Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cross

As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.

David Holmes

As a team we have the ability to win a lot of races, including most of the relays, but we don't really have the squad depth to challenge UMBC and Stony Brook.

Tom LaSorda

As a supplier, an ability to operate in multiple geographic locations simultaneously is a competitive edge.

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Eric Kadooka

As a sophomore, for him to pitch well in this league is a credit to himself. He's worked hard to physically be able to (do well) and more so with his ability to throw strikes in tough situations.

Steven Aftergood

As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake.

Debora Spar

As a society, we need to think about what fairness means. Is the ability to reproduce a basic human right? Is it part of medical care? And does it extend to all people, regardless of their age, sexual preference, and health condition? Once we get even a rough consensus around this issue (even if it is forged at a state level) we can begin to craft policies that make sense. Where should we draw the line on what kinds of children people can create, and what kinds of technology they can employ? We've already said no to reproductive cloning.

Michael Wallace

As AOL continues to expand onto non-PC services, we believe their ability to create seamless integration between their core PC service and new services like AOL TV will be key to AOL Anywhere's success,

Sean Mackey

As an example, we asked them to think about changing the meaning of the pain. Instead of thinking of it as a terrible experience, to think of it as something relatively pleasant. Then the patients were turned loose. Over time, subjects showed an increased ability to change their brain and by doing so to modulate their pain.

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Pierre Lueders

The thing I found over my career is the Olympics stir up emotions in an athlete or in a person that have never been stirred up before ? and that's something you have to be careful of.

Michael Holden

The most important thing is to work with the athlete for him to discover how to optimize the various positions relative to the skiing,

Ken Slappy

I understand that (football) is his focus, but he's a good athlete and in basketball you can always use good athletes. He's 6-2 and he's tough. I can put him in the game and he won't be afraid.

Frederich Cepeda

This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.

Arthur Ashe

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Tom Peters

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Oleg Cassini

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Doug Pederson

Backups don't get a lot of praise or glory, but you get to that spot by working hard. He comes from a line of quarterbacks and an athletic family. It's bred in him and he's a sharp kid.

Lori Walker

A wonderful, athletic talent, who is a nationally touted goalkeeper, Lauren brings great shot-stopping ability, a strong tactical understanding of the game, and overwhelming courage and tenacity. She will immediately compete for time in the net.

Liz Nichols

Athletics is a really important sport to us. We have to get them to the position where they can deliver medals and fulfil their potential. We can and do expect athletics to deliver more medals.

Derek Hall

Athletics has found that when on the road, the other institutions drop 'college' or change it to 'university' on their own.

Pete Lembo

At Lehigh, we gave out over $2 million in need-based athletic scholarships, need-based being the key, on our football team last year. We spent as much money as an awful lot of people do on scholarships and attacked recruiting in the very same way you would here.

Billy Donovan

Probably what changed my mind more so than anything else was when I met with (Florida athletic director) Jeremy Foley. In that meeting, it was very, very clear that he understood where things were at, and he understood what needed to happen to try to turn the program.

Muhsin Muhammad

Probably one of the things that I'm most proud of is that Steve is really maturing as a person. I think he's becoming a well-rounded person and I think that is more important than the athletic achievements.

Melanie Balcomb

North Carolina works their butt off, and they happen to be athletic and talented and that's a combination I think is very tough. That's why I think they have a great chance to win it. They didn't let us outwork them. We worked hard, but they did too.

Eugene White

Once we get the proposal from the athletic directors, then I will submit a proposal to the school board. Then, after the school board gets it, we will have a number of community meetings to get community input,

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Dwyane Wade

Our defense is coming along. We're getting our rotations down. The communication is better. The main this is we're all beginning to understand what everyone is doing.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Mark Allen

Some vehicles always have been right -- inspired from the beginning.

Linda Pagnella

Some people say it's the beginning of the social season, whatever that means. It has normally been scheduled around the end of January/Valentine's day, so people do mark it on their calendars around this time of year.

Gordon McBean

Scientists have to get involved with the policy-making community right from the beginning and try to understand what the constraints on policy-making are.

Randy Edsall

The schedule that I've already made for beginning in August, I know this: Regardless of wind, rain, snow, sleet, whatever it may be, I'm never going to have to worry about changing. We can set a schedule and if I want to practice at 3:15 every day, we can practice at 3:15. Every day we're going to practice at 3:15 whether it's outside or it's inside. It will be nice when that day comes.

Renee Montgomery

I've been saying from the beginning that I don't want to be the reason we lose because that would be a terrible feeling. I just tried to put myself in a situation where I could help the team and not hurt the team.

Stan Heath

Auburn is a difficult team to play because they have so many different defenses. We wanted to make sure we had a high energy level. I thought we responded pretty well in the second half.

Rene Portland

Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.

Charles Duelfer

Other people on the team had other obligations, so logistically it would have been difficult to keep them there much longer.

Pamela Dix

People find it difficult to understand that when you are on the receiving end of such events, you take on the responsibility to ensure that others do not go through the same ordeal,

Alex Jamieson

People become parochial when it is in their patch. It will be extremely difficult in the foreseeable future to go down the line of closures in rural communities.

William A. Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.

Mike Trapasso

Of the tournament field, they've played the most difficult schedule early on, when you look at the teams they've played.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Conard Fowkes

Actors don't do a good job worrying about their finances. It's difficult because you do not work consistently week after week. You may be very well paid for a job that lasts 10 weeks. Then you're unemployed and you haven't put any money aside.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Oscar Levant

A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first

Howard Kurtz

These conventions are staged for television, but it's not very good television, and most people are watching more interesting programs. I think a lot of people are going to form their impressions on how the party did by front-page headlines, by the pictures on the front page, by some of the analysis. By what's in the paper.

Merrill Stabile

The strength of our competitors is what really helped me form an opinion on this. They're all on a much grander scale.

John Romano

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Leonardo da Vinci

The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.

Jim Brinkerhoff

After we won our morning match (Saturday), Gary Waite said to me, 'I'm going to take my girls skiing.' I told him we had another match at 5 p.m. and not to wear himself out.

Dee Anderson

Gary is one lucky guy to have Amy.

Michael Ostlund

Gary is going to be a really good story one day. He already kind of is, but the sky is the limit for him.

Donna Brazile

Hey, hey, ho, ho, Gary Condit must go.

Ron Darling

Oh, the pressure, Matt. You have to replace Gary Cohen on play-by-play.

Jon Seda

For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Mark Rowen

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

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.

Roy H. Williams

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Seth Godin

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Steve Heiden

He's very confident. He's mature for his years. He's poised, he's confident. He was very good.

Joe Brooks

He's very strong. He's worked out with weights. He's pretty thick. He's pretty strong and he's pretty mature for a junior.

Walt Peretti

He's such a mature kid. He didn't look worried back there.

Ali Larijani

It is an idea, not a structured proposal, we don't see it as mature and it has serious problems.

Dennis Alejo

When you're getting mature the responsibility you have

Trey Blue

We've matured over the year and they've been doing it all the time for us.

Terri Swaney

They had a phenomenal season. There's no reason they shouldn't feel proud of themselves.

Steve Ziemba

It's surreal right now. This is a phenomenal time of my life. I didn't think we would win. I just thought we would get in the top five.

Flip Saunders

They're a different team with Tracy. He was phenomenal tonight.

Dan Scanlon

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Lindsey Kildow

As long as I can physically do it, I can suck it up for a minute, 55 seconds.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

William Hatcher

I shouldn't have picked up my dribble. I'm a better player than that.

Mike Maroth

I've been getting a lot of runs. They've been scoring a lot of runs for me. They picked me up several times,

Roland Kampmeier

They all picked on me. It was survival of the fittest.

Jonathan Stamp

Bruno (Heller) deliberately picked out stuff which is shocking, arresting, surprising,

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Dennis Perry

He's smart. He has picked up everything really well,

Robin Hobb

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Mike Lamb

Run in packs. That's the thing to do.

Keyshawn Johnson

Run the ---- ball. Run the ---- ball.

Hilary Clinton

say you are going to run in 2008!

Steve Davies

Realistically, if you want to win a state championship, you have to play tough competition, ... You can't run from them.

Markus Persson

I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

Josh Smith

I've never seen them run that fast. It was like they were running from the police. It was so funny.

Greg Ostertag

I've run out of gas. I'm tired of being on the road. I just don't have it.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.