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.

Ted Demme

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

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.

Alando Tucker

So I see a lot that we have to offer and a lot that we can do and accomplish but it has to be for 40 minutes.

Larry Harris

Obviously, it's an exciting day for Michael and his family. And it's an exciting day for our organization. Michael has established himself as an All-Star and one of the premiere players in the league, and we feel that he's going to accomplish much more in the upcoming years.

Jim Morris

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

Tyson Slocum

GNEP cannot accomplish the administration's proliferation or waste management goals. The reprocessing technologies that DOE is currently researching are far from 'proliferation-resistant' and are decades from commercialization.

Jimmy Johnson

Give your people the feeling that if THEY don't do the job, it won't get done. Also let them know that when they accomplish something, they will share in the accolades.

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.

Alan Schroeder

Something has to happen to break one guy loose,

John Callas

Something could just break and that will be it for the rover. There could be one day when the rover has a massive stroke and it will be over.

David Armour

Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum and make them ask, 'How are they doing this to us?' Whether it's one point or it's 30 points, I'm going to be upset because a loss is a loss.

Mark Cuban

Somebody said that he was trying to break up a fight. There was no fight. He just pushed him. He put his hands to his chest and pushed him. By the way everybody reacted, everybody knew there was a problem, except for the official that got pushed.

Ramez Naam

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

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.

Daya Master

Stopping the violence is essential to bring normalcy back to the lives of the people. And that would have to come by fully implementing the existing cease-fire agreement.

Sathya Baba

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

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.

Bobby Ross

Zac is turning some difficult plays into big plays.

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.

Annie Lennox

Even in the '80s when people were gay, it was still difficult for them to come out, whereas nowadays, 20 years on, I think, um, we have a far more open-minded society that embraces the notion of homosexuality, and I think there was this doubt about my gender, you know, and at the time it possibly was controversial but... they missed my message, if you see what I mean, because for me it wasn't about a sexual issue, it was more of a feminist thing.

Barton Seaver

We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

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.

Joe Ayoob

I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard.

Paul Johnson

So sometimes it's hard to know who's got the ball.

Francis Mathew

Sorry is too simple to say, but we make it to hard because of Pride in Us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

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.

Kenoy Kennedy

We just try to do what we can to win the game. We can only do our part and hopefully the offense will do theirs, but we didn't win the game.

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.

Joseph Fox

He's really banged up bad, ... But hopefully he'll be OK.

Doug Conklin

That's what I'm looking for. Hopefully this year will be it.

Margaret Tabone

We can't find them yet. Hopefully they're going to be somewhere, and hopefully they're going to be alive.

David Berry

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

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Chris Lynne

Zach had a lead, but we lost that with seven seconds left.

Dean Koontz

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

Daniel Handler

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

Elijah Wood

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

Rob Patek

Right now it doesn't mean a whole lot because we lost (at state). But when I look back on it, it'll be nice. Right now I'm not thinking too much about the records.

Jake Hutton

My senior year, I lost a lot of weight. Maybe that's why. Maybe they thought I was too small or something.

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,

Anthony Burgess

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Sam Keen

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Richard Carlson

You are what you practice most.

Victoria Woodhull

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

Victoria Woodhull

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

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.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Patrick Riml

We will see. She's on the start list. We still have to see how she is doing tomorrow.

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.

Javier Solana

But Gaza's not the end of anything. It's the start of a process.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

John Beilein

Now we just go back and teach. We start over.

Tom Chapin

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