Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Shermer

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

John Finn

It says right on the thing: For kids 6 and up. Checkers for adults would be more like it. Ridiculous.

Demetri Martin

I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

Phyllis Smith

And there were so many people in town that the Checkers sold out of fries. Now, that's something.

Jeremy Foley

On November 20th, UF and FSU will compete on the track, and on the 26th, the teams compete on the gridiron. This is the first time this rivalry has been promoted through another sporting event like this, and we want to thank Checkers for their outstanding support.

Charles Rosen

It is a rare opportunity to work with a client whose product is so good, is willing to push the envelope creatively, and is this much fun -- we couldn't be happier to be working with the Checkers team.

Leigh Morris

We've had field checkers and trouble shooters out all night long, and we've had linemen out in the field. Obviously, our goal is to get power restored as quickly as possible.

Ronald Kessler

Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.

Kalvin Baker

We want to slow them down and not let them run. We can compete with them if we play good defense.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Nick Saban

We want to see guys compete so we can know whether they need to be here, we want them to be here and if they are the kind of people we want. The record doesn't really matter, the result doesn't matter and the score in the game doesn't really matter.

Robert Mugabe

We are a democratic country and my party enjoys overwhelming support. The two gentlemen who purported to have withdrawn actually found it very tough to compete with us. We will win this election,

Leslie Jones

We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we had two errors. If we can keep the errors down we feel we can compete with anybody.

Lucas Black

You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

Istvan Gyulai

We have no problem with that. Whether or not they can compete in the trials, we leave it in the hands of USA Track & Field.

Larry Shaw

We respect everybody we compete against. Everyone here had to qualify. You don't walk through.

Jeff Curtis

Were still a ways to go before well compete with the elite teams, but theyre getting better. I think by the end of the year well be very, very competitive and be able to play teams pretty evenly,

Mike Aresco

We are pleased to present the excitement of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships live to our viewers. We look forward to a great event and the opportunity to highlight the outstanding achievements of the track and field student-athletes.

Roger Wilkins

We are looking forward, and already planning for an even greater event for 2006.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Roland Swenson

We started out planning the event hoping we'd get 150 people, so we were happy.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Cheryl James

Change is not an event, its a process.

Chris Lehane

There is no question that this was about 2008 and not about any particular event in January 2006.

David Perry

There is no other event out there that combines snowboarding and skiing in an open registration format on this scale. This event is receiving incredible hype and response in its inaugural year and promises to set the standard for open competitions.

Chris Botti

They recalled all of our CDs. The week of Thanksgiving, all through November and December, there was no product in the stores.

Gail Fosler

November 2001 will be viewed as the trough

David Irving

...the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'

Donald Trump

This is our last time. November 8 [2016].

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...

Samuel Best

I think he's in real trouble, at least until the November election.

Jake Tapper

The estimated 11 or so million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. This is what Mr. [Donald ] Trump promised back in November.

Dale Frink

We'll run (the outlet) on and off until November 1.

Ken Simonson

Construction spending in November outpaced even the upwardly revised October and September totals.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Kate Michelman

It is a pure sham. It is sponsored and promoted by those who want to take away a woman's right to choose.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Amanda Sandford

We wouldn't want to see it promoted as a completely safe alternative.

Ryk Neethling

What makes it important is the kind of rivalry we've been talking about with Australia, with England, with New Zealand, with Canada.

Justin Marshall

The rivalry between those two is on a different scale to the one New Zealand have with South Africa, which has more tradition and respect.

Bruce Arena

This is probably the fiercest rivalry in the group.

Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Aaron Williams

Honestly, you always have to put the teams with tradition up there, ... It's always a big rivalry for us.

Frank Robinson

A rivalry has to be cultivated. This, in time, could be.

Bill Womack

It's a pretty big rivalry all the way around I think. They want to come up here and play well, and we want to play well.

Novak Djokovic

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

Herman Edwards

They said 2-5 teams don't make the playoffs, either, but we did it,

Mike Berg

They're one of the top two or three teams in the state, without a doubt.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Richard Jefferson

Our expectations are high. But we're just like a lot of teams at this time of the year. We're going to try to win 16 games.

Daniel Snyder

Some teams are contributing a little more than others. It's really a win-win situation.

Jamie Dixon

Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jim Calhoun

Teams do get into ruts. (Other) teams do play defense.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Jim Johnstone

We want to thank everyone for all their help.

Edward Gibbon

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Eartha Kitt

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Alan K. Simpson

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.