Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Foulkes

Kenny Laag was super on that mound, but Andy Reid was the man. He got ahead of a lot of hitters. He took charge out there. It was a big start for a senior, and he really stepped up and shined.

Todd Fairbourne

Jackie threw one heck of a game. She hit her spot 90-95 percent of the time and pitched ahead of the count.

Kim Clijsters

I think it's a compliment but, you know, I've got a tough match ahead of me, ... I'm not really thinking too much about being the favorite because I know what I have to do out there to win my matches.

Jay Wright

I think it changed the game. I think he was way ahead of his time. He caught the country by surprise the year he went to the Final Four. I think even after years he had all that success going to the Final Four, I think that it still took all of us a long time to catch up.

Felipe Lopez

He likes to get ahead of guys. For infielders, it keeps us on our toes. He keeps the game moving.

Chuck Grassley

He is putting the good of country and party ahead of his own personal ambitions.

Joel Bertsch

He learned from the guy ahead of him. He's a real smart kid, he makes good decisions, he's got a strong arm, he's a great leader and a real good field guy. The guys believe in him.

Hilton Armstrong

He knows what's going to happen before it happens. It's like playing a game of chess with him. He can see a couple moves ahead and orchestrate the game.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan usually refrains from saying anything market moving ahead of speeches before Congress,

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Brian Brennan

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investors.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Group Inc

Goldman Sachs has called Lower Manhattan its home for 136 years and we are proud to reaffirm our commitment to this neighborhood and to the city of New York,

Joe Suboticki

Going undefeated in the City League, that doesn't happen very often. I've got to tip my hat to my kids. That's an outstanding feat.

Donna Johnson

Goodbye, city life; Dream Acres, we are here!

Mark Rodgers

He's been polite but persistent. He's enjoyed the Mets, the city and the people, but he can do the math. He knows right now there's no room for him.

Jeff Allen

I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.

John Sunderland

I suspect in due course they will reach a fruitful conclusion.

Rich Beem

Guys skipping this event to go prepare for next week -- are you kidding? This is the perfect course to set up for Augusta.

Hank Bontrager

Golf courses don't really want us very much. But some of them are so generous for letting us play there.

Dick LeBeau

He's a lot faster runner than you would think for a man of his dimensions. But his real strength of course is anchoring and inverting the line of scrimmage and letting us play around him.

Ernie Accorsi

He's got great numbers, considering his injuries, ... If he's healthy he's on a course for a big-time career.

Annika Sorenstam

I thought yesterday was a long day, one of the longest days on the golf course. It's really hard to stay focused, especially on a course like this.

Tim Howard

I think you hope, throughout the course of your career, if you do things right often enough, you might get a moment in time that you can do something special.

John Vickers

I think the crux of the issue hasn't been so much how much money I make. It's is the golf course really making its fair share.

M. Thompson

Just to get that hit, it felt great.

Mark Sullivan

Karl Miller once described a role that he had as 'actor-proof.' I kind of felt like that was Justin. He was so well-written, it was kind of hard to not do him justice.

Graeme Smith

(Kallis) said that he got through yesterday's session fine. He felt it with one or two shots, cross-bat shots.

Noah Lowry

Just one pitch. Everything else felt pretty good out there.

Michael Hopkins

Jones had his intensity level up from the start. We felt if we got off to a quick start we could hang with them, but we never found a way to stop Jones.

Sam Perlozzo

I talked to Richie at the time it happened, and we felt if it was going to completely heal, it was going to take about six weeks. You just hope nothing happens to him and he can get through the rest of the month.

Paul Formica

I talked to Kevin and he had nothing but great things to say about Cleveland. I think Kevin is going to take his time and wait until the end. I don't think the Indians are able to give him what he wants, which is five years, so I felt comfortable talking with him.

Mike Holmgren

I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it,

Tim Duncan

I think it's a great situation for everyone, especially myself. I felt good tonight. I felt like I was moving pretty well and not in a lot of pain, so it was good.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Aaron Bruce

He's a force inside. You love to play with players who are that dominant.

Kim Whitney

Her reach, and well, her height, of course. She's so physical because she has this mentality and force of just wanting to win. That's important to go on to the next level.

Michael May

Holiday '99 will force a shake-out about who can and who can't stand alone.

John Knight

We told them this is gut-check time. It's who wants it more. It's going to be sheer force of will.

Steve Spurrier

We threw one up, but we should have tackled the guy somewhere. We should have been able to run that guy down, but we couldn't do it. That was just one of the big plays in the game. Nah, 28-7 is no safe lead for us. We didn't force a punt in the second half, so it wasn't safe. They should have scored another touchdown.

Ben Wallace

I thought they were the more poised team down the stretch. I thought we maybe lined up too many threes down the stretch and tried to force the outcome instead of doing what we usually do.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

Martin O'Malley

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Dave Annable

Hollywood is full of beautiful people - but who knows how many are beautiful inside?

Randy Pfitzer

I thought he did well. He's a sophomore, and he does a good job at what he does. He has more potential, I would like to see him realize his full potential. I would have like to have seen him move on.

Rhonda Jefferson

I think (the break) had something to do with us starting off flat. We did have practices during the week off, but Monday was the first full practice because we had the whole team there.

Russ Blackburn

We're open to others speaking, but we do want to make sure they have the full picture and they have the information they need.

Marshall Wittmann

Clearly, they have to make gains in 2006, or it's possible there will be a contest.

Chuck Robinson

I'm just not sure it gains us anything,

Art Hogan

The larger trend remains to the upside, but its hard to say whether we'll see gains in the short-term,

John Christopher

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

Michael Fay

All that poverty alleviation means is an increase in exploitation of the resources, and it provides short-term and relatively superficial gains for people in Africa,

Ryohei Muramatsu

The dollar's gains were capped around the recent peak level of 119.39 yen, because this level is also a key resistance level on charts.

Ryohei Muramatsu

The dollar's gains today were capped around the recent peak level of 119.39 yen, because this level is also a key resistance level on charts.

David Mozina

The dollar's gains are pretty much broad-based, with losses being led by the euro.

Oriana Fallaci

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Ken Hitchcock

I think that it's given a lot of people, including myself, time to pause and reflect,

Kazuo Inamori

I think that is the opportunity that is given by this event.

Phil Rosenthal

Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them.

Jose Saramago

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

David Healy

A strike would be moot unless they waited until GM was back in production after the Flint strikes. If they went down now, who would care? It wouldn't mean anything.

David Healy

It's one of the reasons why GM will lose less money in 2006.

Edward Forbes

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Chip Hanlon

The way GM is trading and is going to multiyear lows, that never is a big psychological positive for the market.

Brian Ferneyhough

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

John Tierney

contributed to a sense that GM problems are very deep.

Annalee Newitz

GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

E. O. Wilson

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Tom O'Neil

His shyness is hurting him. He is pulling out of public appearances lately and it's been widely noticed. He's been pulling back when he should be campaigning.

Rich Irr

It didn't matter if it was regulation or overtime. It was going to hurt.

Manu Ginobili

It didn't hurt me. But the league makes its own decisions.

Claude Julien

It didn't hurt having Theodore back. He proved why he's a top goaltender.

Doc Rivers

I thought we really lost our intensity. We started watching them play for a while, and I thought that really hurt us.

Tom Renney

It hurt us from that point of view. We had our practice all ready to go as we always do, but specifically for Pittsburgh.

Conchita Martinez

It hurt too much, ... There was no way I could play on.

Tom Henley

It hurt the community, it sure did. When you've been raised up in the church, you love it. I sure do.

Cammi Granato

It hurts when you know something is so wrong and there is nothing you can really do about it,

Wally Herger

The impacts of this inflexible law have been real and devastating,

Bill Hamilton

They obviously have one of the largest impacts of any employer,

Judd Gregg

We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone.

Dan Miller

People will come anyway, the reason to get involved is to keep impacts positive.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Richelle Mead

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

Russell Crowe

On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.

Russell Crowe

Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.

Russell Baker

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Ruben Hinojosa

The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

Rose Schneiderman

The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Tracy Morgan

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,

Venus Williams

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

Valerie Bertinelli

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

Roger Angell

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Veronica Roth

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Eric Katzman

In the 2-1/2 months that have elapsed there has not been any divestiture news.

John Godina

It has taken six months for me to get past my injuries.

Patrick Faure

I really think we can be more optimistic than we could have been six months or a year ago.

Colin Cooper

I played with a fracture in my foot for seven months without knowing it.

Venus Williams

I don't have time to be negative.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

Andrea Williams

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not sure it does that.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Leif Garrett

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Karl Rove

Negative politics have always been around.

Kapil Dev

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Joel Osteen

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Louise Hay

Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences, and negative affirmations create negative experiences. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then, only good will come to me. I use my affirmations wisely.

Ronnie Dunn

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Kristin Chenoweth

I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Edward Abbey

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Don Nickles

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Anita Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Scott Westerfeld

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

Tim Blake Nelson

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Tramain Hall

All of a sudden they took the points off the board, ... It was like, 'Are you serious?'

Adam Morris

I've got to put on some more points and more yardage,

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

Bryan Robson

It's not over though, there are still a lot of points to play for.

W. S. Gilbert

It's a tight race in the WCHA and we know these points are so important.

Jason Allison

It's a tight division, there's not a lot of points separating a lot of teams. We're going to have to go out there and come up with some wins.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

Sarah Wilson

In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Richard Morris

It's probably down because of the provisions on those two UK projects.

John Walters

It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.

Jim McManus

One of the things we always recommend is that there are provisions for the trustee to be replaced.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Hubie Brown

In my opinion, they are the favorite, and they are a solid favorite.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

Dave Tippett

It was just a solid hit. That's part of the game.

Ken Engelke

They have solid fundamentals up and down the lineup. You can't take anything for granted.

David Heard

We got real solid play from everybody. We?re that kind of team. We get different contributions from different people.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Dee McCann

I'm anxious. Little nervous. You know how it is. You never know until that day comes.

Charlotte Rampling

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Josh Trank

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.