Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Kristof

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with reading, math or help thinking about college. Through iMentor, one can even mentor people online.

Ann Fox

Wouldn't you like to write checks when you don't have any money in the bank? ... It's tempting. It's just that the consequences are bad.

Grant Wistrom

We're getting better coverage. Our linebackers are more sound. We're getting better checks and better coverage. Guys like Rocky (Bernard) and Bryce (Fisher) have obviously picked it up for us, and they're rushing the quarterback really well.

Toni Sacconaghi

As much as we had hoped that our reseller checks would have been more encouraging, the fact is simply that demand continues to remain weak, with no imminent rebound,

Marc Benioff

They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate.

David Oliver

They have a good power play, they are a physical team that finishes checks and they have the talent to score goals. They are one of the top teams in contention to win the Calder Cup and we're in the game with them. We're close.

Jill Furillo

This fundraiser is the prime example of what is wrong with our system. They write their $100,000 checks because they hope to get a favor in return.

Andrei Lankov

For decades, this country was second only to Albania, or even second to none, for keeping out all information about foreign countries. But the old state supervision, where the police would do random checks looking for things like radios, collapsed over the last decade. It was too expensive to run.

Don Peters

For all investors who wrote checks to Uncle Sam, they could think about investing differently for their taxable accounts.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Billy Coleman

We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Robert Saunooke

They obviously want to be pr-s about it. I thought we'd worked things out.

Mary Neubauer

They obviously scored the highest. There was no favoritism shown to any of these companies.

Keith Wright

They obviously have to be prodded, pushed and cajoled into doing their job.

Tony Greig

They obviously have had to come up with something.

Mike Sullivan

They don't think it's real serious but obviously enough to keep him out of our lineup.

Olli Jokinen

It's no point to be frustrated. Obviously if you're going to play under the rules, you have to get used to the rules. Otherwise you're going to be in the penalty box.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Dorothy Stukes

It seems to me that we are getting picked on just because we are from Louisiana.

Paul Byrd

They picked me up, ... I can't say anything more than that.

Bouwe Bekking

It's not the spirit, but they picked up on it. They've done their homework.

Adam Gacs

It picked me more than I picked it.

John Connolly

It's 13 weeks until the first Wallaby team of the year is picked and a lot will come into consideration.

Frank Pagliuca

It was something we saw in films. It's just something we picked up.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Brutal Evans

Stuff that I picked up in 6 or 7 years, we can teach here in 2 months.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

JoAnne Graf

She had a rocky first game. But Tiffany has really responded.

Bill Belichick

We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.

Lester Pines

It was a description, frankly, of Rocky Rococo.

Glenn Plum

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Brooke Langton

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Don DeLillo

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.