Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Fitch

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

Jeff Cunningham

Coach Arena has told me to be ready for Wednesday, ... so I am hoping I will get an opportunity to show what I can do to help this team in Germany next year. All I need is the opportunity, and then it's up to me to show Coach Arena.

Jim Webb

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Fred Taylor

I've always believed American citizens have the responsibility to participate in their government. I love the term: you have to get into the arena to play the game. That's exactly right.

Lorelei Sims

The most important lesson I have learned in the political arena is that it is important to consider all the aspects of an issue before making a decision and casting a vote. I make every effort to be informed on issues and have learned the value of asking questions.

Chris Wallace

A couple of times, when we needed a big stop, we didn't get it. We gotta be able to make a play when it presents itself. You have to make it in arena football. That was basically the tale of the tape.

Randy Bredar

One coach had scripted what a day would be like walking recruits and their families through the facilities, so they could envision themselves playing there, see how the arena would function. That can make an impression on the 17-year-olds.

Don Logan

One challenge is having an arena be part of a casino project and expecting events. Colleges can't play at two beautiful venues, the MGM Grand Garden and Mandalay Bay Events Center (because of the casino connections). Having another one of these will compete with them for events.

Giorgio Moroder

One day. I was putting on a hill in Zurich, and a few hundred yards away, Diana Ross was doing a sound test at an arena for a performance that night of 'Take My Breath Away,' my song with her. That was a very nice game, an incredible feeling.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Renee Wright

As Coach has been stressing, our freshmen are only freshmen in name. They're very mature, smart people. It's actually been an easy transition playing with them.

Lauren Jackson

As a team, we want to win just for her. For someone to make a team want to win for their coach is a pretty powerful thing.

Vance Cooksey

As a captain, I knew coming out of the locker room that I had to step up. Coach Taylor has a lot of confidence in us, and he told us to go out and play with confidence in ourselves.

Steven Bernstein

As a blocker, coach Hueber even congratulated me, ... That's a big deal, a big step in life. I was pretty happy about that.

Michael Brown

As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?

Temo Trujillo

As an athlete, you get to the starting line and run. As a coach you are going from one spot to another. I'm still figuring things out. But I'm starting to enjoy it.

Emanuel Brown

As a head coach, we go to such tough tournaments, this is my first win. We've placed second everywhere and third everywhere. We finally get a win.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Claudia Schiffer

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

Franz Beckenbauer

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

Hans Berger

In Germany I am not so famous.

William Joyce

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Jim Bottorf

Our concern, of course, is for the people we won't be able to help during whatever time it takes us to get back up to speed.

Josh Young

People don't always realize how much we can help in these cases.

Delma Smith

Offer to help her with her house, if she helps you with yours. Then you're doing it as a team.

John Chaney

The national media hurts the A-10 more than any other league. We're always looked at as a stepchild. Our TV situation doesn't help recruiting. That's a major reason I play the type of schedule that I do, for recruiting.

Hayden Fry

The more down-to-earth things can help a lot.

Nick Exel

Definitely. I know I can help the team out more if I'm a little more aggressive. Basically, throughout this season I've been playing not to make mistakes, playing not to hurt the team.

Romeo Crennel

Dennis Northcutt was able to come in and make some plays that will help his psyche because I know he was a little down.

Deborah Chernoff

Essentially, they've made no new proposals since the last strike. We were hoping to withdraw this week's (strike) notice, if we had made some significant progress.

Dennis Lyberger

Best-case scenario, we're hoping to get six kids through.

Melissa Cook

We'll keep going until we solve it. We're hoping somebody has seen something or knows something.

Elissa Marsden

Communities get out of this what they put in. I'm hoping if we can get the right people at the table who are willing to participate and be active, there are going to be results. If people sit back, not much is going to come of it.

Brent Carnduff

We didn't play Challis very well. We're hoping for some revenge Saturday night.

Will Miller

We didn't have the race we were hoping to have. We are still in a learning phase; I don't think that result reflects our speed at all.

Paul Howell

What I was hoping for ... is that we could see some kind of, maybe, 'I'm sorry,' something like that, ... We didn't get anything from his face.

Robert Kerr

We give them some flexibility, but we don't let them go into the mandatory services, ... I'm hoping that as we make the transition, it frees this agency's resources up to really pressure plans to be more efficient.

David Adams

We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Frank Robinson

Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.

Jeff Suppan

Really I'm just getting ready to pitch, whenever that is.

Robert Dozier

Definitely. It's going to be a fast-paced game, and we'll be ready for it.

Austin Boyce

The system he has is set up for the underclassmen to step up. When you're a senior, you're ready to be a leader.

Ray Scott

Somebody that's 0-8 or someone 8-0, it doesn't make any difference, you have got to be ready to play in this conference.

Bill Shepherd

Sail her well, ... I am ready to be relieved.

Jake Peavy

It was an ER in there at 6:30, getting me ready to go out.

Rick Barnes

It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist.

Jose Castillo

I've been working out every day and I feel very strong. I'm ready to go.

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,