Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Granholm

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

Gene Luen Yang

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Justin Ramsey

We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.

James Barber

He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'

Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Trey Songz

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Rick Riordan

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

Woody Hayes

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

William G. Boykin

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Curtis Anderson

I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.

Ed Muniz

Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That would be another financial hit for the city as well as a psychological hit.

Sean Casey

Just watching my teammates on TV, how close they're coming and not getting results ... it hurts a lot. I'm there on the couch, the game is close and they need a big hit, and I'm, like, 'Jeez, let me get out there.' I want so badly to be part of it again.

Jason Isringhausen

Just one bad pitch I wish I could get back, but I can't. It's just frustrating more than anything, but we'll be back out there.

James Haynes

Joe has good feet, ... If something broke down, I felt he could get away easily. The other night (against DeSoto) he got a bad snap, made this guy miss and that guy miss, and before you knew it, he broke it to the sidelines for about 30 yards.

Dan Roton

Josh won that match with heart. He's worked so hard for us for four years, and just had some bad luck and bad brackets the last two years.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

DeMario Williams

I would say this was my best game. I've had better games playing 'D' than I did tonight. This was one of my best shooting games. But as a team I don't think we played defense as hard as we should have.

Joe Nemechek

I was looking to get back to the front on the next (green-flag) run, but the car got loose -- it was a struggle just to maintain our position.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's sham economic indicator says that our economy was better under Jimmy Carter than under Ronald Reagan, a deception few Ohioans are likely to believe.

Chris McKay

Key would be the detection of carbon and nitrogen containing particles.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Dave Forney

I would think that the committee would certainly look at that and say that South Carolina has done well and deserves a chance to be part of this new format. I don't think it would be automatic. I think a lot would depend on how we play in our next couple of games, win or lose.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

Jeff Graham

It can't do anything but help. More money means more cars. More cars mean more fans. More fans mean more money. It'll be a snowball effect, which will be nice because the snowball's been going in the wrong direction lately.

Charlton Young

Last I heard, about 40 cars ... made it for the car-only cruise.

Ryan Newman

I think a lot of Jimmie Johnson and his talent and stuff, but I'm pretty sure at least three out of his last four (wins) ... have had (issues) with the cars being illegal.

Mark McCready

Invoice on some cars is a great price. But if you are not negotiating a very good finance price or a good price on your trade-in, it may be a terrible deal." ()

Felix Kramer

I get about 99 miles to the gallon. When gasoline costs $3 a gallon, driving most gasoline cars costs 8 to 20 cents a mile. With a plug-in hybrid, your local travel and commuting can go down to 2 to 4 cents a mile.

Russ Rader

In 2004 we went and observed student parking lots and half the cars were cars the institute does not recommend,

Ray Evernham

If you finish 43rd and the other guys finish in the 20s, there's still a lot of cars separating you. If you want it to come down to where all 10 guys have a shot, then it would be great to just be racing 10 guys.

Kazuo Okamoto

In the future, the cars you see from Toyota will be 100 percent hybrid.

Carl Edwards

I just didn't expect our year to go this well, ... I think I have been very fortunate to be driving these cars at the time I am driving them.

David Healy

The question is, does it make sense to pour more money into a new Chevy Cavalier to reduce losses from $3,000 per vehicle to $1,000. It's probably a necessary competitive move.

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Petro Poroshenko

Preserving honor and dignity for me remains the chief value, more than any job.

Mary Murphy

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

Lewis Altfest

If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.

Edward Fox

Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.

Brendan Gaughan

We've gone through a transition (changing crew chiefs) ... so it has been successful when you take all the factors we had to put in of rebuilding this organization.

Dan Ronayne

If you look at CREW you see nothing more than a shill for the Democratic Party.

John Glenn

I know there's a lot of interest in this, ... But I'm here to be a working crew member, training as a working crew member, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.

David Starr

Not only am I going to Daytona to test to get ready, for me I am going to get acclimated with a new crew chief. This will be our first time to work together. Been to the shop, but it will be the first at the racetrack.

Hamilton Peterson

It's probably one of the most significant milestones in our effort to memorialize the heroism of the passengers and crew of Flight 93.

Naomie Harris

When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

Jacob Pelton

It's just nice to have a crew of people I can have support from.

Jeff Thomas

They've got a good crew of singles players, and their doubles are good too. We just got outplayed today.

Jose Ortiz

There were 93 passengers and seven crew members ... Most are safe.

Ryan Hollins

Knowing it could be your last game, you want to finish with no regrets in your mind. There is no could have done this, or could have done that. This is something I am not taking for granted.

Brent Newman

Jake was trailing most of that race. He finished super strong and just out-touched the other two.

Johnny Roscoe

Hartsville made plays and we didn't. We had them down, but let them back in the game. We have to finish the job and be more aggressive, or the result will be the same.

Roy H. Williams

You have to finish the job. I've never been one to be big on moral victories.

Clint Bowyer

It is a good finish for us. A good way to turn things around.

Mary Thomason

I thought going in that we could finish in second place but we didn't shoot as well as we had been.

Willie Roaf

I thought about (retiring). I talked to Will and some of the guys. Then last year we finished so strong at the end of the year. It was great seeing Will come back. That helped, too.

Zach Braden

I think you would be lying to yourself if you were not surprised that we were 23-6. A lot of people said we would be lucky to finish .500. We surprised a lot of people, including myself.

Greg Puhalski

It is good for our team to finish as high as possible.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

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.

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.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Mikael Silvestre

He is proud of his roots. We talked together a lot about his misadventure in the 2002 World Cup, ... Roy is an incredible player.

Andy O'Brien

He's got incredible flexibility, the flexibility of a gymnast.

Beckie Scott

We've been together since we were 15 years old. We've come through so much. It's an incredible feeling.

David Mackay

I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.

Liam Payne

The U.S., out of all places, is just absolutely incredible.

Rob Miller

The world lost an incredible man on one night -- one night we all wish we could change.

Renee Asher

It's an incredible step forward. Now we just have to make it happen.

Pliny the Elder

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

Tom Ward

The sport has got all these incredible attributes, but the problem is the technology of television does not keep up with the speed of the game.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Jason Statham

What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself.

William Cowper

To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Twyla Tharp

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Trofim Lysenko

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Wilhelm Keitel

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Walter Lippmann

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

William J. Clinton

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

Valentino Rossi

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Robert Redford

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

W. H. Auden

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Tony Stewart

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Wes Anderson

When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Glenn Richardson

I think it's time we start talking about it,

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Larry Brown

I'm sure I've been 0-3 a lot, ... And most of my teams have struggled early.

Tiki Barber

It was a tough sled. We struggled a little bit.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Stephen Merchant

Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.

Andrea Gaston

She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.

Bill Beasley

She hadn't thrown all year, so she struggled a bit.

Jim Richards

We really struggled offensively and lacked the timely hit,

Brad Skene

Our tackling was off today. We struggled with that and that was the difference.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Richard Hofstadter

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

Warren Buffett

I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.

Walter Winchell

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

Jonathan Swift

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Henry Hazlitt

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

John C. Maxwell

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

John C. Maxwell

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

James Howell

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.