Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Brown

Unbelievable was absolutely my first reaction and my second thought was to my son Christopher, that was a slap in the face,

Dan Heckman

This was absolutely a game that we should have won.

Jimmy Webb

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

Barbara Mikulski

We in Maryland are hot. We are absolutely hot about these gas prices,

Brad Smith

Every time we do absolutely everything we've been asked to do, we're told that there's something else we need to do.

Dan McGowan

There was absolutely no effect on our operations in Albany.

Vincent Van Gogh

What am I in the eyes of most people--a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then--even if that were absolutely true, then I should

Steve Beuerlein

We were playing the Rams in Anaheim and I threw a deep ball to Ricky. That might have been the only ball I ever threw him that he should have caught, but didn't. He dropped it. Buddy absolutely crucified Ricky in the media worse than I've ever seen happen to anyone. But Ricky then is just like Ricky now ... well, except maybe he's a little wiser and has a whole lot less hair.

Susan Kuretsky

The prints allow you to look over the artist's shoulder. They are often witty, funny and highly personal. My guess is that people will be absolutely delighted and probably surprised.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Jimmy Just

The way both teams played you would have hated to see either team lose. It was just a fantastic game. Both teams gave it all they had and that's what it's all about.

Bob Gainey

The way both teams are going, that's why you saw the game that we saw. It was important game and it could have effect the outcome of the season.

Eddie Wong

These are the two major sources of global liquidity. If both of them reverse, it is not going to be good for the global equity market, but it is too early to say that we are at the turning point.

Tim Crowder

The rings have been pretty popular. I brought both of mine and all of the kids have wanted to look at them. Hopefully they can help inspire them to reach for their dreams.

Gary Wadler

This is a work in progress. It has to be monitored - both its details and the implementation of the details.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

Rob Smith

This is extremely modest. This will not have the impact we need both for oil independence or climate-change concerns.

Edward Kennedy

The president has moved the goal posts. Americans understand changing the rules of the game; they don't like it,

Penelope Tree

Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

David Martinez

We played well in the first half. But Lake did a good job of changing up their defense in the second half, and this got us in trouble.

Henry Markram

All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond. Your brain today is very, very different from what it was when you were 10 years old, and yet you may have profound memories from when you were 10.

Juan Montoya

Unless we want to finish about 10th or 12th then we should think about changing (the engine) to be honest.

Dave Bonnot

You are changing the rural environment of the area. That is what is going away ? piece by piece.

Madonna Ciccone

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Sarah Miller

With technology continually changing you need financing from somewhere. Without tuition going up to accommodate for this we'll miss out on research opportunities and anything else that could be new.

John Simpson

We will have a plan as to what we will do differently. We're changing the culture of school,

Gus Cooper

We tried to figure out how we were going to pay for it, ... The Dunedin Country Club Foundation has come up with $15,000, which will go toward the bridge. That leaves $71,000. So how do you fund that?

Michael Bowers

Our primary focus is to get the social club up and running and we're hoping by the end of March we will get the final tick from all the appropriate government departments.

Brian Brewer

Our pitching is getting better and our defense is getting better and, hopefully, our offense is making strides. We're managing to score runs when we need to. I still think potentially we can be a pretty good club offensively. We've just got to get some guys going at the same time.

Carrie Underwood

I talk to my fan club members, and I blog, and they know what's going on. But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant, and I'll get home, and somebody tweeted, and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

George Foulkes

We are not going to rush it but we're also not going to have undue delay. I can say the club will go from strength to strength,

Vincent Tan

I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible, honest people, and they really motivate me.

Brandon Flowers

I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.

Joe Girardi

You manage the club you have. A lot of kids will have a lot of opportunities.

Tom Araya

When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Derian Hatcher

I don't know if you're supposed to love your coach. Right now I love him, but we'll see in a couple weeks.

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

Bruce Bell

It could really have a major impact if we have a couple of storms go through there and shut in production, ... A few days of shut-in production isn't going to mean much. But if we have another Ivan, which knocked off some production for months last year, it could be significant.

George Pipas

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Dave Greenberg

I think we've really improved tremendously. We feel like the past couple of games we've really gotten after it, and I thought we did a lot of good things tonight. I'm really proud of them.

Buddy Gouldsmith

I think we've got a couple guys in the middle of that lineup who could show some power in Bonnell and Miller.

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

Timothy Simons

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Tony Fabrizio

The fractures were always there. The difference was the White House was always able to hold them in line because of perceived power, ... After Tuesday's election, it's 'Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff.'

Rob Schelling

That's the difference between a good and great player, and those guys are great players. When you can do that on your own, when other teams know about you and they're keying on you and you can still score, that shows what type of player they are.

Matt Watson

It makes a huge difference in the service we can offer. We can say it's a 15-minute drive time and we pay a premium to say that.

Mark Turgeon

They got out of the gate hot and that was the difference in the game.

Jim Tracy

It's the difference in the game. He battled.

Robert Mintz

It's the difference between legitimate spinning and impermissible lying.

Steve Payne

He's never complained or felt sorry for himself. That's been the hard part for me, having to watch him go through this. It's been an inspiration for our guys and our program to see how he's handled everything as far as being unselfish and how tough he's been.

Greg Oden

I know that's where I want to go, ... I'm not really worried about other schools or things like that. As far as signing, I just haven't talked it over with Mike or Mom yet.

Ernie Whitt

I know you are not supposed to look too far ahead, but you have to in a tournament like this.

Fred Bennett

The guys we've got replacing them (Simpson and Joseph), I think they're ready for the challenge. I think this far through the spring they've showed that they can play. I felt they've done a great job. Losing those guys was a lot, but I think we've got some great replacements.

Dave Barry

The members took turns lighting sparklers and signing their John Hancocks to the Declaration, with one prankster even going so far as to actually write John Hancock.

Steve Schultze

The younger kids are following suit. It's nice that we don't have egos, and you like the idea that you have to play as a team to win. That will take you as far as you're going to go.

Rob Enderle

There will be a vastly improved user experience, particularly for the 9x users, ... It is far more stable, reliable and secure than the 9x base. Unlike Windows 95, this actually delivers on the promises.

Andy Butler

They probably haven't gone far enough, but it's a good start.

Joe Browne

It was so far down that the ... people looked really small. You could see it was completely charred.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Lonnie Bartley

I haven't done that in awhile. It was twofold. First, we were missing our free throws. And it just seemed like we didn't get warmed up before the ballgame. It seemed like we were running in slow motion.

Lisa Bluder

I'm just thankful for the free-throw line because we stepped up and made the free throws. Good teams make their free throws and we're getting to the free-throw line so much more this year than we have in the past.

Lisa Bluder

I'm just thankful for the free-throw line, because we stepped up and made the free throws.

O. Winston

I'm kind of nervous about leaving the job, I've been doing it for so long. I'm going to miss my crew. But I'll find plenty of things to do with my free time.

John Gotti

I'm OK, It would be the first free lawyer I've ever spoken with.

Mike Gansey

I missed two free throws then shook it off and made four.

Cliff Martinez

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Robert Williamson

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

John Burroughs

It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.

Adrian Benepe

This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

Girish Tyagi

There were no major surprises and that actually is good news, given that the recent surprises for the sector have been of the wrong kind.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Keith Tucker

They haven't given up, ... That is what I like about them.

David White

Our victim got all but $250 back of the $90,000 she had given him. The other lady got about one-third of her money ($50,000) back - that was all we could trace. It's quite unusual to get money back - it's usually gone but we got lucky.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

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.

Aloe Blacc

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

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.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

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.

Steve Case

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

Vince Carter

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

Vince Cable

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

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.