Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Mads Mikkelsen

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Teemu Selanne

Bad passes. Absolutely bad passes. We panicked at times.

Jesse Greener

Back-to-work legislation is not an option that will work in the interests of students. If imposed, there will be absolutely no trust in the process since back-to-work legislation could impose not only an arbitrator, but even a contract. In this case, students will likely not see improvements in the faculty student ratio - this would be serious set-back in the quality of college education.

Burt Aaronson

a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.

Mike Tracy

That was absolutely the pinnacle of my basketball career.

Rocco Mediate

That was absolutely the coolest thing. The fans here are knowledgeable, and they knew I was in trouble and appreciated the effort, I guess.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Mark Baldwin

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

David Greenwood

As a company, obviously, it would be grossly inappropriate for us to make theological pronouncements of any kind.

Brendan Gold

BA is a profitable company not one in crisis. It must be remembered that pensions are deferred earnings.

Thomas Miller

As often happens, the builder's insurance company wanted to see what evidence would come in.

Richard Loth

As long as you understand that this is a heavy PR job, it can be informative. You can get a good idea of what the company is doing.

Craig Marks

As one of the first popular music magazine to embrace the digital world, we're excited to be working with the top company in the space. We've got every musical genre covered for the online masses, with the news, photos, interviews and silly questions that have made us the must-read for music lovers everywhere.

Mary Perry

Rainbow Tribe is the complete opposite of the normal, cookie-cutter dance company that people are used to seeing.

Marshall Front

Prince is trying to put his stamp on the company,

Amir Lubashevsky

A critical factor in selecting monitoring software is to ensure it is not tied to any one vendor. Effective security requires an independent program able to monitor data flowing from and to any application, irrespective of format, vendor or version.

Diana Krall

Some so-called 'jazz purists' are critical of me using strings instead of just a trio, and I say to that, 'HA! Who cares?'

Mayor Mavis

Some people have been critical because local government has not gotten involved. There hasn't been a seat for us at the table.

Tommy Lee

So this is kinda new to us down here. The teams we've played are good and improved, but we also haven't been playing well. Turnovers keep plaguing us, as well as penalties at critical times.

Dean Stoyer

On-course play is critical for product credibility and reputation. When he's winning and playing extremely well, it resonates and reflects at retail.

Rush Holt

tenets of critical thinking ... are weakened in our classrooms, we weaken our nation.

Cindy Beavers

Sometimes the emergency is such that the person can't leave their home ... to get any type of help. It's definitely critical and I know everybody is working on it to get the lines up and running.

Kim Gordon

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.

Cindy Murphy

We had a very good first game. We had perfect serving. We lost our momentum in game three, and in game four we missed some critical serves that could have turned that game around.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Rick Carlisle

Our decision making and turnovers were our undoing in the fourth quarter. We were forcing them to take tough shots, and then we just made terrible errors down the stretch.

Rosevelt Colvin

People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do.

James Cobb

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

Frank Robinson

On Tuesday, I'll make a decision on that,

Larry Coker

Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Erin Sullivan

We just need to come out focused and ready to play. We are a truly talented team and our offense has been dominating. If we hit the way we have been hitting all season, we will have two more wins come Saturday night.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase

Lillian Koller

The money is so flexible, so broad. But it's a limited amount. While it seems a lot, given all our needs and services, it goes fast.

Mick Durham

Defensively he's also making great strides. No question he's given us a lift offensively.

Jim Beaver

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Anthony Crescenzi

Any money given to seniors probably would get spent and therefore help the economy.

Carlos Delgado

The situation with the Marlins, getting rid of some of their players, has given me a great opportunity in New York,

Nicolas Massu

These matches in the Latin American Tour have always given me luck. But I still need to take one more step.

Larry Rothschild

The second round is important for us to get him ready and that he keeps progressing. I have nothing to say about it, but I would like him to get a start. Some consideration has to be given to that. If not, then we have to reconsider what's going on. After the first round I need to find out what's going on with him.

Michael Johnson

Somebody's planting a lot of marijuana out there, and it's not local people just growing it for personal use, ... These people are growing to make a profit. A big profit.

Robert Warren

So that makes it even all the more important that we find these kids who again, are sometimes misdiagnosed as having growing pains or tendonitis,

George Vecsey

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

Keith Morris

Realistically, the population is only growing in Avondale,

Nina Norman

I've seen a lot of growing pains. They could have really contributed to the team.

Joe Given

It was a nice growing perk for her. I told her location is everything. In that situation, she didn't miss one pitch.

Mike Olson

It was about what I expected. We have some growing to do, but it was a nice start.

Qiu Xiaohua

The service sector was hard hit, growing just 0.8 percent.

Jose Gonzalez

I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Mary Landrieu

We don't need to be laying off people. We need to be hiring people.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Mike Falbo

No one wants to sour the IPO market. That will make investors nervous.

Brett Gallagher

After a big up day like you had yesterday, you have to have some digestion. Once things run up by a big amount, then investors have to step back.

Yasuo Yabe

Right now the market is rather quiet, but it will be a problem when investors return after the New Year and trade volume increases.

Rob Reiner

This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. It's about investing in our children.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Joe Portera

The prudent investor may want to take some of their money off the table and maybe they should be looking overseas.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Abdallah Salem el-Badri

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Stephenie Meyer

The wasting of finite resources is everyones business

Laura Linney

History's a resource.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

Michael Garcia

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Dorothea Shannon

We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.

James Lyons

Firefighting resources are stretched thin, ... We may be requesting resources from other countries.

Sue Densmore

You have more resources than you can probably imagine.

Brent Nelson

We're trying to make sure that the residents that are out there have the supplies and resources that they need, and that they are safe.

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.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

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

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Brett Hoebel

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Gary Convis

Through this cascading system, we will end up training everyone the same way.

Andy Kindler

I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis.

Angelo Dundee

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.

Robert Fripp

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

Rick Moody

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Richard Marcinko

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Ruth Benedict

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.