Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.

John Lynch

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Joe Quinlan

We are very excited to add Bobby Gonzalez as our head coach to an already storied basketball tradition at Seton Hall. Our search process was very thorough and we talked with extremely talented candidates, but in the end we felt Bobby stood out as the best coach to represent the university and lead our student-athletes. He has an established presence in the metropolitan area and his teams have been perennial winners on the court.

Toby Chaudhuri

The president called for ending our addiction to oil but there's no 12-step program in his budget. ... The president's energy policy ... is constrained by lack of imagination, scope, resources and an unwillingness to roll back subsidies to energy companies already enjoying record profits.

David Harris

The president authorized they add a number of new attorneys, and it wasn't picked up in the budget. It's something we need to do.

Brian Cashman

We are delighted to add Tony to our 2006 coaching staff. His knowledge, passion and experience provide an awesome opportunity for this organization.

Daphne Avila

Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the shoppers.

Doug Hall

Unfortunately, we don't have a metric defined that works out a ratio of how many stores to servers. As we add stores and resources, you add more servers, you need more space. Look at pharmacy -- Target hasn't been involved in it that long. There is a lot of data processing there. Credit cards, just the stores themselves, Internet hosting -- growth is good, but you need to add more buildings.

S. Hughes

We were keen to add to our striking options and we welcome the opportunity to bring Florent here.

Lisa Pierce

One of the reasons there is reluctance among business users is that they have higher priorities.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I count Joseph Smith among those whose testimony of Christ helped me to develop my own testimony of the Savior. Before I recognized the tutoring of the Spirit testifying to me that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, my youthful heart felt that he was a friend of God and would therefore, quite naturally, also be a friend of mine.

Vyacheslav Davidenko

In the first stage, a low-orbit system of personal e-mail-type satellite communication, Gonets-D1, was deployed on the basis of six satellites of the same name. Among other things, it provides communication links between governmental structures and remote areas. The satellite to be launched on Tuesday is the first one in the multifunctional personal satellite communication system Gonets-D1M to be built in the second stage. We plan to launch 12 spacecraft of this type. They will operate in four dimensions, three satellites in each.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.

Francis Lun

Institutional investors believe that China financial companies will be among the major beneficiaries of the latest Beijing move on the liberalization of Chinese investments overseas.

Cisco Systems

In our view, the company is likely to deliver one of the highest top-line growths in 2000 and 2001, among its peers.

F. Stone

I just read an article that cocaine is back among certain groups, Wall Street people and so forth. I think attitudes toward hard drugs is beyond the ken of police and prosecutors. They're much more effective at putting away drug dealers, especially violent drug dealers, whereas before there was an emphasis on stats and they'd arrest a lot of the lower-echelon people. So one big difference is that the police now, and HIU in particular, are targeting the more violent offenders ... and getting the message out.

Clay Richards

If there were a third-party candidate on the ballot who is pro-choice, that candidate could draw heavily from Casey backers among liberal Democrats, enough to make it a close race.

Rajiv Shukla

If there is any misunderstanding, we will resolve it among ourselves.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

John Thorn

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

John Thorn

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

John Thorn

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

John Thorn

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

John Thorn

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

John Thorn

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

John Rocker

I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

Rose Byrne

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

D. James

Playing defensive back was a big part in the decision. Oklahoma wanted me to be a running back, but I feel I could have a longer career and can do more at defensive back.

Chris Bentley

Our objective is to heighten interest in the sciences as a career choice for high school students and to encourage students to participate in these programs.

Jamie Johnson

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.

Rich Gannon

I never took one day in my NFL career for granted. I realized how fortunate I was to be playing a game I loved.

Rich Gannon

I never took one day in my NFL career for granted, ... I realized how fortunate I was to be playing a game I loved.

Tom Renney

I guess they all do at this stage of their career, those that sort of have been able to illuminate themselves for a great rookie season. But we're talking about an icon in the game at that position. Let's just watch his career unfold and see where it takes him.

Andre Caldwell

I had flashes (of his career being over), but my teammates, family and friends got me through everything. They always kept my head up.

Ken Williams

If you're not able to take the time to get into a classroom setting and you're wanting to make a career in motorsports, then I think is an ideal way to get an education in it. It's also ideal for local drivers and the people that surround them. It will give them more of an idea of what they have to do to secure sponsorships for their teams, and as everyone knows, securing sponsorship for anything these days is a tough thing to do. This course, and this program, will get you started in the right direction.

Jane Harman

couldn't get the secretary of defense to stop his opposition, which has been ongoing for months and which emboldened some of these House folks to dig in.

George Beck

We should have a better defense with more experienced girls in the field. The inexperienced girls are gone. It was a struggle defensively, as well as offensively, last season. The new girls we have should fill the void adequately. More than adequately, actually.

Tom Rodriguez

We should be in every game. I expect to be right in there the last game of the year and hopefully win the section. If the defense holds up, I think we'll be fine. If not, we'll be in trouble.

Jaswant Singh

vigilant in our defense of democracy and constitutional government.

Jeff Parham

(Washington is) going to be a great player in this league. She's strong. She can go right strong, and she can finish. She did give us a problem. But I was proud of our defense at times rotating, especially down the stretch.

October Harris

We did a great job on defense tonight.

Devin Brown

We did a great job in team defense and we shut down Vince. Richard Jefferson still had a big game, Kidd was a little off. You can't let all three of them have great games or they'll hurt you.

Ed Smith

We did a good job of executing on defense in the first half. But we missed scoring opportunities after turnovers.

Matt Siegle

We did a good job defensively the whole game. It's just a matter of hitting shots. We played the same intense defense and got out of there with a win.

Charles Buchwalter

I'm not going to tell you that the online experience is matching the TV experience ... however, the online experience today is so much more like the TV experience than it was three or four years ago,

Alex Winter

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, 'cause that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Rob Kittrell

It's been a learning experience for us. Our players learned a lot and we learned a lot as coaches.

Melanie Griffith

It's scary. It's just different, you know? I really love it, and the more time that goes by, the more fun it is and the more I understand it. You can't know it until you actually experience it.

Lee Grisham

It will be fun. It's a game, and until that registers with the girls it will be a learning experience.

Terry Trippler

We'd be foolish to say there hasn't been (an impact). This is a very tough situation to try to figure out. I know from experience some people are booking away.

Jennifer Granholm

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

Matt Nelson

Experience helps in the finals, but hard work during the week prepared him for the tournament.

Herb Sendek

Experience always has great value, no matter how talented the guys are,

Bobby Robson

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

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.

Rick Perry

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

Rick Perry

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Rick Perry

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Rick Perry

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Tony Abbott

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

Tony Abbott

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account

Tony Abbott

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Frank Sinatra

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad--if you're indifferent, Endsville.

George F. Kennan

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Fernando Pessoa

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Henry Miller

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Helen Keller

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Cassandra Clare

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Ambrose Bierce

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

Ambrose Bierce

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

Ambrose Bierce

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Anthony Hopkins

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

Anthony Hopkins

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Anthony Kiedis

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

Anthony Hopkins

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

Alicia Witt

My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.