Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Factor

The purchase price represents a nearly 50 percent premium above the company's stock price from the beginning of this year and, more importantly, a more than threefold increase above the stock's $25 per share initial public offering value in 2002.

Joel Sawyer

The fact that the House is now talking about spending caps is certainly a step forward compared with what they were talking about last week. But the real question for us is always where does the money above and beyond the cap go?

Rob Murray

We have a very, very young team with some good senior leaders. I thought coming into today that we could finish in the high forties, but we performed above what I thought we were capable of and that's a testament to the athletes on this team.

Bob Hill

We haven't had a power forward here since (Shawn) Kemp who can run and jump and play above the rim like he does.

Alice Walker

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Allen Adamson

The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class.

David Harman

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value. Above that it was too expensive.

David Harman

Unicom at HK$16 is probably offering reasonable value, ... Above that it was too expensive.

Pat Morelli

(Sell and Hennessy) make moves you don't see in high school girls hockey. They're a notch above everyone else.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Norman Peacock

I feel right now, here in Palatka, the average person really has no say-so. The commission, mayor and city manager basically run everything. They always say you can come forward with your ideas, but nobody really listens. I've become very frustrated.

James Cameron

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

Florence Nightingale

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

George Mikes

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

George Mikes

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

Chris Hayes

Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

Kevin Porter

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Charles Greene

I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold my house and brought my family down, ... The idea was to make journalism a little better in Latin America.

Kim Miller

He impacted a lot of kids, he always had a smile, and he believed in living life to the fullest.

Phil Bennett

He doesn't sugarcoat anything, and that's one of the reasons why I liked him. I believed in him. He knew coming in here there would be some tough times, but he's been a great mentor to me being a first-time head coach.

Mark Messier

Other than my dad, no one believed in me more and did more for me as a person and player.

Juan Williams

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

Mike Massucci

Our overtime loss at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard last Friday was devastating. It was a game that we believed we should have won. I was interested to see how the team would react tonight. The players came out really focused. They played with intensity.

Renato Reyes

patently illegal because it would curtail peoples right to express themselves in what is believed to be a historic rally site and freedom park.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Zinedine Zidane

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

Jay Fiedler

I knew I wasn't going to be able to throw a football.

Steve McClaren

That, for us, was as good as signing on the dotted line. There was a taxation issue, not a football issue, that needed sorting out.

Pele

Brazil is crazy about football. People, they wait for this moment, but this doesn't mean we are going to win the championship. That is the problem.

Pele

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

Kevin Keegan

Football's always easier when you've got the ball.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Rob Judson

Senior day is really a special day. I could tell at our morning shoot-around that these guys were really focused. Everyone went out there and made sure that NIU would get the win.

Luc Robitaille

Selling L.A. is going to be easy. Phil (Anschutz, the Kings' co-owner) should offer the young guys a movie role.

Jon Heacock

Obviously, there are some guys that can help us. How soon, I don't know.

Brian Cashman

Obviously it's something that's unique and difficult. We'll lose some guys for a period of time. Hopefully they produce at high levels for those clubs, stay healthy and get back to us whenever their WBC season is over.

Brodie Croyle

Obviously, as you say, there's the top three guys that probably go in the top three picks. There's a lot of quarterbacks to be taken after that. Hey, I'm happy to be here. A year ago today, I was still recovering from a knee injury and wondering if I'd have this opportunity. I'm loving every minute of it.

Lleyton Hewitt

Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old.

Scott Long

No. Haven't done much of that lately. Now it's telling guys why they can't do things like that.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Longchenpa

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Sharon Salzberg

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Natalie Goldberg

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

Tavis Smiley

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Joshua Harris

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Joshua Harris

The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice for our lives. Not our feelings or emotions. Not signs or prophetic words or hunches.

Lionel Ferbos

Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.