Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brady

The buck stops here. I take full responsibility.

Matthew Fassler

The buck stopped at his desk, but from too many directions.

Jack Hanna

The buck has to stop here - from what I've seen, the new elephant exhibit is phenomenal.

Ray Allen

People decide if they want to be led, they'll be led. If they decide they don't want to be part of the system, they'll buck it.

Ernie Whitt

People, especially in Canada, have been making a big thing out of the fact that we are opposing each other as managers. Buck is a close friend of mine. Canadian fans might consider the U.S. to be friendly rivals, but there's certainly no rivalry between Buck and myself.

Sam Hayes

Defensively, their guards get out in the passing lanes, and with Ames in the middle, it makes it tough to go down to the bucket area.

Jon Daniels

The sense of urgency is always there. Whether we made 20 moves or one, Buck will have these guys prepared to play hard everyday. I get paid to have a short- and a long-term perspective. Every night at 7:05, Buck and the team have a three-hour perspective.

George Glynos

The strengthening trend is very much intact. I'd be very reluctant to buck the trend. It's very much driven by the commodities, with platinum approaching $1,000.

Jim Peters

The South Carolina real estate market continues to buck national trends.

Marc Singer

Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.

Michael Sprung

Oil is stronger. That'll be reflected in the Canadian market. We'll wait and see what the Fed does. One more quarter point after today is fine, but if there's a hint that the current course will continue further, there will be concern in the market.

Monty Hall

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

Brent Grulke

Are all Canadians talented musicians? Sometimes it seems like it.

John Wright

The strength of the Canadian dollar and its impact on manufacturing and exports, plus the ascendancy of China and India as major global economic players, may be putting a degree of caution into the air.

Dustin Milligan

The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.

Kris Draper

I've never been part of it. I'm really looking forward to it. After Vancouver and Calgary and what we've heard about the way it is in Edmonton for the playoffs ... it's pretty special for a Canadian kid to be part of that.

Justin Trudeau

I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.

Stephen Harper

I've made no secret of our desire to rebuild the Canadian military to have the capacities of a sovereign nation. To make foreign policy decisions that are not only independent but are actually noticed by other powers around the world.

Kyle McSlarrow

Any government mandates, and certainly for any one of those options (suggested by Martin), in our view is very clearly under Supreme Court precedent a violation of the First Amendment.

Susan Basford

As elephants get older, pregnancies certainly become more problematic.

Jerome Holtzman

a shortstop with some, but certainly not overwhelming promise.

Larry Ellison

As far as J.D. Edwards, we're certainly interested, ... We've been looking at that closely as well. It's simply a matter of terms of the deal and price of the deal. We're keeping our options open there.

Neil Fox

As for heat, it certainly seemed very hot throughout the month, and maybe the dryness accounted for that impression.

Carl Duke

As for widespread searches, we aren't doing that, but if a lead comes about a location we will certainly check it out.

Yotam Ottolenghi

As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.

Sophie Okonedo

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.

Bill Belichick

As a football team, they completely outplayed us tonight. They made the plays and we certainly didn't make them.

Ricky Carmichael

As far as the five wins at Daytona, it really feels great. It's pretty amazing. I love this race. It's close to home, and I've always done well here. I really enjoy it. It's fun for me. It's special.

Hans Schwab

As far as quality is concerned, we are very close to the feeling you experience on a private aircraft, with the difference that we are a scheduled service.

Steve Lyons

As expected, we experienced payback in September following a strong performance to start the quarter. We're optimistic we can close the year on a positive note with the introduction of our new mid-size cars.

George Scalise

As expected, the semiconductor industry should close out 2002 with modest but sustained overall growth,

Hank McKinnell

as close to zero as you can get.

Sathya Baba

As close as you are to GOD, so close is GOD to you.

Brian Sabean

as close as two can be without being brothers.

Steve Capps

As close as it is to us, it's not in a very good spot. It's in terrible shape.

Bill Owens

As a big fan, I told him something needed to be done, ... He said they were close to reaching an agreement.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Ken Williams

I've always thought it's kind of disrespectful to the guys that have gotten you in the position to consider a move, ... So if you come out and say I need X, Y or Z ... they deserve better than that.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Johnny Depp

This is a rumor-filled society and if people want to site around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Tadahito Iguchi

As far as the playoffs themselves, there's not really much difference, ... The fact I was able to hit this home run this first year playing, I'm very happy.

Ed Gillespie

As I've said on your show repeatedly, the fact is the president will be up. He will be down, ... Inside Politics.

Martin O'Malley

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

Kevin Colbert

People say we haven't signed big free agents, but they lose sight of the fact that we signed significant players of our own.

Rick Honeycutt

People say we have no true ace. The fact is, we have four veteran guys that all have had good levels of success.

Newt Gingrich

People can walk out, but what I'm saying is a fact about a crime,

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

P. James

We're gonna have some fun here. We always have a good time on this team. I've been getting out to see a few things and the fans have been great to me.

Brendan Fehr

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Brad Delson

I was a big Transformers fan.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Cameron Diaz

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

John Spear

Ray's a good friend of mine, but maybe this is political payback?

Paul Rieckhoff

People don't feel comfortable getting mental health care, necessarily, because they're worried that their friends are going to think they're unstable or they're crazy.

Indian Proverb

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Les Paul

The worst is over. I am doing better. I am grateful to all of my friends for their thoughts and I will be back shortly making them laugh.

Pat Lester

This group is such a wonderful, friendly group. We're very nurturing of each other.

Jack McGuire

This gift represents the true friendship that the people of Kuwait feel for the people of the United States.

Jamar Nesbit

The most frustrating thing is not knowing. I've had neighbors and friends go by my house and give me reports. But I have the keys; nobody can get in. So I don't really know.

Ayn Rand

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

Pat Lester

This group is such a wonderful, friendly group. We're very nurturing of each other.

Albert Einstein

When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

T. E. Lawrence

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

Rashida Jones

I'm generally a pretty friendly person.

Rick Riordan

Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.

Rick Riordan

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Rush Limbaugh

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Raymond Bachand

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Mike Rumph

This is not a stopgap, ... It might be like this for a while.

Daunte Culpepper

That's how it is. You might go through a stretch like that sometimes. Hopefully, I'll go through a stretch when I throw 12 or 15 touchdowns in a row without a pick.

Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.