Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike McConachie

Having a contested race is probably a tribute to our population growth. There may be a general feeling that 16 years is long enough and is tough for chance. An elected office is not supposed to be permanent." ()

Brian Cupples

He just hit a shot. It was contested and he hit the shot. Nothing you can do. We were in what we wanted to be in. The kid made it.

Gregg Schaffer

Laser made a great play. It was a contested 3 from long range and he made a big shot.

Sandro Bondi

There is a difference of 25,000 votes and there are 43,000 contested votes.

Frank Haith

He had shots. But they were making sure every shot was a contested shot.

Scott Drew

He hit the big 3, a contested 3. In games like this, it comes down to who makes the big shot. He hit a big shot.

Kyle Korver

He hit that (three-pointer) over me in the first game of the season. I thought I contested it so hard the first game and he still made it. I was, like, 'Not again.' But he missed it.

Chauncey Billups

Rip did a great job on him, that was his assignment. He contested a lot of his shots.

Flip Saunders

Rip did a good job of understanding where help might be, tried to send him to as much help as he could and contested pretty much most of his shots.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Joel Silver

Kiss Kiss ... The kid's clean. Help him out.

Vernell Brown

I wouldn't say I got lost in the shuffle, but it did help me become a better person and a better player going through some of the things I went through.

Steve Lee

Kelly's been consistent, but we're not getting the scores from the 2, 3 and 4 spots that we need. I thought we'd be right in the (VOL race), but if we don't get some help we'll be out of it real soon.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Mario Rodriguez

Job security. That's how I look at it.

Garrett Gravesen

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

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

M. Wolfe

I would think he's worth it. They might not.

Jim Edmonds

I think it might be why I struggled in the World Series,

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He might be in the lineup tomorrow.

Bryan Smolinski

(Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes, but then we got one at the end and that might have taken the wind out of their sails.

Stephanie Mills

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Alphonso Jackson

have come to realize they might not go back to New Orleans.

Charles Fisher

Here's what a typical week might look like,

Michael Devine

He said you should never do anything like that until after the person's dead, because you never know what kind of foolishness they might get into,

Dale Tallon

He's down now, but he might be back tomorrow.

Mark Dindal

Just ripped the Band-Aid off. He's kind of like that.

Colby Armstrong

Hopefully, they can rip it up. It should be pretty fun.

Richard Dawkins

In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. . . . And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history. . . .

Richelle Mead

I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim." Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me." "I thought you'd appreciate it." "Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you." "You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.

Sara Blakely

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

Sara Bareilles

Its so easy to just rip someones work apart.

Trey Parker

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Vivienne Westwood

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

Wanda Sykes

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Goodman Ace

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Rick Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Stephane Dion

There is an urgent need to send a signal to the world about the future.

Nick Nolte

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

Will Rogers

If you send somebody to teach somebody, be sure that the system you are teaching is better than the system they are practicing.

Sun Microsystems

If the U.S. side is willing to send an envoy here, we are willing to have consultations,

Karen Hill

I had to be here. I was there for the send off, and I had to see 'em back home.

Rachel Leon

In my experience, I would say it's rare, if not unprecedented. I think it sends a strong message.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Craig Faulkner

It's respectable. But we tried to win them all.

Scott Kelly

It's scarier than anything we do at work. I tried not to think about it too much so I wouldn't get nervous.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.