Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Diaz

It is a mental game, and as much as you hate to admit it, you do start pushing after a while. It was good to get it and good to be part of that rally that almost brought us back.

Ron Hira

I think the report was a bit overly optimistic. I find it strange that although they admit there's no good data, they come out as very optimistic that this isn't that big a deal.

Adrian Fenty

I think even the mayor will admit that the schools have been so neglected that we're really talking about peanuts in terms of making them look like we want to educate children.

Mike Flowers

I said on the bus that I wasn't going to give up any easy lay-ups in the paint and that somebody was going to have to dunk on me. That's the first time I've ever been dunked on and I'll admit it, I got dunked on.

Jerry Carroll

I respect NASCAR. But the situation is, we've got something here that is begging, that is yelling out, that is successful. This is a different kind of situation than exists anywhere in the country. So admit that.

Nikki Giovanni

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Wendy Seltzer

Stepping into the spotlight to admit your guilt is probably not a sensible course for most people sharing music files online.

Manfred Nowak

My particular concern is the strong interest of the system that people finally admit guilt.

Mark Latham

My mind turned to the Beazley/Ray smear and I must admit I felt sick in the stomach,

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Elaine Youngs

Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm probably playing the best volleyball of my career. Rachel has a lot to do with that.

Jason Williams

Probably when I was 8 or 9, because I knew I was the best player in the league, but that's about the last time. I always felt like we could win, because if I didn't feel we could win, what the use playing? But realistically, no, this is the first time.

Melvin Johnson

Probably what we are best known for is our quality work and getting turn around so fast.

Marshall Wittman

Privatization is at best in hibernation, and at worst awaiting a second Bush term, if there is one. But it's just not going to happen during 2002, which is an election year, and while we may be recovering from a recession, or still in one.

Ray Tanner

Probably the best case for him would be (out) six to eight weeks. If he does have to have surgery, then he'll be gone for the rest of the year and possibly next year.

Glenn Wilson

Probably, that was the best start in the last month by any of our starting eight pitchers. To hold a team like that, with the kind of offense they have, to three runs - it's outstanding.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

Dean Baker

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Marc Ganis

They are a cash machine. They print money, ... While there is no revenue pressure, they'll try to keep certain things pristine.

Jim Leljedal

This is not a place that has cash on hand. It's not a bank. These are just people working in an office environment.

Garth Whyte

This isn't just a matter of changing the settings on a cash register - that can be done fairly quickly.

John Meyers

Five-hundred dollars an ounce is still a great margin for gold producers, particularly in Russia. Rising cash costs around the world means that Russia stands out.

Heinrich Pierer

Fiscal 2003 will be a year of challenges, ... We will continue to focus on generating net cash from operations, though progress will be more difficult since we have already made significant improvements.

Ben Lovett

'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.

Billy Godwin

We created some pressure in other innings, but we just didn't cash in on them. At the end of the game, we got more than they did and that's all that counts.

Mike Waldo

Spencer is a very gifted player who works very hard at what he does. I thought he played smart, played with a lot of intensity and had a great game.

Cato Elder

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Author unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift that is why it is called the present

Norm Cook

This year, he's done an unbelievable job. He's just one of these gifted goal-scorers. He's got a great scoring touch.

Francesco Cece

On the day of your birth, your parents had no idea that one day you would be my special gift for eternity.

Justin Chon

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

Michael McDonald

Child, as I look in your eyesYou know my life seems like a minuteThere I find living proofOf all the wonder life hold in itIn the past I thought I had to learnAny good that comes from this life were livingHere and now, let us realizeThat this lifes gift and its already been given.

Todd Whitaker

We need all our teachers to be as good as our 'good' teachers. Instead, we think programs are the problem or programs are the solution. The most valuable gift you can give yourself is confidence.

O. J. Simpson

It was tough. Some of the greens hold well and then some of them release. I think the greens are tough to putt, at least for me. I made my short ones, but those 15- to 20-footers are tough.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

Paula Creamer

I could not see it. People up at the green saw it.

Dan Green

What we do not get are the names of those people peering out from those lush, green trees.

Tracy Sutton

I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

William Blake

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy.

David Carlson

We will know what the West Antarctic ice sheet is going to do. We will know what the Greenland ice sheet is going to do.

Jim Houston

Who were the guys who helped Jim Brown, Leroy Kelly and Ernie Green do what they did?

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Mitch Landrieu

We miss you, and we want you back.

Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Dorothy Dunnett

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Jamaica Kincaid

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Brad Miller

Everything went perfect for them. And obviously, we didn't play worth a crap.

Adam Dunn

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

Dylan O'Brien

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

Douglas Adams

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

Christine Baranski

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.