Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Sklar

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Ron Shelton

Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.

Undersheriff Hudson

He wanted some sort of deal from the district attorney's office for his cooperation, and he wanted an attorney to assist him in working through this negotiation. The sheriff and I unsuccessfully tried to get him a public defender assigned as soon as possible because of the urgency of the situation.

Eddie Jordan

He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain.

Dick Cheney

He legally and irrevocably assigned them and he receives no tax benefit from them,

Paul Freeman

We take the solution providers from opportunity to identification of the right service, assign a solutions architect, help with customer questions and pricing, and help all the way through closing and delivery.

Bill Belichick

What you need to think about it is, 'How do I defeat the guy who is assigned to block me?' That's what defensive football really is about,

Howell Raines

I was assigned to write the color story in the stands and on the sidelines in the Alabama-Auburn game at Legion Field in 1964, ... My first byline was in the Post-Herald and it was about Bear Bryant. So that's about as good as gets in Alabama.

Bob Stoops

I thought the secondary played solid and good the entire day. The one deep wheel route we gave up on our boundary was somebody else outside of the secondary busting an assignment and not covering their guy. They tackled well for the most part, their positions on the ball and challenging in many coverage, I thought, were really pretty good.

Terje Hauge

He knew what was awaiting him as he lay on the ground. I think he deliberately tried to drag the time along.

Quinn Shephard

My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.

Lu Chengde

Here comes a correction, which may drag on through next week as more investors are expected to sell. The index will move within a narrow range but probably gain support at the 1,300 line.

Paul Blake

It could have gotten dragged out. But there were other issues. It got to the point where there were too many things going on.

Hedi Reynolds

There is no clarification. Now it's a month before the next one and we're going to wait and get guidance from the new guy and I think that's the drag on the market.

Jerry Reinsdorf

I think what Kenny was trying to say was that Boras has some grand ideas about what his players should be making, and it's going to drag out a long time. And we're not going to sit around and wait.

Jason Giambi

I think it's pretty pathetic they want to drag my father into this. I've moved on. I mean that's just sad that someone would try and do that to sell a book.

Jason Giambi

I think it's pretty pathetic that they tried to drag my father into it.

Melissa McCarthy

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

Dominique Holmes

I was kind of upset (about not being able to play much). I tried so hard to play on it, but I couldn't. That was disappointing to me.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Bruce Merrill

John is seen as a hard worker. He's really a low-key person. He's not a person that's been very controversial with issues. He's not a person you hear about in the media very often.

Lindy Ruff

J.P.'s looking real good. I like the way he's skating. We're going to start pushing him harder and harder, get him involved in more stuff.

John Davidson

I think in the near term, over this summer, the market is likely to stay in this range. There's a lot going on right now.

Michael Slater

Itanium won't be relevant for PCs until 2003 at the earliest, more likely 2005,

Seth Shostak

Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of 'Star Trek,' these would be M-class planets: life-friendly oases where biology could begin and bumpy-faced Klingons might exist.

Pamela Falk

Historically there have been compensation programs, not restitution. In other words money, not give them back the property. And that's most likely what's going to happen.

Tim Ruskell

I was a likely target, ... It was really no big deal.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Mark Collins

I think this particular time, it's more likely we'll be successful.

Ben Halliburton

I think we are likely to remain in a trading range for some time.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Stuart Rose

I would think that we're probably taking back some market share back off (key rival) Next (NXTNXT) as well,

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

George Davis

I think in terms of tone it was a little more dovish than what the market was expecting.

Eric Lascelles

There are some weak spots in the report and that's what the market is responding to.

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Anthony Warrens

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Devon Williams

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Viola Spolin

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

Adam Alirez

He's going to have to eventually. But he's doing awesome, whichever way he goes, he's going to make some noise at state.

Jerome Bettis

Hopefully, we can get some noise on our side this time.

Tony Sammons

We can make a lot more noise together than we can separately.

Robert Carlyle

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Trevor Phillips

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

W. C. Fields

I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.

Drew Brown

I'm trying not to make a lot of noise here. I come in in the mornings, and I cringe.

Neal Stephenson

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

Milan Kundera

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

Adrian Beltre

I would say it has to be Vinny Castilla. Aramis Ramirez would be up there, but Vinny Castilla has put up some big numbers in his career.

Louise Brown

I would say the number of women approaching us has more than doubled,

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

Benjamin Raich

Having to brake or be slow to get a better start number does not make sense. Braking is not something a skier should have to do. It isn't part of racing.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Ernie Accorsi

He said, 'When are you going to get your number one signed? I said, 'It's going to get done.

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Laura Vandervoort

I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Stan Gundy

He seemed like he was in some pain and obviously disappointed because he wants to play.

Rich Brooks

His touches will go up if we are able to get more snaps, ... He obviously is a playmaker. People we're playing know that as well.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Carla Ponte

If there was one person who was not overlooked it was Milosevic.

Shirley Chisholm

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Pamela Anderson

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Rick Soracco

Right now, we're not in a position to overlook anybody.

Bob Marlin

The sad thing is we were overlooked by the NIT. We had a better record than 37 of the 40 (NIT) teams, and we're the only team with 22 wins sitting at home.

Pete Asadourian

You can never overlook a team in this conference. You can never do that.

Chris Harrington

Personally, no, and I would say no for the rest of the team. There's no way we can. It's a one-and-done deal, and there's no way you can overlook a team.

Corey Lessard

We had a lot to prove in that game. The second time we overlooked them. They played better and we played worse.

Ira Glass

The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

Joe Humasti

If you look at the scores, there's only 24 strokes separating first and sixth place. That's not a lot of strokes.

Sebastian Stan

Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

U Thant

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

Zhang Ziyi

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Siddharth Mathur

Inflationary trends have been curbed to some extent.

Naomie Harris

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

James Goodnight

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and naziism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

Eric Bell

The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.

Emmy Rossum

I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.