Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Basel

As fragile as this market is, that could have really hurt. This doesn't seem bad at all.

John Dunford

A school's reputation can easily be lost through bad behavior on the buses. There is always a degree of uncertainty about the extent of power outside school and this will clarify that right.

Will Rogers

As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.

Dave Adams

As bad as we played in the first half, ... you go in at halftime and say, 'Gosh, if we just played decent football, we could've been tied.'

Whit Cornell

As bad as we played at times, we put ourselves in a position to win the game. That's what good teams do.

Charlie Melancon

As bad as things are in south Louisiana right now, can you imagine how much worse they'd be without functioning local governments?

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Antwan Peek

As bad as the season was, it shows that everything they talked about concerning our pass rush improving has proved to be true. We're going to continue to get better season.

Brian Riedl

As bad as the last five years have been, it's going to get even worse the next five years.

Matt Kiefer

As far as Marcus White goes, he did a good job for us, getting the ball in the basket and getting in good position down low.

Carolyn Porco

As far as I'm concerned, we just hit the ball out of the park. This is the Holy Grail of modern-day planetary exploration, evidence of liquid water somewhere else in the solar system.

Colleen Flynn

As far as a business owner, it's getting us all together and taking pride in our city. It's a very simple thing to do, and it'll increase your business, increase your employees -- the whole ball of wax.

Tom Hockenjos

As for the rest of the year, of course I hope we'll keep hitting then ball and the pitching matures. And of course, we want to improve that defense.

Dan Sullivan

As for the fumbles, we run to the ball pretty well and when you do that well, that's what happens.

Philip Hoffman

As a producer, as someone standing outside the film, we knew that the story wasn't going to shine (Capote) in the best of lights. What happens to him, and it's not pleasant, begins his downfall. This guy dies at 59, without writing another (long-form) book. So that's the story. We're just telling the tale of the events that got that ball rolling.

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Bobby Boswell

As a team, I think we're coming around now, and that's the important thing. I didn't expect to score a ton of goals in my first year, but we have guys who can put the ball where they want it. And if you know they're coming in and you know where to be, you've just got to finish them when they get there.

Tim Chapman

As a post player, she dominated. Her jumping ability, her post moves were excellent. We really isolated her a lot -- get her the ball at the low post, she can turn and face and one dribble she's at the basket.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Chris Widger

As far as him quitting, I hope not, I'd like to come back here next year, but he has to do whatever's best for him, best for his family and best for his health.

Michael Carty

As far as Harley-Davidson goes, it makes a great product. It's got one of the best bikes in the world, ... It's, I think, leading motorcycle sales. It does restaurants. It does clothing. It's diversified and it's a winner.

Chucky Atkins

A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.

Mike Sweeney

As far as stuff goes, that's the best stuff we've seen all year. I think he's only given up one or two runs all year and he showed us why -- he was on top of his game tonight.

Joe McCarthy

As far as somebody that's crafty with the ball, he's probably the best we've seen so far.

Orpheus Roye

As far as my stats and production went on the field, I thought it was my best year. I felt really good at the end of the season with the system. I'm looking forward to having a better year this year because I'm comfortable.

Ryan Kolb

As far as knowing the plays we've been running, we're as prepared as we're going to be. We'll take it one game at a time, one period at a time. We set goals for each period and that works best for us.

Kevin Collins

Our defense has made some big plays and scored some this year. We have a couple of interception returns for touchdowns.

Glenn Griffin

Our defense did a pretty good job, especially considering that we were missing a couple of defenders. (Jordan) Webb was sweeping for me, and she did a good job for us.

Jim Boeheim

Our defense at the end was tremendous by all our guys. They couldn't get a shot the last couple of chances.

Debbie Brown

Our drive-offs the first part of the month were very severe. And then we made a couple more pumps prepaid and that seemed to help, but then they started hitting the other ones that were not.

Lindy Ruff

Our entries weren't very good. Our passing wasn't very good. Shot selection was bad. We missed the net on good opportunities. We didn't get traffic. We had a couple guys on a couple shifts with the power play that couldn't handle the puck, and it disrupted the whole power play.

Johnnie Burton

Our experience tells us we could expect wells to be drilled within a couple of years after the lease sale occurs. Production is something else. Production could occur within three to four years.

Ron James

Our execution in the second half was suspect in a couple areas.

Lindy Ruff

Our execution and passing wasn't very good. We had a couple of guys on a couple of shifts who couldn't handle the puck, and it disrupted the whole power play.

Jon Choboy

People don't know it, but these guys come out and work hard every day. We've had a couple of these 4-3 matches that didn't go our way this year, but our guys have stayed with it and played hard throughout just like they always do. Today was our day and I can't say enough about this team. I'm really proud of them.

Jason Gore

Sometimes you just have to dig a little deep. Hopefully I will learn a little from this and still become a better player.

Mike Huckabee

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork.

Dan Fellman

The rollout is slowly starting to happen, but we have a long way to go, ... As the number of conventional theaters with digital projectors increase, so will the number of theaters we serve.

James Allan

This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.

Michael Vaughan

That's just Nasser for you. He fights really hard when people have a dig at him. He's had great input into the team and it was a really important innings for us.

Ricky Gervais

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Edward Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Bruce Catton

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Arabian Proverb

Because I have been athirstI will dig a well that others may drink.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Jay Haugland

Once we get that first goal, we seem to flip on the switch. That's why I like for this team to get early goals.

Jeff Cole

Actually, it's too early to speculate. We do have some long-term commitments to some organizations. We'll have to see how that plays out.

Russ Miller

The monarchs have started early this year; two weeks before Labor Day. They'll last into the second of third week of October.

Peter Velappan

During the early years of the J-League, there were a lot of foreign stars, ... But this lasted only two or three years. Now it is the Japanese players who are the stars.

Andy Warren

During the '70s and early '80s there were places for people with views like mine in the Republican party. Today, my views are not welcome at the Republican table.

Shane Been

Defensively, we didn't help our pitcher out. She made a lot of nice pitches and we either made an error or made a mental error and we just have to work on that. It's early in the season.

Jay Wright

Defensively, they're so big at every position. We tried early with Mike (Nardi) to stick with our four guards, but he got two fouls so we had to come with Shane (Clark). They were just too big. We couldn't rebound and they were shooting over us.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Sara Barker

We'll sit in a canoe, quietly, and we'll watch that hole until just after dark. Hoping, hoping that just maybe it's the ivory bill.

Jim Cassidy

I don't want to be in the one hole or the 13 hole because you have to do things you don't want to do.

Cal Nichols

If we hadn't made the playoffs, we'd have been $1 million to $1.5 million in the hole for this season.

Alan Ross

I live next to the quarry which I remember from its later stages of life as just a large water-filled hole in the ground.

Amy Yasbeck

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

Bobby Fischer

Hopefully, I'll be out of this stinking hole soon,

Pat Hurst

I saw after nine holes (Creamer) was 6 up. She's our rookie, and she was unbelievable.

Michael Dicks

Manufacturing is in a hole but the housing market is pretty buoyant,

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was really a killer, but there were several other putts -- I just couldn't get one to go. I think if Phil was putting for me, I would have won with 9- or 10-under.

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

John Roberts

Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

Ron Zook

I've seen more big plays this year than ever.

Bobby Bowden

I've never seen a quarterback make as many one-man plays as he made tonight.

Nathan Vasher

I've never really seen it work, but we always feel like we can get big plays like that. I'm still speechless.

Scott Schultz

It was tough losing, especially when we were on such a roll. It's just one of those things where it plays on your mind.

Michael Vick

It was about making plays when we had to,

Ramon Serna

The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

Chad Bolser

The way he plays makes me happy. But, it's also how he handles himself, how sure he is, how he handles the media, the students, all the pressures of the situation.

Joe Sakic

You never know with goalies until they're NumberÊ1, but he plays a lot like Patrick.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Maria Sharapova

It was tough. I couldn't put two points together. I was tired from my previous match, and now I need some time off.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

David Blitzer

there's nothing here that really points to any near-term inflationary dangers.

John Tortorella

We just wanted to get two points (for the win). But we wanted to win it in regulation.

Bruce Thomas

We just got on a roll. Twenty-five points is sometimes as much as we score in three quarters.

Mark Smith

We'll take it any time. We haven't had a big win in terms of points like this all year.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Paul Ernest

We didn't throw a lot, but when we did, we were successful,

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Terry Bradshaw

If they wanted to throw out $150,000 ... . That wasn't funny, was it?

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Mark Connor

He probably would have thrown more, but I told him to stop.

David Beckham

I don't think we could have thrown any more at them.

Willie Randolph

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.

Sim Osborn

I had these toys in my house, I've thrown them out, and told everyone I know.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Robinson Cano

It was tough to see. I didn't see it.

Willie Randolph

They are all tough, man, ... and this is tough as it gets.

Jimmy Johnson

The wind was really swirling. It was tough at times.

Li Na

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

John Skalko

These are tough times and we're in a fight. It's a tough fight.

Ron Thomas

This is not done without any real thought. There are tough standards.