the season with someone aggravating something that sidelines them any period of time.

Manuel Pellegrini

He's full of desire. Besides, his soccer depends more on technique than physique.

Steve Lundholm

It always makes it nice when the team performs this well. I'm not surprised with the way they played. They have been playing better; I hope they peak at the right time with districts on Tuesday.

Uma Bharati

I want to tour all districts of Madhya Pradesh. I want my voice to reach all people of the state.

Jesse Broderson

I had her tighten it up, move it over a bit. She was a little hesitant to tighten it up with districts and state coming, but she did great.

Rep. Gunderson

You will see a concerted effort in those districts by those folks who thought this was going to become law today to take another look at who their elected representative is.

Chad Latch

It was a good test for our guys. It's the end of the season with districts only one week away. It gives them a good environment for a big tournament, so it should prep them for districts.

Meg Casper

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

Kirby Green

We think it screams for the three districts to come together. So they don't all have to fight over the last drop.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

David Goodman

(The penalty) was a misunderstanding on the second hole. I was pleased with the way I played. I didn't shoot lights out but I'm happy to be going to districts again. It's nice a teammate (Karsten Reis) made it too so I won't be going alone. Overall, I'm pretty pleased.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Quentin Thomas

I talked to my family back home and my mom and we just prayed on it. It was something I went through and I'm not going to sit here and say it was something I'm glad I went through ? but it's helped me.

Josh Duell

I talked to my family about that, and they're fine with it. They just wanted me to be happy.

Robbie Loomis

I think it's a good time for me to reprioritize my personal life and get things figured out there. In life, for years, I've had racing, God and family. I'm trying to get it God, family then racing.

Pablo Gomez

He was a hero. But I can't let my family go through this again.

Vernon Keenan

It is gratifying to the GBI when we can identify and return remains to family members. We hope that by using the latest technology in our identification efforts, we will have other success stories as this project continues.

Jeff Fisher

Lastly, the holiday season is a season for family, so I guess it makes sense that we will kickoff the holidays with the Manning family visiting Nashville in consecutive weeks.

Wolf Blitzer

What does the Levy family want to hear from Gary Condit Thursday night?

Jeff Cohen

There is no better time than the holidays to make that introduction. You have so many family members together, you don't have to go out of your way to plan a special function.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Bruce Hoffman

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Steven Goldstein

It is impossible to overestimate how much this victory means to our organization and the LGBT community.

Richelle Mead

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

Renny Harlin

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Will Eisner

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Rod Parsley

When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

Harvey Mackay

What could you accomplish if no one told you it was impossible?

Henry Adams

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

James Kelley

We still have plenty of improving to do, especially in the secondary , but I think we made an important transition tonight. As long as we keep moving in the right direction, I'll be satisfied.

O. J. Simpson

The AXP System automates what was typically an 18-step manual process while improving the recovery rates of the stem cells.

John Street

On a regular basis, more properties become vacant and deteriorated than we are improving and tearing down on a regular basis,

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

John Sacchi

Ryan is starting to realize what it takes to win matches at this level. He keeps on improving every time he steps on the mat.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

Rebecca Riddle

We've been improving every year that I've been here.

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Francois Bourguignon

Remittances are hard-earned income that, in most cases, has already been taxed,

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Evelyn Morton

It's the only inflation-adjusted income source most older Americans have,

Andrew Black

It's likely these new-to-wireless people might be lower income, and pre-paid might actually be perfect for them.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Pete Seeger

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Malcolm Glazer

There is no acquisition that is too large for Zapata to consider,

Bob Wright

There aren't that many growing, independent Web sites that have picked up a large audience. Pretty soon, there won't be any left.

Jim Palmer

He was such an important part of my career, and a large part of our success in the 1960s.

Bill Sandusky

I have done a number of large paintings, but nothing this large and nothing this time consuming.

Ryan Holmes

I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Amanda Voorhis

We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.

Ernie Grunfeld

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll learn from it.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Alex Salmond

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

David Hudson

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

Al Nash

If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Doug Brien

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Rick Kaplan

It's a prize that's waiting to be taken,

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.

Marcus Aurelius

To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize

Evan Hirsche

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

Rebecca West

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

William J. Clinton

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

Valentino Rossi

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Robert Redford

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

W. H. Auden

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Tony Stewart

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Richelle Mead

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

Reba McEntire

[Faith] guides me on everything I do, i ask for guidance, I ask the Lord to give me wisdom when I speak, when I think and I always try to be positive and say nice things and it gives me strength throughout every minute and every day.

Salma Hayek

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Whoopi Goldberg

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

John Pont

I really think that is a real strength of the team.

John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

James Allen

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Anthony Froude

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Henry Rollins

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Melanie Fiona

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Nalo Hopkinson

I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.