Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Allardyce

Kevin has led the team with passion and professionalism. Each week he gives you everything and he has the ability to be a top player for years to come. One of his main attributes is his ability to score goals on a regular basis. If he continues to progress, he'll go close to earning a seat on the plane to Germany in June.

Michael Nathanson

I would not underestimate their ability to market this franchise, ... I don't think it will move the needle that much at Disney, but it's a good fit for them.

Frank Solich

(Jacobs) has two receivers that are going to get a shot at pro ball and have the ability to play. They're averaging over 100 yards a game in receptions. They have a combination of things that makes it very hard to stop.

Virginia Laken

Keith and I thought we had really good communication but we hadn't had to have this kind of communication about our intimacy. We so often equate intimate relationships with ability to have intercourse, and what we try to help couples understand is that intimacy is not totally equated with intercourse. Intimacy -- as we all know but don't usually put into practice -- can happen in many, many ways.

Louis Miller

Joe Leonard doesn't make quick decisions, which is good. He has the ability to focus on what he wants to get done.

Mike Eaves

Joe has the ability to make something out of nothing, and it's hard to account for skill like that. That makes him an effective offensive player.

Mike Scioscia

Joe has an incredible baseball mind and a tremendous ability to communicate with players on all levels. That's a combination any player should appreciate.

Paul Krumpe

Josh is a very versatile player who could very well be a major contributor this fall. He has the ability to play wide on the left or the right and possesses some great physical attributes.

J. Taylor

John is very athletic for his size. His strength is there. He's got to polish a few things in the passing game and some in the running game, but as long as he has a desire there to want to be successful, he's got all the athletic ability to be successful.

David Wade

John Kerry takes a backseat to no one when it comes to maintaining the strongest military on the face of the Earth and keeping our promises to America's veterans, and across this country citizens are responding to his call for change.

Robert Cihra

I think it goes without saying the third quarter is going to be bad virtually across the board for anyone in technology.

Gary Shutt

He wanted to tell all of the fans and everyone across the state that he appreciates their thoughts and prayers.

Cheryl Peyerk

He comes to me when I call him. One day I was by the mailbox and I called for him, and he came running across the lawn to me. It was so funny.

Piers Morgan

He comes across not as a kind of demented Christian but somebody where religious zeal is clearly there to see, ... Almost like he's using his religion as an excuse for what he is doing.

Arlen Specter

He comes across as very strong, and strength is contagious. It's good to see him and how confident he is.

Odell Thurman

He just said, 'Just don't say too much. Just get your point across and that's enough.

Alan Mak

Greenspan and the Fed are trying to slow down consumer spending. It's hitting the retail sector across the board, the big multiples especially,

John Turner

Greenhouse gases could be having a bigger impact in Antarctica than across the rest of the world, and we don't understand why.

John Ziegler

I was looking forward to waving it and making a lot of noise. But now we're keeping a low profile. I don't see any reason to add fuel to the fire.

Kevin Colbert

Just looking at our history, we never have been (real active) and I don't think we'll change from that. We don't anticipate that. We'd like to get as many of our own guys back as we can, and add to it as necessary, and then go to the draft and get players that way also.

Dave Frohnmayer

Keep in mind that we are only halfway through the season, and there remains a lot of football yet to be played. So it's impossible to address the dozens of hypothetical situations with the BCS standings.

Orlando Early

Jordan Payne is an outstanding addition to our program. He is a big-time scorer who can play either guard spot and is a coach on the floor. We feel he gives us an added dimension that we did not have last season and are expecting big things from Jordan next year.

John Faraci

John brings experience and background in global capital markets that will add value to our board. His experience with many companies in a broad range of industries as an investment banking advisor over a 20-year career is a perspective we want serving on our board.

Bryan Colangelo

Joe Johnson has a bright future in this league and with the Phoenix Suns. JJ has been a great piece to add to our young core of talent.

Bryan Colangelo

Joe Johnson has a bright future in this league and with the Phoenix Suns, ... JJ has been a great piece to add to our young core of talent.

Hal Lanier

John is an excellent third baseman and the fact that he can play many positions makes him a valuable player for us. We are very excited to add John to an infield which has greatly improved from last season.

Cedric Redmond

J.R. is going to add a lot to our team. He's pretty athletic. He came out here and played today.

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.

Nick Shay

The last time there was a season with two Category 5 hurricanes in the same basin was in 1961 with Carla and Hattie. However, the same phenomenon occurred the year before in 1960 with Donna and Ethel.

Mario Buatta

I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.

Pete Domenici

The Federal Trade Commission is not specifically subject to the jurisdiction of this Committee, but any oil company that is price gouging will find themselves in those witness chairs where they will be made accountable,

David Graves

It was not a called meeting, but there were several committee chairs there, probably six or eight people,

Smedes Rose

There's a lot of musical chairs going on.

Bill Gates

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Rainlove Lampariello

We went through like three or four. We just really wanted to get the chairs right.

Kevin Spencer

There are times when we have people on standby or other weather-related things where they have to stay in. There are a few chairs in the engine bay, but that's really all they have for space.

Ryan Moses

Some of our county chairs have said that if Jeanine was not the candidate, we should reach back out to Ed, and that's something we'll be talking about within the party. John Spencer is also out there right now, running for the nomination.

Lars Trier

I suppose Swedenborg might have been pleased to have a room named after him, a wall-papered room with two chairs and two doors and a simple painting of a landscape containing a tiger and a serpent and a few birds.

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

James Collins

heroic levels of customer service, dependability, reliability, and giving people a lot of freedom to try different things that might work.

Kevin Rollins

It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer support and internal software development centers.

Greg Frazier

We have to be flexible and responsive. We own and manage inventory at customer sites at 175 locations around the world. The customer only takes ownership when it pulls the item to its manufacturing line.

Jason Brown

Receiving certification assures our customer that our organic products are free from harmful additives and preservatives. From farm to desk, our products are guaranteed to be of the highest quality without compromise.

Bill White

Our meters don't start running until we pick the customer up,

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Phil Hester

If you look inside a standard low-end server or storage product, 80 percent of the design, realistically, will be the same as in similar products. The other 20 percent is configured for a specific customer set.

Sherrie Williams

He was extremely dedicated to the zoo. It was really his life.

John Rhodes

He was extremely dedicated and disciplined. Through the years, he took on great responsibility.

Dave Cook

It's something they've been doing for the last two years. They've got a great organization and have been very dedicated to doing what needed to be done to get hockey to this level.

Alan Young

They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.

Kathleen Turner

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

Jennifer Hinson

All of these runners are great. This is just a phenomenal group of students. I see the love that they have for running and that's a special breed. There are really dedicated to the sport and they've been very helpful to me.

George Clarke

The members of Selected Independent Funeral Homes are dedicated to honoring and preserving the memories of those who have gone before us,

Dave Tuttle

It seems that most of the people who have them are very enthusiastic about them. It's kind of a dedicated following.

Michael Harper

At Harper Arrington Publishing and Media, we are dedicated to giving young people the tools they need to make their dreams come true.

Patrick Barkey

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

Phil Dow

I think the main impact of the election has been a degree of uncertainty. Once we know who the president will be it will be very much like Y2K -- it will come and go. You have to focus on sales and earnings, and those have been pretty robust.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

Sarah McLachlan

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Ramon Rodriguez

I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.

Ron Cameron

In the end it will be the market which determines the outcome and there is sufficient price tension to suggest another increase but to what degree remains uncertain.

Bob Dylan

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility thatcomes with his freedom.

Min Kao

I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Willis McGahee

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Joe McLaughlin

Individually we have excellent talent, but need to stay healthy because injuries will hurt us as a team.

Michael Strahan

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Simo Valakari

I haven't played for a while in the league so it was nice to get back out on the field, but it was even nicer to get a result. ... Being 3-0 up, we knew that they were going to throw everything that they had and put us under pressure, but I thought that we handled it well and it was excellent just to get 3-0 up. We're playing well and scoring goals, but our game comes down to how we defend, so it was a little sad to give a goal away, but that's the game and we'll take the result.

Doug Wilson

They are hanging in there, ... They are a very strong and wonderful family.

David Sibley

It was just phenomenal, ... People were hanging out their cars, they were all over the lobby, it was really late at night, it was just crazy. It was as if the end of the world had come.

Pat Rafter

It's a long way from holding up that trophy yet but I'm hanging in there.

John Kinsey

It's going to be volatile as long as we have so much hanging in commodities.

Terry Brooks

It's getting to a point where, I'm just hanging my head. I don't know how to respond to it.

Nikki Sixx

One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.

Judah Friedlander

I like hanging out at non-showbizzy places.

Mike Darnell

so desperate, they were hanging on the walls (of the ice rink). It shocked me.

Lady Gaga

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Fadel Gheit

The only thing keeping prices artificially high is the potential for supply disruption, ... Fundamentally, prices should be at $20-to-$25.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen's got that very rare characteristic, high ears. This relates to being unusually quick at learning and understanding things.

Bill Gates

I am impressed by what I have seen today.

Phil McNichol

I'm just very impressed with the team we've been able to field.

Frank Coleman

That really impressed me; it's a significant figure.

Ryan Giggs

Some said he had too much influence, but I don't agree. He impressed me from the start.

Tim Sheldon

I've been trying to get them to play with a little heart. We've been in this situation before and we've let down. They impressed me today.

Aaron Guiel

You're impressed with the outcome, but not impressed by what you saw up there.

Nat Harrington

We've been impressed and proud of the schools and students who have responded graciously and generously. Many students have spent their own lunch money and hard-earned savings to give to the victims of the storm.

Richard Wallace

You impressed me with the Senate, throwing everything in lock, stock and barrel.

Asa Dotzler

We're very impressed with the videos that have been contributed so far.

Rick Riordan

He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

Nate Robertson

It's the first time we feel we can go to someone. We had Jason Johnson last year. He wasn't necessarily the vocal leader we needed, but Kenny Rogers is that.

Charlaine Harris

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.

Andrew Friedman

We think Jason is going to be a big part of our future.

Tom McMillan

Certainly, we want to get him over to meet Jason Bay.

Robert Griffin

Jason Weir is the person who had the motive to do this. Jason Weir is the one who had the opportunity to do this.

Lee Iacocca

Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them,

Lawrence Frank

Jason makes this whole thing work. You take him out of the equation, it's a totally different view. He's an unbelievable leader who imposes his will on the game.

Jaime Pressly

Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are like my brothers. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have gotten through my pregnancy.

Scott Strickland

I like a baptismal pool that is heated.

Alex O'Loughlin

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

Zhu Zhu

In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

Summer Sanders

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

Red Herring

People. We wanted to tap the talent pool of researchers who wouldn't relocate to Redmond.

Forel Davies

If we have a three-day weekend, I'll feel pretty fresh, not smelling of chlorine. Basically, though, I have to be in the pool every day.

Adam Richman

The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.

Tom Goguen

Sun has a proven track record of doing this.

Betsy Beers

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

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.

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Richard Baxter

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Ryan Hall

The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

Russell Hoban

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

Russell Brand

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

James Hunter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

James R. Thompson

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Will McDonough

I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

Ryan Tedder

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Virginia Foxx

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and we know how successful that was.

Wayne Dyer

You're not what you have and you're not what you do; you're aninfinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. For that reason, you must avoid being attached to it in any way.