Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Lovill

It has 800 squares. I walked and counted them all.

Avery Brooks

He taught us that to stand and be counted was the way to be.

Jason Kidd

I rather it happen now than Game 7 in the Finals or an important game. I am not trying to downgrade this game as not important but those type of things happen. We have counted on Vince in the two years that he has been here and he has room for error.

Luis Figo

I never counted on a moment like this one. I played in a team which made it possible for me to be here.

Barry Gebhart

I'm not sure we did anything well tonight but compete. We hung in there and kept playing and kept playing. We played good defense all night and never gave up. Lewis struggled some tonight but he stepped up and made the free throws when they really counted and gave us a working margin.

Brian Giles

I know a lot of people are talking about our record. But I'm proud of what we've done. I think we've accomplished a lot. It's awesome. People counted us out every week and here we still are.

Jamie Broback

I hope I got counted for the assist. Good thing Katie was there, a nice little finger roll.

Marguerite Dalianes

I haven't counted how many times I've gone. Easily 40 or so times.

Vivian Stringer

I mean, really. I knew they counted on our fans, but wow.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

Craig Jenness

In our view, all communities of Iraq have won in these elections, all will have a strong voice in parliament. We hope the elections will be the start of a new process of strength and unity in Iraq.

Stephen Harper

It has fallen off because we're in the summer and not having an election,

Jill Carroll

Iraqis in the street are saying that the Shiite-dominated government planned it that way. The elections gave people hope for an improved life, but immediately after the vote, the quality of life declined.

Jemera Rone

In essence these are multi-party elections in a one-party state.

Ahmed Nazif

If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections,

Elaine Kamarck

Iowa has become not just a state important in the primaries, but important to the general election.

Laurent Gbagbo

I hope elections will take place well before 12 months ... that is a job I will entrust to my new prime minister whom we will name in a few days,

Regina Davis

I really haven't been keeping up with the elections.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

William Shelton

I think it's a good example of wishing a problem away. Unfortunately, more than not, we face these issues as they arise. It's like putting out fires.

Thomas Wilson

He was a great example of love expressed that expands and does not contract.

Rob DiMaio

He led by example and the way he played. He didn't have to talk. He was one of those guys who just played.

Rod Marsh

He leads by example, but he also thinks about the game as well,

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

Todd Chanko

Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,

Foxy Brown

Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm gonna come at your ghost writer.

W. Hull

Keep it out of the middle of the field, take it up the sidelines as far as you can and then shoot it at the net and hope it goes in off someone.

Joe Gibbs

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.

Steve Hammond

I think it's a first step. As far as we're concerned, we'd go for a three-buck limit.

Asa Hutchinson

I think it is very disappointing. Whenever you talk about the justice system, politics should be as far as imaginable from the outcome.

Zach Malvik

I think in the back of our minds we thought it was possible. That's just all of us being competitors and never saying we can't do it. I do think it's a surprise to all of us that we made it this far and accomplished our goal.

Rasheed Wallace

He lifted their morale a little bit. Obviously he's a great coach. He has three or four 'ships (championships) and he's won over 1,000 games, so definitely, he lifted their morale. But as far as long range? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see.

Billy Beane

He is one of the greatest offensive players of his generation. He is nirvana for us as far as what we look for in an offensive player.

Dan Rather

He left us far too soon ... with so much good work to do.

Frank Beamer

We thought we had a shot at him. But it's tough to get those South Florida guys away from Miami.

Janet Montgomery

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

Vincent Bugliosi

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

Rick Scott

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

Rick Scott

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

Michael Costigan

Other states have been very aggressive. They've approached the studio, and said, 'Here's why you should shoot here.' Florida approached us, New Mexico, Louisiana.

Eric Blake

Residents of Louisiana eastward to Florida should monitor this storm system.

Gwen Woody

In six week's time, I went from not knowing what God wanted me to do, to going to a women's shelter in Florida for training.

John Tharp

I just laughed when I heard it. To have Lawrence mentioned with Duke, Pittsburgh, and Florida just doesn't make sense.

Vance Moss

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Mack Brown

We take for granted now what he does. He does whatever he needs to do to win.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Elizabeth Thomas

Had we not participated in those meetings, DASA might not have granted certification.

Virginia Woolf

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Bertrand Russel

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted

Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

David Tennant

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

Bob Boughner

He interfered with me, but I did give it a little extra. I won't be winning an Oscar, put it that way.

Martin Druyan

If using the Internet doesn't interfere with work, then this is a very reasonable ruling.

Margrethe II of Denmark

None of my counterparts in Europe interferes in politics.

John Malkovich

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

Ronnene Harris

They're just there to make your remaining years comfortable. (They are) not there to interfere with God's plan.

Li Hongzhi

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent, ... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics.

Nana Sutresna

This is a purely a bilateral issue between the United States and North Korea. The less people interfere with the problem, I think, the better for the solution.

Jean Brown

We used to live right nearby and it used to interfere with the TV as soon as they switched it on. They could see into Red Square in Moscow.

Ray Tanner

Did he interfere with Widmann? No, but the rule says you have to go straight in and he didn't go straight in.

Bill Richardson

I did not utter one partisan word in that committee.

Ken Starr

With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,

Maxine Waters

The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's not to be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue.

Bernie Sanders

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Donald M. Payne

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Eric Williams

If they're going to want to speak in a partisan way, fine. But don't do it as a church.

John Thune

We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Tupac Shakur

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Trish Stratus

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

Richard D. Zanuck

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.

Richard Rossi

To make up this many votes is probably very difficult. I'll see how I feel in a week.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.