Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Scott Hoyt

Going forward, sales growth will be more modest and inconsistent. Fundamentals are mixed. The biggest drag is high and rising gasoline and other energy prices.

David Briggs

(Jobs) have been one of the bright sports recently. But it's hard for me to envision the market getting any kind of legs.

Mike DiNovo

He just loves wrestling. This loss hurts right now, but we know he's gonna have a more than bright future.

Alan Trammel

He's a strong young man. Really, he was the only bright spot offensively.

Joker Phillips

I think the future is bright with Curtis Pulley.

Candice Dupree

Lady has much talent, and she'll be expected to produce more next season. She has a bright future.

William Plomer

When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.An abstemious man would reel at her look,As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.

John Danforth

I thought that the students were bright and highly motivated and it was encouraging to have the opportunity to spend some time with them, ... I thought the physical facilities were wonderful.

Marc Jerzak

I think those three (concerns) are right on. It was a tough year on the field. We've never experienced anything like that. On the bright side, we made the playoffs and came within that third game of going to the championship series. I think, considering some of what we went through, that's saying something.

Hu Jintao

It is my sincere wish to make joint efforts with you to promote the peaceful and steady development of the cross-Straits relations and create a bright future for the Chinese nation,

Jose Vidro

He'll be all right. This team goes as far as he goes. It's early and we still have a lot of confidence in him.

Joe Thornton

He let a couple of floaters in the second and then he got his confidence in the third and that was the difference, ... Eddie just really stoned us in the third period.

Robert Ferguson

He knows what I can do; I know what I can do. I've made plays in this league for five years now, I've made a lot of them for him, so confidence was never an issue as far as him having confidence in me. And I never lacked any confidence in myself.

Kyle Coston

Greg (Burgers) and I understood that everyone on the team had to have confidence in each other. We needed that to make a perfect circle. Something that Greg and I wanted was for everyone to feel comfortable and confident with who they were and what they did on this team. We learned that everyone on this team was going to come up big for each other.

Nobuaki Kurisu

Greenspan's cut was a wonderful thing. It has instilled Tokyo investors with a greater confidence the U.S. economy and markets will recover.

Fabian Nunez

has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn't treat it like a modern democracy.

Clinton Portis

Guys were playing for each other, laying it on the line, and everybody was just fighting. The confidence is really up.

Kurt Warner

Guys hang on every word because they just feel the confidence that comes from him: 'This is what we're going to do, this is how we're going to win. They can pretty much take what he says to the bank.

Casey Silver

Hannah just picked up the game last year and she is very quick, ... Ellie is playing with more confidence and has been a pleasant surprise.

Kevin Stass

The fuel loss will diminish the total number of miles it is able to travel.

Michael Steele

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

Unknown

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives

Lakshman Achuthan

As the recovery takes hold, the vulnerability we have surrounding these issues will diminish and they won't be able to impact the overall economy. And then investors will focus on the good news.

Alan Greenspan

could prove destabilizing to our financial system as a whole and in the end could seriously diminish the availability of home mortgage funds.

Lamar Alexander

There's no reason to do this when you're going to diminish what's in the parks.

Tom Daschle

What happened on September 11th did not diminish our strength, ... It renewed it.

Sebastian Briozzo

Lower fiscal and external vulnerabilities diminishes the downside risk for these economies over the short term. A continuation of this recent performance is therefore expected in 2006.

James Shapiro

If the informant got too good a deal, it would diminish his credibility.

Jose Gonzalez

I would say the vast majority are not in a day labor-type scenario. Contractors and employers have a need for good workers, and once they find them they keep them.

Dallas Salisbury

Until recently, it was an expensive and complicated thing to do because of the integration of systems that employers had to do. Now, most of these are put together with a Web-based interface and individuals are able to do most of the stuff themselves.

Sal Souto

We've become a 24/7 society and employers are taking it out of the hide of the working people. Employers are paying them less, not paying them for the hours they work.

Jim Wall

We hear about the labor market from employers all the time so we know it is an issue, but 51 percent is a big number.

Jack Martin

Employers in many of these sectors have gotten themselves into a Catch-22 situation where if they do not look the other way and hire illegal workers, they will not be competitive with other businesses.

Steve Smitson

Employers could be required to register. They could post wage bonds.

David Arkless

Employers tend to find foreign educated, Mandarin speaking graduates attractive,

Elaine Chao

Federal contractors should be model employers in treating all job applicants equitably, ... I am pleased that this settlement will result in 141 women getting jobs and compensation for others who were subjected to an unlawful hiring process.

Ann Dufresne

What is the impact going to be, how will employers react?

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Giuseppe Pisanu

We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

David Keuhl

There's a lot of pressure for farmers. You want to retire, so you sell off the land, and the highest bidders are developers.

Amber Pruitt

At four, you have to play the highest low seed, which is usually the sleeper team. The third seed to me is much better. You actually get the lowest seed.

Tom Brokaw

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

Anders Igel

Our dividend payment makes us one of the highest yielding stocks in the industry.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Mark Snyder

Teal Kitson and Kayla McCarthy were the highest point scorers in the meet,

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

Ron Meyer

It's just natural for him to hire me.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Les Dasch

We hire the taxi service out, and he's got like a minivan that holds nine to 12 people.

John Whisenant

There's nothing like throwing it in the basket, ... I mean, that's why she's our hired gun.

Geoff Smith

We just had to hire 100 more people this year and integrate them in. We're probably pushing 600 people now.

Sam Altman

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Howard Rubin

I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Mary Landrieu

We don't need to be laying off people. We need to be hiring people.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Marty Sanders

It makes the year-to-year planning very difficult, especially with class-size reduction.

Paula Nelson

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

John Lennon

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

Brad Jarvis

Then I read the book, 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' and that really got me thinking, ... Until then I hadn't really thought a lot about planning for the future.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

William Shakespeare

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

James Dunn

I have never seen such solidarity. It was a consistently united voice.

Greg Willett

I have never seen him so white and sick.

Phil Jackson

I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

Lori Crunk

I haven't actually seen it because every time I've been around it's been wrapped. I do know there was some discoloration and swelling.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Bill Engvall

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

Jon Alterman

There hasn't been a 'peace process' for some time, and I don't see any signs there's going to be one resuming.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Winston Churchill

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

John Vaji

If you let them get up on you, they?re going to spread you out.

Ernie Roberson

These new registrants are everywhere; they're spread all over the state.

Katsuhiko Machida

The old way of doing things was just spreading us too thin.

Tariq Ramadan

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

Tony Blair

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Angela Ross

We're all spread out now. We just come here - it's just like she was Big Mama.

J. Paul Getty

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.