Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Vladimir Radmanovic

I don't think we're going to play football in the playoffs. Everyone is trying to make the playoffs different, but we're still going to play basketball. Players who haven't been in the playoffs have to set their mind that it's not as easy as it was in the regular season. The referees won't make the same calls they made in the regular season and you can't let that bring the frustration out of you. That's the biggest adjustment.

Bob Djurdjevic

Global Services results are disappointing, especially a $2 billion drop in its backlog in the fourth quarter. And a 9% decline in new contract signings? That means that the biggest IBM unit is losing more business from its backlog than it is signing.

Tony Wingen

If this wasn't the biggest win in school history, it's right up there with any of them. It was fantastic. To prepare to win, carry out the game plan to perfection, and actually win the game, it was like winning a championship.

Pat Metheny

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Rachel Yeggy

He was definitely one of my biggest fans.

Alan Johnston

He was wearing a skull cap, and it was the biggest lift for me, personally. I came down to my office and cried because I knew everything was fine.

Al Frost

I got him a good one, right on the neck. I might give him another one before the night is over, I'm sure. Kyle is a strong kid. He's big and physical. He was a JV kid last year. This was definitely the biggest win in his life.

Rico Thompson

He was great tonight. It was a great way for him to end his career here.

James Butler

I blitzed a lot in college. But these were the first sacks of my career and I'm very excited about it.

Joe Sakic

He was unbelievable for us. He's done it his whole career and he's done it for us Canadians, and he's continuing to do it, so it's always nice to have him back there. ... You can just tell he was focused and ready to play.

Floyd Reese

He will hopefully be a Titan for a number of years and finish his career here.

Jonathan Barnett

He's certainly got a few years left of his playing career and he wants to give it all for Celtic.

Mark Williams

He had an outstanding career for me. It's tough to replace a player like that. I doubt will have a post man like that for a while.

Patrick Moore

He has had a long, successful career as a criminal defense lawyer. He has given his life for it,

Rick Carlisle

He desperately wanted to play. This is what you play your career for. I know it really hurt him to sit out the other night.

Rory Kinnear

Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.

Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?

Tori Amos

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

Eric Braeden

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Krista Tippett

Fear usually looks like anger.

Mark Twain

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Queen Latifah

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.

Kim Kardashian

Personally, I've always loved the curvy look.

Kelly Lynch

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

Saul Perlmutter

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled

Von Hatley

They are in the bag. The money is in the bank. It's in a J.P. Morgan account.

Matt Rosoff

They have to prove this year that Xbox 360 is going to be a money maker, because they have put a lot into it. Overall, I don't think there were any big surprises. Windows and Tools are going like gangbusters.

Slim Thug

It's like we got a big state right here and we got Louisiana, too. That's a lot of people. That's a lot of different retail stores and you can make a lot of money off of that alone.

Richard Miller

It's going to require a fundamental shift in our resources, our money and our leadership.

Taeya Stanley

It's for tourism, probably not to scare people. Money yeah.

Karl Rove

I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.

Lara St. John

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

Jeff Ross

You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

Mike Doyle

When the trains come through, you're trapped. We've now secured the money (for flyover ramps in Duquesne and McKeesport).

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.