Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Gervasoni

We want to try to end on a positive note. Obviously, everybody's goal is to win it, but in order to win it we have to play well and that's always been our focus, how we play. San Jose did a really good job taking some things away from us, things we normally do well. We have to be ready to adjust to San Jose.

Derek Jeter

You've got to make adjustments as you get older.

Gail Cunningham

The people who can least afford it sign up for these loans. Adjust your withholding, talk to your landlord or borrow from your mother--almost anything is better than one of these loans.

Lisa Dey

We've adjusted really well to the pitching these last two games. If the top of our lineup is struggling, then the bottom half is strong, and that's a good thing to have.

Roger Holmes

We've adjusted our practice thoughts. We're having a lot more full-contact practices. We hope it helps with the conditioning and that type of thing.

Peter Nowak

We struggled in the middle of the park; this was our main problem. This is why we needed to adjust the situation at halftime, to make sure that they're not going to have an advantage in the middle. I think Ben Olsen and Brian Carroll did a pretty good job. In the second half Clyde Simms came on and I think that was pretty significant and we got better and moved better going forward. We came a very long way to get these three points and we're happy with the win.

Mary Simmons

We are pleased the proposed general rate increase for electric customers will be considerably less than we originally expected. Energy prices have been rising dramatically throughout the nation during the past year and it is gratifying that we are able to announce an adjustment that is more favorable to our customers.

Gus Melonas

We are adjusting our operations to minimize the blockage at Birch Point. We'll try to minimize it to no more than 10 to 15 minutes.

Kelly Hobbs

We stock hundreds of thousands of items and can make more than 5,000 price changes per week, often lowering prices on certain items during the course of the day. We are constantly working to adjust our prices to offer our customers the best possible price.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

Helen Scannell

We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

Marian Seldes

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

Nicholas Kristof

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Natasha Trethewey

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

Natasha Tsakos

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

Ma Jian

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Roland Martin

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Terry Francona

They had this thing kind of mapped out. I don't think this is a real deviation from the plan. I just think they wanted probably to test him further with better hitters. I don't think he got challenged a lot (in Double-A). They let him go through the order more than once. I think they wanted to have him maybe face a little better competition.

Jonathan Todd

They should have challenged the decision nominating him, which outlined the terms and conditions of his relationship with the Commission.

Tony Wise

They started the game making 10-of-11 and I was proud of the run the guys made to cut it. Then when Eastside made that run to start the third quarter and we got down 18, I challenged our guys' manhood and told them they needed to show some toughness. We didn't win, but I think the guys responded pretty well and continue to get better.

Allan Ray

For a freshman, that was a great play, just having the confidence to go up there and make a play like that at that time in the game. He went up and challenged him and made a great play.

Brent Sutter

There were a couple of players who were more responsible about it than others and I challenged them. I told them, 'Buy into the program or you don't play and how embarrassing would that be if you're sitting in the stands at the world junior championship and you're a good player?

Larry Wachtel

It's a good rally and it's got some legs for a few days, but I wouldn't go nuts chasing after it. It's going to be challenged in the near future.

Jason Alexander

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

Lance Armstrong

This is the guy (Ullrich) that has challenged me and our team,

John Conyers

This is the ultimate acknowledgment by the government of this woman who challenged the laws of her state to help end segregation,

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Bernard Baruch

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Brenda Frese

We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.

Charlie Hunnam

It's always difficult to really sum up exactly why a relationship works.

Charles M. Schulz

It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.

William Shakespeare

God grant us patience!

Rob Blake

Until we know exactly what took place ... that's why there's an investigation. Until you know the total facts, it's kind of difficult to talk about.

Jim Grant

Until we can get some really good rain to keep the fuels moist, it is really difficult to fight a fire.

Chief Joseph

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

Chief Joseph

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

Edward Hoagland

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

Edward Gibbon

The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.

Edith Head

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

Earl Wilson

No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

David Hewson

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

Benedict Cumberbatch

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

Chris Copeland

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Tom McDaniel

It's a project that we're passed the point of no return,

Bob Newman

It's all been passed down through the family.

Jim Malcolm

They're making rules that I think they're running around you and running around us. They passed that rule Tuesday and we're to scurry and get it done.

Jim Thorpe

The sounds of Bye, Bye Blackbird still stung him to the day he passed away.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Gary Myers

Everyone stayed in the saddle and passed the first test.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Paul Coffey

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.

Daniel Radcliffe

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

S. Walker

It was devastating, ... But perhaps had that not happened, we wouldn't be where we are today.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Richard Holbrooke

The situation is as serious now -- perhaps more serious -- than it was in October,

Stephen Carl

Perhaps there is some profit taking before (the Fed).

F. Schumacher

Perhaps the problem is that the public does not know us very well.

Hans Blix

perhaps the most important problem we are facing.

Kenneth Elzinga

Perhaps 'supported' is a better word than 'developed,'

Jasper Fforde

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the workweek it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the U.S..

Darlene Rickman

It is very much like voting at a precinct polling place.

Judd Gregg

That's why this has been put forward. This is a polling event,

Jim Cooper

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

Laurent Gbagbo

Go tomorrow to vote. Be vigilant, be there at every polling station to oversee the vote.

David Tom

Voters will be surprised when they show up at their polling place and find they aren't on the rolls. There are a lot of things we don't feel comfortable with.

Tiara Cook

I seriously thought we were going to come out with a win. But I can't do it on my own.

Stephen Colletti

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Gary Collins

She told me she was thinking seriously about it.

Abu Sabaya

If they wanted to seriously talk to us, they should show it by removing the military. While the soldiers are here, there will be no talking.

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Char Seward

I think it should have been taken seriously then.

Bryan Williams

We take every setback seriously because we want to stay on schedule. We'll keep testing.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Mike Kramer

It's been so long since we've won. We've got to get back on the winning track.

Chris Cooley

It's just tough, especially since it's the first week,

Rudy Rodriguez

A lot of firefighters had been there since Day One.

Donna Young

They have just killed us since about noon. It's been crazy.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

Dan Gorrell

I don't think Americans are telling us all of a sudden they want small. They are telling us they want more affordable.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Mark Woodhead

(Miller) just hoisted us up. Defensively, she got about three picks. We were down two at half, and all of a sudden we're up by five, that was critical.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Clay Fitch

We just couldn't get anything going in the third. We had the same kind of shots, but all of a sudden they weren't going down.