Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Jana Peri

I think the best songs written are the ones that make you laugh or make you cry. When I perform I like to appeal to your ears, eyes and crotch. I want to hit it all.

Joe Nathan

I think it's the cardinal's vision and the pope's vision that it would be a center that would appeal to a lot of people. The hope was that it wasn't going to be 10 people giving millions each ... but millions each giving $1.

Andy Stoll

Our biggest challenge is letting people know that we exist. The other festivals have thousands and thousands of supporters. We are hoping to appeal to those people and give them another fun thing to do this summer.

Bill Richardson

Our community is becoming more mainstream and that's how I would appeal to those voters.

Bill Fauver

Other than rhythmic gymnastics, it's really the only sport that crosses over into art. The truly artistic skaters offer so much more than a skater who's just an athlete. I think it has a great deal of appeal to women, which is our core audience. It's always been popular and I think this year will be no exception.

Dan Murphy

Paula's appeal for us is that she's a strong player. The elements of performance and competitiveness are her appeal.

Ken Schwarz

Our line-up really is a mix of shows that will appeal to all types of guests.

Gary Cooper

In turn, a larger installed base of hardware should lead to higher sales of video game software. In particular, we believe that these price points will appeal to a more mass-market audience.

John Proctor

I think it's going to be close, ... Two-thirds, though, is a lot of votes. I wouldn't say I'm confident by any stretch of the imagination. I do feel like it has a lot of support statewide.

Arun Sarin

We expect to see good growth and profitably in Japan in the following years. I am confident we can return Vodafone Japan to its previous heights.

Tim Funkhouser

We're pretty confident up and down the order. It's definitely a plus when you can get offense from anybody.

Stephanie Beacham

What I mean to say is that I'm old enough now and confident enough now not to be frightened of any of the possibilities life might offer.

Michael Perkins

We've done pretty well with it all year, and we're still confident with it.

Jim Hunter

I am confident they will do a splendid job.

John Negroponte

I am confident that with the creation of the NCS, the U.S. government will have a more cohesive and truly national human intelligence capability.

Jayantha Dhanapala

I am hopeful, confident and optimistic that with goodwill on all sides we will be able to implement the memorandum of understanding signed by (U.N.) Secretary-General (Kofi Annan) and Iraq.

Van Shaver

I am just excited to death. I am also confident that I can do the job, and I guarantee that I will work for you.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Michael Bell

There is no hearing currently set in the federal court for a hearing to review the restraining order.

Steve Goldberg

There is no explanation or excuse for not coming. There are rules of court that should be obeyed and Mr. Knight is making a mockery of it.

Avery Johnson

There is going to come a time here - I don't know when - when we're going to start getting some guys back. And it's going to be very important that those guys get back on the practice court and things will get back to normal. But now isn't the time.

Bob Hill

When he runs the court he can just floor you. He's finally getting it. In the last five games he's played as well as at any time in his career.

John Tofi

I think we've been playing good defense. I think our team is starting to come around ... but we still have a lot of work to do. We've got to slow them (the Red Raiders) down and take away their two main scorers. We've got to get our transition game going and run our half court offense better.

Nick Saban

I would stop short of saying that Ronnie was 100 percent, but he did do everything in practice. Those decisions will be made on a day-to-day basis.

Dave Telep

He just wasn't ready to make his decision in the fall. He just felt like he needed more time. He's the exception rather than the rule.

Aleksandrs Starkovs

He is still preparing for tomorrow's match and the decision will be taken tomorrow.

Budge Pountney

We told the referee that and it was his decision from there on as to whether to go with uncontested scrums.

Bob Curran

I think we kind of made a decision as a staff and the players did, too, to stay away from the summer circuit, get back to the gym and get back to fundamentals. We only played about 27 summer games and did not get in any weekend tournaments.

Bob Gainey

I think at some point, we're going to make a decision of who's going to start the first game of the playoffs. But let's get in the playoffs, we still don't have that nailed down. In the meantime, we're using all of our players to get us there.

Ron Dennis

I think it was not a great decision by Williams so we are doubly frustrated. We had a comfortable, well-judged, disciplined, team-oriented race which should have been a comfortable one-two.

Anne Bancroft

I think that was the hardest decision I've ever made in my life. It was also the right decision, but having it be right did not make it easy.

H. Hunt

I think something really wrong happened. I think she has passed on by now. She made the wrong decision or was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person.

James Sullivan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Jim McDonnell

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Lynn Gray

I would think you would expect a lot more than (1,000). They may have 10,000 people out there.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Greg Paulus

J.J. is going to get the looks. Sure, he missed his first four 3-pointers, but we knew he'd come back and hit the shots. We expect him to hit them and we look for him all the time.

Steve Fell

It always seems when you least expect it, that's when it really happens. It's a tough thing to really get a feel for.

Matt Stallbaumer

I addressed him: 'Come on, let's go.' I didn't expect to see him struggling to finish.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Robert Torricelli

I think it is all over but the final act.

Steve Smith

I think the offense was there, we just weren't able to finish our chances. We hit the post twice. We had one goal taken away. We've been around two years and that's the first game we've won in the final five minutes of a game.

Dave Power

I thought for our team it was a good way to simulate what it would be on the final day of the season.

Gerrit Zalm

I think the final growth percentage for this year will start with a 1,

Art Hogan

I think the dollar's recovery has a huge impact on the market, when you look at things like gold, which is getting tattooed today, ... I also think it's important psychologically, like when oil finally peaked in the mid-50's.

Doug Palow

We've been to the regional final once, in '96. We've matched that. Now, we want to go even further. We want to be the first team from North to go to the state finals.

Paul Aznarez

We told them it was their last final exam, it was just at night.

Brandon Johnson

I think we're a team of destiny. I really do feel that way because every senior on our team has been together since the sixth grade. And we all said in the sixth grade that we will be at the final four. And it just happened that way, and I feel like this is our year.

Mike Burke

We made so much progress over the year, going from No. 26 in the preseason all the way to the final eight. But we should have had it. None of that means anything unless we're up there with the final four.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Jacob Frenkel

Not that (the justices) intended it that way. But it has that effect.

Ian Thorpe

It's not out of the question, but at the moment I intend to retire in Beijing.

Howard Stringer

Sony BMG did not intend to punish the consumer.

Phil Gramm

Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But I intend to go,

Gary Condit

I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long as she'll have me.

Joseph Fuiten

This isn't something we intend to just let slide. In the view of a lot of evangelicals, they have overstepped their bounds. It's muscle time.

Edward Brooke

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

Alan Pardew

That's what I intend to do as soon as possible.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.

Steve Parrott

I think it's a matter of, that's the market.

David Nuuhiwa

It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now ---- it's all surfing and it's all fun.

Jeff Gundy

What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Tim King

The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,

E. Hicks

That put us right back in a position where we can do something.

E. B. White

It is the position that stops all the big plays,

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Pope Francis

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Kim Priez

It's very controversial and we don't have a position on it.