Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Dugan

Soon as I could walk and threw my first baseball, I have dreamed of this moment of playing in the major leagues, and now I have an opportunity of a lifetime to accomplish my dream.

H. Hart

There are two things we could do -- re-bid it or re-design it. It's the call of the agency. They'll make the decision on which way to go from an operational standpoint. The armory stands on it own as a building as far as we're concerned. Operationally, they may be able to accomplish that work somewhere else.

Claire Buchan

Well, he's said at least $550 billion. So, as I said, there are a number of ways to work with Congress to try to accomplish this, and we're in the process of doing that right now.

Steven Adler

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction', we all knew.

Adrian Casanova

He would do whatever the coaches asked. That's what the good ones do, understand their role and accomplish it. The more you pitch in different situations, the better you become.

Fran Foley

I would give full credit to ownership, because they provided us with the resources necessary to accomplish what we did. They were committed to a successful free-agency period.

Nick Saban

I would have liked to determine it a month ago or two weeks ago. I would like to determine it. I don't have a problem with determining it. We are trying to determine it. But we don't want to upset the apple cart of what we are trying to accomplish with the development of both of these players by trying to determine something that is not ready to be determined.

Colleen Kelley

I was pleased with the immediate response from DHS and welcomed the opportunity to sit down with Deputy Secretary Jackson, ... He indicated a desire to work with NTEU in the future and listened to my suggestions on how to proceed. NTEU will continue our efforts to achieve a personnel process that helps accomplish the multiple missions of the department while respecting the rights of federal employees.

Nick Harper

If we didn't get five (interceptions), then we didn't accomplish what we set out to do. We got four. We're going to count the fumble (Smith lost one of his two fumbles). We didn't have a great game. Even though we won, we felt like we didn't play well.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Andre Agassi

Ivo, it's so hard to break him. One or two points can decide the match. It was good to close that one out, this was getting tougher.

G. H. Hardy

Once you get on that downward spin, it's tough to break the cycle. There has to be a lot of damage control at this point.

Dan Castellaneta

Now Bart, since you broke Grandpa's teeth, he gets to break yours.

Don Strickland

Thank God we got a little break in the storms.

Alan Trammel

Somewhere after the All-Star break he started dropping down a little more, especially to the right-handed hitters. He has just been pitching lights-out. He's tough. There's no question about it. He was the story of the game tonight.

Jacques Villeneuve

Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

John Enos

The old township hall was much too small. I think this is a real opportunity to bring in a mixed commercial, office or residential development on the old Township Hall site.

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Chief Aradi

I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households.

Joe Girardi

Sometimes you have some young pitchers who get too fine. And you have to bring them back in the zone and understand that you expand the zone when you get ahead, not before you get strike one.

William Wilson

Some people say it's late, but I always say when God paints his masterpiece, it'll be done at the right time and it will come. We need cold nights, we need some frost to bring it on.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Tynan

This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.

John Breaux

This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Karen Lee

Curtis had been hospitalized on and off for the past six months. Nine months ago his right leg was amputated. Living as a quadriplegic was an extremely difficult experience -- but he kept going.

Sha Zukang

Controlling tobacco is a long-term, difficult and complicated public health task, it is also a social and economic issue that needs a strong policy.

Timothy Gardner

a tricky, difficult type of study to conduct, controlling all the factors, with very interesting results.

Hu Jintao

At the moment Sino-Japanese relations face a difficult situation. Such a difficult situation is not one we want to see,

David Axelrod

At the end of the day I think people understand that relationships are difficult sometimes.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required.'There was nothing in there about ethics violations.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Chris Coleman

Teams don't think he'll hit hard and that he might struggle,

Don Strassberg

Teenagers are moody enough. Their self-esteem is variable enough from one moment to the next. It's hard to identify a clear-cut sign that a person has been abused. There are very few, if any, sure signs.

Mike Canales

Sometimes that is true, but he has become a better practice player and needs to in order to jump up to the next level. I think he is working hard on that. He doesn't want to be just a gamer; he wants to be an all-around player.

Rory Freedman

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Robbie Reiser

We tested in Martinsville back in the spring but still didn't quite get the setup right for the first race. We've addressed that issue and hopefully will be better this weekend.

Megan Duffy

She wants to be first in everything she does. Hopefully that's good, though. Hopefully it rubs off on us.

Jeff Bickmore

Obviously they made some mistakes down the stretch. They learn from little things like that, and hopefully it will make tem a little tougher and really want to come back strong when we play at Colfax. We still have a long way to go.

Orlando Cabrera

This is just a preview, man. I think we can do more than this. Up to now, it's been a nice season. Going to the playoffs, hopefully we'll go all the way to the World Series and win it.

Carlos Delgado

That's one thing about New York, and I love it. They're fanatics. They're passionate about everything they do. You've got to respect that; I tip my cap. When you're on the receiving end, it's not that much fun, so hopefully when I'm on the same side of the fence, it will be better.

Kim Jones

That's one of her lower scores of the season. Hopefully she can keep going down from there.

David Wagner

It's nice to be back, be with friends ... and it's the last year of school ... hopefully it's the last year.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Derrick Max

One way or another, everyone's lost sight of why we're here.

Ashley Smith

For some reason, we've just lost it. I know we still have it. Everyone has got to find it.

Danilo Pinnock

I don't think we'll play another team as skilled as they are. We just lost to a better team.

Crystal Kemp

I don't think we're worried about how many we've lost over there. We're just going in there to win.

Terry Scroggins

I got plenty of bites, but they were all small. I know I lost this tournament the first day.

Jose Theodore

I lost it for a second and he picked the corner.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Richard Carlson

You are what you practice most.

Sophie Swetchine

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Stanley Kubrick

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Taisen Deshimaru

You have to practice until you die.

Swami Vivekananda

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Hillary Clinton

There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Jim Colborn

He allows me to have my own program and supports me and makes me feel like I am appreciated and respected.

Kenneth Williams

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Rashard Lewis

We showed some fight, but it wasn't enough. We need that from the start and not just wait until the end.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Frank Robinson

One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Haseeb Ahmed

I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.

Bobbi Brown

She's going to start recording, ... Hopefully, I will get to work with her on this album.

Ramon Ortiz

I feel good, ... I don't want to think about this start tonight. I got two more starts (this year).

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.