Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bronson Arroyo

The most promising thing (about the trade) is I won?t have to worry about going to the bullpen . . . unless I?m absolutely horrible.

Rob Smith

Sony does not have an online position. Microsoft has had four years of practice, and Sony is coming from an absolutely standing start.

Sophie Okonedo

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.

Carolyn Allen

The same goes for the sausage. I buy it freshly ground and seasonedbut with absolutely no unwanted preservatives addedfrom a local butcher shop, and freeze it (three-quarters of a pound per container) in pint cartons.

Mesut Ozil

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

Shaun Murphy

I've no doubt that a lot of players will be out to beat me and will give that bit extra against me. If the roles were reversed and I was playing the world champion I would be absolutely determined to win,

Mick Cornett

I've said all along, no way we would be in any competition with Louisiana. If the games can be played there (New Orleans), that's where they should be played. But if they couldn't be played there, I was very interested in trying to be a temporary relocation center for the team. This team is absolutely going back to New Orleans.

Ken Bacon

It would be an absolute victory for terrorists ... if we stopped doing our job in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world,

Pete Summerbell

It would be absolutely huge. The Meadows is a good team, but at least we've got the chance.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Coby Karl

I sort of took a page out of his book. I don't think it would have affected (the team) too much, but I didn't want outside stories wandering around. I wanted the focus to be on our team and not some outside situation.

Jim Forbes

This is not a contract about big wage gains. The big issue is to make sure that people affected by plant closings are looked after.

Ann Taylor

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is a part of the neighborhoods and communities affected by this disaster, and we are committed to contributing to the relief efforts now under way, ... On behalf of our company and all 61,000 of our employees, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is affected by this disaster.

Dan Toole

Drought need not be a death sentence for children living in affected communities. We can save thousands of lives if we can get the emergency health, nutrition, water and sanitation interventions to them before it is too late.

Will Johnson

Even if it wasn't an overt lyrical influence, it definitely fueled some of the tone of the record, and some of the feel of it. Even the title itself could be somewhat linked in a way. There's a song off the sessions that's not on the record, but it's called 'All This Fresh Mutiny.' It's kind of a harsh title, but at the same time it was very much inspired and influenced by what I kept seeing before my eyes on TV. It's impossible for me not to be affected by that.

Howard Smith

Even if Baltimore's growth slows down, they won't be affected as acutely as Entrust. When you go off a smaller base, it's easier to hit the number.

Tony Brown

Tony Allen was the key guy in that group. He was aggressive, he was attacking and played great defense down the stretch.

Rachel Sklar

Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.

Dennis Goldford

If he sees himself with a lot of support among religious conservatives, there are people out there already with national records working hard at that. You have Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, Sam Brownback in Kansas, George Allen in Virginia, all from that segment of the party.

Billy Gardell

I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

Maurice Cheeks

I don't see there is a problem with Allen integrating a No. 2 guy. Chris is a star within his own self. He can pass, shoot, rebound. He loves to pass. When you have a guy like that, he's going to make Allen's life easier on the court.

Maurice Cheeks

I don't want to hear about Allen and Chris had X amount of points. We have to defend. We've been talking about (them) scoring all year, and we still never defend.

Louis Williams

How many 18-year-old guys can even have this opportunity? ... There's millions and millions of high-school basketball players out there in the world, and I get to practice every day with Allen Iverson .

Zach Braff

I'd love to do more theater in New York City. And I'd love the chance to do a big movie with a great director -- you know, the Coen brothers or Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg, ... I'd love a shot at that.

Jackie Miller

Historically, and unfortunately, and this doesn't reflect on Allen County's situation, law enforcement often is slow to come around to being willing to involve the emergency management coordinator, perhaps due to a reluctance to sharing the responsibility,

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Bayan Jabr

Approximately 18 innocent men who were inside the mosque performing sunset prayers were killed and became martyrs. They were killed unjustly and wrongfully.

Josie Loren

I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the floor. I was terrible at everything else, especially beam. Unfortunately, you can't be a gymnast unless you're good at all of the apparatuses, so I became a competitive cheerleader. I was just the main tumbler for my squad.

Clete Oaks

When I became chief of the life squad, my goal was to build a nice building where we could sleep and get out faster.

Tyra Banks

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Bible Bible

And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.

Frank Cassell

Braddock's road, this brilliant thrust into the wilderness, became the road for people moving into the frontier.

Nancy Allman

Besides the long hours, it became too hard to maintain a large-enough staff.

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Jim Furyk

Our team tends to be a little more loose, ... We have a little bit more fun during the Presidents Cup.

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Darren Clarke

Do you want to see guys wearing khakis and white shirts? Or do you want to see somebody a little bit different? There's more to us than just playing golf. I think it brightens it up and makes it a bit of fun.

Simon Grayson

Dean has been a great professional for the month he has been here but he'd been out of football a bit too long to make the step up for us.

Ben Ainslie

Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I'm just so happy I was able to turn it around.

Brian Lowery

Cole had a really good race. Our top three ran about as good as we can expect. It was a little bit of shock at first with the pace. The first mile was quicker than they're used to.

Mimi Melgaard

Commander in Chief. One of the things we're trying to do is make it look a little bit nicer than it really is.

Jim Baron

Coming off last year, yeah, it's a little bit surprising.

Denzel Washington

I really want my father's life to be portrayed honestly. I don't want people getting drawn into the theatre because they want to see the last scene where he's shot and killed.

Masao Nakamura

We're not going to be all that slow. It's not going to be a drawn out process, hopefully. We hope to be able to do something starting from next month.

Roxanne Steele

It's really drawn us back to what's important.

John LaChance

It will be drawn out to some degree. I would say 12 to 18 months is a good predictor.

Anderson Cooper

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Ben Gibbard

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

Elijah Wood

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

John Delaney

There is a lot of interest out there in this job, which is a high-profile one,

Keith Gumbinger

The optimal thing to do is to lock in your interest rate.

Kim Jackson

The opportunity was there, and I've always had an interest in the treasury function. I figured, if I'm going to do it, now was the time.

Euben Paracuelles

There is significant saving on interest payments because of lower interest rates.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Fats Waller

So easy, when you know how.

Greg Ginn

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Renaud Vabres

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Herbie Mann

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

David Bowie

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

Stephen Vincent Benet

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Jennifer Grey

Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies.

Jacki Weaver

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Chris Evans

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Angie Harmon

I had my plan. I had my family. We would travel the world and shoot movies and be fabulous.

Jason Mewes

In Kevin's movies I would like to stay Jay.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Dizzy Gillespie

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Rachel Platten

Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

A. R. Rahman

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Harry Graf Kessler

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Bill Young

We're wearing out our troops, we're wearing out the equipment,

Robert Adams

For some people, there must be. I'm just the wrong guy.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.

Joshua Harris

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

Greg Behrendt

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

Charles M. Blow

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Allen Iverson

There are a lot of things we're doing wrong or we wouldn't be under .500. It's not like we're doing one or two things wrong.