Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Koenig

Just saying it was approved by the board and accountants wasn't going to cut it.

John Thompson

The only thing that has been approved so far is the subdivision of the land.

Mark Simpson

It is a four-year project to develop a turf pitch yet we still do not know whether council will ever approve a turf pitch at our home base at Russell Square.

Sam Bodman

Last night I approved a company's request for loan from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

Jean Medina

We expect to resolve any issues and concerns so that the court can approve our disclosure statement next week and we can continue moving toward exit from bankruptcy.

Bill Walker

We maintain a campus where we would hope that people could express themselves. Obviously, any kind of physical situation like this we do not approve of.

Linda Malec

I am extremely concerned about the recent application, approved by current directors, to convert to a mutual savings bank. And I'm even more concerned about the lack of communication from board members and executive management to members.

Alan Greenspan

If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way.

David Stern

In my mind, there's been an enormous investment made and it's the beginning of a process that's quite extensive. As far as we understand it, the Nets are planning to be in Brooklyn in the next three years or so, but we don't control that process. All we do is get to receive their reports and ultimately approve the move.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Guillermo Diaz

It hurts, you know? At the end, we just didn't execute what we wanted to. They kept playing. They kept fighting. They're a good team, but it's disappointing, because we had the lead for most of the game.

E. O. Wilson

We just have to get it done no matter how long we're out there. Big plays can kill you, man. That's why you have to execute on every down. You do all that work, and then they hit a big play on you. That can't be how we do things.

Robert McCullum

I thought the last 3 or 4 minutes there in the first half is when things kind of got away. We had four or five consecutive possessions where we didn't execute well." ()

Rich Irr

I think it's the same every year. You have to play well, you have to execute on all fronts come the playoffs. I don't think it's any harder because you're trying to repeat or do it for the first time. You have to play well.

Rod Thorn

Lawrence has a track record here. Nobody works harder. He has terrific game plans. We just need to execute our plans better and play better. Lawrence can't go out and play for guys.

Bret Reedy

I just think offensively the whole night we weren't in sync. We took quick shots, we took long shots and we didn't execute defensively.

Paul Rybak

They were pretty hot to start the third quarter. They really execute well. They know what they want to do, and they go about it like a good team does.

Tasmin Mitchell

They were playing really good defense, and they were really moving in the zone, playing physical in the zone. We couldn't execute like we wanted to.

Randy Moore

They'll go all out, but they need to execute to be a successful team.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Cassie Schrock

I was just looking to penetrate every time. My teammates kept looking for me inside and my shot was just falling.

Leon Powe

I was just having fun. We were here at Staples, so I wanted to come out hard. If I can get something going inside for my team, that sets them up on offense.

Lewis Witcher

I was kind of shocked they did that, but that's OK though. Let them come in. They're not going to get too much inside when I'm in there.

Ken Hitchcock

We maybe had three inside shots in the third period. We had kind of wild turnaround shots. We didn't have any presence with shots at the net. We were one shot at the net and gone.

Billy Donovan

I don't know about him for next game. It's inside his lip. He's probably going to have to get it stitched up.

Vinny Castilla

I didn't like school a whole lot because I would rather be outside playing than inside studying, ... I played with my friends and my family, and we always played sports. That's how it was back then and I'm still playing today.

Tom Funk

If you want to witness what's going on inside the mind of Robert, take a look at his rig, and then take a look at it in a year, because it'll be better.

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Joe Heim

We wanted to get a broader-based opinion, not just voters' opinions.

Mike Malaise

There are a lot of people who are energized by this race now, some who have had longstanding opinions about Tom DeLay.

Sam Wright

with 50 different opinions we wont ever get anything done.

Alan Sugar

The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Gina Barreca

For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

Simon Callow

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Sara Atuaia

He's become our go-to player. We need him to keep being strong up from.

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Brian Anderson

I have to go out there and turn some heads.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Roberto Hernandez

You can turn around and walk away with that one.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

John Boland

It's NBC's turn to lag for a bit.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.