Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Wolfowitz

Part of the challenge is that we were moving from an era when there were very substantial subsidies in energy prices. Some kind of adjustment is necessary.

Carl Lancaster

It's going to be a toss-up. Limestone is scrappy. They are one of the most difficult teams in the league to pitch against. They adjust and take the ball the other way.

Kevin Lennon

For example, they drop your major. (Or) you have significant health problems. The retention piece is a part of the APR, in part, to prevent runoffs. And if you have legitimate reasons that you can say 'this isn't a runoff issue' ... we ought to figure out a way to adjust the APR.

Garth Whyte

It's one thing to announce it, but you can't just flick a switch and all of a sudden bang, it's done. Businesses need some time to adjust and to change their systems.

John Haddan

There was a lot of new stuff they had to adjust to. It was a growing period for them.

Bobby Bowden

Whether you have 3-4 or 4-3, it's still seven. It's a very flexible defense. One you can really adjust well.

Paul Kariya

Penalties killed us all year even after being addressed. Guys need to adjust to calls.

Michael Bull

Our students will benefit from everyone's efforts. They will also get an excellent lesson in life - that when adversity strikes, you roll up your sleeves, help where you can, adjust to the changes with a positive attitude and move forward, ... That's exactly what's happening right now at Glynn Academy.

Derek Avery

Our success will depend on how fast the juniors and sophomores can adjust to the varsity game. We have a very talented younger group. This first year AA will be a challenge for us.

Ryan Armour

The shot I hit on the second hole could very easily have missed the cup and rolled 40 feet by. That is the way the ball bounces sometimes.

Dave McCarthy

(The Tigers) had the best of the second half. I thought we controlled the game in the first half. If you can't get the ball forward, though, you're not going to win.

Matt Miller

The thoughts that came to our minds when we came down here was to take their minds off of everything. It's their Spring Break. This gives them some fun, something other than cleaning up. Just throw a ball out there and let them play soccer.

Bill Belichick

The third quarter was really frustrating, ... We had the ball at their end of the field for most of the quarter and couldn't get a whole lot done.

Mike Drews

The third quarter was our demise tonight. We continued to take the ball to the ball to the basket, but we just came up empty. When you score four points in one quarter, that's definitely a dry spell.

Cindy Allison

The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through a couple of minutes in that period where Oakland got even more aggressive; we just couldn't hang on to the ball and they were able to score off it.

John Presnell

The third game we laid back a little bit. We were not quite as inspired. We knew that they were going to try and tip and shoot the ball on us. It was a matter of getting our feet going.

Al Melnick

The sun came up today and we played a decent game and we are back as far as playing decent baseball. Hopefully, we can stay there. The other day we made six errors in the sixth inning, but the kids battled back and it was good to see us hit the ball hard.

Heather Hibner

The South Park coach made a classy gesture by presenting the game ball to our starting pitcher and then she went home and had the ball cut in half and gave the other half to April, which I thought was pretty cool.

The Wizard

feel a certain sense of rejection and inadequacy. I was doing everything I was told to do. It couldn't all have been because I had the wrong lapel pin. I just felt like I couldn't get in. I could not make myself visible.

Ted Scambos

Feedbacks in the system are starting to take hold. The consecutive record-low extents make it pretty certain a long-term decline is under way.

Steve Francis

Everything is cool at my house. My daughter wasn't feeling well. As a man you have to do certain things and still be able to perform at your job.

Daniel Lipman

The response we've gotten and continue to get from certain elements of the gay community is just startling to me.

David Tom

There was a chance if it was real close to a certain area, they couldn't fix it. My nurse has the same problem, and they could fix her. But I was lucky. And it's 95 percent I'll never have another problem.

Herb Alpert

There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.

Sam Phillips

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

John A. Logan

There's still a lot of skepticism about the SST, and it's not at all certain that Congress will pass a national tax law.

Eula Biss

There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

Jeff VandeLoo

The way King played us defensively, it was obvious how they felt about Adam. I don't think you focus a defense like that unless a guy is a big-time stud.

Adrian Beltre

The way I'm hitting, I'd better make those plays. This year, I'm getting paid for my defense. I work hard at it, I take pride in it. In games like this, small plays make a difference.

Cedric Bozeman

This is special and this is a special group of guys. We play defense. That's what we do. We didn't let them walk over us.

Mike Scioscia

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

Chris Richard

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

Tim Brasic

That's when I really took a picture of the defense and everything started slowing down. I just saw everything so perfectly on that play. I really started to get a good feel for it.

Duane Akina

That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what we want people to talk about.

Jim Delmar

We held a highly potent offensive team to 16 points in the first half. The defense was getting it done. It was the offense we were lacking.

Carl Hollis

We did play good defense in the fourth quarter. We stopped their penetration in the last five minutes of the game.

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.

Bart Thompson

It has been the last four years that the winner of this tournament has gone on to win the state championship. Let's hope we can make that five years in a row.

Barry Mann

I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being a songwriter.

Tony Russa

I know it sounds like bull, but I don't care. If you get in, you've got as good a shot as anybody, five games or seven games. It's that kind of a tournament.

Tom Arnold

I predict it will be a long night at the Farber house if they lose. This is the first game in five years I've been to without working.

Ron Johnson

I'm pleased the way guys have handled it mentally. At this level there can be a lot of agendas. I feel very comfortable with five games left with what we've accomplished.

M. Wolfe

I'm pretty happy to get out of here only losing five points after that heat race.

Ian McCulloch

I'm playing okay in practice but it's hard when you've only had five tournaments since the World Championship and you're playing guys who have had plenty of matches at the qualifiers." ()

Mike Law

I'm only looking at five seniors, and three are starting. Our whole offensive line had never started a game (before this season) and here we sit at 4-1.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Luc Robitaille

Selling L.A. is going to be easy. Phil (Anschutz, the Kings' co-owner) should offer the young guys a movie role.

Jon Heacock

Obviously, there are some guys that can help us. How soon, I don't know.

Brian Cashman

Obviously it's something that's unique and difficult. We'll lose some guys for a period of time. Hopefully they produce at high levels for those clubs, stay healthy and get back to us whenever their WBC season is over.

Brodie Croyle

Obviously, as you say, there's the top three guys that probably go in the top three picks. There's a lot of quarterbacks to be taken after that. Hey, I'm happy to be here. A year ago today, I was still recovering from a knee injury and wondering if I'd have this opportunity. I'm loving every minute of it.

Lleyton Hewitt

Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old.

Bob Stoops

No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.

Rocket Wheeler

Right now, it's just working squads because there's so many guys over with the big club. They're getting their at-bats in, getting their innings in. Then, in the last two or three days, we'll do the teams.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!