Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clyde Drexler

I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 1/2 years, which was a nice. But when you can spend your hold career with one team, that's a blessing.

Scott White

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

Robby Ginepri

I was almost there, so I feel that anyone on any given day could take out anybody.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Brian Dawkins

I was almost in tears when I walked in there and saw that I was going to be a part of that, answering the phones and hearing the joy in peoples' hearts as they were giving.

Giuliana Sgrena

kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart is in a condition of repair right now, ... It is almost surprising they are down only 2 percent. They have a huge amount of over-age inventory they have to unload.

Kelvin Sampson

I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to what they say. If I were putting together a 64-team (field), I think it's almost impossible to say Colorado does not deserve it.

Jack Rio

I would think it would be out of character for a guy who has been a successful coach for as long as he has. It almost sounds desperate.

Rafael Ber

Kirchner will step on the breaks to avoid inflation from spinning out of control. Inflation has become the bogeyman.

Tom Dolan

Kids stay home because they don't want to face it. We have students who basically shut themselves in their homes on weekends to avoid this. That's how prevalent it is.

Brian Wice

I would say Ken Lay has been grilled by his own lawyers to avoid opening the door.

Tony Wright

Just to avoid that, we are going to pause until things are clearer.

Larry Olson

Keep records of which tags you use in any given year to avoid confusion over what ear tags to use the next year. It seems like a simple thing, but we see a lot of wrecks with fly tags because producers couldn't remember.

Frank Brown

I swerved to avoid it. I thought it was a skunk, then I realized it wasn't. It was a dog.

Jeff Gordon

I think it could have been avoided by both of us and it cost us both a lot.

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Brian Barnhart

He was a fair piece up there (alongside Cheever). But it could have been avoided by both parties.

John Fund

I think the bitterness generated by this election should prompt people of good will in both parties to try and find common ground, or as Democratic Senator Chris Dodd put it, ""Make it easy to vote, but tough to cheat.

E. B. White

We can choose how to think about and react to disappointment, ... At the extremes, one line of thought leads to bitterness and a shriveled soul. The other leads to wisdom and growth.

Richard L. Evans

The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

Travis Gerke

I'm most influenced by people I hate, since most everything I do stems from bitterness and anger. Off the top of my head, I think Gwen Stefani is pretty useless.

James Richardson

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

M. Scott Peck

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Leo Rosten

Satire is focused bitterness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together

Jim Daley

Kevin has taken steps and sometimes leaps and bounds to establish himself as a starting quarterback with this team and in this league. Kevin Glenn's development gives us a chance. This is an offensive league, and if you have an offence that is starting to play well, you have a chance.

Anthony Kennedy

Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or 'Achy, Breaky Heart' is bound to make people smile.

John Bray

I think it's a great idea, especially in work zones. It would ultimately reduce overtime for off-duty state patrol used to monitor the zones. It's bound to happen eventually.

Barry Gorman

He is very strong in the air. He is leaps and bounds from where he was last year.

Sophie Hannah

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Garry Trudeau

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

Jodhi May

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

Mike Reynolds

I think the out of bounds play gave us the momentum.

Paul Lancaster

Ken Hatfield is a tremendous speaker. People will really enjoy him because of his enthusiasm and encouragement to all people. He will deliver a very inspirational message.

Peter Hain

I also want to see the IRA deliver on its promises,

Davie Swensen

Having a freshman step in and be able to deliver the kind of points he's been able to give us ... is superb.

Timothy Roemer

has talked about well-intentioned reform but has not delivered it.

Greg Brenneman

What you can do is ask: 'What is the value to the customer? What are they willing to pay for?' Then, deliver great products and services.

Don Brownlee

What we want to know is how organic molecules actually form in comets and whether they helped deliver organic material to the Earth before life began.

Steve Yzerman

He's a good open ice hitter. Not the kind of guy who will deliver the big hit on the glass. He will get a reputation for that.

Joseph Battipaglia

Going into this week, there were a lot of expectations that the tech stocks would deliver good numbers. As those numbers come out it's not surprising that there would be some profit taking. It's a temporary phenomenon.

Philip Greenfield

Historically, a parallel relationship exists between inventory and service: if you want high service levels, you need a lot of inventory. We want to switch that, and deliver high service levels with less inventory.

Robert Redford

I'm gonna die but I haven't thought about retiring.

Robert Goulet

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

Yoko Ono

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Martin Fleischmann

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

Dolly Parton

I will never retire unless I have to.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Rene Auberjonois

I'm never going to retire.

Michael Palin

I will die, but not retire.

Michael Caine

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.