Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Don Watson

Defense was the major flaw of our play. We never gave the offense a chance to shine because of poor passing and serve receive.

Joe Tucci

Dell had a great model, a different model. If we had a chance to replay the record in this industry, there would be a lot more people following this kind of strategy.

Brian Winter

Delisha Milton-Jones is a heck of a defender, and so is Charlotte Smith-Taylor. They did a nice job on (the play), but we had a chance to win the game and that's what we wanted.

Drew Brees

Definitely a game we should have won. To have the momentum we did, to be down on the yard-and-a-half line when we were up 14-10, we felt we had a great chance to put them away.

Mark Nash

Dee had played Blanche for us in A Streetcar Named Desire back in 2001, ... When I heard she was doing this show, I jumped on the chance to import it to our theatre.

Robert Dozier

Coach said ... we're way more talented than they were, and we've got an even better chance of making it to the Final Four. He preaches it to us. We hear that at least one time every day, that it shouldn't be as tough for us to get there as it was for them.

Jim Sandusky

Coach Ross invited us and I thought it would just be a good chance for our players to see how football is played at the next level. I want them to see how college players prepare, how they run drills, how seriously they take it.

Augustus

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.

Celia Rivenbark

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

Al Gini

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

Charles Clarke

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Desi Arnaz

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Connie Willis

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

Charles Spurgeon

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Edward Sapir

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Jim Calhoun

Brandon Roy, in my opinion, is one of the top two or three players in the country.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

O. Henry

We want to get players into the NPC as soon as possible,

Stephenie Meyer

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

Michael Garcia

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

James Lyons

Firefighting resources are stretched thin, ... We may be requesting resources from other countries.

Sue Densmore

You have more resources than you can probably imagine.

Steve Baldwin

And you don't have to feel it has to be presentable all the time. You can shut the door.

Richard Sherman

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

Rick Riordan

Happy Birthday!' I yelled, 'Now, shut up!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury)

Mary Ellen Mark

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Jason Marquis

You look out there, ... and there aren't too many true aces out there that are going to shut you down.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Celine Dion

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.