Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Joe Girardi

You have two young men that haven't played at this level and they're being asked to do a lot. Center field is an important position. We'll try to figure out which one is going to be our starter of the future and get them both at-bats.

John Hitchcock

To have Eisner and Kirby back to back like that just blew everyone's minds, ... From then on, I think that some people we asked thought, 'Well, if Eisner did the convention, and Kirby, why shouldn't we?'

Daniel Petrie

We've heard stories of people breaking down from the strain, of men and women working from nine in the morning until after midnight with no meal breaks, of location shoots where eight people were required to work in hot trailers meant for four. When asked he had any time off, one plaintiff responded: 'I forget how the day off was supposed to work.' These men and women deserve the basic protections of fair labor standards.

Condoleezza Rice

The president and I have asked John to do this work because he knows how to get things done. He is a tough-minded diplomat,

David Novak

The press is going to go whacko over this, ... If the wardens of either institution were asked if they would want her, they would say 'no' for security purposes.

Robin Johnson

The problems are not fixed the problems are multiple and the problems are serious health threats. We've asked them to thoroughly evaluate that. They have refused us.

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.

Bobby Shelton

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

Bob Taylor

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Mark Fogel

Basically in the fourth quarter the offense just seemed to really click, pretty much that was the difference.

Donald Rumsfeld

It's basically a sound principle. It's nothing new; it's been well understood ... My guess is it will continue to be used as little as possible, but that it will continue to be used.

Ben Affleck

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Olga Kurylenko

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.

Beth Daniel

We're talking an eight- to 10-minute drive from the closing ceremony to the golf course. So her heart raced at basically 290 beats per minute for about 15 minutes.

Arnold H. Glasow

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

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.

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.

Todd Winter

We just have to regroup and be ready to play next week. That's all we can do.

Kevin Harvick

We just have to put 10 more weeks together and get it going for next year.

Jeff Marlow

We weren't attacking. We had lanes to pass, and the next thing we know they are being aggressive. They were getting some steals.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Keith Cooper

I'm disappointed we didn't come out and be the aggressors. By the time we woke up and got after them, it was too late.

Sasha Alexander

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

Neale Donald Walsch

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Jonathan Swift

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.