Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Dennis Ross

Our concepts are still basically the same, but we have made some modifications and that's what I've been going over with the leaders today,

Marianne Williamson

People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.

Quetel Osterval

People can have the mentality, the mindset and basically you can't change that. But what we can . . . establish some form of relationship so people can see that everybody is able and capable of helping each other. We have to work together to make that happen.

Vanilla Ice

People don't understand it's really a hard thing, because I was here in the early '90s and... basically I was gone from over here. I've been doing my thing over in the States, but it's more underground than pop-ish, mainstream-ish, radio-friendly stuff, it's more underground. People have no clue what the hell Vanilla Ice has been up to.

Bryan Pierce

People basically want to protect their family land for the future. Basically, they love their land and want to see it stay the way it is now.

Steve Giambanco

Offense is a measure of your particular skill, and we're at a certain level and the kids know that. Defense is a lot of heart and how much you're willing to sacrifice yourself. And our kids basically have, and I've been proud of them. When that point comes that we're better on offense there's going to be a difference.

Steven Cohen

Officer Rhodes has basically been flushed down the toilet.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Tom Brady

As a team you're always trying to improve and there's a different identity this year than there has been in the past. We have to find that identity and continue to improve on our weaknesses while maintaining our strengths.

Bob Rosner

The bottom-line definition for me is that a leader is someone with followers, ... and given how tight talent is today, if you don't work to keep your followers, you will not continue to be a leader.

Frank Chumbley

(At several positions) no one has stepped up and said I'm the guy. We are inexperienced. But I like this team if they continue to get better. A lot haven't played in a varsity game.

Anthony Cannon

A win is a win, but we can't be that happy with this one. We just have to continue to get better and better. We can't take anything away from SLU.

Anthony Cannon

A win is a win, but we can't be that happy with this one, ... We just have to continue to get better and better. We can't take anything away from SLU.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Banks' earnings reaffirmed that Japan's economic fundamentals are strong. Selling by overseas investors may continue for another month or so and that is limiting the gains.

Troy Murphy

We were looking to win four out of five on this trip and get back in the playoff hunt, and so far it's been disastrous for us.

Clare Short

Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died.

Andrew Brenner

The three-year was a great auction...but it just doesn't matter that much to the market. The next key piece of information really is how the Fed phrases the statement (on the U.S. economy, which it habitually makes after policy meetings).

Mike Ireland

After a while, I just got fed up with waiting, I wasn't improving. As I did a little more training, I didn't feel like the symptoms were going away, but I felt fitter and healthier, so that just kind of motivated me more.

Anthony Chan

So why don't we get a 100-point or 200-point day? Because this is a pause, not an end to the Fed tightening.

Michael Ostlund

Once we identified a player we want, then it's a matter of getting a Fed Ex to them. And when they get it, they take it to the US Embassy. And hopefully it gets accepted.

Alfred Kugel

Now it looks like the Fed might raise rates at the January meeting, and that might be it.

Richard Franulovich

Some well-known commentators on Fed policy have come out and said that the Fed has finished, the Fed is on pause or the Fed should take a pause,

Ian Shepherdson

Preparing the markets for a rate hike is a process in which the Fed gradually has to back away from its unduly pessimistic stance of recent months. This will take some time, but the process is now underway.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Bob McKee

push the Fed to raise rates, that's what I'm worried about.

Michael Armstrong

are not in the consumer's interest and should be denied.

Elouise Cobell

The senator is from Montana, but has never taken an interest in it.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dave Kraft

I've always been interested in politics but couldn't get involved before because of my career.

David Lagercrantz

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

Julie Furbacher

I've always been interested in dogs. I just do it out of love for them.

Tony Richardson

I've always been more interested in the kitchen-sink elements,

Brian Griese

I've always had a lot of respect for Rod, and if they have interest in me, I would love to go up there and see what the interest is.

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.

Richard Martin

The worker shortage is more severe this year than last and will be more severe next year.

Charles Ward

This is as much snow as we've seen in the last 15 years, and we got it all in one whack.

Richard Yamarone

This is Greenspan?s last hurrah. The swan song for the big guy.

Mike Griffin

This is going to be the last hurrah.

Patty Murray

This is not the last word on this issue,

Mark Hoppus

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Claudio Ranieri

Crespo is having treatment and he could be out for a month or six weeks. Duff and Petit will be back soon but Veron will be out a little longer. He may need an operation.

Sung Sohn

This was a temporary pause, which has already been reversed in the month of September,

John Shepperd

We think in terms of the total for retail sales it could be slightly down on the month in June,

Dawud Walid

We say that the new year is a revered moment, a sacred time in Islam. People normally do not take off work or school, but at night there usually are programs in the mosques that many people attend. After prayers, the imams will talk about the significance of this month for all Muslims.

Paul Gallant

We sit here 10 to 15 minutes, don't have a quorum and go home. My term is up next month and if it was going to be the same, I didn't want to continue.

S. Walker

People can't even open their mouths to talk to him, they are in awe.

Ned Van

After 30 days, you just have to keep your mouth shut.

Dakota Johnson

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

Sean Howard

This drug should not be administered by mouth or any other way to a 6-year-old.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I just open my mouth and out it comes.

David Bowie

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Daniel Woodrell

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

Alice Sebold

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

Anne Michaels

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

Rochelle Cancienne

The students will be contacted by the schools in regard to registering. At registration they will be told their official start date.

Dylan Penn

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

Sadaharu Oh

Before speaking about whether to turn it down or not, I don't think I've got an official offer.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Tom Anderson

Our official position is that we are opposed to the inn.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Emma Morrison

I saw that the were squeezing Brandy at the corners. So I had her do a push-bunt and that kind of opened it up for us.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Jeff Hironaka

In the first half, we (hit the 3), and that opened things up. We had better opportunities to go to the basket. That's how we have to play.

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

Ben Okri

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Barbara Smith

We opened in August, but now we're really ready to get the word out.

Mike Morse

We opened a store in Brunswick in 1959, in Lodi in 1980, in Wads-worth in 1992 and in Wooster in 2000.

Bo Ryan

As I've been saying all along, they just have to play a little older,

Larry DiRita

The secretary is not saying anything like what the memo's been characterized,

Jalen Rose

I've never said that I wanted to play for another team. I'm not saying that now,

Jason Fraser

It was all determination. As the old saying goes, ?Where there?s a will, there?s a way,? and as you saw, we had the will, literally.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Melissa Kleinman

That's why we're here tonight. (Sexual violence) touches everyone tonight we're taking the first step in saying we are not going to tolerate it.

Fidel Castro

You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Rick Moody

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

Georgette Mosbacher

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.