Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

James Hardway

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

John Sarbanes

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

Michael Ward

The special prosecutor basically supported what we had told the Board of Elections all along,

Rhett Miller

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.

Pete Carroll

The thing I like is that I'm in charge of everything, so I can structure things the way I like. I get to wear all the hats. There are a few guys in the NFL who have that opportunity, but not many. You basically have to win a Super Bowl.

Dom Capers

The thing I was the most disappointed in (Sunday) was basically the fundamentals of our team. Our tackling, our blocking, there were far too many penalties right now, it's a gut check and a character check for our team.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. ""Oh, no,"" I said. ""Disneyland burned down."" He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

Paul Stanley

If it looks like it tomorrow then I'll jump to it. We're not going to evacuate this time, though. We didn't evacuate through Ivan. We did at Dennis, and we're kind of burned out on it. We're just going to stay here and ride it out unless we get to a real-real big (Category) 4.

Billy Jackson

It feels kind of like a death in your family, ... If it burned down, you would have felt better.

Clayton Muhammad

We do new groups, but we have the same old people, and people get burned out and tired. Look up at the podium, and it's the same people who spoke out when Moshe (Rogers) was killed. If they're the same ones up there 20 years from now, they're going to be running these programs from a walker.

Valerie Marcel

There is much more investment in Europe and the Middle East and generally the Muslim world. They are trying to diversify so they don't get caught. Many were burned by 9/11.

Michael Gennaco

I'm hopeful that this maelstrom has burned itself out. But would this happen in two years? There's no reason to be confident that it wouldn't.

Rob Lowe

David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.

John Nelson

Timmy probably didn't get burned at all, ... He probably died from smoke inhalation.

John Glover

The most devastating thing was the level of tragedy, with the land and burned up livestock. The fire front at one point was 31 miles wide.

Joshua Shapiro

The national labor market numbers are being skewered by the hurricanes at the moment and it's going to be a few months before we get a clean read.

Chris Hill

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

Mike McCarthy

Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.

John Danby

It was an evenly matched game, a hard-fought, clean game. The guys are elated and they should be.

Patricia Bryant

The shelters here are clean and well-staffed and we're ready to take people in,

Tom Hank

The shading and the light and its starting to look crisp and clean it looks surreal and real, it had a really neat 3-D quality to it without that fuzzy eyeball stuff.

Bruce Krall

I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

Reggie Evans

I've been clean since I've been in the league, I've been clean since I've been in college, I've been clean since I've been in high school, middle school, elementary school. I'm just cleaner than clean. I'm cleaner than Pine-Sol.

Jane Smiley

I've been entirely opposed to it since Day one. The next practical thing to do is to get out, and since I don't imagine we're going to clean up after us, the Iraqis are going to have to clean up all the junk we leave behind.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

John McClintock

Sometimes, you just get involved in a game which is so fast and so skilled. And I think that's what happened." ()

Whoopi Goldberg

Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.

Tony Russa

See, that's the kind of question that will end the session faster than a pause. You got something else you want to ask? That thing was over the day after, wasn't it? There was nothing that happened.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Brian Alexander

It was a little frustrating because we like a fast, up-tempo pace to the game. We like to fast break, and they kind of slowed that down for us.

Anthony Hopkins

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.

Hal McRae

You're trying to be ready for everything, and you're not ready for anything. We'd like for them to be ready for the one pitch, the fastball. That's where you start. We go from there. ... All timing comes off the fastball. You've got to be a fastball hitter first.

Jason Williams

As it stands, I have fired four rounds, killed four squirrels and been visited by four police officers. The first time, they SWAT-deployed. This is silly.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Dean Kamen

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

Edmund Spenser

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Andrew Olvera

We've seen that in this fire in the Topanga-Chatsworth area. We lost one structure, but we saved thousands of homes because we had that defensible space. We're able to do our job much more efficiently because of that.

Ed Markey

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

Charlie Worsham

'Rubberband' is a lot of things, but it's not a flashy record.

Julie Solis

She's not a flashy player. She just does her job.

Chris Paul

I'm not much into anything too flashy.

Miyeko Murase

I was very impressed by Mrs. Burke because it's not a flashy painting. It's a religious painting, and, in old, not terribly good condition. Nevertheless, she went right at it.

Janet Maslin

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

John Elderfield

Ed moved into the hotel so he could work with us,

Joanne Woodward

I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop and think about what I'm saying. I can see what's going to happen. I'm going to have to stop giving interviews because I'm always saying the wrong thing. I don't want that to happen.

Donald Trump

It`s always hot when I perform because the crowds are so big!

Curly Howard

A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

Mike Felix

We know teams are gunning for us. Especially after we swept South Alabama. We're a hot team right now, but we've got to go up there with the mindset that we're going to get a sweep or win the series.

Tommy Lee

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

Stephen Colbert

I deliver my Truth hot and hard.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Darrell Fox

We already have a shooting range. I don't see where there's enough people (who would use another) that one needs to be moved into a community.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Juan Felipe Herrera

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Paul Burns

We have the same sun and soil as Amador and much of El Dorado.

Billy Graham

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.