Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Adams

I started to lift. I really looked up to those high school guys. I wanted to be like them. I wanted to be bigger than them,

Sam Childers

I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

John Feudo

We've put a lot of time and effort into this issue, and it's been a very fascinating subject, but it will be nice to put it to rest and get on to bigger and better things.

C.J. Woollum

We talk to them about the impression they make on their professors, and how they should not go to their classes looking like slobs and sit in the back and fall asleep. They have to prepare themselves for what's next. None of them are going to be professional athletes, so they'd better be thinking about a bigger picture than where are we going tonight to have fun. Unfortunately, that overwhelms the thought process for a lot of them.

Jim Bell

We sometimes have clients who are obsessed with taxes and we try to point out to them the bigger picture, ... Most people want to have their net worth grow. If they have to pay more taxes, so be it.

Leif Johansson

We simply had to make up our minds to do something bigger and better than what was before and that's what we did,

Ritchie McKay

Tony would be a great poker player, because he doesn't show much emotion. I think he has bigger goals for his own game. I sense some frustration.

Rod Baker

We tried to make the game go at a high speed because they were short guys (players) and we got their bigger players in trouble. I think the last two minutes we got easy baskets because of what had happened earlier in the game.

E. B. White

We just played bigger people the last two games. We're not going to play 6-10, 6-10, 6-10, 6-10, 6-10 Thursday. I think we should be all right.

Jeremy Cox

That was a concern of mine (playing zone) because I thought they were great shooters as well. They shot less than 25 percent (from 3-point range), so it worked for us.

Donna Favors

When we show concern for the happiness in others, we ultimately enhance the happiness in ourselves.

Devan Downey

Right now I'm just living on this. After the season, whatever happens, happens. Right now I'm not even thinking about it, I'm concerned about this team.

Mike Flowers

Naturally, it hurt our pocketbooks. But we knew it was coming, so we saved some extra funds. Our concern now is how quickly it will come back.

Kyle Walker

From a voter's perspective, it's a very simple process. They register to vote. They go to vote. And that's all that they should be concerned with.

John Gannon

I have a concern that density may not be as good a fit for Boise.

John Morse

That was enough of a public health concern to get it in the dictionary right away. Now, one of two things could happen. Either we'll never hear about SARS again, and if so, I've wasted three lines of type in the dictionary. Or it will come back, and everyone will go to the dictionary in a time of need to see how SARS is defined.

Joe Donnelly

I talk about it. It's a concern to a lot of people.

Ray Gant

The people that expect this run to end aren't on this team, so they don't concern me. The only people who concern me are the people with the G's on the side of their heads.

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nicole Miller

It's ridiculous to think they can't have more than two times the number of stores internationally than domestically. They could have 30,000 just internationally.

David Miliband

I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.

Julia Voth

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

Amanda Abbington

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

John Mackey

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

Jeff Greene

I've been a friend to people who may not have had perfect pasts.

Ed Jovanovski

I've been around long enough that people know what kind of player I am and I think there's only an upside to all this.

Lorde

I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.

J. August Richards

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

Helen Mirren

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

Sonny Naclerio

It's just the three of us doing this job. Me, myself and I.

Harry Harrison

They've been through three scripts, 14 rewrites. They can't get it right,

Pat Riley

It's not easy. We need him on the court. I don't know how we're going to get around that. Two of his first three fouls were offensive.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Paul Schimmel

Three tons of confetti, ... Well, it's MOCA. Get out the big guns.

Tom McLean

We're averaging about three a day right now in Citrus County.

Aaron Levie

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

Brian Murphy

We had 500 critical-care patients. We had only three deaths.