Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Rodrick

As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.

Jeff Green

We have backup systems ... We are able to process passengers, get them checked in in the lobby, put them on airplanes and get airplanes out, but we are running probably 60 to 90 minutes late.

Joker Phillips

Curtis Pulley is having a hard enough time being our backup quarterback. He needs all the reps he can get as a quarterback. If we take him out wide, those are reps he's missing at quarterback. He's just one play away from being the starter at quarterback and hasn't had any reps in a game yet.

Michael Overly

E-mail doesn't look like the traditional business communication -- it has the feel of sticking a Post-It on somebody's desk. E-mail can be sent without a lot of reflection. Most employees don't really think of the fact that when you send an e-mail there will be a copy on your computer, the network backup tape, etc. It's frequently harder to get rid of an e-mail than a written document.

Steve Kellar

Bethany did a good job in a backup role. She played well in the post, scored some points and had some rebounds.

Brian Sabean

Todd brings a veteran presence to the team and he'll be one of the catchers in the competition for the backup spot behind Mike Matheny.

Bob Todd

We were in need of a potential back-up catcher, but we also knew that he was pretty versatile. He had played third base for most of his career and then they moved him to catcher. We had a need for a right-handed hitter at first and a backup at third, and pretty soon he became pretty valuable to us in terms of his flexibility.

Joe Skorupa

You basically had no reliable backup for five years, until Sarbanes-Oxley came along. The office manager has taken the backup tapes home and put them on the mantle.

Anthony Johnson

Everyone wants to label guys, label me as a backup point guard, a guy that can't get it done. Those are the opportunities where you have to step up and make it happen.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Cody Provenzano

North and South, it's all these people causing drama, going over to fields and doing things. We basically just want to beat their butts.

Simon Crisford

Normally we'd think between 10 and 12 Group Ones in a year was pretty good. Group One victories are basically how we judge ourselves, as winning the best race is what we are about.

Michael Herring

After the first seven minutes, we basically played them even. There are no moral victories but I liked the fact that we didn't back down and we didn't go away.

Brian White

A fund could have the greatest track record in the world, but if the portfolio management team that posted that track record is no longer running the fund that history is basically irrelevant.

Tom Adams

After winning three out of five years, Brad Carlin, the guy who came up with this, was basically kicked out of his pool. I think that may be a hazard of this.

Kurt Barnard

The name Burlington Coat Factory is a misnomer because they carry a full line of fashion apparel, including coats in the winter. It's basically an off-price operation. You get good value there, very good value.

Ray Brown

Actually, I was starting to feel like my abilities were best suited at tackle, because I'm not as fast as I used to be. As you get older, it's a leg-strength game. I'm able to sort of trick the team and trick this league that I can play inside. That's basically what I got by with - a little guile, a little veteran savvy, and also leaning on my teammates.

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Akhenaton

As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Raul Grijalva

As a first-generation son, a native-born son of an immigrant that came to this country, I hope we do not close the door to that legacy.

Rosevelt Colvin

As a defensive team you want to get off the field. They were able to come up with the plays and the schemes -- whatever it was -- we weren't doing, they did it and they came up with a victory.

Chris Drury

As a group we're kind of limping in there, so despite being one point away it's still a frustrating night. We came here to get two points, and we didn't.

Brian Dawkins

The bye week came at a good time because after a loss like that (in Dallas), guys can get away.

Kenny Guinn

The BRAC carefully considered the data Nevada presented and came to the conclusion that the 152nd Airlift Wing is essential to our homeland security and emergency preparedness capabilities,

Coach Bell

The B team came out and played really well in the first game. They did a great job of setting it up. It was a fun match to watch.

Geno Auriemma

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined. We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Andrew Brunette

This game was played in spurts. If we could've kept it tied with five minutes to play, we could've gotten a win tonight.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Larry Brown

Antonio would be in a lot more trouble if he went home and hadn't done anything.

Steve Ellis

Anything that isn't nailed down, they pick up and take home to their districts.

Gopal Ahluwalia

The size of a home can't keep increasing. I think we'll see the size stabilize at 2,400 square feet.

Carl Pope

The senators go home and find out, if they vote for this stuff, then the voters are going to be upset. Their own voters don't like it.

Bob Reed

The sellers will have to get more realistic to the market in what they can actually sell their home for.

Jon Evans

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Andrea McLean

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

Debbie Breen

He thinks he's the manager of the toy department.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Tom Glavine

That's the manager's call. It's always the manager's call. You do what the manager tells you to do.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Dave Williams

I want to show my new manager I can pitch and show my new teammates I can pitch. That's what I'm worried about, just showing them I can win games. Everything else is really minor.

Ken Williams

Do I need a new manager or not?

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Al Franken

I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

Jan Egeland

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Baltasar Gracian

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Ed Miliband

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Dirk Benedict

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.