Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Reid

Offensively, I have to do a better job on my side of getting this thing a bit more balanced up with the run-pass ratio, ... I'll go back to the drawing board and work on that and see if we can't do a better job offensively.

Marsha Sharp

The more balance you can have in the Big 12 and the less they can pick on people, the better off you are.

Dave Phillips

The team showed a lot of heart tonight. We're 11-2 in dual meets, so I think that gave us a lot of confidence coming into the tournament. We're a very balanced team and they all gave their best, so I'm very proud.

Ed McClanahan

The teams are pretty evenly matched. What it came down to is they got more balanced scoring and they got the shots they needed in the fourth quarter to pull away from us and get the win.

Eric Tyson

I've long loved balanced funds, especially for skittish investors, because the bonds mask the volatility of the stocks. When I was doing financial planning, I saw that people often had a hard time keeping in mind the overall portfolio, and a balanced fund kind of forces them to do that.

George Scalise

The worldwide market for semiconductors in 2001 is expected to decline 31 percent due to excessive inventories and price pressure on a wide range of products, ... However, recent data indicates inventory is now largely in balance and prices are rebounding in some product categories.

Cathy Kapica

This is an open window on McDonald's food. The math tells the real story -- that McDonald's has the balance consumers are looking for.

James Awad

You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet,

Roger Entner

You need to find a balance between minimizing the support costs and making your people happy and cooperative.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Jerry Colangelo

I've spoken with Shawn some time ago and he certainly indicated he wanted to be a part of this thing. He's the kind of individual and player who personifies what you want to represent you.

John Buckingham

These companies have tremendous financial ratings, and certainly their dividend is secure. These are slow, stodgy stocks that are going to reward you.

John Barth

These commodity costs are still something we're wrestling with, but it also gives us opportunities to have different discussions with our customers than certainly we could have had a year ago. We're in a very good position to continue to invest in that business.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

John Riggins

The story really is, in a way, Joel -- doing what he did while dealing with this illness,

David Morgan

The most important message for me is the theme of faith explored in the show. Dealing with faith and having faith in God, even though you don't completely understand what it is he has in store for you.

Jim Boeheim

Roy was a great motivator, a guy with great energy, ... He was a very good practice coach. He had a way of keeping everybody enthusiastic and fired up every day, and that's important when you are dealing with a long season like you do in basketball.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Randy Couture

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Fred Fetzer

I've been trying to figure out why he does this. But I can't. It's just more misleading information.

Richard Feast

I've been doing this for 35 years. I haven't been able to figure them out yet.

Kris Kristofferson

The world situation being what it is, I have a lot to say, ... And I figure as long as I've got something to talk about, I'll probably keep talking.

Bob Gray

The word 'flu' is always dangerous. So I figured I'd see what it was all about.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Orlando Palmeiro

You have a man on third and less than two outs, you're going to try to jam him. I figured at some point he was going to come in.

Bob Becker

We figured if we got two dozen, we'd be really happy.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Sandy Greenberg

We're looking at palm trees now to replace the shade trees.

Allen Iverson

We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes,

Jared Bernstein

We're looking at a recession/jobless recovery that's two years old to the day.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Katarina Witt

She took a day of rest, which is fine. She is physically prepared, and maybe she doesn't need that day of pressure with everyone watching her.

Ken Woods

People wouldn't stop talking to us. I don't know why that was. Maybe it's the way we approached them.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Jonah Raskin

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't - if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art.

Joanna Lumley

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

Sonya Davis

My grandfather told me not to give up yet because maybe they're still out there,

Jane D. Hull

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Billy Connolly

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Elif Safak

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Edward Ruscha

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Amy Goodman

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Rush Limbaugh

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Jack Berry

As soon as they push the dirt, we can start selling that, and we will start selling that.

Matt Thissen

We want to do what we do and they want to do what they do. It may come down to who can push their will on the other one.

Ann Aguirre

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Simon Sinek

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Susan Jeffers

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

Sherilyn Fenn

They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!

Sissy Spacek

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Steve Capps

He took over this project, pushed Jef out.

Bode Miller

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

Tom Wilson

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Michael Andretti

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Jenson Button

Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

Frank Shorter

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

Charlie Kimball

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Colin Chapman

Simplify and add lightness

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Aubrey Plaza

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

Anderson Cooper

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Alicia Keys

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

R. Robinson

Every day, he talked to us about being responsible,

Sandy Montgomery

We talked about it as a team once, and that's it. Now we have to go out, play, and see what happens.

Scott Ritter

How do I know this? I've talked to Bolton's speechwriter.

Tom Streicher

SWAT negotiators talked to him about an hour,

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Dan McDonald

We have talked about (going to state) every day this year.

Mark Grudzielanek

We talked a lot and we had to get comfortable,

Dave McDermott

I was worried about rebounding. We talked about that at halftime.

Robert Bennett

In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.