Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

The old contracts we would do with somebody along these lines. You would say, 'OK, I'll give you a $10 million signing bonus, and then the minimum salary the first year and maybe the second year, and then later on in the contract really jack the salaries up.' Now, because of the 30 percent rule, you really can't do that.

Sherri Coale

I've never seen an 18-year-old kid do it night in and night out regardless of the circumstance, regardless of the venue. Kids get sick, they have tests, they have distractions, they have a bad night. There are a million things that happen to freshmen along the course of the season.

Billy Donovan

I've said it all along about this team, they derive a lot pleasure from moving and passing the basketball and playing together.

Bill Taylor

Erik Carlsen and Kevin Bernotas are strong, experienced runners and Zach Clemens won the league (freshman/sophomore) 800 and 1600 meter races. Along with a few other runners we have excellent balance and depth.

George Steinbrenner

Billy Connors was just great. He brought Jaret Wright along great, was patient and he stuck to him with great success.

Mark Ross

Black River Falls has good singles players. But we're a little farther along with our doubles teams.

Blake Lively

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

Benjamin Booker

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

Norman Cook

Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.

Firas Askari

The stock market declines are a little bit scary. People want to take the dollar weaker.

Becca Anderson

I used it quite a bit today. It worked pretty good. I was happy with it. I threw it for my third strike for those first three batters I struck out.

Deborah Hutton

Things are a bit different this year in that it's not just about weight loss, we have people here who are trying to get their lives back on track for a number of different reasons,

Jeremy Crabtree

Things were difficult on the field a little bit last year and that will keep them from signing a top-25 class, but they have a pretty good class.

Alan Green

This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,

Michael Robinson

You would think the world has changed a little bit over the last 20 years. But it happens. People have the right to be able to say what they want to say. We continue to win games, so it doesn't really bother me.

Bill Hornbarger

You're going to have this global competition for yields and our yields are going to be a bit more attractive. It's going to bring in some buying and it should also help the dollar relative to the euro.

Beth Riesgraf

Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.

Berenice Marlohe

'Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini?

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

George Wallace

Some might be here for three months. It's just whatever I want to do.

F. L. Lucas

Might was the measure of right.

F. H. Bradley

Another occupation might have been better.

Garth Brooks

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

Gena Showalter

What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.

Terry Hoeppner

I said it to somebody in the spring, we didn't know if we were going to be able to throw the ball. We thought we might have to run every play. ... It wasn't Blake, it was the terminology and learning.

ASAP Ferg

I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.

Tom Coulson

I might also like to see the west and the Pacific Northwest. So it just seemed like it was time.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Kurt Busch

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

Henry Ford

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

Malcolm X

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

James Russell Lowell

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

Mark Twain

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Si Robertson

I'm like a fine-tuned race car. You've got to make frequent pit stops when you drink as much tea as I do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Angelina Jolie

I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.

Amy Carmichael

If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

Amy Carmichael

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

Aly Raisman

I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.

Ally McCoist

One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.

Ally Condie

I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.