Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Blair

Once these proposals are accepted and put in place, they offer, at last, after decades of violence and conflict and injustice, the chance for peace and for democracy and for equality for all,

Rob Watson

During the course of the two-day event our students acted with pride and professionalism in every way, and accepted their prize with the utmost class.

Washington Post

Deception of voters has become an accepted tactic.

John Connors

Deep Throat was a journalistic joke; Mark Felt never accepted the name.

Jay Carson

Dean feels that there are few things that could be more appropriate the day before the Iowa caucus than attend Sunday school and church with Jimmy Carter. Carter has been very, very friendly to us. He really likes the governor. But the direct words out of his mouth have been that he's not going to endorse anyone in the '04 race. We're still talking to him, but we've pretty much accepted that he's not going to do it.

Jerome Charyn

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

Joe Alleva

Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon and I accepted it.

Joe Alleva

Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon, and I accepted it. I believe this is in the best interests of the program, the department of athletics and the university.

Swen Nater

Coach Wooden gave me a job description. He told me I probably wouldn't play very much, but he needed me to practice against Bill. He said, 'You're not going to get the glory, but I need you to do this.' I accepted the challenge.

Adam Scott

Asia has been great to me. I played a good round of golf this afternoon and there you go. I've got this big trophy over here, my first national championship too.

Brad Gushue

Companies will be giving people the afternoon off.

Angus Campbell

Apple's poor figures after the bell last night mean that the U.S. futures point to a negative start for U.S. equity indices this afternoon ... Apple is trading in Europe around 3.22 euros lower, indicating a decline of $4 when U.S. markets open later,

Nicolas Sarkozy

The situation would be schizophrenic, in the morning they would ask us to cut spending and in the afternoon they would want us to pay more to the EU budget.

Wayne Sallade

The Sunday after (the hurricane) I took Ann Curry (of NBC's 'Today' show) for a tour of the town, and we passed by Charlotte High School. I was fine, but it wasn't until Monday afternoon that I took a few minutes by myself (at the school). It was tough, and that's when it hit me.

Tom Parrotta

I visited with Cory last Friday afternoon and made it clear that we wanted him to be part of an exciting time at Canisius. It's disappointing, but I want student-athletes who believe that Canisius College is the right fit for them.

Jonathan Joseph

The much hoped for mid-October pickup in personal computer demand has failed to materialize, which suggests to us Intel's guidance on its Tuesday afternoon conference call will be more cautious than most investors anticipate.

Kristine Lilly

The Mrs. T's people were pretty much behind bringing me out here and fortunately Karyn and her mom won. Everyone gave me a warm welcome when I got here, it was a great afternoon and evening with the girls here.

Brad Doyle

A flash flood watch is in effect from 4 p.m. Monday into Tuesday afternoon with the potential of flash flooding.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Renee Wright

As Coach has been stressing, our freshmen are only freshmen in name. They're very mature, smart people. It's actually been an easy transition playing with them.

Lauren Jackson

As a team, we want to win just for her. For someone to make a team want to win for their coach is a pretty powerful thing.

Vance Cooksey

As a captain, I knew coming out of the locker room that I had to step up. Coach Taylor has a lot of confidence in us, and he told us to go out and play with confidence in ourselves.

Steven Bernstein

As a blocker, coach Hueber even congratulated me, ... That's a big deal, a big step in life. I was pretty happy about that.

Michael Brown

As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?

Temo Trujillo

As an athlete, you get to the starting line and run. As a coach you are going from one spot to another. I'm still figuring things out. But I'm starting to enjoy it.

Emanuel Brown

As a head coach, we go to such tough tournaments, this is my first win. We've placed second everywhere and third everywhere. We finally get a win.

John Nelson

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because it's a holiday, are going to be much lighter usage days, and many of the units that went off-line earlier in the week will be back up over the weekend,

Thomas Cromwell

It was about 30 minutes earlier and gave us an idea of what we were getting into,

Nicholas Heymann

The stock is over-discounted because of massive issues with credibility. They told us they'd be OK earlier this week.

Lou Brock

I've been here since March 2. My wife wants us to stay until the end of the month, but I've told her we've got to go home a week earlier than that.

Chris Dodd

I understand how you may be forced into a situation earlier than you'd like where you might not have everything you want, but it's now going into the third year,

Dave Carroll

The work rate was spot on - which just makes our earlier displays so disappointing.

Lara Rhame

This is a solid (GDP) release and should support the dollar's gains from earlier this morning,

Allison Daly

That's my first buzzer beater. We called that play earlier and it was wide open. I kind of had a feeling we'd come back to it.

Antawn Jamison

That one felt good and earlier those that didn't feel good went in.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Jeff Bridges

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

Wade Wimmer

We have offered a 30 percent over plant for the 2006 crop. For every share that a grower owns, they can plant 30 percent.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.