Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Nikola Tesla

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Bruce Willis

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting,

Richard Anderson

We don't think the actual price tag should be viewed as a disappointment. Lest we forget that Arden was trading in the $30s before the rumor mills began churning.

Rob McClure

Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.

Asif Kapadia

My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.

Trevor Rowe

One of the big problems we have is every time we have a crisis, we have to go knocking on doors. It could take anywhere from two to four months from the time we get the money to the actual handing over of the food because you have to buy it, transport it, and distribute it. There's a delay in that.

Henry David Thoreau

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

Craig Stevens

But we really need to look at the Port Arthur region and other areas directly impacted, ... It may still be two or three days before we get a sense of the actual picture.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Chris Henson

It's been very labor-intensive, and it's also a situation where there's been some very tight federal deadlines.

Jacob Lew

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Joe Sinsheimer

We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

Chuck Grassley

When people from Iowa take the initiative to improve their communities, it is important for the federal government to support their efforts.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Amy Tan

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Ricky Martin

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Steven Berkoff

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Michael Haneke

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Ariel Sharon

first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to give in on Jerusalem. It is the first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to have, I would say, another government ruling -- I speak about the Palestinians -- in Jerusalem.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Justin Flom

Don't spend money on extravagant things like cars and big vacations. Spend it on things that are really fun.

Daawna Moeller

We're going to walk and raise money for research.

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.