Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing I have three kids to take care of, I want them to have a dad, something I didn't have. I want to be there to support them. My mom was always a single parent raising four kids. I really want to support my mom.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Preston Parker

I would've cried. I don't care if it's just an all-star game. I wanted to win.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

Aaron Gray

He let me know we're stuck with him. It's great, because he's a guy who's been here for everyone's college career, and we've had a lot of success.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are so many high school students who are not interested in going to a four-year college to be a doctor or lawyer but who want to learn a trade,

Dat Nguyen

He's a great guy and he's been a great mentor for me. I looked up at him when I was a college player and he has helped me to be a better player.

Rick Comegy

He's a great athlete. He did some tremendous things on the junior college level. We're hoping he can do the same thing here.

Mitch Ashmore

God loves baseball. It's not a real big deal. The colleges and pros they all play on Sundays.

Jay Cooper

Going out to college campuses and lecturing them hasn't worked. I think we're going to have to start with grammar school.

Jackson Wheeler

He's a legitimate (NCAA) Division I point guard. Even from what I saw in the junior colleges, there's no better point guard out there that we could have got.

Kenny Chesney

He's a school teacher in the Knoxville school system and has been for a long time. And even though I didn't live with my dad, and mom says we're just alike, talk alike, walk alike, and we definitely look a lot alike...but he's very, very supportive of what I'm doing. One thing that dad did, even though I wasn't living with him, he helped me pay for college and that was a really cool thing,

Aaron Boone

He's already emerging as one of the elite closers in the game. That's pretty impressive for a guy who was in college last year.

Peggy Jones

I think its a good example of how the community and the developer can work together.

Mary Bach

I think it's a direct reflection on the kind of community that we are.

Tom Daschle

I think it is essential we put as much pressure through the international community on North Korea to do the right thing and do it quickly,

Rep. Heaton

I think in Mount Pleasant we have a really great cross section of the community attending.

Susan Tucker

He was a visionary in the fact that he knew this community needed a place to gather. He saw this as the southwest hub, and it has really become that. His vision really has come to life.

Robert Corell

Greenland was perceived as this huge solid place that would never melt. The evidence is now so strong that the scientific community is convinced that global warming is the cause.

Dave Lesar

Halliburton embraces community goodwill throughout the world. Halliburton's 100,000 employees worldwide generously share their energy and spirit in donating time and money to worthwhile causes, especially those with a focus on health and education.

Mark Curtis

Hamden is a great community. We look forward to a long relationship with the city.

Sharon Lee

You have to fit their interests and how they participate. The worst thing you can do is take an open person and say they're not part of this community if they don't do this one act.

Jack Straw

I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.

M. Thompson

It has always been fairly easy to do comparison shopping on the Web,

Jacques Rogge

If you look at the revenue for the next Games in 2008 we are already plus 30 percent in comparison to the previous Games. So this is a huge increase.

Jonathan Levine

I really hope everyone who saw 'Twilight' sees 'Warm Bodies,' but at the same time... I don't resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don't judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies.

Alexander Hamilton

In many cases, it will connect itself with preexisting factions and will enlist all the animosities, the partialities, the influence and the interest in one side or the other. And in such cases, it will always be dangerous that the decision will be regulated more by a comparison of strength of the parties, rather than the demonstration of innocence or guilt.

Joseph Joubert

I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage.

Michael Muller

The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.

Clark Williams

The comparison with PCBs suggests that toxic flame retardants have emerged as a major environmental health concern,

James Stack

The comparison of the 2000s (to the prior two decades) will not be favorable from a historical perspective.

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Kathy Ireland

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Damien Chazelle

Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Linda Perry

I think the quality of education goes up when you have good professional development, and we need that, and in the long run the kids will gain so much more.

Ken King

It is going to go toward education funds for my grandchildren and it will subsidize my philanthropy.

Kathyrn Harper

Land Between the Lakes is now open for the season and our staff have planned some phenomenal programs filled with education and fun.

Martin O'Malley

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Phil Ruffat

I think we're going higher. I don't know about today, but I think they're going higher in general.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Karen MacNeil

It is not true that there is a linear relationship between price and quality. A higher price doesn't mean its better. The higher you go in price, the quality differences get smaller.

George Gaylord Simpson

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

Moshe Sharett

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

Moshe Dayan

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

Daniel Dennett

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

Ami Ayalon

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.

S. J. Perelman

A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

Golda Meir

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

Golda Meir

There is no such thing as a Palestinian.

Jim Broadbent

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

Layne Higgs

Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Robert Webb

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

Woody Guthrie

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

Woody Allen

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

William Morris

Speak but one word to me.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Robert Smith Surtees

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

Sarah MacLean

I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead

Salma Hayek

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Eric Schlosser

Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

David Robbins

Students will have their own lockers until we get to 1,201,

Erin Hertzog

Students were talking about his connectivity and openness.

Frank Lombardo

Students tend to take what they need (for a job), and then leave.

Kenneth Clark

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

Lucy Larcom

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Thomas Lynch

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

John Searle

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.