Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Mommsen

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

Roberta Smith

Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.

Bryan Alvarez

Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.

Edoardo Molinari

Obviously I made the right decision. I guess I'll be an amateur for a little while longer.

Ron Moody

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Greg Bear

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Don Waddell

One of our scouts said he was the best amateur goalie he had seen in the past 10 years.

Rick Magnante

It is an amateur team. There is no way to handicap it to make it a level playing field. Nonetheless, memories are going to be made here and maybe we can grow the game and create a greater interest.

Joe Pantoliano

The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews.

Shelby Gross

That was my amateur background. I fought about 55 fights and took a year off before deciding I wanted to try and make a living at boxing.

John Spear

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

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Brian Andreas

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Peter Schmitt

We have accomplished a lot together, And we are friends.

Anne Sexton

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Richard Segal

There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.

Marquand Manuel

I've never missed that many tackles in a game. Ever.

Rory Sabbatini

It would be nice to get back. I haven't had as much success there as I would like, but I think my mental game is ready for it now. I'm a lot more mature.

Steve Spurrier

It was there tonight. It was there to be had if we were real sharp and maybe played a little better offensively. It was a game where we had a chance, but we couldn't get it done.

Jason Rich

It was ugly, but I'm just glad we won. That (style of game) really doesn't surprise me, because since I've been here -- when we play Clemson -- that's the way the game is.

Steve Staios

It was two pretty opportunistic goals by them. That's going to happen. They're a great team. You can't walk away with a game when it's these guys.

Jason Terry

It was two heavyweights. The game was there for us, but they took it. Give them credit.

Clayton Randall

It was two contrasting styles. We wanted to play a half-court game and they wanted it up-tempo. White River made us play White River basketball.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Paul Kariya

Defensively we didn't do a very good job. But over all it was just lack of a 60-minute effort.

Mark Francis

Defensively we did a good job. I thought we had a good performance all around.

Kraig Clifton

Defensively we did a good job. But offensively, we just weren't smooth. We had turnovers and didn't execute.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Nate Robinson

He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

Johnny Oates

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Joe DiMaggio

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

Mike Quade

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Josh Beckett

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Eric Karros

So I wouldn't have played me either, ... Not that you care.

Ray Emery

I don't think we played well in the third period, but I've got to be better. I've got to come up with some big saves.

Darin Spence

I don't think we played that bad, they're just that good.

Bud Adams

I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today,

Dennis Mills

This will be the prototype racetrack for the world,