Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Soechting

For Harriet to say she was brought in to clean up the lottery ignores the timeline. She's got it backwards: Things were great when she got there and a terrible mess when she left.

Steve May

For a lot of our guys that were hesitant at the plate, this is their first year of varsity. Five of the 12 we brought tonight, this was their first varsity game.

Joan Bonvicini

They're fine now. We came back (from the break), brought our lunch pails and worked.

Simon Marsh

It was a very open course that had people skiing like a mini super-G. The skiers could tuck all the way. A lot of us ski aggressively, and that showed on this course. It brought a lot of confidence to the team for the rest of the season.

Bobby Hadley

We probably had 30 or 40 campers here for the weekend. They brought their grills and were cooking out and it was good to see all the families having fun.

John Chafee

Overshadowing all has been the president's reckless, tawdry behavior, coupled with misleading statements that have undermined the dignity of the presidency, and brought about a divisive and unpleasant chapter in our history.

Eduardo Gamarra

Overall, the policy has worked. It has brought order where there was none before.

John Bond

Overall, 2005 was a year of sustained progress for HSBC and our all-round performance during the last three years has brought impressive returns to our shareholders.

Leslie Chapman

Our whole organization is focused on homeowners. I think mitigation is the center pin of the solution for this whole challenge, which is why I think we've been brought to the table, ... There's no more direct way to solve the insurance issues.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Joe Glenn

He tried hard and ran hard. There were a couple of plays where I thought he should have trusted the point of attack.

Terry Floyd

I don't know if it's emotional but I will realize if we play great or poorly that there is only a couple of weeks left.

Tim Richards

We need all six players to play solid, ... Hopefully we'll get everyone here doing that in the next couple of weeks.

George Pipas

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

Kyle Poock

He looked sharp tonight. We just wanted to see a couple other guys on the mound and lost it late.

Ryan Lochte

I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

Van Jones

...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

Robyn Hitchcock

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Roland Emmerich

I was actually privately in the White House like invited by Clinton to screen Independence Day, so I know how the private residence looks. I didn't snap a picture, but I have a photographic memory and then I could take a guided tour in the West Wing.

Steve Irwin

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Stephen Spender

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Tim O'Brien

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Tim O'Brien

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...

Tim O'Brien

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.

Tig Notaro

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Reggie Watts

We're all just memories of our future selves.

Tom Clancy

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Mackey Sasser

We've been playing good. But over the next two weeks we get to find out what we're made of. We get to play the top two teams in the conference.

Ben Horowitz

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

Marc Benioff

We're trying to provide a platform for applications. We think that's the next level. We are trying to become the Windows of the internet.

Adrian Lyne

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

Ted Bahhur

We have to come back next week with a vengeance.

Rick Parry

There has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.