Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristi LaFleur

Our girls really want to get to the finals, because a number of them haven't experienced that yet. Some of them just want to know what it is like, and I think being able to compete at home really gives us an added bonus to accomplish that chance. We are really excited to perform for our home crowd.

Corey Medeiros

We did so well. We did things that we've never done before. I had so much fun. To see the kids accomplish so much in such a little time, it's amazing. The kids get all excited. To see them make their first tackle and first touchdown, they break into full smiles. It was a blast.

Joe Horn

We didn't really accomplish what we wanted to do. Going straight down the field and scoring a touchdown is what we wanted to do, and obviously that did not happen. We have to go back to the film and the drawing board and look at it.

Sen Hawkins

We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.

Scott Ritter

You know we can't expect the inspectors to accomplish anything in a country the size of Iraq.

Shannon Brown

We came out with the 'W' in a very physical game. Nobody is safe in this league. You've got to bring your 'A' game every night. You've got to be ready to fight. When you're aggressive and unselfish, you can accomplish a lot.

Hamilton Jordan

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

Mary Lambert

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

Brooks Monaghan

We had two good games this weekend and we have two games left. I'm pleased overall with the spring we've had and the progress the team has made toward what we want to accomplish in the fall with our new system. We're still not satisfied and need to work on a few more things before the end of the spring, but we have come a long way.

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

David George

U.S. Bank is taking action to be on the offensive as well as defensive. St. Louis has become a very competitive market. It makes sense to spend money to build brand awareness.

Jim Leach

We will take a look at why it wasn't reported when it started. We will determine at that time if there is any enforcement action that's going to be taken.

Tim Delaney

The public wants to be assured that action has been taken rather than this silence. Either he (the city manager) agrees with the report and some action should be taken or he doesn't agree with the report.

Nolan Bushnell

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Patti Spencer

We want to be very expedient, and at the same time, very thorough, so that the investigation reveals all the facts. Then, action will be taken or not on the basis of those facts.

John Dwyer

What I think is going to happen is that tests in relation to reasonable management action taken in a reasonable way is going to be blurred with those concepts of procedural fairness and what you're going to find is the QIRC considering appeals against decisions to grant workers compensation to dismissed employees where the employee was denied procedural fairness.

Douglas Merrill

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

Chuck Palahniuk

This is passive-aggression in action.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Jackson

Every game is important in the last 20 games; you have to win as many as you can. Whoever is playing the best basketball is going to go to the playoffs. We have to get every win we can and play well.

Allen Iverson

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

Allen Iverson

Personally I just want to win a championship.

Allen Iverson

Practice? I mean, listen, we're talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We're talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game. Not the game. We're talkin about practice, man. We're talkin about practice. We're taklin about practice, man. What are we talkin about? Practice. We're talkin about practice, man.

Don Hogan

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Larry Blair

Anthony (Smith) played it the best he could. It just went in.

Jim Scheer

A number of our governing bodies are bound and determined to be the best in the world. Witness the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team -- they want to be the best in the world.

Brian Green

And that's the thing that a lot of people don't really get and a lot of you guys (sportswriters) don't understand. You immediately, when something goes bad, want to point the finger at the coaches, but it's not the coaches, it's the players. Right now we're not getting the job done. We're making mistakes and missing plays, things that we control. The coach has no control over what goes on on the field. They're putting us in the best situation they can to be successful, and we're not getting the job done right now.

Jim Haney

A regular Palm customer can come in here a couple times a week and get different things. That's the goal. They are going to get the best steak, but they are also going to find the same quality in our veal dishes or whatever.

Ellen MacArthur

A record is nothing if not shared. I'm proud of the record but I'm even more proud to be working with the best team in the world.

Ruben Brown

Anything that's going to compromise that and is going to set us back, then, as you can tell, in the American culture we'll look for the next best thing. And football will be gone, and it will be hockey next year.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Andy Stanley

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Scott Milburn

As we move forward we will of course be looking for opportunities to find savings on top of what we have already proposed.

Rick Clancy

We plan on revealing more in the course of quarterly earnings announcements or as specific developments dictate.

Nick Davis

We said at the time we were very unhappy with that course of action.

Larry Daniel

We as a state have benefited from it and of course the recipients have benefited from it.

Judy Outlaw

We will evaluate it go through each of the recommendations. Of course it's going to have to be a prioritizing of what is financially feasible and what is practically feasible and whether it goes with our mission or not.

Ed Adler

We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd be happy to meet.

Bob Becker

We would like to get at least one course open, but I don't know how we could do that. We have no staff or equipment. We can't do anything.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

John Vines

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

Ahmad Griffin

We ain't got no family out here. All the football team that's our family.

Scott Caan

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Tom Arnold

I predict it will be a long night at the Farber house if they lose. This is the first game in five years I've been to without working.

Mike Law

I'm only looking at five seniors, and three are starting. Our whole offensive line had never started a game (before this season) and here we sit at 4-1.

Norv Turner

If one guy makes five penalties, it's easy. You make the switch tomorrow,

Joe Girardi

If I was to get the Tampa job, I'm not inheriting five guys that can hit 30 home runs. I'm inheriting a lot of guys who have to do the little things.

Andrew Brown

I haven't been shooting well the past five games. But I never stop shooting. If I'm open, I'm going to shoot.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

O. Singh

I guess after being on the scene I am more consistent. I have learnt a lot in these five years. Mentally I am stronger now.

Ken Blocker

I'm very proud of how we battled back, but we missed out on some opportunities. Jordan's very balanced. They always seem to have a solid five on the floor.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Rick Nielsen

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

Thomas Sowell

One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.

Robert Moog

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

Robert Moog

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

Robert H. Schuller

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

Robert Greene

If you view everything through the lens of fear, then you tend to stay in retreat mode. You can just as easily see a crises or problem as a challenge, an opportunity to prove your mettle, the chance to strengthen and toughen yourself, or a call to collective action. By seeing it as a challenge, you will have converted this negative into a positive purely by a mental process that will result in positive action as well.

Robert Barry

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Amanda Holden

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

Thomas Jefferson

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Robert Herjavec

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

Robert Higgs

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.

Robert Hass

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

Robert Hass

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Vin Diesel

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Vijay Mallya

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view,

Stephen Covey

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephanie Leonidas

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

Suzanne Collins

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

Suzanne Collins

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

Suzanne Collins

Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Renzo Rosso

In New York, I wear dark denim most of the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Patti Smith

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.

Evan Esar

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.