Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Joseph Altuzarra

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

Bernard Cornwell

I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree.

Jason Tapp

Honestly, I love playing in games when so much is on the line. This was a big game, (Friday) night was a big game and (today) is now the biggest game.

Erron Kinney

I think the biggest difference is (Dungy) has had people in key positions that have been there and understand the system. When they have plays they make them. It used to be they did a lot of stunting and got caught up out of position. They're playing straight up with a lot of speed and they rally to the ball.

Mark Mace

I think the biggest challenge has been just figuring out who we?re going to put on the hill. When you play six games in a week and you have four pitchers to work with, you can do the math.

Alonzo Mourning

We've got to stop worrying about the offense, too. Our biggest concern should be our defense.

Paul Klein

I thought she gave an excellent talk. She handled the questions with great respect for the people, no matter what level the question was. The biggest message is not to be passive, it's a time for people to stand up, and that may be the most patriotic thing we can do.

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Tom Izzo

I don't think he's looking at that as maybe an option now. But if he does well, we make a run, his stock continues to rise, which I think it has all year, and he's a certain pick, I'm going to be telling him to go.

Russell Schweiss

If an elected official is charged with a felony, the governor will suspend them from office, then if they were convicted they would be removed, and if they are acquitted they would be reinstated. But misdemeanors are all handled case-by-case and there is no certain time to have that done.

Mo Johnston

(I expect him to be) getting up and down the wings. I'm just looking at certain things. I know in my head what I'm looking for; I'm not worried.

Joe Gibbs

I don't think it's as easy as people make it out to be. You also have to protect in there. You're looking through your legs and trying to get something back there 15 yards to a certain spot. Your head's down and there's someone coming who just gets a free whack at you. I don't think there's anything easy about that deal.

Jamie Cullum

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

Robert Thompson

From the outside you look at these contestants and think 'get a life,' but within certain subcultures ù and we're all in one that looks strange to the outside ù if you're a part of that rabid fan community, this is one of the ways you express it and rise to the top of that subculture.

Dave Bliss

For us to be perceived as having a drug problem, it couldn't be further from the truth. There may be an individual that has certain problems, I don't know about that, but I do know we have one of the most sound and supportive drug policies.

Kathy Banks

For this method to work, we've got to get the roots in contact with the contamination. Sod-forming grasses work well in certain situations, because they have a large root surface in contact with the soil.

Gustave Flaubert

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

Jim Rohn

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.

Dan Carter

Our highest goal is to see our partners succeed because of what we do.

Maddy Coon

Our goal every day is to get better so we can win a national championship. We talk about it all the time.

Scott Seney

Our goal all year was to win a playoff series. This team will do it soon, probably next year.

Katie Schrader

Our ultimate goal is to get to the (national) championship.

Abby Wambach

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.

Debby Ryan

I'm very, very low-key in general.

Paul Desmond

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Gin Wigmore

I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.

Bret Tuetken

We're not a very big team. Rebounding will be key for us.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.