Famous Quotes & Sayings

Detective Lopez

Kenyon Martin is sitting on the bench when a fan begins to heckle him. Martin stands up, turns around and addresses the fan. Then he sits back down.

Diane Phillips

Just like a Super Bowl football team, you need a game plan to pull off a successful party. That plan begins with the decision to throw a party and doesn't end until you return the last rented or borrowed item.

Mark Owens

It begins with the growing realization that another ? the mother ? has it, she has control over it, and she's not you.

Joseph Brown

It begins with one voice and builds with other voices. The collective crescendo is just now reaching a volume where we are all hearing and understanding.

Tom Tancredo

It begins to create a crack in your credibility, and when that happens it is enormously difficult to seal, ... There is a sense that there is blood in the water, and when that happens the piranhas come from everywhere.

Tony McCoy

A lot of healing is in the mind. I'm not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I'm talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it.

Debra Bennetts

Good communications, written or oral, begins with an understanding of the audience. If you can get inside their heads, you can find a way to connect.

Mark Heiderscheid

If you don't score for a couple of games, it really begins to prey on your confidence. All of the sudden you're wondering if you are ever going to score again. And if you don't score, you don't win, it's as simple as that.

Josh McDowell

If you look at cosmology, which is the study of the origin of the universe, whatever begins to exist, has a cause. Scientists now believe, the universe must've had a cause. The implication of that cause must be very powerful, very intelligent, immaterial, and beyond time.

Ken Ham

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Don Tapscott

Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted.

Doug Elliott

I would think his election increases the likelihood of a pension bill this year.

Bill Harding

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

Tony Buzan

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Muhammad Yunus

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Nandan Nilekani

Going forward, we expect revenues to cross the two billion dollars mark at 2.14 billion dollars by March 2006.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

James Wolfensohn

I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.

Ken Hill

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

Daniel Kurtzer

I would suggest that we need to focus on killing terrorists instead of building democracies.

Rachel Kyono

Kauai Jr. golf teaches you about honesty and integrity about the game. It helps you to become a better person and you build up a lot of good characteristics.

Bobby Perry

Kansas was a big team. We didn't really handle it well, but I think we can treat that as a learning experience and hopefully build on it.

Tracy Brookover

John did an excellent job in his three years. He took over a program that hadn't won a game and turned it around. I just want to continue to build on what he started.

Matt Duffy

I talked to a of people and they said your freshman year is a building year.

Aaron Rowand

I think it builds confidence to know you can came back in situations like this. Next time we find ourselves in that situation, we know we can do it. We definitely have a group of guys who like being around each other. And I think something like this makes us even closer.

Pamela Jones

It builds their self-esteem, it builds their confidence. It helps them understand they have control over their lives.

Duncan Fletcher

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Nancy Griffith

Keith's niece was doing makeup for the movie and invited me to the set. I fell in love with 'Our Very Own,' which comes out this fall, ... I told Keith I wanted to write a song for the movie. We got together in L.A. and in 20 minutes, it was done. I think 'Our Very Own' makes a great closer to 'Hearts in Mind.' The movie is set in the mid-1970s in Shelbyville, Tennessee during a massive depression that spread throughout rural America. It is a lovely study of that culture in that time. The words of the song say it all.

Shakira

I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

Chad Anderson

This was a good confidence-builder for us. It gets us one step closer to the playoffs.

Rob Spence

I think it's closer to what we expect the offense at Clemson to be. I think there was much more mixture, different types of plays.

Rob Spence

I think it's closer to what we expect the offense at Clemson to be.

Richard Butler

I think we're getting hot, ... I think we were getting closer and closer.

Barry Trotz

It is hard, even as a coach, to say who's going to win it. There's so many teams that are a lot closer than you think. The point totals, disregard them. It's what teams are playing well, what teams aren't.

Peter Cardillo

I think we're going to see a very choppy market for the next few weeks, as we get closer to the election, unless oil prices move sharply one way or the other.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Willis McGahee

Cincinnati's D-linemen were great. They did a good job as far as holding us up and making us kick field goals. It was an excellent job, keeping their pads low, and just standing us up.

Joe McLaughlin

Individually we have excellent talent, but need to stay healthy because injuries will hurt us as a team.

Michael Strahan

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

Nate Robertson

He wants our expectations to be greater than maybe they've been.

Randy Perreira

Hawaii people have a greater tolerance for fairness.

Bill Tierney

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Frank Tyger

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert G. Allen

It's priced much too low, ... That's disappointing to you, and it's totally unacceptable to us. The leadership of AT&T has no greater priority than to increase shareholder value.

Jim Folkman

It's performance-based. It's systemic. Not just an item here or there. It comes together as a system and operates better. The end is greater than the sum of the parts.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

John Belushi

We are on a mission for God.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Donald Rumsfeld

The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

Stephen Covey

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

Bill Cowher

He's a very poised quarterback and he has a feel for the game,

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Mila Kunis

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Barbara Bush

in a position to make good, crisp decisions.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

John Straayer

It's unusual, but he's getting publicity for his campaign.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Alex Honnold

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Skylar Astin

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Will Wright

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

Warren Buffett

I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

James Franco

I become kind of obsessive about research.

Patrick Rothfuss

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

Shinya Yamanaka

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

John McPhee

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

Geoff Mulgan

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Dennis Erlich

I like those scores -- everything in the 30s. Those are the types of scores we're going to need the rest of the season.

Richard Sanchez

I just talked the whole time and didn't let them rest,

Cynthia Davis

I'm a restaurant person, so I want the variety (of bistro row).

Sarah Brown

I kind of got sucked in, like the rest of the American public,

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Will Gluck

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Phil Crosby

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Arun Sarin

As was evident, mobiles are better than the wire service here.

Rhonda Bright

We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.

Dan Bailey

We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair,

Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do.

Mike Torres

The service may be a little slow for a little while it stabilizes.

Tim Chapman

This is going to be a social services disaster.

Les Garland

We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.

Ron Kaufman

How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Sara Atuaia

He's become our go-to player. We need him to keep being strong up from.

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Rex Hunt

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William J. Clinton

Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Robin Williams

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

Zakk Wylde

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Tony Snow

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Willie Nelson

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Joseph Auslander

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Kathy Reichs

You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Bill Crawford

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Vinnie Jones

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

Wu Bangguo

The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward the development of Sino-Moroccan ties in the spirit of boosting understanding, broadening cooperation for common development.

William Shockley

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

Walter Bagehot

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

W. H. Auden

Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

Walter Smith

The main thing in a cup tie is to get through.

William H. Wharton

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

Emily Bronte

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

H. Judd

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Frantz Fanon

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.