Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Scott Hoyt

Going forward, sales growth will be more modest and inconsistent. Fundamentals are mixed. The biggest drag is high and rising gasoline and other energy prices.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

Robert Stevens

Joanne is a highly capable and effective leader who brings vast experience to her new position. Her close working relationship with Tom Marsh over the past few years has provided superb preparation for her new role and I am confident of a seamless transition.

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

LaVar Arrington

I think it is a dead issue. I think that I'm so excited about being a Giant now, and being in this city and being able to bring what I'm going to bring to this organization ? that's what I'm focused on.

Cory Stillman

I think it all depends on the guys you have. Everybody went into it with an open mind and had a lot of fun doing it. I think it did bring us closer.

Carrie Davis

It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.

Stu Jackson

It brings to light the danger when a player enters the spectator stands. At that point, we lose control of the situation and anything could have happened.

Drew Martin

It brings the throwing group together, because we have to depend on each other. Everyone else coming out and working hard everyday inspires me. Being able to coach them helps me a lot and keeps me focused. It probably causes me to work harder.

Jose Barroso

I welcome the speed with which the commission and member states have been able to respond to the urgent request for help.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Jimmy Carter

In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election,

Charles Grassley

I'm extremely disappointed that the European Commission has insisted on perpetuating this dispute,

Paul Donovan

The issues that we addressed in our commitments were not material ones. At the request of the commission we made a number of commitments in order to resolve potential antitrust issues, as did Abbott.

David Chestnut

The commission would be a conduit to our ultimate goal, which is to get federal funding.

Kenneth Roth

The commission will continue until the creation of a council. The proposed new council is a major improvement.

Bryan Lee

The commission is still examining the issues. I can't talk about the deliberations that are going on.

Detlev Mehlis

The commission is of the view that this would provide yet another opportunity for the Syrian authorities to show greater and meaningful cooperation, and to provide any relevant substantial evidence on the assassination.

Glenn Greenwald

'Terrorism' itself is not an objective term or legitimate object of study, but was conceived of as a highly politicized instrument and has been used that way ever since.

John Adams

My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived

Fred Savage

I wouldn't say they are his worst nightmare. But I don't think he really would have been able to even conceive of a family like this.

Samantha Harvey

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

Leon Theremin

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

Michael Haneke

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Warren Spector

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

Patrick O'Brian

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Robert Moog

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out.

Sean Penn

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Charles Mathis

The sand and the dirt is destroying the church.

Christopher Hickey

And we want to solve this in a more precise way where we don't end up destroying the city.

Hanna Rosin

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

Aamir Khan

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

Frederick Buechner

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Ronald Reagan

If you think you can - you can!

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Joseph Beninati

There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.

Daniel Woodrell

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Dani Shapiro

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Rick Hackman

Here at the PUC, we see a kind of gathering storm. Here in the next few months, you will be seeing some sobering utility bills.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Linda Murphy

These are people who never, ever would have imagined themselves being homeless. Ever. If you really talk to a large cross-section of people, you realize that they're not that different from us or our uncles or our aunts. It's like we know these people.

Jim Calhoun

It's something they probably never imagined. We've imagined it, and we've done it. They could never have imagined it.

Laurence Maroney

That is something that I would have never imagined happening. You just have to take it.

Lilla Crawford

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Elinor Howard

I've always imagined having roses at my wedding. It's just the way I've pictured it.

Susana Martinez

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

Stephen Hawking

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Satchel Paige

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Zakk Wylde

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Lee Majors

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse

Shel Silverstein

Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . .

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

Gail Carriger

Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

Vance Wilson

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Diane Ackerman

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Karen Traviss

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Jeff Kelly

be prepared with what you want to say.

Rep. Arza

Be prepared to fight. They're going to come after you personally. They're going to come after you every which way.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Ron Reier

This type of thing doesn't really surprise us, and it's not something we're not already prepared for.

William Makepeace Thackeray

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Mike Woods

Inspectors are going underground not only for enforcement but in an accident-prevention role. I think you can't rely on luck. You have to think smart.

Noah Baumbach

I rely on her. She's the first person I show any script to.

Joseph Addison

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Learned Hand

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.

Maria Mitchell

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Joseph Rice

They?re not going to be able to rely on any other support. These are self-contained operations.

Daniel Johns

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on,

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Chris Collins

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Mack Brown

It's unprofessional for someone to be reporting something that's not factual.

Charles Parker

They called 911 and reported it to the police,

Bob Bennett

The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.

Mike Moran

The report should be viewed as a solid one.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Rory Bremner

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Phillip Fulmer

They split the reps (in practice). We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first.

Joey Gathright

A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you.

Ron Gardenhire

Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to.

Oscar Robles

We're struggling to score runs right now, so anything we get is a plus, ... Unfortunately, tonight, it wasn't enough.

Bruce Pearl

Those runs that we went on, they got us in range. If we had been in range, those runs could have got us close.

Johnny Damon

We weren't done yet. We feel we can score three runs at any time.

Jerry Powell

We weren't doing anything great, so we went to the short game. We had to work to get our 10 runs on this guy.

Dean Montzingo

He (Tyler) runs the show. We're comfortable about that.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Stokely Carmichael

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Wolfgang Puck

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

John Rollins

I just putted better today than I did all week,

Kalin Lucas

I think about him every day. Today I woke up and I didn't even feel like going to school. It was rough.

Steve Collins

I putted a lot better today and I think it made a difference.

Eugene Levy

I'll tell you why you're going to do what you're going to do today is because you're my bitch.

Lee Nelson

I'm 63 today but I feel like I'm 18.

Brad Faxon

The first thing Dory did today was look up at me and say, ?We?re going to Kapulua,?