Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Russa

Depends on the game, depends on the situation. I think he's getting closer to what he is. Does that mean we would hesitate to use him? Probably not. Does it mean it would be nice to keep him moving in a positive direction? Yes.

Jeremy Thornburg

The situation here (in San Francisco) is great. There's only three safeties, and plus I get back closer to home. It feels good to go from not being wanted to being wanted.

Richard Aboulafia

These moves get them closer to the customer. And the customer that counts is in Washington.

Hamilton Peterson

The selection of the final design moves us one step closer to memorializing this extraordinary group of heroes.

Raymond Moody

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Jake Shields

The sport was recently legalized in California, so I'm talking to some people about possibly fighting closer to home soon. We'll have to see what happens though. People in Hawaii are very excited about martial arts, and I think the sports is just starting to take off.

Dave Telep

The system was the most important thing to him when making his decision. I think he is the one guy who is watching this maybe closer than the others.

Susan Williamson

The support we have received from my family has been wonderful. Going through my own struggle with Molly has made me closer with my own parents.

Ernie Grunfeld

The special ones, you keep a closer eye on. He was a very highly rated player and very unselfish. I used to tell him that one of the negatives people say about you is that you're too unselfish. That's a negative you'd like to have. He's very tough, very competitive.

Bob Howry

As a visiting player, it's motivating because you hear their fans get all excited and you want to quiet them down. And that's what we did tonight.

Hilery Walker

People get excited when we tell them that we're going to send the money down to New Orleans.

Sean Bergstedt

Actually, I didn't know for sure. I thought it might be around the record. When I had gotten back, I looked online and found out it was true, and I was pretty excited about it. ... It's just gratifying to know that I got my goal.

Sean Coste

The seniors are excited about it. Our players are excited about it. We can finish with a win. It would be four in a row.

Rollie Massimino

I've already got six kids on scholarship. It's going to happen. I'm really excited about it.

Mark Slough

Sammy is excited to be back and I think they're excited to have him back.

Jimmie Johnson

Race practice was really good, ... We weren't overly excited about our qualifying runs. So, we made some good adjustments and we will be fine.

Pat Green

I've probably played there about six times, over the last two years. It's one of my favorites -- I think it's incredible, ... I think that good music does well in New York City, and that's what I'm excited about.

Torey Lovullo

I've opened up in this stadium and it's been a tough go. We're excited to be going South and we're going as far South as we possibly can.

Jay Feaster

Right now we have some guys who are fighting it, not just the goaltender. We have to get back to who and what we are, the hardest-working team in hockey.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Brandon Lee

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Boris Spassky

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ben Okri

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

Ben Okri

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Dar Williams

And the only word for love is everybody's nameAnd that will always stayIt happens every day.

Jim Tracy

A day like today -- that's something that happens even with an 'ace' of the staff.

Kim Edmonds

Something different happens every day around here and nothing is ever monotonous or mundane. You may be having a ho hum day and someone will walk through the day who just makes you smile from the inside out. That's what makes it all worthwhile.

Graeme Souness

So what happens when they come back with recommendations, do you think we're going to listen to them? I'm not going to say any more on the matter.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice -- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

George Curry

So the real test of success this time will be not how many people turn out, but what happens when they go home.

Mike Trewick

Sometimes I feel like we play a little scared. I think we play not to lose rather than play to win sometimes. That always happens when we start pressing a little too much.

Leisel Jones

The sad thing is it happens all the time. It's very invasive and it makes you so vulnerable.

Bruno Mars

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Harry Morgan

I don't care about the money. I'm just interested in the perks. I'll do a series if I am picked up by a limo, work only until 4, and the show is shot in Hawaii.

Jason Levitis

Hawaii is one of the very worst states in the treatment of working poor.

Jonny Weston

I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.

Bobby Heenan

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

Ric Clarson

We think we'll still start the official money--- official point season here in Hawaii . There'll probably be a restructuring of its conclusion.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Kathy Miller

Originally we were going to find a home for him, but people would look at him and go, 'Ooh.' He looked so terrible.

Jim McGowan

Of course, we're retired, so we're usually home -- if we're not volunteering.

Horace Horace

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Andrew Baird

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Dan Parker

No sir, we don't have a home left.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

John McPherson

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

Sam Harris

Como's probably never going to stay the same. This is home though. And I can never say that I'm going to a better place. We'll survive.

Katheryn Winnick

I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Reggie Sanders

What we're trying to do, ... is be as fine-tuned and honed-in on the small things as we can possibly be.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

Dan Hawkins

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

Greg Norman

Would there possibly be another woman? Absolutely. Time will tell who that will be.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Brett Favre

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Brett Favre

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Babe Ruth

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jim Lett

You're starting to be real competitive, aren't you?

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Bob Henricks

We are at a better starting place than Sweetwater was.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Ed DeChellis

You get in a tournament like this, everybody's 0-0. Everybody's starting in the same position.

Allen Iverson

Everything isn't starting out well, but you have to look at it like we can turn it around.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.