Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Jason Wiemer

I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back here and wanted to make sure they knew that. It worked out well. I enjoyed playing here, I love the city and liked the guys here. I looked at the team, watched them play in the playoffs. It was something I wanted to be a part of.

Mike Shanahan

I think it's a better system. There are more opportunities, and because teams have to come to your city to do the interviews, it can be done without conflicting with what you're trying to get done.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Jay Clark

I actually got into Mason City on Dec. 17. I really won't know about Mason City until I get back from Christmas.

John Burke

He controlled the night in the city of Albany. Everything had to go through him, whether you were working with another agency, you had to go through him. If you wanted to make an arrest, you had to go through him, unless, of course, a cop witnessed a crime.

Sunny Mindel

He is recognized as the mayor who led the city from being described as ungovernable to being an international symbol of urban renaissance. Why? Because of the unprecedented record reductions in taxes, homicides and welfare numbers, and the improvement in the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Brian Brennan

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investors.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Andrew Steer

There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunami.

Jeremy Grantham

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Doug Porter

It clearly shows that the U.S. economy is very strong and isn't slowing down. That doesn't bode well for the possibility of inflation and it doesn't bode well for the outlook for the U.S. dollar.

Bob Pack

The purpose was clearly to seek to protect the lychee crop,

Ariel Sharon

The people clearly opted for my plan, ... Political forces must follow the wishes of the electorate.

Robert Earl

We've been waiting for more guidance. Today, the FDA has clearly defined what is and what is not a whole grain.

Troy Carnes

What you saw tonight was the result of some seniors determined to go out competing at the highest level.

Jim Tracy

He was the type who got everything he could out of his ability. And the reason he did that was his intelligence level and a set of personal expectations that were higher than guys he was competing against.

Max Mosley

The FIA very much hopes that all the teams and manufacturers competing in this year's championship will also enter for 2008.

Darrin Walter

The kids are competing to be on the varsity squad.

George Husack

The Gaels are riding a good streak of matches and competing well. They have a crafty team of players and it's going to be tough to play them in Moraga.

Carol Peschel

These girls have continued to persevere and improve despite some injuries. Nikki was competing in the all-around. Now she may be on one event for the end of the season.

Reese Butler

It's not even just a waste of money -- they're actually competing with us! They're hurting an existing, successful effort, and for what?

Darryl Anderson

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.

Mark Sontag

After that, we weren't competing for overall. But lots of teams with top overalls didn't have the scores we were competing with.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Jack Riley

It can be difficult to find people who live in a precinct, with schedules and time constraints and all.

Reggie Collier

It can be difficult at times, especially during the season when you're so focused to be prepared for Saturday. I tell kids all the time to enjoy it while you can.

Neil MacDonald

Her work ethic is an example to everybody. She puts in everyday at practice and is very difficult to ignore because of her work ethic.

Speedy Claxton

He's a great player and he made some difficult shots for them.

Cory Sarich

He's just very difficult to handle. He's got all the elements, he's got all the tools and that's what makes him so effective.

Jeff Ruland

He's got the heart of a lion. We have a difficult task in front of us.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Daniel Nepstad

There is a notion that the presence of people can be harmful to the environment. But this is not always true.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Wangari Maathai

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

Vladimir Putin

Radicals can be found in any environment.

James Sullivan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Jim McDonnell

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Lynn Gray

I would think you would expect a lot more than (1,000). They may have 10,000 people out there.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Fernando Clavijo

Keel is one of those kids, we didn't expect much, and every day he keeps improving.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Dave Redden

Jon doesn't realize how good he is. He could've finished higher up in the pack. I liked that he finished high up there, but I really expect a whole lot more out of him.

Greg Paulus

J.J. is going to get the looks. Sure, he missed his first four 3-pointers, but we knew he'd come back and hit the shots. We expect him to hit them and we look for him all the time.

David Thurtell

I suspect jewelers and other fabricators probably haven't got enough stocks yet. So we can expect some more physical buying.

Rich Falasca

He's always positive, never negative. He's just a friendly guy that we can relate to.

Juli Lax

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly person and responsible. She thought it would be a good jump for me.

Brent White

It's a friendly competition. We don't get all upset over it, it's all fun.

Marge Kennedy

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Ed Koch

The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

Bobby Flay

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Ernest Hunter

Through our (upper-classman) experiences, we also as players have wisdom to share with the younger guys. Without overstepping our bounds, we try to provide guidance in a friendly way. You know, they can take it from somebody they can relate to.

Pat Lester

This group is such a wonderful, friendly group. We're very nurturing of each other.

Michael Moskowitz

The reality is that the Internet is not friendly to mobile devices. But over time, the Internet will bend.

Scott Terry

I write about everything in life. Whether it be things that plague us in the world today or what's on the front page of the newspaper or even love, it all comes down to what inspires you.

Dave Freer

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

David Rudow

I think it's a good acquisition because it's the front end of development.

Linda Greene

He was a good kid, and he had a great future in front of him.

Paul Ford

He's a force. I got a front row seat on-deck.

Ray Brown

I thought we had the potential to do something. It looks like we're heading that way. It's not all over, said and done, but it's all in front of us, and I'm glad to be a part of a team that's playing for something in December.

Marty Holah

I think we had some pretty interesting tactics in taking them on up front and I actually think we got the better of them in that area.

Ben Roethlisberger

I think we did a good job; give our offensive line a lot of credit. We did all silent count. We went on two, on three, mixed it up. They did a phenomenal job up front of being disciplined.

Larry Robinson

I thought our positioning was good and that we were able to keep their players in front of us. When you're chasing, that's usually when you get penalties.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Jeff Moorad

We're open-minded about the profile. The group that we've identified tends to be a younger group, but also a group that has significant experience.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Alain Vigneault

I know this group and they've got to be looking at the standings. You've got to be motivated and sharp to play these games. I think we're going to be fine.

Teresa Jones

I know that we did lose some very talented players from last year's team, a group that had played together for a long time. (But) when you're on the outside looking in, you see things differently.

Dave McCoy

I knew this was a special group when I had them in junior high. And they've proven to be that." ()

Wayne Gretzky

I like how hard this team played (on the trip) and how unselfish it was. . . . We're playing as a group and that's most important. The outcomes have been better because we're playing better as a group.

Alan Trammell

I'm going to be flat-out: When we started the season, we thought we had a group that we were going to be able to grow and work with and try to get better,

John McCormack

The first group of songs which I give, on any program, are songs which I sing to please myself. They represent my musical taste.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Rob Francis

Lake Placid clogged the middle and they were always around the puck. They played pretty well and battled all game.

Scott Williams

Lake Howell's philosophy is if you go up and down with them, they're going to find a way to score 80 points. As we evaluated with what we do well, doing that we probably couldn't find a way to score 81.

Richard Willis

Lake Hopatcong was the place to be back then. It was a place to get meals and a room by the day or the week.

Rick Riordan

Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge

William Wordsworth

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

Wallace Stevens

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

Ma Jun

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

Skip James

It'll stir the water up and move more saltwater into the lake on incoming tides. We need some new water to move into the lake. The tides have been abnormally low.

Cory Jacobs

We are proud of what we've done because nobody has done what we've done at Lake Fenton for a long time.

Zadie Smith

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

Sharon Johnson

They were already vulnerable. This is just salt to the wound.

Joe Dumars

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Kajol

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Terry Bradshaw

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

Curt Schilling

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Francine Rivers

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

George Eliot

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

Jeff Tweedy

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time