Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Tacopina

We are very eager for this trial to get it underway. Melanie wants it. I want it.

Reggie Wayne

We sound fresh. We sound ready to play. We're all eager to go out there and play instead of sitting around watching.

Nelson Mandela

is eager for peace. He is a passionate fighter for peace.

Charles H. Townes

I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.

Otto Rehhagel

I can see that my players are eager to win this time, and win we must in order for us to retain substantial hope for qualification,

Hiroyuki Nakai

The market is under pressure from three E's -- energy, euro and earnings, ... With third-quarter results about to come out in the U.S., investors are not so eager to take positions now.

Maria Jimenez

People are eager to express their values as immigrants and also to show their indignation.

Jim Wygonik

Overall we are pleased with the win. Our kids are eager to learn and will work hard in preparation for our upcoming games.

Bridget Regan

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Charles Bukowski

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

Dorothy Day

The final word is love.

Jay Osborne

We played very well in the first half, but played like we wanted to move on to the finals in the third quarter.

Les Brown

We made it to the finals in football and lost. We don't want that to happen again.

Jeremy Reichert

He had to overcome the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds to get to the finals where he met the No. 1 seed.

Ulrich Beck

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Gabriel Mattos

I really wanted to get to the finals and win, but it didn't work out that way. He played really well and I didn't play so well in the second set.

Gabe Murtorff

I know that most of these guys won't be back next year. I've got my goals set pretty high for next year. I'm going to get myself to the finals next year.

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Mark Mazzoleni

Sometimes they go in, and sometimes they don't. The thing is, we finished our scoring opportunities.

Louis MacNeice

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

Joel Silver

We'd finished shooting the film by then. The film is the film.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Carlos Silva

That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun.

Stephen Barnes

You would have stayed out of them the last five years,

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Brand Pretorius

Dealers pushed particularly hard in March in order to qualify for their quarterly sales incentive bonuses.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

Larry Brown

Story of our season. When teams make a run at us, it's very hard to find the competitive spirit you need to get back in games.

Barbara Bush

Study hard, work hard and play hard, too,

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Arthur Lydiard

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Arthur Machen

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Chris Yetman

Certainly, second place is very attainable. With a strong performance, we could win it.

Antawn Jamison

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He shouldn't have to tell me that.

Shelli Haferbecker

If it wasn't the first shot, a lot of times it was the second and third shot.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Chris Hammond

I always start pretty strong. When I do struggle, it tends to be in the second half.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Atticus Ross

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Stephen Bell

West Chester has a lot going for it.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Jung Chang

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Edward Ball

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

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...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

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.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.