Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Bob Eaton

Novel technologies for delivering ... vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effective, less costly, less invasive or more convenient to use than the alternatives.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Jonathan Galassi

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be.

Dick Cheney

Texas is a large industrial state with a rapidly growing population. We have not solved all the problems in Texas, but we've certainly made major progress and the record is a good one,

Steve Adlard

Thank goodness in certainly the last 4 minutes they didn't get anything. It was a fighting, spirited game in tough conditions, but you know what? We played quite well.

Rick Hearst

So Ric is forced into the position of having to do something he would never have intended to do. Ric thinks, 'I have to stand by him.' He is pulled back to a place of a much darker Ric - the same place he was in when he was holding a pillow over Elizabeth's head and chaining Carly to the wall. But when he actually shoots Ruiz, it surprises him. It certainly surprises Ruiz.

Gary Ramstetter

Sonny has certainly accomplished a lot placing in four national tournaments. But the weight is so loaded, any little mistake on his part and he's in trouble.

Bud Lachel

Competition is a good thing to have, but you have to keep everybody happy.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Chuck D.

It was a huge step forward for our program and our school for the type of competition we're in.

Todd Bertuzzi

I sincerely hope Steve Moore continues to progress and is back in competition soon,

Julie Withington

They also have year-round swimmers, and they give us some good competition. We expect to have another good meet.

Steve Olson

We have a pretty good shot at doing well at the regional on Saturday. We've wrestled strong competition all season, and that helps this time of the season. Realistically, I would like to think we can get eight or nine guys through, maybe even one or two more.

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Eddy Cue

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Norv Turner

Competition makes you better. Rich is our starting quarterback. When you have someone there who has played and won it's a motivational deal and it helps you play better.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

David Watson

Be prepared. The stress and the pressure can make you run in all sorts of directions for any job out there.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Craig Brown

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

Craig Dunn

I think establishing the new position and the new office is a step in the right direction.

Yale Hirsch

Nasdaq is not just another little place for a few stocks, ... It dominated the market and went in different directions than the Dow.

Jim Kiick

I wish I could speak to him more often. He more or less has gone in his own direction. He has gotten away from football. He enjoys hunting and fishing. He has a new life, and that's what he enjoys.

Lynn McDonald

Our district will be really tough. We still have a ways to go, and we want to be ready.

Meg Casper

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

David Farabee

You still get the emissions reductions the district wants to achieve, but it gives wine makers a way of complying in the most cost-effective way.

Stacey Reed

We set three goals and we accomplished two, which isn't bad. But we wanted to win the conference, go undefeated at home and win a district championship.

Jason Hafner

We were focusing on winning at district but we are resting them and getting them ready for state. I was happy with the way they swam.

Scott Roy

Twelve and 0 in district is pretty good.

Kirby Green

We think it screams for the three districts to come together. So they don't all have to fight over the last drop.

Ron Kind

Furthermore, I represent a rural district where agriculture plays an important role in the economy and the life of many of its citizens.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

Daniel Barcelo

While the refining outlook is expected to remain highly profitable through 2007, the equities have for the most part priced this in.

Hector Ruiz

We had a fourth quarter that was better than most people expected and, frankly, a little healthier than we expected.

Brendan Shanahan

We expected a big challenge. We knew we were going to have to win a game on the road. We've proven we can this season.

Pierre Littbarski

We are under much more pressure now because they made the grand final. It's a very complicated game for us because we're expected to win and they have nothing to lose.

Mitch Moore

We scored five goals in about 14 minutes, which is kind of what I expected to happen.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Bill Miller

(Osborne) is pretty special. He might be as good as any we've had in the infield, and he's only a sophomore. It's kind of scary to think how good he could be.

Randy Copeland

Offensively, they've got a good running back and a real good quarterback,

Sean Coste

Offensively, there were times where we executed really well and got some good shots for people. The kids were very strong in the post.

Dana Altman

Of the 15 shots he took, I'm not sure how many of them were good looks. We did a good job contesting his shots. Any time you hold him under 10 points, you have a good shot to win.

Steve Rice

Offensively, I like the looks of our line even though we're young. We have pretty good size from tackle to tackle.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Douglas Coupland

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anish Kapoor

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Alfred Korzybski

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Jim Brown

We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Ronnie Brewer

You've just got to play through that. That's basketball. I think we're a big enough team to play through that.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.