Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Ken Hitchcock

To me, it's about new heroes. It's about people other than the obvious ones stepping up. It's about people supplying energy and momentum for you. We're in a no-choice situation. We need everybody to bring the energy they can.

Octavius James

We think the Civic Center is one of the greatest venues in the Midwest. We want to bring a first class card here with local fighters and we feel that we have done that.

George Braun

We think most people won't use the test, but it will be a deterrent because they will bring it up.

Pat Schroeder

We think maybe we have educated them, and we just hope they will bring their education back to our shores.

Sandy Berger

There have been incidents today, and we just need to encourage (and) press the parties to do everything to try to bring this under control,

Steve Cohen

There have been a number of confidence boosters that have helped bring this about.

David Armour

We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over for anybody, ... Bring your 'A' game, because we're bringing ours. No matter how ridiculous the score is or how close the score is, you're still going to have to play every play.

Jessica Phillips

We are very strict about this: We do not do any evangelism, we are not missionaries. Our interest is to bring an end to the violence and destruction of civilian life in Iraq.

Hans Blix

We have not seen a serious effort on the Iraqi side ... or evidence that would clear up the question marks.

Cheryl Everall

We haven't heard anything back yet, but that's why we're speaking publicly now. I think this is an issue of importance not only to clear our name but to demand justice for this family.

Trent Duffy

The president has made clear that he was not satisfied with the federal response. That is why he ordered a comprehensive 'lessons learned' report and plans to work aggressively to implement improvements to our disaster response plans by the start of hurricane season.

Scott Bleier

Those are the segments that have the most powerful organic growth going forward for the next two to three years, minimum, ... You have to steer clear of the very highly-speculative small-cap technology names, those stocks that have been around for a long time and have reinvented themselves over the last year as Internet companies.

Maxim Medvedkov

We'll do our utmost in order to complete the negotiations this year. By the autumn, I think we'll have a clear understanding of whether we can do it or not.

Rick Fried

Those make it pretty clear that it's from the raw sewage.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Unfortunately the picture is still hazy and not very clear as to the scope of the program and the nature of the program.

Richard Engel

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Raf Simons

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Don Cooper

His confidence is where it needs to be.

Art Hogan

The retail stores are doing well. Consumers remain confident, continue to be out there spending their money, ... A lot of money was created with lower interest rates and refinancing -- things of that nature. So, consumer confidence has stayed very high and retail stores, that have actually done it right, have been doing pretty well.

Wendy Hedberg

When she gets her confidence she is tough. She works at it. She is doing a good job.

John Lynch

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

Ram Dass

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Claire McCaskill

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Clint Eastwood

Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.

Dylan Moran

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

Dylan Moran

It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.

e. e. cummings

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

E. B. White

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

E. B. White

The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

E. B. White

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

Og Mandino

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Wayne Rooney

I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do. (on signing for Manchester united)

Tyrone Willingham

Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.

Zack Greinke

I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?

Rick Riordan

Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

Sam Altman

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

Sam Altman

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

Xavi

I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.

Aaron Brooks

I'm not where I want to be, but I don't think this team is where they want to be.