Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Joe Novak

As a whole, this class is the best athletically we've brought in here.

Jon Gruden

As a football player, Woodson is such a unique guy. He can stand in there and play man-to-man, old-school bump-and-run coverage with the best of them, and he will knock you out.

Jim Haslett

As a football coach that is not the best thing for this team.

Tom DeLay

As a member of the House leadership, I am fully supportive of doing what is in the best interests of young Elian and moving this bill through Congress when we return,

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Tom Downs

Florence was chosen for several reasons, including the availability of a skilled labor market, grant and tax incentives, and its established transportation resources.

Anne Lamott

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

M. Wolfe

Every time a gay or lesbian person is chosen as a leader by their non-gay and lesbian peers, I think it's a step forward for our community.

Mark Butler

Yes, we would have chosen to wait. We have a strict schedule.

Mark Knox

While we are concerned that our established HD DVD partner has chosen to make this announcement at this time, we remain supremely confident in the superiority of the HD DVD format.

Paul Kowalczyk

Every conference has the option of doing it how they see fit. What we've chosen to do is split it between the teams.

Peter Lindbergh

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Michele Moore

There had been countless overtures prior to this particular publisher. But others finally convinced him that Dell was at a strategic point in the business, and this would be an opportunity to further the brand. Personally, he wouldn't have chosen to do it. It was difficult for him. He is singularly focused on the success of the business.

David Walker

As a matter of course we review our cost structure and staffing needs and levels.

Dontell Jefferson

Of course we don't want to cost the school any money, but as a player you want to have interaction like that.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Allen Blakemore

Ronnie Earle's cost him his leadership spot, but in terms of the electorate, no way.

Judy Anderson

Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010,

Charles King

Power prices aren't going down, utilities keep going up -- it's one of those pieces of total cost of ownership that many customers in many spaces haven't realized until months ago.

Bob Hartley

Power plays cost us the game. If you don't score it's one thing. But if you give up the winning goal on your power play, that's where it hurts the most.

Tully Lehman

Depending on the size of the event it will take some time before someone can come out.

Marjorie Brody

Depending on the room setup, stay in the back or quietly pull up a chair,

David Patrick

Depending on the industry you're in 10 percent to 80 percent of employees can migrate to a Linux desktop now.

Scott Thompson

Depending on our reservation status, we make that permanent.

Cheryl Baker

So, one word can mean four different things depending on how you say it.

Chris Chelios

We've got a lot of guys at camp, so it's an opportunity for maybe one of them. But, they had high expectations of (Nik). You could see the way he was playing so far, what he did last year. They were depending on him a lot this year. Hopefully he'll heal quick and be here for the middle of the season and the remainder of the season and the playoffs.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.

Meg Ashley

We employ a variety of formations depending upon what the team we play dictates.

Hugh Johnson

We have such speculation in Internet stocks already that it's earnings will be keenly watched and could stir up more speculation or spur a decline, depending on their results.

Anne Donovan

We just got steamrolled on our home floor and that doesn't happen very often. It surprised me that we could never get a grip.

Josh Boone

Mainly it's Marcus, to be honest with you. Marcus is telling me a whole lot of times where to go. He'll just come up to me after a play and say, 'Next time slip that.' I'll be like, 'All right,' and he'll just throw a perfect pass. It just really helps to have a guy like him on the floor leading us.

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Lee Humphrey

He's the leader on the floor for us. He pretty much plays all the minutes at point. Him on the floor, he gets us in our offense well. He doesn't have to be scoring for us to play well.

Jerry Sloan

I didn't know (which team) was still trying to make the playoffs. They knocked us around. They put us on the floor when we went in (the paint). They were terrific defensively. They played as hard as anyone's played us all year long.

Wally Szczerbiak

I didn't hear a whistle, so I wasn't going to let him go up and hit an and-one. I didn't know what was going on. I just grabbed his arm. I didn't grab him to the floor or anything and just walked away. Whatever, he sure gets his share of calls.

Ray Allen

Mentally it just got worse, ... And physically, you're just running up and down the floor and it seemed like everything just went their way. Again, I know we'll recover from this.

Chuck Benda

My job is pretty easy. I just turn them loose on the floor and let them play.

Lawrence White

It is a powerful statement about sentiment on the floor (of the exchange).

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Bashar al-Assad

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Brian Tracy

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

Brian Tracy

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

David Jones

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

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Flip Saunders

I've been impressed with him since Day One. At times, when I don't play him, I always go home at night, sit and watch the film and try to find ways why I didn't play him.

Judah Friedlander

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

Brad Goreski

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

Jalal Talabani

I understand that Italians want their troops in Iraq to come home as soon as possible,

Sarah Waters

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

David Jones

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

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Tim Baker

Homes are kept up to the 'nth degree.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

David Williams

We need more volunteers, particularly during the week, ... A lot of (damaged) homes haven't been touched and people are trying to live in them.

Sean Pertwee

I think homes are a palpable form of investment, and I understand them.

Michael Brown

I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.

Ernesto Zedillo

I will not permit these homes to be rebuilt in the same places,

Tim Brice

As long as the low pressure stays to the west, we'll see some rain in our area.

A.J. Jones

Dentists are not taking Medicaid because of the low reimbursement and the cumbersome paperwork. It is not surprising that they do not take Medicaid.

Marcos Basaglia

The special of the day was low volume. The market was practically tied to Nasdaq.

Garry Beers

It was unanimous and foot-dragging. It's a pretty sobering prospect to go on international television and pull your pants down as low as we did. We trusted our instincts, we trusted ourselves.

Art Spinella

It would have to be an entry-level model, like the Hyundai Excel. It would take low price and some style, though low price triumphs over style any time.

Bob Klein

The risk is so low that nothing needs to be done.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Bode Miller

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schieffer

Anyway, that offer is not going to be made.

Alexei Smertin

I've received an offer from a Russian club.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Ed Miller

Essentially, through one product, the operator can offer three different services here. We've been shooting for this type of integration for some time.

Theresa Parker

The response to our expanded product offering has been tremendous.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Carlos Gomez

Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,

Gene Jr

We made an offer and they turned it down.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Steve Harris

We're having this process stuffed down our throats. Nothing about this plan is acceptable.

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Gary Claxton

You have to start with the plan first.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Danny Sullivan

I don't really have a range of what it would be it's all over the place.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Tamara Tunie

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Mike Jackson

well within the range of what is realistically possible.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Johnny Depp

There are 4 questions of value in life..