Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sir Trotman

Within that area there is a need for serious study to be conducted.

Nick Meyer

This weekend is going to be kind of special. Some of my cousins are from the Columbus area so I'm going to have a pretty large crowd.

Kathy Lively

Those unemployment figures do not include over 300 jobs lost in our Workforce Area 25, which includes the counties of Jefferson, Franklin, Perry, Jackson and Williamson.

Mark Shapiro

We had intended to put a young player in the rotation and sign elsewhere. But we made this signing, and it gives us an area of great depth.

Sidney Crosby

The people in Buffalo called their supervisor from the baggage area out on the ramp, and I spoke to him, ... He said he had unloaded that plane and that he was positive it didn't happen here.

Travis Hill

It gave me an opportunity to be able to pay for school, and a jump start on a good career. I'm going to be getting out and going back to school to study electronics hardware and design in the Green Bay area when I get out.

Tom Buiocchi

High-performance connectivity to link server and storage resources is critical when designing the infrastructure for the data center of the future. This is a key area for investment by Brocade as we fulfill our commitment to provide the most reliable, scalable, and widely supported storage networks available.

Gina Busscher

The county can hire any registered engineer to conduct a speed survey. There many companies throughout the area qualified to do such a study.

Lilla Crawford

Eataly is the greatest - it's like food galore there. They have all of these little stations, like a pasta area and a pizza area. And they have the best gelato.

Tony Crescenzi

The question is -- and this is why the market hasn't reacted too negatively to the durable goods report -- is whether businesses ... will continue to spend given the risks to consumer spending posed by high energy prices.

Glen Mathison

I don't think we're anticipating any changes in physical presence.

Jorge Posada

It was not a pretty view from my angle. The way he was pitching, the things he was doing, when he comes out of the game, it really changes everything around.

Lila Johnson

It just changes you. You think who am I really harming if it's drug or gambling money.

Trent Green

Any time you lose a 10-time Pro Bowler, it changes things a little bit.

John Abramson

Exercising and eating a Mediterranean-style diet will improve your changes of staying healthy, regardless of your cholesterol,

Frederick Great

The King of England changes his ministers as often as he changes his shirts.

Matt Miksic

The departure of Mr. Miller will open the door for creating shareholder value through further changes and operating improvements at the company.

Neil Stern

A name is just a name. We have to see what the new Sears Grand format will sell and at what price. We'll have to see what the changes are.

Don Schiemann

A message there needs to be some changes in our justice system and a message that we need an effective national drug strategy.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Beth Keating

I'm very excited about it, particularly for the summer. It's a lot of work. But it's great not having a boss. And I have some ideas.

Jim Tressel

I'm excited for him, you know, to be out there and I think he's excited to be out and ready to go.

Rickey Bustle

I'm excited for him. I'm proud and happy that he has the opportunity to try it at the next level.

Vince Carter

I'm excited for him. I'm happy for him. I think he was ready to part ways (with the Raptors) and they were ready to part ways.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm excited for her to come out and play with us, ... It's a big step for her to turn professional, but I think she can handle it.

Errek Suhr

I'm excited because he's a great coach. I didn't know what to expect at first, but he seems like a great guy. I'm excited and thrilled that we have somebody to lead us now.

Tom McMahon

I'm excited about this group, ... They want to learn; they understand they need to get better every day. This is a good group to coach.

Ken Dorsey

I'm excited about the position I'm in, ... It provides an opportunity for me to be the second-string guy now on a team that I love to play for. That's an exciting opportunity for me. I'm excited for Tim and the new opportunity that he has, and we're just going to move on here from where we're at.

Samantha Mahoney

I'm excited to play Michigan State. Michigan State played in the championship game last year. You always like to play good competition.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Kevin Heise

The growing Hispanic population is where this is going to rear its head. We're going to have more examples.

Emmy Rossum

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

James Beard

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

Norman Reedus

Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.

Olivia Culpo

I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.

Obie Trice

I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

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 Schelling

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Thomas S. Monson

Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thomas Sowell

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

Thomas Sowell

Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

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.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

Soulja Boy

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

Veronica Roth

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?

Veronica Roth

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Stephen Covey

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

Stephen Covey

Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

Stephen Covey

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

Vaclav Havel

Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because, under certain circumstances, people accept them without compulsion and are willing to die for them.

Duffy Daugherty

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

Duffy Daugherty

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

Doyle Brunson

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

Dr. Dre

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Douglas William Jerrold

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Dorothy Hamill

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

Dorothy Hamill

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Dorothy Dunnett

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.