Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heidi Deery

Baker is the type of player, that even if you do keep her to 15 points, she can distribute the ball better than anybody I've seen in girls basketball.

David Rosenberg

A year ago, 'deflation' was dripping off everybody's lips. Today, core inflation is off its low, but it's about the same as it was a year ago, yet all anybody can talk about is how far the Fed will hike.

Jim Tracy

Back in May, when the Padres went something like 22-6, they had a chance to slam the door, throw the lock around the handle and close it off for everybody else. And it didn't happen. So it's not a matter of anybody putting on any type of serious charge thus far, it's a matter of teams just winning some games here and there.

S. Hughes

That was a big turn-around for us. They're fixing to tie it up. I didn't think anybody could catch Charles Mitchell. That was the play of the game.

Brian Billick

Ramsey has a nice delivery and the ball comes out of his hand really well. It's hard because they're all throwing to guys they're not familiar with. But he was impressive. I hesitate to say anybody helps or hurts themselves in this environment, but I'm sure he helped himself with some teams. Ramsey could indeed jump into that No. 3 position.

Duane Smith

Rachel was clearly the highlight of the trip. She is doing the best anybody has done at Valley in recent years and is arguably the best competitor in California.

Billy Crystal

People thought this would be an award show -- but we couldn't get anybody to open up the envelopes. I've been backstage at a lot of rock concerts, and I've never seen musicians run away from white powder before!

Jessica Schultz

People think it's easy and that anybody can do it. We want people to try it and see how hard it is, and to understand why we're out there sweeping the ice.

Wandy Rodriguez

Our thought process, for anybody in the starting rotation, is to go out and contribute to the team,

John Tortorella

I think it's the maturity level of our club. I think we've shown that the last little while. We've stayed with it. We haven't turned into individuals, we've just tried to keep banging away.

Kathy Roberts

I heard some banging noises. I thought it was thunder and rain.

Dan Hawkins

We're going to try a few things to try to clean his mechanics up a little bit. He's capable of really banging it, and he's not doing bad. We're trying to get him to that next level of consistent distance, consistent hang (time) and consistent direction.

Nat Wolff

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Raul Grijalva

As a first-generation son, a native-born son of an immigrant that came to this country, I hope we do not close the door to that legacy.

Rosevelt Colvin

As a defensive team you want to get off the field. They were able to come up with the plays and the schemes -- whatever it was -- we weren't doing, they did it and they came up with a victory.

Chris Drury

As a group we're kind of limping in there, so despite being one point away it's still a frustrating night. We came here to get two points, and we didn't.

Brian Dawkins

The bye week came at a good time because after a loss like that (in Dallas), guys can get away.

Kenny Guinn

The BRAC carefully considered the data Nevada presented and came to the conclusion that the 152nd Airlift Wing is essential to our homeland security and emergency preparedness capabilities,

Coach Bell

The B team came out and played really well in the first game. They did a great job of setting it up. It was a fun match to watch.

Geno Auriemma

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined. We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

Philip Howard

What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes.

Paul MacDonald

We are very confident. Everyone in the dressing room understands their responsibilities.

Brad Davis

We feel like the stadium is second-to-none, and we like playing on the surface. They have redone the dressing rooms, and Abilene is a very hospitable place.

Edith Mayo

We have a tendency to want them to be the American version of royalty, but at the same time, if they start dressing that way, we get really offended and very critical.

Victor Webster

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

Dave Hakstol

No. 1, we knew we didn't come out of the dressing room Friday night the way we needed to. We didn't match Mankato's intensity Friday. I thought we did that tonight.

Bud Sueppel

Four or five of us guys got to go into the dressing room with (coach) Hayden (Fry) and hand them out to the ballplayers. That's my top memory.

Jim Beattie

He won't be dressing for the rest of the year. We felt it wouldn't be appropriate for the organization.

Chris Hughton

I feel for the lads and they are all bitterly disappointed in the dressing room.

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Ben Woodside

I've never experienced that much excitement through eight hours of travel. We could not stop smiling.

Bob Thomason

I've always said you might not ever see a mid-major go to the Final Four. When a mid-major wins a game, especially if it's not a good seed, if they play a powerhouse, getting to the Sweet 16 is like going to the Elite Eight. Going to the Elite Eight is like going to the Final Four, so George Mason has already won the national championship. If they win the next two games, they'll have won the world championship. They'll have to give them a gold medal.

Matt Richardson

I've been around these girls eight years now and I told them I was just as proud of them as I would have been my own children. And, I told them it's been quite a wild ride they've taken us on.

Kristen Schaal

I used to go to open mics in New York when I was starting out, and it was mostly just people who wanted an audience to look at them for eight minutes on a stage.

David Smith

I used to tell people that eight o'clock was eight o'clock, no matter where you were in South Carolina, and that's what I want to instill in these players. The time to play is big time whether you're playing in front 40 people or 4,000 people.

Paul Byrd

I wanted to give our team at least seven, eight innings,

Dave Norton

The ones that got away. That's the name of the season. On the other hand, out of the eight losses there weren't less than 50 kids on a team.

Danish Proverb

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

John Sullivan

That's who we are. We do not try to fool people.

Anita Seamans

You start out as if you're going to fool them, and the minute your mind strays to anything else, you revert to the way you normally write.

Proverb Proverb

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Charles Churchill

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

Diana Wynne Jones

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Dean Koontz

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Barbara Jordan

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Auguste Comte

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

C. S. Lewis

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

Calvin Coolidge

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

James Wolcott

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

James Wolcott

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

Brad Shaw

Sometimes it's better to take 30 minutes out of your day and talk about something other than hockey.

Paul Whitworth

And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley,

Amy Poehler

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Sara Lewis

Unfortunately that wasn't done until 20 minutes into the call.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Ron White

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Larry Rodriguez

He told me he was truly sorry. We talked for about 20 minutes -- just us.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Glenn Reicin

We view this as a relatively uneventful quarter for Abbott.

Frank Robinson

Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.

Jeff Suppan

Really I'm just getting ready to pitch, whenever that is.

Robert Dozier

Definitely. It's going to be a fast-paced game, and we'll be ready for it.

Austin Boyce

The system he has is set up for the underclassmen to step up. When you're a senior, you're ready to be a leader.

Ray Scott

Somebody that's 0-8 or someone 8-0, it doesn't make any difference, you have got to be ready to play in this conference.

Bill Shepherd

Sail her well, ... I am ready to be relieved.

Jake Peavy

It was an ER in there at 6:30, getting me ready to go out.

Rick Barnes

It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist.

Jose Castillo

I've been working out every day and I feel very strong. I'm ready to go.

Bai Ling

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

Monte Kwinter

There are usually two sides to every story, ... Now you have one.

Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Alan Furst

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Bruce Jenner

I'm kind of more on the conservative side.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Greg Hudnall

First thing we wanted to do is get all the residents on the west side registered. There are so many new residents out there.

Paul Martin

Today we sit down on the same side of the table, as partners. We have taken our rightful places,

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.