Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

Kelly Preston

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Patricia Russo

Our deepest, heartfelt sympathy goes out to everyone affected by the scope of this tragic natural disaster, ... At times like these, the performance and reliability of communications networks are more critical than ever. That's why our Lucent and Bell Labs teams are drawing upon their knowledge and expertise in network disaster recovery to help the Gulf Coast victims and our customers to rapidly restore and rebuild the region's vital communications networks.

Lori Anderson

Our efforts reach far beyond this community, by participating in the tithe program we have helped Habitat for Humanity International build homes for 11 families living in Central America. It is exciting to think about how many lives can be affected when we share our blessings.

Bill Thompson

And the fact is, that can affect the gaming industry more than other sectors. Gaming is one group the threat of terrorism can really hurt. General Electric will still be going if there's another attack, but Las Vegas would be affected as if it were a hurricane like Katrina.

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Carol Thorp

The speculators on the market are pushing the price up - they're worried about oil coming from Iraq, they're worried about what Iran could do to affect the price, they're worried about labor unrest in Nigeria.

Theophilus London

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

Craig Biggio

That time he threw me one or two changes and I fouled one off and then the other one he got it up a little bit and I was able to get it far enough out. That gave us a (three-run lead), and with the way Andy was pitching that's all we needed.

Alan Buss

We didn't turn the ball over a lot and we didn't take many bad shots. Andy (Suter) did a great job on Fredrick in the second half, and we held (Taylor) Roehl to only four points. Like I said, it all starts with half-court defense.

The Foundation

Andy asked me to be a part of ... and I figured it was the least I could do for all the help he's given me. Once he told me who he was targeting with his message, I didn't hesitate to help.

Jon King

Andy and I had a extreme view about what we wanted, ... We didn't want the music to be shrouded in mystery. We wanted every instrument to sound like itself, instead of double tracking guitars or harmonising the vocals. It was that pursuit of authenticity that Andy and I were looking for. So, apart from a bit of reverb we wouldn't use any tricks.

Gene Taylor

Andy was kind enough to fly back there with me, ... Andy was there trying to help me. . . . My dad was killed. . . . The investigation was going nowhere.

ASAP Ferg

Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

Martin Lapointe

Andy played well. Our effort was there. We battled hard, but we've got to stay disciplined. We've got to stay out of the box. We didn't do that. That's the new NHL. It was too bad.

Phil Garner

Andy pitched very well. He's actually pitched with more velocity than he had tonight, and a little bit better control, but he's pitched well the whole year.

Jim Barnett

A veteran of portal and search wars, Rob has seen and touched all aspects of Yahoo's business from startup to hyper-growth.

David Farmer

Athletes that can generate the most watts of energy over time will win the race. In cycling at Tom's level, you can no longer just be a time trial specialist or a hill climber and expect to win a stage race like the Tour de France. You've got to be able to perform well in all aspects of the race.

Gu Yuan

The strikes and good economic indicators from China are supporting this round of the rally. The positive aspects of fundamentals are attracting more hedge funds, pension funds into metals and other commodities.

Krista Tippett

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

Chad Colby

Everything we've done has been to defer to the states and monitor them, like we do for Title I compliance. The state has a huge responsibility in all aspects of NCLB, and this is one of them. But we're partners with them in that we expect them to do the right things for their students.

Susan DeVore

We're looking at every point in the process, from scheduling to post-discharge care, because our data shows that hospitals who manage their key service lines in this manner are successful in collaborating with their medical staff. That performance-based collaboration is the key to improving all aspects of performance, including reducing implant costs.

Bennett King

One of the pleasing aspects for me now is that the players come up to us now and say they want to go down to the ground and do some work. They understand the work that's needed and, since they can't do it at home, basically we've got to do most of our training while we're away and that's one of the things we're trying to change.

Harry Blount

One of the most underappreciated aspects of the Dell story is that its recurring revenue stream is growing,

Robert H. Grubbs

One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst.

Liz Nichols

Athletics is a really important sport to us. We have to get them to the position where they can deliver medals and fulfil their potential. We can and do expect athletics to deliver more medals.

Mike Bellotti

Dennis is by far the better athlete. Brady has a gamesmanship, a sense of poise, that it's hard to not want to have him in there sometimes. They do a nice job, a great job, of supporting each other, providing a spark for the team, and bringing some different things to the table.

Greg Kaatz

Sam's just a great athlete, and a competitor. We're not sure how much we're really going to use him on the mound, but he wanted a chance to get some innings and got it done.

Jared Lorenzen

Pure guts. That's Eli. I mean, he's a Manning. He's an incredible player. To be hurting the way he was I know he had to have been hurting, but to get the ball down there 50 yards over the top of the safety for a touchdown, that's Eli. You're going to start expecting those out of him. He's a great athlete.

Mike Turpin

The season wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. There are a lot of things in athletics that make coaching difficult.

Tom Lamb

First of all, Nick is a terrific natural athlete. We figured he would be a good quarterback because he is a star pitcher on the baseball team. But we still weren't sure what to expect because Nick had never played the position before.

Alec Gunn

Brian is an all-around athlete. He can really haul. He's one of those guys that you've just got to let them stay in the game and get their rhythm, and he did that, I think.

Dale Mabrey

(Benson) gave us a big lift. He's a great athlete. He's really started to blossom.

Craig Frederick

Corey's not a real great athlete. But he's a pretty good wrestler.

Lyndsey Medders

Offensively, we've got to do a better job of getting better shots. It's not good when we're at the end of the (shot) clock every other possession shooting 27-foot 3-pointers. And that's a lot of me getting us in a better offensive flow.

Lawrence Samuels

Actually, I thought our clock operator needed to keep the clock rolling. That should have been the game. I tackled him. The clock should have been rolling for another count. I guess he needed to stop the clock and give them another play.

Jim Fassel

Deep inside, I know we can fix this thing and get going, ... Now, the clock is running.

A. E. Housman

And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.

Arron Afflalo

The shot clock went down and I have no problem taking that shot.

Mike Leaf

The shot clock was running down, and he knocked it down.

David Adelman

Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think the clock stopped for Sara Lee in 1995.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Roger Wicker

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Tony Lewis

What we need to do is compliment (Brian) and get Deandre back.

Bob Dylan

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

John Gill

We were excellent last week, we really were, but we were also very, very unlucky. Their goalkeeper got man of the match and I look on that as a compliment to my team.

Jesse L. Martin

Women do come up to me, and they tell me what they think! I've gotten great compliments on my eyes and my smile. But I don't see myself as sexy.

Amy Pascal

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

Irving Thalberg

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Sean Maher

It always takes a moment for me to process something like that, ... I think I'm prepared for it, but it's like receiving a really generous compliment that leaves you at a loss for words.

Joel Quenneville

He's a threat every night. He's got jump, he's got energy. I think that's a great compliment for a young kid: knowing that each and every night (the team is) getting something from him.

Robert Wagner

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Tynan

This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.

John Breaux

This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.

Buzz Hargrove

This is not the richest settlement ... There will be moderate improvements in most areas. I think it is a responsible response by Ford Motor Co. in some of the most difficult times that we've faced as an industry, which means our union has to face it as well.

Bobby Ross

Zac is turning some difficult plays into big plays.

Brian Tracy

Sometimes you can defuse a difficult situation simply by being willing to understand the other person. Often all that people need is to know that someone else cares about how they feel and it attempting to understand their position.

Eric Close

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Charles Freeman

complicated by insults to our allies, the indifference to the views of partners in the region, and the general disdain for the United Nations and international organizations that the administration still finds difficult to conceal.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Jim Sheridan

He works very, very hard - he's determined, very focused and has huge self-esteem,

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.

Johnny Ensing

Peter is really improving. He's improving his places and that's what I am looking at right now.

Drake Johnstone

If they demonstrate improving revenue growth, they could get $20 a share.

O. J. Simpson

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

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

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 Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Rick Carlisle

It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that.

Daron Rahlves

It's bad, it stinks, a poor performance by the team. It's really a poor showing. Big stage, little performance. I don't know why.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Jack Berry

As soon as they push the dirt, we can start selling that, and we will start selling that.

Matt Thissen

We want to do what we do and they want to do what they do. It may come down to who can push their will on the other one.

Ann Aguirre

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Simon Sinek

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Susan Jeffers

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

Sherilyn Fenn

They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!

Sissy Spacek

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Steve Capps

He took over this project, pushed Jef out.

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Bill Belichick

The toughest task now is, 'How are you going to top this?' Because we're going to win another one.

Giles Morgan

We went back on task at 8.00 this morning.

Andre Gide

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Theodor Adorno

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Paulo Coelho

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

Lars Trier

I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.

James C. Collins

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

George W. Bush

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!