Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristi LaFleur

Our girls really want to get to the finals, because a number of them haven't experienced that yet. Some of them just want to know what it is like, and I think being able to compete at home really gives us an added bonus to accomplish that chance. We are really excited to perform for our home crowd.

Corey Medeiros

We did so well. We did things that we've never done before. I had so much fun. To see the kids accomplish so much in such a little time, it's amazing. The kids get all excited. To see them make their first tackle and first touchdown, they break into full smiles. It was a blast.

Joe Horn

We didn't really accomplish what we wanted to do. Going straight down the field and scoring a touchdown is what we wanted to do, and obviously that did not happen. We have to go back to the film and the drawing board and look at it.

Sen Hawkins

We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.

Scott Ritter

You know we can't expect the inspectors to accomplish anything in a country the size of Iraq.

Shannon Brown

We came out with the 'W' in a very physical game. Nobody is safe in this league. You've got to bring your 'A' game every night. You've got to be ready to fight. When you're aggressive and unselfish, you can accomplish a lot.

Hamilton Jordan

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

Mary Lambert

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

Brooks Monaghan

We had two good games this weekend and we have two games left. I'm pleased overall with the spring we've had and the progress the team has made toward what we want to accomplish in the fall with our new system. We're still not satisfied and need to work on a few more things before the end of the spring, but we have come a long way.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Kate Saunders

The strongest comments are from the Chinese scientists. This is not at all surprising. . . . Chinese protests against high-profile visits of the Dalai Lama are routine wherever he travels.

Orville Wright

Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.

Jason Richardson

Once you beat a team like that once or twice, especially at their place, you get confidence about them, you get confidence against them. You know that you can play with them anytime.

Chan Park

Now I'm against the Dodgers, but I feel nothing different because I'm going to face new guys, not former teammates. (Guys like) Jeff Kent. It's not the same guys, so I don't really feel like I'm facing the Dodgers. It's different.

Bobby Kielty

Sometimes that's a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw a good pitch to hit and I was able to capitalize on it.

Jarkko Ruutu

Russia's weakness is that they have a lot of individual skill, but they're not playing as a team. And when you play against a good team like we've been doing the whole tournament, that's been the difference. You create turnovers and capitalize on them, we don't really care who scores. All we really care is about the win.

Charles Tiefer

Rulings against the president like these are catnip to congressional investigators. Their claws will be out to play with a weakened presidential mouse.

Brad Miller

Right now, we need all the wins we can get. If we can keep getting them against (the Clippers), it's going to help us out in the division as well. It's a wide-open year. Whoever gets through these early-season struggles is going to have a push.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Lou Holtz

This Southern Cal team is capable of it, too. But I don't think they will. I just think Notre Dame really has a good shot at them.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Corby Maurer

We had a little stretch there with the 100 hurdles, the 100-meter dash and the four-by-two where we made a good push in the track meet. Those kind of things spread throughout your team and then they all want to start competing a little better. There's a little momentum involved in track, too. Not everybody realizes that.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Angelina Jolie

I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.

Amy Carmichael

If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

Amy Carmichael

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

Aly Raisman

I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.

Ally McCoist

One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.

Ally Condie

I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.