Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Slifer

Greenspan is trying to be cautious by tapping the brakes ever so lightly, which I think will mean another quarter-point increase soon. This thing has so much momentum that, even though we've raised the speed limit, we're still going a little too fast.

Joe Aquilante

It?s a great car, easy on brakes and tires. It?s extremely surprising.

Jamie McMurray

This is the hardest place, I think, to qualify because you can have a good car and it's so easy to lock the front brakes up or overdrive the corner. It's one of those places where you can be in the top five in practice and qualify 20th. It's so close.

Jimmy Fennig

With those long straights and tight corners, Martinsville is a tough track on the brakes and the motors. It really puts a lot of it on the driver too because it is so mentally exhausting to go run around for 500 laps on those tight turns. We had a good run going in the spring here before we were wrecked, and Kurt has taken the car to victory lane here before. We all know he knows how to run short tracks, so we'll see if he can keep the fenders clean and get a good finish.

David Lereah

The slowdown amounts to a tapping of the brakes on a hot market.

Jim Marshall

Then all of a sudden brakes get slammed on. Then we hit something and go off the side of the road and tip over,

Greg Anderson

After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did.

Kenneth Blackwell

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

George Black

The operations group will be interviewing the crew this afternoon. I understand that he saw some misalignment in the track that caused him to put his brakes on.

Harry Reid

Katrina makes it clear this government has failed, ... We must find out why immediately to make sure the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina never happens again.

Rem Murray

It caused my head to turn totally to the left, and it was frozen there for quite some time,

Rob Spencer

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded. With that lie, he caused the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. He rejoiced in the death and destruction.

Brian Rust

We took it down. It was our machine, our node, and our network. Because it wasn't vetted with our security and network groups, it could have potentially caused harm to our users.

David Errington

It has been Coles that has caused its own lost momentum and that is particularly disappointing.

Cappie Pondexter

I think the 3-2 match-up caused a lot of problems - it's tough to go against. That's something we've got to get better at as a team.

Brad Gushue

I didn't get much in because she was crying, which caused me to cry. It was nice to hear her voice and she's pretty excited.

Barry Hinson

I'd like to say I thought their defense was good, but it's not what caused us to miss shots in the second half.

A. Johnson

I don't know what caused it. We heard him screaming something outside, and that's it.

Bobby DeBerry

It is going to be a good match. Pueblo has a pretty stout crew this year.

Brendan Gaughan

We've gone through a transition (changing crew chiefs) ... so it has been successful when you take all the factors we had to put in of rebuilding this organization.

Joyce Farrell

We look for them to be a very competitive team, ... Like us, they have a veteran crew with six or seven returning letter-winners. It should be a very exciting match.

Dennis Conner

If you want to talk about luck, we're normally sailing where it's 600 meters (2,000 feet) deep ... The good news is no one was hurt. The crew hardly got wet.

Dan Ronayne

If you look at CREW you see nothing more than a shill for the Democratic Party.

John Glenn

I know there's a lot of interest in this, ... But I'm here to be a working crew member, training as a working crew member, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.

David Starr

Not only am I going to Daytona to test to get ready, for me I am going to get acclimated with a new crew chief. This will be our first time to work together. Been to the shop, but it will be the first at the racetrack.

Hamilton Peterson

It's probably one of the most significant milestones in our effort to memorialize the heroism of the passengers and crew of Flight 93.

Carie Graves

The novice eight is great, very fast, learning quickly. This is the big time for them. They've not seen anything like the Crew Classic.

Gary Waddock

He knows that he's let the group down. I'll be looking at the incident and if he needs to be fined, he will be.

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

Vernon Briggs

There is no group that has benefited less from immigration.

Jeff Moorad

We're open-minded about the profile. The group that we've identified tends to be a younger group, but also a group that has significant experience.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Floyd Reese

If you look at it from a position standpoint, you can say this is probably as strong a linebacker group as we've had in a while.

Kevin Colbert

Inside linebacker is probably the strongest group I've seen in the 20 years I've been doing this. It's strong at the top, strong in the middle, and there are some kids on the second day that will be contributors, if not starters.

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Mike Patterson

He just saw the same things in me and him.

Danny Aiello

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

Jim Tressel

I didn't really see it at all. All I saw was there was a big pileup.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

Annika Sorenstam

I come from a little town just like she does, ... So for her to travel all the way from Sweden and live your dream, when I saw that headline, I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Richard D. James

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Rob Brown

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

Reid Hoffman

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

William J. Clinton

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Tori Amos

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

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.