Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Costello

I think it could be done in a clean, safe way to deliver cheap energy and we in Australia have the energy they need.

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

David Graveney

How we're going to manage the players through all this is something we're going to have to talk about. We have to make sure that our key guys like Freddie are fit and raring to go for the Australia and World Cup legs.

David Jones

I have been to Australia three times I think now ... but this is the first time I have come to present something which is all my own,

Fred Couples

I did play with Tiger in Australia and it was truly, truly a treat. I think I'm looking forward to that.

Grant Hackett

I am in two minds about it (the criteria). I think basing selection on world rankings is a bit harsh. I can understand Swimming Australia wants to set the bar fairly high, but I don't think it should be at the expense of a Commonwealth Games medal. I am a fan of choosing the team based on Commonwealth rankings.

Darren Lehmann

He is a bloke who can win a World Cup for Australia - he is that good.

Niranjan Shah

Our basic complaint is if England and Australia can plan regular home series every year, why should we not plan. India is a major force.

Christopher Brown

Rising petrol prices and reduced domestic travel is a concern for regional Australia as few tourists will be passing through country towns, staying in local hotels and contributing to local economies and jobs.

David Meltzer

He deserves a ton of credit for making the sport what it has become. He's the Vince McMahon of his generation.

Mark Rosen

I think it was hard for us to get a rhythm going in any of the first games. We were so forced in the first two games. The team deserves credit for getting out of it.

David Fowler

It is important that we have people with integrity there. And I think even my enemies credit me with having integrity.

Jim Haggerty

He's followed in his father's steps. Young Hoover has topped his dad, and his dad was an icon in his day. I give a lot of credit to his dad for Jim's achievements.

Alan Zemaitis

He's done a total 180. He's accountable to himself as a man, and it's a credit to him.

Mark Durham

I'd like to take credit for the play. But it was a broken. It was a great play by the guys.

Rob Francis

I didn't do as good of a job as I needed to to prepare these kids offensively. Give credit to Younger, he did a fantastic job and they played phenomenal defense.

Jim Harmon

I credit that to all the kids. They are pretty mentally tough. They are experienced. They have been in that situation before, which helps.

Todd Blersch

I credit (Mahaffey) with truly teaching me how to caddie. It was a great experience working with him, learning everything from the way he plays and thinks to his philosophy for playing a par 3.

Malcolm Speed

For 18 months the ICC have been consistently reviewing the role that Twenty20 cricket could play internationally, and this response indicates there is strong interest from many parts of the cricket world in this type of event.

Rahul Dravid

Seeing the video, cricket seems like fun, I didn't know that. We only know about fast bowlers, dressing room and hotels. Now I know what to do after I finish with cricket. You meet so many people and have such fun. It is quite interesting and exciting.

Trafalgar Square

Say it loud, we're cricket lovers and proud.

Ryk Neethling

The win had a huge impact on us. The next morning we were all walking tall. My little sister is on the team and a little unsure of herself here, as are some of the younger swimmers. I told her that she should look at what the cricket team did. Anything is possible, you don't know what you can do or what can happen.

Matthew Hoggard

The World Cup is a massive event for world cricket and we need to start winning. We've shown hints of what we can do and over the next three games we've got to throw everything into it.

Samir Inamdar

Cricket Kenya has started afresh and we are not ready to think of the past and forward and improve the standards of the sport in the country.

Warda Tahir

Cricket is not only a game, it is a whole life

Trevor Hohns

Brett is an exciting prospect who has good height and is able to generate good bounce. He has had solid results in domestic cricket and we want to have a look at him at the next level.

Abdul Razzaq

Doctors say that the recovery process is going to be slow because the infection is severe and will take time to be eliminated. I am feeling very weak at the moment and really don't know when I will be able to resume full training and playing cricket again.

Bronson Arroyo

Just one of those days that every hit they had, they were all mistakes and they smashed him,

Steve Dunn

I taught somewhere between 600 to 700 students while I was here. I can tell you those were great days in this old school building.

Tony Russa

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.

Larry Rothschild

He knows that he does sides in between and the days he does them. I'll talk to him in the next day or two but the scheduling, as far as pitching, is not in our hands.

Dani Shapiro

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

Robert Wisner

Here in Iowa, there were a lot of nervous days during the summer due to hotter weather than in earlier years.

Christian Vieri

He's a good kid. We've been together for 20 days and have had a good time together,

Arlen Specter

Here you have a reporter in jail for 85 days and millions of Americans wonder why? I'm one of those.

Reggie Jackson

Here's what you have to understand these days about George. I stood 30 feet from him, and he didn't know who I was.

Tim Gordon

I think what you see is nine very proud parents today because this is our baby.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Bobby Bowden

He does that several times during the game, ... And nine times out of 10, he's right.

W. C. Fields

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

Charles B. Rangel

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

Pat Morelli

If she shoots the puck (and misses), nine out of 10 times she's the first one to the puck.

Derek Anderson

I had an opportunity to make a play that I've been making for nine years.

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.

Leila Aboulela

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lord Chesterfield

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

Bill Dwyer

It's been tested here and we know we can do it.

Brendan Shanahan

It will be a real test for us.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Anthony Davis

It has to be like Hawaii. We went in there and it was about basketball, and we took them one at a time.

Kimberly Smith

It took a long time, in part because it was a donation.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Karlyn Supple

It took a little wind out of our sails.

Gina Jones

They just don't know what they took away from me.

Brett Nelson

It was like our other matches. He took fifth, so he did pretty good.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.