Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Just because a person didn't admit that something had changed didn't mean it hadn't happened.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm still excited to be here. The bottom line is, I'm just not playing good baseball. I'm a man and can admit it. ... I'm hoping we advance so I'll get another start.

Pankaj Mishra

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

Charlie Glavin

That would be an old dog learning new tricks. This is not a company or a management team that has been willing to admit they are making mistakes.

Louis Gerstner

I would admit to you that we could take some credit, but there's a fair amount of luck in that too,

Michael J. Saylor

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

and City

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.-Carrie (Sex & the City)

David Delainey

Having to admit we were a very large trader, and frankly a good one, would put significant pressure on Enron's stock because the investment community does not put a significant multiple on trading revenues.

Joe Biden

I think we have a six-month window here to get it right. But I have to admit that I think the chances are not a lot better than 50-50.

Janet Reno

Anybody who looks at this case and doesn't know the circumstances of it is going to say 'why?', and I think that's what the president kind of naturally asked,

Bill Curry

Anybody who knows the cash flow dynamics of our business gets that. We ended the first quarter with more than a $1 billion in the bank, and we expect to generate positive cash flow from operations over the rest of the year.

Alan Adler

Anybody who has the problem -- in any state -- can get the service for it. They should bring their vehicles in. If it's the issue covered by the recall, it will be taken care of.

Bill Clinton

Anybody who has ever had kids can tell you that if things aren't going right for your kids, it doesn't matter what else is going right in your life.

Anybody who has an identity problem had better wise up and get with the program!

Rod Graves

Anybody that's watched this organization over the last two or three years would have to say we're doing things in a different way,

Tom Ridge

Anybody that's spent any time combating terrorists ... will tell you that being old doesn't necessarily mean being irrelevant, ... Good intelligence can be appropriate, no matter how old it is.

Greg Rusedski

Anybody that's playing Roger Federer right now is going to have a very hard time.

Scott Skiles

Anybody that's involved in the league in depth and watches us play knows that we have more things in our offense for Ben probably than any other team in the league has for any other player. It's normally the guys who aren't playing well that are making those kinds of comments. So I don't put much stock in that.

Garry Shandling

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

Boy George

Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.

Kobe Bryant

Shaq is Goliath. I was just playing off him, ... They collapse on him and make it hard for him to breathe down there. Then that?s when I take over.

Andre Agassi

James is a guy that runs on high octane, ... He's a fighter jet. He burns the fuel fast and furious, and he's gotten much better with that over the years. But he plays so big and he's so fast that if an edge does come off, it's a big relief. ... When he comes down into just warp speed, it gives you a little breath of life.

John Walke

Irish eyes are surely smiling - and we all will be breathing easier - with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. This is about as thorough a rebuke a court can give.

Iain Dowie

If he had played in Northern Ireland (when England lost 1-0), he would have been a breath of fresh air. He has six goals already this season, and he will score at international level.

Carlos Silva

I felt very good the whole game, especially when the team is scoring a lot of runs, ... In today's game you could breath a little more.

Michael Phillips

I could see a screening breath test as part of a routine medical exam,

David Lange

I can smell the uranium on your breath

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

John Carr

The thing I'm most proud of tonight is our defensive play. I thought our defensive guys came out and played with some intensity and enthusiasm.

Bill Wagner

The thing I'm most proud of is that after they took the one-point lead, we made plays down the stretch. In the three games we've lost, we had a lead and then the other team came back and we did not respond.

Chad Cluver

The thing I'm happy about is that he bounced back from that early game. It was a tough game for him, and he came back and played very, very well.

Arthur Hamlin

The thing I am most proud of is what we accomplished my senior year. We had lost 11 seniors and everybody was saying we weren't going to have anything. But we came back and made it all the way to the finals.

Warren White

The thing about this team is that the scoring can come from anywhere. All of the kids that came in played well. Somebody has to pick it up. We can play an inside or an outside game, it just depends on what the defense tries to stop.

Mike Denault

The thing about that is, if you go back and look at most of his shots, most of his points came off lay-ups. He was getting in the passing lanes, anticipating passes and his teammates were pretty generous giving him the ball.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Bible Bible

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Mark Goodman

It would be projected to be at a certain place at a certain time, and then Mother Nature would stop it. It messed up our timing.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

David Magnus

The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries. But I don't think this research comes even close to that.

Clint Chamberlin

They all have numbers and a range where we'd like to see them finish. We have runners picked out with certain times for them to go after.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Clint Hurdle

You aren't going to replace a Todd Helton, but we have guys that can do things for us.

Martin Milner

You can't do a serious show about two guys in their 60s trying to find their route.

Avery Johnson

We've had some guys out for long periods of time. We've got to whip those guys back in shape. We're waiting on (Keith) Van Horn to come back, which we think he can come back in about a week to 10 days. Hopefully, that other series will stretch to seven games.

Dean Shaw

We've got about six guys averaging between seven and 11 points a game. I don't know how you key in on us.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Jaren Jackson

We talked about containment and handling ourselves on the boards.

Gregg Langbehn

His two-out RBI was a big run for us. It seems like he's handling all the pressure pretty well. He's holding his own.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Nick Reid

He's our secret weapon. We've been holding him out the first two games. We let him loose today.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Brian Hill

I'm sure it's discouraging for him. He looked to me that he was having some pain and I didn't want to take any chances. I saw him wincing out there and holding his midsection. It didn't make sense for him to continue. I know he's down.

Mike Holmgren

I've had the privilege of holding it (the Lombardi Trophy) before and I hope to touch it again.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Brooke Bingaman

We're not really sure why this pattern is holding up for so long. We're not sure if the pattern is going to break. We're kind of trying to understand it ourselves.

Drew Forbes

We are just kind of washing around here. As it stands right now, we are just in a holding pattern.

Dusty Baker

You want him to go out and pitch the way he has pitched before.

Koby Clemens

I wish I could talk to Satchel Paige and find out what he did to pitch at 50,

Mariano Rivera

I could've thrown 100 pitches today, ... It didn't matter.

Nick Ursitti

I'm a smarter pitcher now. With more pitches to rely on, I've been a lot more effective.

Brendan Donnelly

I tried to come back too fast. By trying to pitch before I was ready, I wasted a lot of time.

Buddy Bell

Walk A-Rod? And pitch to Giambi? How about that one?

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Martin Edwards

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail,

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Tim Robbins

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

Donald Trump

Our country's in deep trouble.

Robert Morley

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

Scott Westerfeld

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Sophocles

When trouble ends even troubles please.

Sophocles

Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

Myrtle Reed

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

Mason Cooley

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

Patti LaBelle

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

Margaret Millar

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.