Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Don Knapp

The whole team ran well, but with this big of a group of schools, it was not easy to make the top eight. We ran some of our fastest times to get in the top 12 to 15 teams. Some of the best Kansas City and St. Louis schools were there in addition to the best athletes from mid-Missouri. This meet was a major showcase of state-wide track talent for this early in the season.

Mark Reid

This is a perfect fit for our company, in order that we may better service our clients, ... Up to this point, we have concentrated on buying and selling in the private sector. With the addition of Walnut Green, we will now be able to handle the auction needs of our clients as well. We are very fortunate indeed to be involved with a company that boasts such a great tradition of honesty and integrity.

Eric Sorensen

This is a special dividend and is in addition to the normal quarterly dividend previously announced.

Paul Wilbur

As the Craft Centre goes away, our SSR (plant) will go with it. But we have more uses for that facility as well. We are investigating some additional opportunities that are coming up with our facility.

J. J. Johnson

We will also continue to invest in capabilities to execute on our software plus services vision, including additional resource investments related to Windows Live and the Windows Live Platform. Expanding the capabilities of our Windows Live platform, extending our reach and impact with and to advertisers, continuing to enhance our search offering, and building out our operational infrastructure are critical to our long-term success.

Eric Smith

We continue to turn to eBay because their open approach creates an environment of support for independent developers who are tapping into the platform. In addition to providing business opportunities and a playground for innovation, eBay is a great mentor for developers.

Dennis Rice

We feel like this is a really strong first step in addition to all the other things we do to combat piracy,

Miguel Syjuco

The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Jim Ratcliffe

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Rick Anderson

The other day, I brought up (video of) Silva this year and Silva last year. And he's night and day with his delivery.

Kristen Newlin

We know she likes to go to her right, so it was my job to sit on her right, and we brought the double-team from the left.

Dave Tippett

That was a new move we saw today. He brought that one out of the closet.

Joe Johnson

Mike brought a lot to the table, ... As an attorney, he knew where we could go and where we couldn't, and that was very helpful to us.

McKim Boyd

He brought the hotel up from a young age. It was home for him.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Jackie Young

The teachers union worked diligently during the last 21 months to secure a contract that will take care of the community, students and staff and make sure everything is equitable for everyone.

Dale Jr

The target is to run as good as you can every week. Everything else kind of takes care of itself.

Randy McClure

The thing that I'm most proud of, is tonight we got five kids in double digits. It's what we've been doing all year long. They don't care who scores and that's what I'm most proud of. They just play ball." ()

Rick Bender

Somebody somewhere is looking up to us as an example, and if we don't care about what we're doing to ourselves we should care about the path we're leading them down.

Tom Doak

Some people hold the environment over everything else, and they don't care who it hurts.

Tony Pierce

Some people have morals, standards and ideals about quality, but I'm an American: I couldn't care less.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

Herbie Hancock

We talked for a couple of hours before we played a note. We didn't talk about music, we talked about life - families, children, issues in the world, politics, so many things. The kind of camaraderie we developed helped make the music what it is. I wanted to find a common ground and connect as people first.

Urs Linsi

We want the referees to be a team and they should all be able to speak and write a common language.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Walt Smith

Defensively, we did a good job with adjustments in the second half. Offensively, we have enough speed to hurt people. We are also pretty big up front, but they never contained Marco tonight.

Keyon Dooling

It was tough. Defensively, we didn't contain Wade or Shaq.

Mick Jagger

As I got to him he showed me the paper and I saw it contained some white powder.

Shane Warne

There have been little tiny things where England have outplayed us, ... With 20 runs more, we might have won the last Test. And even at Old Trafford, if we had contained England to 25 fewer runs we probably would have won.

Dick Bennett

We have not contained point guards at all.

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

Mia Turner

At the moment, the emphasis is on the need for road engineers. If we can open the roads, that would solve everything.

John Cairns

People in my view have been putting too much emphasis on the slowdown of the economy,

Carolyn Peck

I think this was a very clarifying time for us as we've gone through right now. Now our focus and emphasis has to be maintaining that focus of what we want our M.O. to be.

Alice B. Toklas

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Diogenes

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Samuel Johnson

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Wendell Berry

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Robinson Cano

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.

Jose Andres Puerta

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

Abby Cohen

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

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

Taylor Swift

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Peter Beck

Given the limited policy options they have, they don't have much of an alternative to talking.

Jim Grossman

Given the level of research and development and the products we've seen so far, my sense is that the numbers still have a ways to go up.

Avi Greengart

Given their problem with the Palm OS and Access, they have to do something. It would be better if they could do something more quickly. But it's a win for Palm and for RIM.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Boy George

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Siti Supari

The suspected person is now in a healthy condition.

Lorrin Lee

Study healthy people to learn how to be healthy.

Demi Lovato

Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

Sydney J. Harris

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Tony Parsons

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

Swami Vivekananda

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

Miranda Lambert

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Kathy Holleman

We want to make sure they're healthy in every way. We don't want to have two patients after the operation, so we put them through a pretty thorough exam.

Jake Peavy

If we can stay healthy . . .

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Howard Dean

At this point, my position is pretty delicate, ... If I come out in the newspaper (with my opinion), it may not end up helping New Hampshire's position.

James Wolfensohn

At this moment the world is willing to help at the highest level,

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Erin Runnion

I don't think there's a way to prevent this,

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Ernie Roberson

These new registrants are everywhere; they're spread all over the state.

Winston Churchill

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

John Vaji

If you let them get up on you, they?re going to spread you out.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Suki Waterhouse

I do try to wash my face before I go to bed now, which I never really used to do. Sometimes, if it's really dire, I won't, but most times I get around to it, even if it's just with water.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.