Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Smith

We are very similar and it is a very hard place to come and tour. In the past South Africa have had a big fear of failure but I think we have come to terms with that. We have come here and I know people have called us unimaginative but we are more open. We are looking forward to playing in front of Australian crowds and playing in Australia.

Graeme Smith

I think Melbourne was good for us in that we won very convincingly and probably gave South Africa a few other things to think about.

Karl Lubout

Whilst South Africa has recently been hit by disastrous droughts and is also known to be a water scarce country; the current constant rainfalls are now posing a challenge.

Rahul Dravid

We played him in the middle order against South Africa with some success. We have a lot of options, but we will see as the series progresses.

Bill Clinton

We have to show the benefits of democracy and globalization to ordinary citizens. If we don't put a human face on the global economy and we don't put a competence factor into local democracy, then both will eventually be rejected by ordinary people in Africa and throughout the world.

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Larry Pratt

I can predict that the violent crime rate and murder will increase if this law continues to be implemented. The only way to tackle this Wild West scenario is to allow the good guys to have guns ... The criminal in South Africa has too much freedom of action, too much job security.

Anthony Fauci

I don't think that the resources of the western European countries are going to implode because of this. But you see disaster striking, economically and otherwise, when you get into countries such as in Africa and other developing nations in which they don't have the resources to handle this.

Nicholas Kristof

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Tim Corbin

Offensively, I was pleased with way we've swung the bats the last two days. Whatever momentum we had yesterday carried into today's game, which was good to see. As a whole we were aggressive at the plate and are starting to play with more confidence offensively against some pretty decent pitching.

Willie Lager

Of the seven spots you play, we drew matches against the No. 1 seed four times. It's just the way the computer did it. But our kids played as good as they can play.

Jay Graham

Offensively, I thought we had one of our better games. Scoring four goals against Padua is impressive. ... We were brilliant offensively, but I thought our play in the defensive zone was sub-par for our standards.

Sara Schopper

Offense was the hard part against them. They are just so big. They wouldn't give us the 3-point shot, and that forced us to go inside where they have so much size. It came down to an inside game and we struggled.

Peter Beattie

The Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship celebrates its Centenary this year so it's pleasing to see our top Australian players coming out in force to support the event,

Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

Tony Pearson

If it hadn't been for the mining boom, Australia might be in a recession now.

Chris Bailey

I find it odd at 47 that I can go to festivals and be in the company of groups that are much younger and we are playing a not-dissimilar set.

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,

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.

John Cena

I'm the guy who'll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. I'm the guy who'll fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat.

Pat Cash

I'm carrying my guitar, I'll will be playing at a concert in Australia before the Australian Open.

Donella Meadows

If the world were a village of 100 people, ... there would be 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, eight people from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, five from the U.S.A. and Canada, and one from Australia or New Zealand.

Trafalgar Square

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

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.

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.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our build-up for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Rick Riordan

That's it, cupcake. You're going down.

Mo Johnston

Magnificent. He's been magnificent all season. There is a door open now for the World Cup and I hope he's on it because of his performance here, not only tonight, but throughout his time here has been tremendous.

Patrick McEnroe

My goal is still the same as it was when I got here -- to win the Cup and have camaraderie. We've got that part, we have the guys who are committed. ... It would be nice to win it.

Brian Barwick

If and when we qualify, we would go into the World Cup as one of the teams that can win it.

Leo Beenhakker

He's still a great player. Nobody has to tell me that we still have a lot to do. The players can still improve. If it's good enough to surprise some of our opponents at the World Cup I don't know, but they still have a lot of room to grow.

Roy Coyle

It does not matter who we are playing, we want to get into a cup final. That is what it is all about.

Gordon Brown

July 30, 1966 will rank as one of the greatest World Cup finals and one of the great days in sporting history.

Doug O'Neill

We're all talking about the Gold Cup as the dream spot and probably a spot between now and then. It is in our own backyard.

Anne Sexton

I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

Steven Erikson

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?

Tyra Banks

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

Wayne Ellington

It was an instant click. I didn't feel any flaws or anything. We just kind of played our game and complemented each other real well.

Susana Lopez

You don't have to be a Latina to join. You just have to be geared toward Latina issues.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

Michael Buckley

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

Chris Powell

If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

Friedrich Schiller

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Julian Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Katherine Dunn

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

James Prescott Joule

The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

Ho Chi Minh

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Henry Ward Beecher

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Frances Townsend

Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.