Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Pete Domenici

the momentum is behind the simple more ... basic findings rather than the detailed ones.

Ernest Mandel

Coming out of all these basic conceptual distinctions we can conclude the necessity of a vanguard formation nearly immediately.

Earl Blumenauer

Any community needs to plan to be able to realize their vision, ... Things that some people think are amenities ... are, in fact, part of the basic infrastructure.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Neal Milner

An ombudsman has an obligation when it spots trouble, when it spots patterns, basically to speak truth to power.

Steve Conway

Are these prices competitive or are we being gouged? That's the basic question here today.

Cindy Cuthbertson

The state does the spraying, and basically we just have to wait until it's our turn. They've told us it will hopefully be sometime Wednesday. But even after they spray, you still have to come inside by 5:30 p.m. or 6 p.m., so we don't know what will happen.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

Cory Cross

Coming to an Original Six team, with all the history and the Stanley Cups, a locker room full of superstars I grew up watching and enjoyed playing against, it's a great feeling.

Gary Turcott

Coming to a new situation and a new system, it took a while to figure out. We were running a lot more things for him the last month of the season.

Matt Foreman

This is the only piece in the show that doesn't have a slide in it. In some ways, it's the most conceptual piece in the exhibition.

Craig Venter

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

John Brooks

Cooper high-tailed it out of there. He concluded the meeting and he was gone.

Caterina Scorsone

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sitting cross legged on the floor listening to a never-ending story. Page after page.

David Buik

NYSE is looking for acquisitions. London seems totally obvious, totally sensible and I expect them to come galloping over the hill to conclude something at around the 950p to 10 pound level in the months to come.

Barbara Turner

If we get to the Final Four (April 2-4 in Boston), we will have concluded our four-year stretch very well.

Kent Willis

Since Michael is not listed with a wife in 1880, I must conclude he did not leave a widow or children.

Brian Nick

I don't think the taxpayers of Nevada or any other state could look at this gigantic hate document and conclude their money is being spent to do the people's business.

Makhosini Nkosi

However, no-one was found on the farm. A number of personal items were found in the house, which made the police conclude that the inhabitants of the house had vacated it hastily.

E. O. Wilson

I concluded that it could not have happened.

Scott Ford

It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.(Fords pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate)

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Publius Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich

John Diaz

I don't see it as a necessity to run them.

Arnold H. Glasow

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Pema Chodron

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom