Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Kate Saunders

The strongest comments are from the Chinese scientists. This is not at all surprising. . . . Chinese protests against high-profile visits of the Dalai Lama are routine wherever he travels.

Lord Falconer

A free society has got to properly defend itself against terrorism.

Liaqat Baluch

A freedom of expression that destroys world peace is against basic human rights.

Horacio Serpa

A fraud is being committed beyond the voting booths, obliging people to vote against their will. An election under these conditions is suspicious.

M. Thompson

A few things conspired against me. The club (Lierse) got a new coach and I got a knee injury that sidelined me for some time. It put me back and by the time I returned, the coach was not interested in me any more. That's how it goes in professional football.

Jean Ziegler

A drama is taking place in total silence in Iraq, where the coalition's occupying forces are using hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population,

Hannah Teter

A different kind of family, I guess. Mom went to nursing school after having five kids, and Dad is a road construction foreman. Pretty cool people. I guess you call them hippies. They met at a music festival in Colorado. Dad was leaning against a tree, playing a flute, and Mom walked by and caught his eye. That's the way they tell the story.

Neil Parker

The one thing that has worked against the equity market pushing higher is that the UK bond market has been hammered, and yields have subsequently risen. Before it was a one-way bet, but now people are having to be more thoughtful.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Evelyn Thompson

That's a very difficult time, because you can't think. I mean, you know, you just don't process. And even in that meeting, I'm not too sure how much they heard me, but it was OK. Because I knew that, I knew they're not hearing it, or not right now. It'll come back maybe later, and they know they can call me.

S. Hughes

I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,

Bryan Thomas

I wasn't expecting to go to California. I got the call the day before the North-South game. I came home for Christmas and flew out (Dec. 26). Right after the game we flew back that night.

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Corey Brewer

You would have thought after a while they would have caught on. But we just kept running it.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Pixie Lott

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

Gladys Bettis

We donated it to a church and had it fixed up, but we don't know what happened to it. I didn't even know it caught on fire.

Larry Johnson

Those guys can get caught out of position if the offensive line and we all do our job the way we're supposed to do our job. There's a lot of things we can open offensively to pressure them to make them make mistakes,

Paul Pearl

Those guys are very good, but if you get caught thinking about specific players that's a big mistake. You have to worry about what you're doing as a team and the team you're playing against.

Charles Blood

We're caught in a sort of psychological trap here and sometimes to get out you've got to go down first.

Pat Riley

We're caught between a rock and a hard place.

Jim Thompson

We escaped with a victory in this match. This was a match where they had the lead, we caught up and went ahead, and then we tried to give away.

Julia Quinn

Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever invented. And the people who were in the videos... coolest people ever. No question.

Kathy Valentine

You don't do it for some end result, hoping you get signed or get this cool gig or get a big following. It's got to matter to you.

Yaron Danon

You just heat the crystal from room temperature to about 130 degrees. Then you can use it while it's heating or while it's cooling. We're doing it while it's cooling. We're letting it cool back to room temperature, and while it's doing that it's accelerating ions, so it's like a particle accelerator that's very simple.

Rassie Erasmus

We can't complain. The weather has been cool and near perfect for training. The players should peak on Friday night.

Bronson Arroyo

He can definitely handle whatever they throw at him. Johnny's a cool cat.

Paul Hamm

He actually knew all about the Olympics. I was just so surprised that this person who is so worldwide known knows me. It was cool to actually get to meet him.

Ron Jones

He only weighs 90 pounds. He stayed cool and worked hard. His edge is his conditioning.

John Waller

If it works like it does on a 'Berry, it's got to be a cool thing.

Macaulay Culkin

If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Domhnall Gleeson

I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.

Sheila Cunningham's

I don't want to move. I want to stay here until I die. My mom and dad did. And I want to do the same thing.

Max Winkler

I don't mind talking about my dad because he's such a good dude.

Johnny Vegas

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

Phyllis Lehman

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

Maverick Golden

I think you earn what you get out of life. I've always worked hard I was working hard in my dad's cornfields by the time I was seven.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring.

Robert Prunty

It isn't official and until his dad signs it, we don't know.

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.

Cindy Miller

I went MS, this can't possibly be happening and it was very scary I had visions of me in a wheelchair in five years and I had no idea what would happen to me.

R. Ingram

I want to thank God first of all for everything. This is a real big deal. It's an honor for me to be able to come down here and be the second person ever inducted within five years of being out of school.

Brittany Hunter

I was always in CD?s office. CD?s like my mom away from home. No matter how much she makes you mad or no matter how much we make her mad the next day, or the next five minutes even, she?s talking to you and joking around with you. I think that?s really important because then you know it?s not all about basketball.

John Frye

I was a little surprised, considering that's what I've done before. But you can't guard all five guys out there all the time.

Koji Uehara

I was able to strike those hitters out like that after my team scored five runs in the top of the seventh and I just thought about shutting them out and that strong will really worked.

Greg Kirby

I was just trying to find five players who could play defense. We played a very porous defense.

Paul Cabana

I think they handled their first playoff game really well. I didn't think they looked any different from guys who have been five or six years in the playoffs. If we're going to go on a run, (the rookies) are going to be a big part of it ? just like they were last year.

Brad Arnsberg

He's been very good. He slips down every once in a while, but last year, we'd see it once every four or five pitches. Now, we're seeing it once every 30 or 40 pitches. That's good.

H. Judd

I guess the key is to really listen to what it is you truly need.

Roger Federer

I guess the important moments, key moments of the match, I guess I was just superior to him. There was not much in it.

Michael Cristofer

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

Alison Pill

I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.

Denis O'Hare

I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.

John Daniels

If you play the lottery, I guess you're okay. I feel like the bridesmaid.

Mike Bassett

In the 36 years I have been alive, I have seen this type of stuff happen in a lot of different places. I guess we are just lucky no one was hurt.

Mel Thomas

I just tried real hard all summer. I wanted to improve a lot, and I guess other people noticed it as well.

Kianna Smith

I just wanted to come out here and win. Right then, I wasn't thinking about next year, but I guess it's time now.

Rita Wilson

I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.

Rita Ora

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rita Ora

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She’s a very strong lady.

Rita Mae Brown

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

Thomas S. Monson

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

Robert Griffin III

My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.

Robert Griffin III

I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Robert Greene

Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of those performances are living and force you to make decisions about who you really are. Women have to put those performances ahead of things sometimes. Men aren't perceived in the same way.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Richard Parsons

If there is such thing as a perfect fit, Warner EMI Music is it.

Drake Bell

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

Aleksey Igudesman

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

Stephen Marley

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

Orlando Bloom

He would often play a piece of music just before a take to set the mood.

Katie Johnson

I'm used to working with him. I know what to expect. It all transitions together so well, and the music is beautiful.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Amy Adams

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

Alyson Hannigan

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

Alvin Lee

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Alvin Lee

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

Aly Raisman

My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.

Allyson Felix

It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

Anthony Edwards

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

Anthony Hamilton

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

Anthony de Mello

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.