Famous Quotes & Sayings

Myles Brand

This season has revealed the character of Mike Davis. It revealed his resilience, his grace under pressure, and his ability to unite and motivate young men.

Troy Polamalu

To me, he is the MVP of that team. He's a very accurate thrower. He feels very confident with their offense. His scrambling ability gives their offense another avenue as well. He's been playing great, and I think that's why they've been successful. They can't click without him.

Jeff Santarsiero

There is always a concern about being rusty with such a long layoff. I was pleased with our effort and with our ability to knock down shots when we needed to score.

Harry Reid

The reason the legislation was passed (creating the stockpile and the price trigger) is to have the president have the ability at times like this to pull heating oil from that reserve,

Billy Davis

The reason it's a 3-4 group is because they're very deep at linebacker, with a number of those linebackers having the ability to pass rush. So you have a great dynamic in a fourth or fifth pass rusher when you have those four linebackers on the field.

Eric Wallace

The reason I play is because God gave me both ability and height. Every game, every day I try to keep a level head and do what I have to do.

Flip Saunders

The reason in the playoffs that defensive-oriented teams are successful is because the longer you play someone, you become more comfortable with how guys are getting their shots and what they're doing. You have the ability to lock down more from a defensive standpoint.

J. M. Roberts

The reason for the lights is simple. Wellesley has very limited open space, and our playing field space is extremely tight. Having the ability to put lights at Reidy would allow us to, really, double the utilization of our primary field.

Dave Schroeder

The original challenge allowed any users to have local accounts to access the machine via SSH. This is an important distinction, because if you have local -- or physical -- access to a computer, you have a very distinct leg-up in terms of the ability to escalate your privileges.

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Neville Isdell

We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.

Elliott Sadler

The world's not over with, ... I've got some great sponsors on this race car that believe in us whether we made it or not. I got a great car owner in Robert Yates. We've just got to try and maybe get that 11th spot.

Richard Keller

The whole situation with Epson, the patent issue... we have to be careful. We believe our products don't infringe its patents. We have our own patents.

Flip Saunders

They all believe in Santa. There is a Santa. You have to believe in Santa.

Robby Gordon

The Wood Brothers' car and ours are the only one-car teams in the top 25 (in points), and I'm very confident that we'll be able to stay there. It's not about how many cars you field that determines where you'll finish, it's how well prepared each of those cars are, and I believe we're as well prepared as most.

Dot Matthews

This is going to be a messy bankruptcy, and it is going to take a long time to sort through. We believe that will be a minimum of two years, and given the complexity of this bankruptcy, could very well be longer.

Alan Autry

This is from my heart. I believe this represents what most Fresnans in Fresno County would want us to do. We've got a number that we can handle physically. It is not a drain,

Brenda Talbert

This is everything we've been advocating. We believe very strongly in public-private initiatives. We're very pleased with the mix of rental and for-sale.

Li Hong

This is even my first time to see ice and snow, who could believe that I am eating in an ice restaurant?

Lorna Tilbian

This is disappointing, as we believe the logic for combining the two businesses is compelling.

Don Cooper

His confidence is where it needs to be.

Art Hogan

The retail stores are doing well. Consumers remain confident, continue to be out there spending their money, ... A lot of money was created with lower interest rates and refinancing -- things of that nature. So, consumer confidence has stayed very high and retail stores, that have actually done it right, have been doing pretty well.

John Lynch

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

Ram Dass

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

Matt Martin

They rattle off five different ways they like their drink. People like a sense of control over what they're getting.

Frank Darabont

It's true, I am a control freak and I am incredibly anal-retentive, as my friend Stephen King has pointed out.

Paul Fisher

It's not OK to just measure disease control and survival. We need to know what children's lives will be like after therapies,

Charles Crawford

There was no warning, ... She had her cruise control set at 75, then all of the sudden traffic stopped.

Jeff Gordon

There will be a lot of pressure on all of us, but that pressure is something I feel I handle well. This DuPont team just needs to focus on what we can control and not worry about the other teams.

Rick Garcia

It's about time. It's completely out of control and someone needs to exert some leadership.

Mo Mowlam

It is serious but the security forces have the situation under control, and people are going to work as normal,

Bobby Frankel

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Dave Arnold

I'm pleased overall with what we've done in the spring. We got a good look at some young guys we think can really help us. And I really like the fact we have a kicker and punter who've been under the gun.

Robert Esche

I?m pretty upset at the fact that we lost. I don?t like losing two in a row, but sometimes that comes with the territory. I felt really good today. I thought I made some big saves and smothered the puck really well.

Rick Comley

I'm proudest of the fact that this team doesn't quit. To come back when you're down two in the third period when they're playing that well, that's tough to do.

Anja Osthoff

I'm just happy that she survived. One has to respect the fact that she is psychologically in a very different state. She needs to be left alone.

Edward Rhine

I'm saddened by the fact that this person died.

David Spiegel

If no one wants to talk to you about the fact that you're dying, you feel very isolated, ... That's one of the powers of a group.

Christopher Hill

If I were optimistic or pessimistic it really wouldn't make much difference. The fact is, we have to talk to them and see where we are.

Olivier Martinez

I have no problems with the fact that people recognize me, I'm very glad about it, but to be a movie star is kind of unreal for me.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Patrick Dempsey

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Ovid

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Paul McCartney

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Katharine Whitehorn

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Katharine Whitehorn

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

Katharine Whitehorn

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Hepburn

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Susan L. Taylor

The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.

Ridley Pearson

Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.

Sienna Miller

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

Seth Godin

Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

John Quincy Adams

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

Theo James

For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally.

Theodor Adorno

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Terry Richardson

People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Terry Pratchett

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.