Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Bowden

It always helps to win that last one. It boosts morale and gives you a lift going into the off-season.

Ian McGeechan

Having Lawrence back is a tremendous boost for us,

Steve Barrow

History has shown currency intervention is a long drawn-out battle, ... It will take weeks, if not months, with or without the U.S., to boost the euro. It'll take a miracle.

Tom Dexter

He's given them a boost as far as mechanics go. Plus, they see a guy like Dale, who played professionally, and they know he knows what he's talking about.

Melissa McHenry

The railroads have worked to boost supplies, but we are still not getting the (Powder River Basin) deliveries we need.

Barry Hyman

HP was surprisingly strong and that should boost the PCs tomorrow, but AMAT may cut into the semis,

Gerry Hunsicker

He's pitching as good right now as he probably has in the last few years. It's just been a tremendous boost to the franchise, to the team, to the city. He's just lifted everybody's spirits.

Hoshyar Zebari

ideas (he has presented) for some practical steps which can help boost morale on the domestic Iraqi scene.

Clarence White

I am delighted to be recognized and honored by InformationWeek Magazine. I share this with our entire team of IT personnel and with The Salvation Army's leaders in the Western Territory who helped us streamline processes and boost efficiency so that more of our donor's dollars can be spent helping people with needed programs and services.

Randy Carlyle

He fits into the same category as the rest of our hockey club. We weren't good enough, and he was part of it. He wasn't as sharp as he needs to be, and the team wasn't as sharp as it needs to be.

Hines Ward

I just hate to see that I'm getting put into that same category because I think our situations are totally different,

Sean McAlinden

It's our Category 5, our economic New Orleans.

John Nolan

I've got a really mature point guard for a sophomore. The Considine girl doesn't like to lose and she plays that way. She not selfish - she leads us in every category - shooting, scoring, assists and steals. But her determination and work ethic rub off on everybody else.

John Gallagher

I've got a pretty good sense we're probably prepared for a Category 3, ... I don't think I'm prepared for a Category 5.

John Krasinski

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

Larry Dixon

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

Richard Roeper

That's always the category when you get the crazy moment early on when someone wins, then they are kind of never heard from again.

Stephane Baldi

The research team was surprised to find out more than 50 percent of four-year students were not in the proficient category and 75 percent of the two-year students were not. The proficient category does involve some of the more complex literacy tasks, but some that we would expect them to do.

Jon Wagner

I thought Chris looked very impressive. He really goes after people, doesn't he?

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Anton LaVey

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

George Morrison

I didn't want Easter to just come and go. I wanted people to think about the last days of Christ leading up to Sunday.

Marie Windsor

I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

Richelle Mead

Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her face. Her boyfriend, Christian, lay on the floor near her, his head propped up on her other knee. He greeted me by way of a nod. Concidering the antagonism the sometimes flared up between us, that was almost on par with him giving me a bear hug.

Richelle Mead

Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?ʺ ʺChristian,ʺ corrected Lissa. ʺRight.ʺ .... ʺSo what brings you and Christopher here?ʺ asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink. ʺChristian,ʺ said Christian. .... Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. ʺBut you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other.ʺ It went without saying what he meant by that. ʺOh. And Kreskin too.

Richelle Mead

That was Sydney Sage," said Lissa. "I thought they were all in West Virginia. Why isn't she with Rose?" "That," said Abe darkly, "is an excellent question." "Because they were apparently kidnapping Jill Mastrano in Detroit," said Christian. "Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.

Richelle Mead

Boy is he pissed," said Adrian. "Do you blame him?" asked Christian. "He just lost memerbship in the evil mastermind club. His brilliant plan fell apart, and now his daughter's missing when he thought she was somewhere safe." Adrian stayed pointedly silent.

David Hidalgo

To find something comparable to that, but in our own culture, that was refreshing.

Jack Evans

The current issue with the U.S. program is not comparable to the concerns raised in Europe. We have a program here that is successfully operating with 26 licensees and a dozen products shipping.

Adi Kishore

At a minimum, you need to have a dataset that is easily comparable with traditional media.

Jeff Garlin

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Mark Ernst

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations, with February results comparable to those in the prior year.

Havelock Ellis

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry

Gordon Haff

They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.

Tom Gray

The wind resource in the United States is comparable to the oil resource in Saudi Arabia. It's a major strategic national resource we should be making every effort to develop.

Elaine Sciolino

The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.

Drew Bledsoe

We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Carl Dodd

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren't true, and let her be the judge.

Charles Smith

He said he was worried about his sister. He hadn't heard from her since the Sunday before the storm.

The Beatles

To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.

Michael Judge

I have heard other leaders in the justice system say that they will be retired before this is over,

David Parry

I have heard of no other schools turning down instant replay other than USC,

Joe Gibbs

I don't know about that, ... I've never heard that over a headset, I'll put it that way.

Christopher Shays

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

DeAndre Rice

Here, he's more humble. He's taking his time with us and learning from the mistakes he made. And he's helping us to be together and play as a team.

Bob Cole

He's a lot better from where he was last year. I think all the reps he is getting are helping him out. He's played more than he thought he was going to play.

Schoolboy Q

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Paul Wolfowitz

Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.

Lynn Upson

Helping other communities is a really big thing for me right now because it's a horrible thing to feel so helpless.

Reid Hoffman

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

William S. Burroughs

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

Samuel Smiles

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Robin Hobb

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Shawcross

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.

Stubby Clapp

There's nothing like pulling the red and white over your head.

Simon Payne

Lloyds is rising on speculation that BBVA will make a bid. There's been talk of a tie up between the two for ages. BBVA pulling out of BNL is going to reinforce that rumor.

Ann Kaplan

Look around. You won't see any Rolls-Royces pulling up in front.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Julia Child

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Phyllis Diller

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Kim Devlin

Well that's seven more votes than we expected.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Emiliano Zapata

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Darren Sharper

It's just not where I want it to be, but I've still got five, six days,

Natalie Gulbis

It's a tough place to spend six hours.

Wayne Gould

It's not like this was a 12-hour a day job, It was more like a six to nine.

Younis Khan

It was a tremendous victory especially after we were six down for 39 in the first innings.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.