Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Guynn

With gasoline at or near $3 a gallon recently, and other energy costs such as natural gas almost doubling in the past year, consumers may face tough choices in how they allocate their spending.

Renzo Piano

We chose steel and extra wide panels of glass, which is almost like crystal. These are honest materials that create the right sense of strength and clarity between old and new, as well as a sense of transparency in the center of the institution that opens the campus up to the street.

Ed Williams

There's no real reason to restrict our development to traditional street venues. Traditional street venues are getting so much more competitive it almost behooves you to look at possible alternatives.

Mark McKinnon

There's no question the president's legacy will be dominated by Iraq. The war is really driving almost everything in government.

Mike Matherne

There's not a lot of expense involved if a student wants to see if they like the sport. They can check out almost anything here and see if they like the sport.

David Berson

There's no sign that investor demand has softened at all. The things that would have caused a slower housing market, such as higher mortgage rates, simply aren't present, and we're now almost halfway through the year.

Terry Crisp

There's no doubt he was the key factor in us winning. People don't realize what a job he did. We lost his defense partner Gary Suter in the first round, so he was playing almost 30 minutes a night. And at a very high level.

Keith Douglas

There's no excuse for it. My wife and I waited 10 years for these children. For the police to almost take their lives, there's no excuse for it.

Jim Szabo

The total is considerably more that $750,000, but these are the kinds of things that would have to be cut. The board will have to decide from there. But these things are almost all personnel-related. We've cut as much as there is to cut in other areas.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Toby Hall

It's such a slow pitch, it catches everybody off guard. I love calling it because I love to see the expressions on the hitters' faces.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Tim Baker

Water, plastics, airbeds, sleeping bags, flashlights, batteries; we just can't keep them in, ... We're not even close to matching demand.

Lucy Jones

Magnitude doesn't tell you damage. If it's not that big or not that close to people, it's not that bad.

Jordan Reese

(Liberty's) always good competition to go against. It just sucks to coming so close and falling just a little short.

Jay Butler

Lot of people are saying they hate to see it close down.

Vince Carter

Looks like he lost a little weight. Looks lighter, quicker on his feet. He's going to be a tough guy to stop. It's close to that time now, so I guess he's getting in playoff form.

Gerald Wallace

Last year, we had a lot of close games and couldn't hold onto leads and didn't know how to finish games. We've done a better job of that this year. Which shows improvement. Unfortunately, we've had so many injuries that have kept us from reaching some of the goals that we had set. Like making the playoffs.

Chris Harrell

Last year, we'd hang close in games, but we couldn't put together those big plays when we needed them. We'd been getting them from our passing game this year, and today we got it from the running game.

Jarome Iginla

Learning to play in big games, Game 7 and Game 6, all of it is a whole different level. It's different hockey, it's great hockey. On the other side of it, we were that close (to winning the Cup), (so) we're hungry. To get that close and hear the other team celebrating, and know it could have been us, that does enter your mind.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Deena Kastor

It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I wasn't feeling it early on. I managed to hold on to go under 2:20 which was my main goal.

Jordan Beck

It's too early to tell what's going to happen right now. Hopefully I'll get back soon and won't have to miss much time.

Dave Cassels

It is very important we get the players registered as early as possible.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brian Miller

We didn't execute as well offensively as we have the past few games. Rachel getting in foul trouble early on impacted the game, but we got some good offensive production without her, which is good so that we know we can get points from other places with sectionals approaching.

Chad Lavalais

We didn't play Falcons football. By the time we got it together, it was too little too late. They set the tempo early and often.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Suze Orman

America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Scott Adams

Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own.

Rashida Jones

I can fall asleep anywhere.

Raoul Vaneigem

The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

Rajneesh

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

Rajneesh

CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to the creator, not to you. No man can ever be creative. Yes, man can compose, construct, but can never be a creator. When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent, a new kind of presence enters his being - the presence of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside you His light that starts falling around you is creativity. The climate that arises around you because of the presence of God within you is creativity.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Ali MacGraw

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.

Ali MacGraw

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

Ali Smith

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Alexander Grothendieck

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...