Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Rekalin Sims

Randolph is quiet. He doesn't really show anything until he's out there on the court. I can almost guarantee Randolph is going to punish these guys.

Wayne Brown

Really and truly, almost all mistakes go back to basics. People need to have good, building-block learning behind them so they can become their own best critics and maintain good discipline about the fundamentals of flying.

David Farber

Realize that almost anybody can write a book, ... I even wrote a book.

Kenneth Fisher

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Paul Polzin

Prices this high and lasting this long will almost certainly spur investment.

Stephen Malkmus

Primarily I was doing the music here alone in the house, anyway, with the drummer. He helped with the engineering and plays on almost every song.

Christine Link

Programs such as this almost always prove to be ineffective in gathering information on possible terrorists. Even though they are created with the best of intentions, they only serve to reinforce stereotypes and cause innocent people to be subjected to government scrutiny.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Ernie Els

I've always done it, and I will keep doing it. A couple of putts here and there could have been better two years ago, and that's basically that. If I could just make a couple more putts, there wouldn't be this argument.

Debbie Ryan

I wanted her to basically take a look at things from the floor to see defensively how she could improve upon her game and help our team. I thought she did a tremendous job tonight coming off the bench. I doubt it will be permanent. She did exactly what I needed her to do tonight.

Earl Campbell

I wanted to get out of my father's shadow and get the chance to be Tyler Campbell and blend in without people saying, 'You're Earl Campbell's son right away.' That's basically the reason for coming all the way out here.

Daz Dillinger

I wanted to create something that the streets identifies with without making it like packaged cheap Spam. So I created the music, and it's basically a story and an epic like R Kelly's RB Opera. This is only the beginning.

Lynsey Addario

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Jim Tressel

Bobby Carpenter makes things happen. He's a nightmare for those tackles when he's rushing. He's got tremendous range as a linebacker and covers so much ground. I don't see him get blocked very often. He makes plays.

Jimmy White

This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't put a vehicle on the roads, ... After the winds died down, there was no way to get to her because Highway 15 where she lived was blocked by fallen trees.

Tony Dungy

You have to learn offensive blocking schemes and especially when rushing the passer you get blocked differently, ... Larry had to call some (assignments) for us on Sunday with Corey not as familiar with what we're doing. Montae has always done that the last two years. Larry did a good job of getting us into some of the right things.

Chris Ellis

Those possessions we contested (shots), everybody blocked out and that led to our run. When you stop a team and they're taking contested jumpers, that frustrates them into making other decisions.

Brian Satterfield

We talked about forcing them (Mooresville) to have to make decisions on the offensive end of the floor. We couldn't score early on to set up our press, but eventually we came up with some steals and blocked some shots and that led to some easy baskets for us in transition.

Bat for Lashes

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

Nick Harmer

People were maybe a little worried. We blocked that all out as much as we could and just said, we need to make a record, make it great, put it out and get on the road. I think just by us doing that and making the record we did, there was kind of a collective sigh.

Rock Cartwright

The Eagles blocked a field goal and ran it back,

Chris Low

The trade deficit widened to a record in September, as expected. But it wasn't the oil story we were all looking for. Instead, it boils down to Boeing and Airbus, with the European firm holding the cards this time around,

Jennifer Harbury

What it boils down to is he will not be released unless he confesses to a crime he did not commit. It's probably the worst civil rights case facing the U.S. government right now.

Andrew Brown

Just down the stretch, it's about making plays, making shots. Sometimes it just boils down to making shots.

Chad Hedrick

I respect him as an athlete. That's what our relationship boils down to.

Mike Conklin

We need the capital for a crusher and a refinery, that's what it boils down to.

Donald Trott

I think the major issue that it always boils down to is ongoing earnings opportunities. The cellular business has been the primary driver in more recent years, but we think cellular will become increasingly competitive.

Jack Barnes

It just boils down to the fact that there's only so much money in the pot.

Gavin Dickey

It's frustrating that I'm not helping score runs for the team. I had opportunities to score some guys tonight and I didn't do the job. That's what it boils down to.

John Dryden

A mob is the scum that rises up most when the nation boils

Christy Scott

Again, we played a solid first game and then let down the second game. We struggled with hitting errors and a couple mental mistakes, but we regrouped and finished well in the third game.

George Gelnovatch

The start was not what I was looking for in terms of energy. I think in the second half, some things started to sink in and we took our level up a couple of notches. Once we did that, it really made a difference in our play.

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Herb Grace

The team put forth a courageous run with a couple of huge wins in the postseason. We had a lot of fun winning two straight league championships, and we owe a lot of that to the seniors, who have sacrificed a lot to get us here.

Bruce Johnson

A downturn of 10 to 15% in agricultural land over a couple of years could be possible.

Steve Strand

After missing a couple of years, we re-established that we are a playoff team.

Billy Davis

Sometimes you're looking at Eli and he looks just like Peyton a couple of weeks ago.

Kathy Thompson

Teachers receive a lot of training in reading instruction, and I think we've seen that start to pay off over the last couple of years.

Bonnie Reed

It would be nice if we had a couple thousand more dollars. It would really be helpful to these people.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Doug Palow

Our defense shut down just about everything tonight.

Mark Elliott

Our defense set the tone the entire game,

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Cilla Black

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Frances Gulland

These are top-level predators. Like us, they eat anchovies, squid, salmon and mussels. They are sentinels for human health, because they share our ecosystems and prey. We may see impacts in sea lions before people - they could be an early warning.

Mike Schmidt

This is as early as I've ever seen it get this wild.

John Jackson

This is going to be the province of tech geeks, your early adopter. It's a niche play, not a volume play.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Gore Vidal

This is not at all bad, except as prose.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Larry Bell

We ran really well, ... We worked them really hard Monday, looking ahead, except for one kid who wasn't there, and it's pretty obvious who it was. She had her legs today, and that was a big part of it.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

David Todd

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Nasser Hussain

Rachael has a good head on her shoulders and has played a huge role off the field in helping Freddie become such an outstanding performer. Long may it continue.

Doug Young

Anything that we didn't water didn't do well. Field tomatoes were way off, cucumbers were way off.

Chan Gailey

I've said, 'Hey, it doesn't matter who walks on the field. You have to get ready to play,' ... It does not matter who's in the game and who's not in the game.

Tom Amstutz

I spent time this winter working and talking about leadership with our team. Once we get back out on the football field we will see the leadership develop. It's important that when a group of seniors leave, a new group of leaders emerges.

Pat White

I've been doing this since I was four years old. Nothing on the field scares me.

Frank Gonzalez

The worldwide tsunami research field used to involve maybe 200 people.

Bruce Bochy

You would think that we are playing at Coors Field the way these games are going.

Huston Street

You never like the first pitch to be taken deep. But it's not about how pretty it is, it's about walking off the field with a win.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Eric Bagley

The Montpelier-U-32 game is always a tough game. They're going to come out and play as hard as they can.

Andre Muse

Defensively, we really tried to shut them down. They have troubles scoring in the half-court offense, so we tried to slow the tempo of the game down.

Lauri Hakala

Defensively, he reads the game better than any other libero. He's very technical and he's very good all-around. He can pass all kinds of serves. He doesn't have any weaknesses that stand out so nobody can go after him.

Tony Parker

Definitely. It was tough in overtime. Maybe we ran out of gas. But we should've won the game before that. We had it.

Chris Gardocki

Cole is old enough that he'll be able to remember this when he gets older. Being able to take him into the locker room after the game was really cool.

Nykesha Sales

Any win on the road, when it's a three game series, is important,

Skip Harlicka

An indescribable feeling. I had never been involved in a game like that. Just 16 months before I had been in high school.

Jim Calhoun

And the Elvin Hayes-Jabbar game at the Astrodome, that was something I was thinking about for days.

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.

Larry Beets

Your goal every year is to go to the state championship, realistically or not. That's why you play.

Marshall Strickland

You never know what's going to happen on Selection Sunday. But our goal is to win this tournament and worry about the next one when it comes.

Ron Artest

You never know what is going to happen this time of the year. I have a goal to reach the playoffs. I just hope I can do my best.

Rick Barnes

You're always going to be disappointed when you don't win. It's over and done with. Our No. 1 goal now is the NCAA tournament. We're one of 65 teams and we hope to be the last one standing.

Bashar al-Assad

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Mark Rodgers

As long as we stick to issues and keep it civil, this (announcement) should be a good thing for our party.

David Wright

As long as we get these big two-out hits and keep scoring runs late like this, we're going to be in good shape.

Ron Zook

A specialist worked with him and we feel very good about him,

Bob Jones

As long as everyone uses good microphone etiquette, it should go fine.

Jim Rash

As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.

Carlos Ghosn

As long as it is a good investment for Renault, we'll stay.

Jim Cummings

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

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.

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Deepak Chopra

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Scott Sprinzen

We are still nervous about our ratings, even at the reduced levels.

Linda Jay

We do seem to have stabilized here but this is a real nervous market.

Dale Jr

You get nervous when you see fluids. There wasn't any fluids -- just Busch trying to get out of the way.

Ellison Chu

The time for the announcement for the ETF is getting closer. Basically, the turnover is very small in silver because all players and traders are very nervous about the price at the moment.

Patrice Lauzon

We were probably a little more nervous going into it than usual but I think we skated great.

Adele

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

Dreama Walker

When I get nervous, I get word vomit.

Brian Simmons

The thing about it is nobody is out there freelancing. Everybody's playing within the parameters of what we are doing.

Mickey Rourke

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Glenn Williams

Push yourself, guys, ... Nobody walking. To the cones.

Jane Walsh

The work (Ryerson) did was really groundbreaking. Nobody else had really done that before.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Steve Goodman

There's nobody you can trust more than family, ... We were like the Three Musketeers times five.

Jami Lanz

There's nobody else I'd want to tie with than my teammate.

Ben Smith

As a young kid, she was an offensive whiz-bang.

Brian Hill

That's just our nemesis with this team. We can't seem to keep them off the offensive boards.

Gary Ernst

You have to respect every player. Each player has his own offensive identity.

Courteney Cox

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Bill Self

If we didn't make those outside shots today, it would have been an ugly offensive game. You have got to make shots when teams do that.

J. C. Ryle

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Eminem

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Eminem

I find you offensive for finding me offensive

Tom Brady

Hey, Warren why are you dogging my offensive linemen,

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Joe Sakic

You never know with goalies until they're NumberÊ1, but he plays a lot like Patrick.

David Wright

This one's on my shoulders. Those were tough plays to make, but these are the big leagues.

David Martin

We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't make the plays when we had our chances.

Lance Berkman

We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Bessie Smith

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters. So that is my top priority,

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters, ... So that is my top priority.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

Jules Shear

Erskine Caldwell was a Southern writer, Tobacco Road is really good, but it can get you a little depressed. It's about poor folks.

Jay Wright

We'll just toss it out as a poor shooting night.

David Lynch

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

Norah Jones

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

Sean Wade

We can't play 90 snaps and think we're going to be good. Somebody's going to get fatigued sooner or later.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Sidney Crosby

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that I have to accept, ... I don't think there was ever a time where I stepped back and said 'I wish I was doing something different.'

Bill Dushane

They were unseeded and they really stepped up for us.