Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Horacio Ramirez

I think it's a little different because we're opening up here. It's a little more exciting because it's the opening series. But last year was almost as exciting, because it was the first time I pitched in L.A. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.

Mike Browning

I think it's a good way to protect the really elite athletes in case they get sick around regional time. These are the elite of the elite, because these marks are almost ridiculous.

Zoe Lofgren

I think it's a blessing that we've managed to keep the heavy hand of regulation off the Internet, ... When the government moves in to regulate the Internet, we'll almost always get it wrong.

Dexter Filkins

I think - I think the real nightmare place now is less Afghanistan than it is Pakistan. I mean, again, Pakistan is this gigantic country, deeply troubled, kind of almost ungovernable, sitting on top of probably 50 or 60 nuclear warheads. Nobody really knows where the warheads are; the Americans certainly don't know where they are.

Mike Cooke

I think it is almost inevitable that it will happen. It's not going to go away.

Jolene Ortego

I think it almost provides comfort for parents to know they have that instant way of communicating with their kids.

Matt Ward

Keeping up with your schoolwork is difficult, but coach does a good job of keeping us on task and all the kids here are well-rounded. Good students, good athletes stand up to the challenge.

Jonathan Williams

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Steve Shephard

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Dave Johnson

He is passionate about coaching, he values and develops each athlete's unique skills and leadership abilities, and he challenges both his veteran athletes and neophytes to be better persons in and out of the pool.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Hilton Armstrong

There are so many athletes on this team. But everybody gives up a little bit to make the team better.

Lennox Lewis

Here I will help build up other athletes around the world and help them avoid the mistakes I made,

Pete Noble

Having them split time might hurt us early. Both are versatile athletes that we need on the field. Michael had an edge with experience.

Kellan Lutz

Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

Derrick Mason

I was jaw-jacking with him a little bit, but it was fun, ... I was like, 'Keep coming, rook, because we are going to keep coming at you.' He's only going to get better the more he plays.

Erick Siqueira

I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Roy Blunt

Knowing what is going to happen next year is going to be helpful in coming to a conclusion this year,

Shemar Moore

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

Buck Showalter

Knowing Kam, I don't think there will be anything. He's still mad about coming out of the game.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

John Gray

I would think that it must be just awful, because he knows the measure by which he has fallen short. I don't think there's any doubt that he must know that all those dreams he had are coming to nothing.

Andrew Friedman

He's been invaluable in our discussions and our planning going forward, and the working relationship has been outstanding.

Patrick Cox

It's really an invaluable natural resource. We wanted to make sure it's in a protected state.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Having an education is invaluable.

Daniele Audetto

They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect.

Ron Rivera

It's an invaluable time for him because he can learn so much. It's a little disappointing we didn't get the job done.

Keith Reynolds

You never feel like you're really ready for this until it happens. Preparing for a big to-do like this is an invaluable experience.

Steve Sampson

(Cronin) got invaluable playing time tonight and I thought he played very well for his debut.

Rich Rodriguez

He understands everything we're trying to do. He's invaluable to us, more so for his leadership than anything else.

Timothy Dean

Our students won't simply be placed at the back of a section. They'll be right in the middle of the action, near the front. It will give them invaluable experience.

Chipper Jones

He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here.

Brady Bomber

It's going to be a battle. They can shoot the lights out on any night.

Robert Altman

Every time we try to turn the lights up, they say, 'Turn 'em down!'

Larry Porter

As you can see we don't have any lights on.

Steve Costello

This can be used for new traffic lights or sidewalks or a whole variety of things.

Michelle Paver

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Tom Link

It's a different way of living; you don't turn on lights indiscriminately.

Richard Tolbert

They're going to tax people who have to get a payday loan just to keep their lights from being turned off.

Ken Jenne

There's debris, there are tree limbs all over. Traffic lights are out, ... Don't get in your car.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Charna Halpern

He was here two nights in a row.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Jeff Perreault

I kind of thought the third was going to be our period, it was just one of those nights where things didn't go our way.

Roy Williams

It was one of those nights that kind of snowballed on Dave's team.

Demond Garth

It was just one of those nights when nothing would fall.

Dave Sullivan

A lot of First Nights suffered. It was a very tough time for everyone.

Steven Sherwood

There were a lot of tense nights when he was on the loose.

Heather Watts

There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Travis Barker

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Wordsworth

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

William Wordsworth

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

William Wordsworth

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Richard D. James

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Rob Brown

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

Reid Hoffman

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

William J. Clinton

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Tori Amos

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

William J. Clinton

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

Lucy Liu

I'll play Charlie's granddaughter. We're turning it all on its head.

Pico Iyer

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

Elizabeth Fishel

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Dawn French

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Albert Camus

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Victoria Principal

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it