Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.

Chipper Jones

I think he's a landslide winner. You're talking about a guy who plays Gold Glove defense, the best center fielder in the game, bar none. Everybody's just been waiting for him to turn the corner offensively, and now he's done that.

Mike Bryan

It hurts. It doesn't feel good to let your team down when you are staring down the barrel of giving yourself a two-set lead.

Charles Platt

It is cheaper than going to a bar all night or dinner and a movie.

James Buckley

We're protecting this like a bar of gold. This studio is a shining light in Watts.

Erik Coleman

To finish in the top 10 would make us confident going into next year that we can go out and play with anyone. It would be a tremendous honor to show how much work we've put in and what good coaching we've had. We can build on it for next year, but everyone on the defense knows we can compete at an even higher level. Hopefully next year we can raise the bar more and be even better.

John M. Smith

I think we have been able to break and establish some records over the past couple of years. We have basically established a new bar of excellence.

Condoleezza Rice

I think we can't keep moving the bar for the Iraqis.

Ted Danson

I think we should wait until we're in our 70s I think. You know, falling apart. Then it would be kind of funny. Get us all back in a bar again.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The time has come to build here and I will build here.

Leo Veness

I stand here watching the minutes count the hours.As the seconds build up the minutes.I have become a victorious victim, to the day and its diminishing digits.

Jack Straw

What we are doing, with the United Nations ' full support, is helping that full majority of Iraqis build what we have here -- a democratic, stable, prosperous and peaceful society.

Jon Jansen

We've really set ourselves up for a good stretch here. We've accomplished a lot this year. We set a good foundation, and that's something we can build on.

Dave Checketts

We've really battled through this. Now we have a change to build Soccer City USA.

Michael Crews

We've reached the point where we can build on this. I feel pretty good about next year.

Ted Kaczynski

What a toughie. It was a hard-fought battle. I was very pleased with my girls' overall effort and intensity. We didn't quite have enough to pull it out but it was a game we can build on for the future.

Craig Colten

We tend to build for the last storm.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Andy Stanley

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Sandy Wood

All the girls had good points in their matches today. . If we can take anything away from this, we know we can compete with the good teams out there.

Jeff Bright

All six guys are going to be pushing one another all season, which will keep them motivated. My philosophy is that you should always play for something. By learning how to compete under the gun every time, they will put themselves in a position to qualify for state.

Anastasia Myskina

It's every time like this between us. We grew up together, we play together, we still compete together, so it's tough between us.

Luke Reigel

It's a step in the right direction. Last year, we kind of laid the foundation. This year, we took another step forward. The next step for us is to compete for championships and 20-win seasons.

Scott Gerber

A lot of these are going to compete with apartments. To the extent that trend exists and continues, it will slow any improvement in the rental market.

Randy Couture

A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

Chris Duhon

A lot of these guys have been in these type of situations before. We understand that we're not playing to our capabilities right now. We just have to all come out, loosen up, have fun and go out there and compete every night.

Marc Ganis

They have concluded they can't compete directly with the Yankees and Red Sox for resources (i.e. expensive players). But they realized there are ways to compete with the other middle-of-the-pack teams to make it to the World Series and win it.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Eric Barber

He's more comfortable than last year. Last year he was thrown into the fire. This year he understands the position more. He's more confident and more confident about the people around him.

Bobby Frasor

Ever since that game, I've tried to play tough defense in practice. Defense wins games.

Mickey Mala

Early on, our defense was a little suspect. But in the second half, they were hitting some pretty tough shots.

Dave Hakstol

Drew has to be the offensive leader for us. But what I was happiest about was how strong he was on defense and how well he killed penalties.

E. B. White

D-Y has great skill-position people, which means our defense is going to have to come up big for the second week in a row.

Hugh Keefe

During this part of an investigation, all the defense can do is wait to see what develops with final charges.

Tommy Bowden

Duane is too good of a player to sit on the bench, ... He practices extremely hard. We want to move him to defense in an effort to get him on the field.

Sherri Coale

Early in the half we did a good job of holding them off. We did enough on defense to keep them from scoring.

Sally Starr

Erin definitely kept us in the game. There was a point in the first 10 minutes that I thought it could be really ugly, but she had some big saves. Erin and the defense did enough to keep us competitive.

Eric Vollmers

Eureka really stepped up its defense tonight. They did a great job taking us out of our offensive set and we weren't able to get many open looks and started falling behind.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Lindsay Davenport

It's not really in my mind, ... If I won here, I wouldn't stop. I would finish the year.

Jose Reyes

It's nothing to worry about. I'll be fine. I don't need a day off. I want to finish strong.

Marty Schottenheimer

It's no one segment of our football team. We're a good football team. But we still haven't been able to understand how to finish the deal.

Robbie Loomis

It's one of those situations you'd love for it to be a storybook finish and you win the championship and walk off into the sunset,

Debra Pegram

It starts with that. I'm hoping we'll finish that with one more win.

Jim Smith

It's taken a lot of footwork to put this together. As soon as we finish one, we start planning the next one. We can always use some more volunteers.

David Esquer

It was as good a finish as we've ever had here. Today's game was a big lift for us. The win could mean a lot for us down the road. It was huge.

Shane Valdez

Our goal is always to make it to state. Winning here is a nice bonus, but you could finish sixth here and still win state.

Shaun McGinn

Song is making a very good impression so far. He's got a fastball, curveball and throws a changeup, but his split-finger is a true out pitch. He's got very good numbers.

Duncan Hunter

So my point is, you can have a good reform, but in doing that, you don't want to hurt the troops that are in the field.

Norm MacDonald

So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Joe Tiller

Some years the schedule rolls your way and some years it doesn't. There are a lot of very good teams in the conference, so I don't think you can make any assumptions about any teams.

Don Norton

Some years it probably would because you're hit with a lot of injuries. Some years, it's probably not so good because you don't want to (break) your routine.

Jim Bates

Sometimes when you want inside push we'll use Grady. He's been a good pass-rusher in his career.

Mike Redmond

Sometimes I laugh when we talk. I'm 13 years older than he is. He's got a great grasp for what's going on out there. I don't think I've ever talked to a 22-year-old kid with as much of a good idea as he has.

John Adair

Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.

Mike Devaney

Teams will give us a really good shot because we have a target on our back.

Rebecca Garang

We want to keep his legacy alive. Keeping the peace is how we can honor his memory.

Charlie Munger

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Julia Renfro

What she's saying is there has to be a reason because she knows her son was not there,

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Mackey Sasser

We've been playing good. But over the next two weeks we get to find out what we're made of. We get to play the top two teams in the conference.

Ben Horowitz

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

Marc Benioff

We're trying to provide a platform for applications. We think that's the next level. We are trying to become the Windows of the internet.

Adrian Lyne

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

Ted Bahhur

We have to come back next week with a vengeance.

Rick Parry

There has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Treat Williams

This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.

Rosevelt Colvin

If you go out there and get flat-out beat, then something's got to change. We've got a lot of work to do.

Mike Melson

I always try to work with my cousin.

Brent Mitchell

He would take derelicts on to work for him.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Alec Baldwin

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

Aldo Leopold

I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.

Aldous Huxley

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

Aldous Huxley

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.