Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Bowden

It always helps to win that last one. It boosts morale and gives you a lift going into the off-season.

Ian McGeechan

Having Lawrence back is a tremendous boost for us,

Steve Barrow

History has shown currency intervention is a long drawn-out battle, ... It will take weeks, if not months, with or without the U.S., to boost the euro. It'll take a miracle.

Christopher Borick

It gives him a boost in terms of the primary. The stars have lined up and given him an extra two weeks of free publicity.

Niels Christensen

It got a boost from comments from Poole overnight so that brought euro/dollar down by half a big figure.

Tom Dexter

He's given them a boost as far as mechanics go. Plus, they see a guy like Dale, who played professionally, and they know he knows what he's talking about.

Melissa McHenry

The railroads have worked to boost supplies, but we are still not getting the (Powder River Basin) deliveries we need.

Michael Englund

We may be seeing the unwinding of the boost from post-Katrina spending.

Barry Hyman

HP was surprisingly strong and that should boost the PCs tomorrow, but AMAT may cut into the semis,

Greg Brunner

Just looking at their team and the caliber of players and looking at their record. Any team that has 25 wins, you know you can't underestimate what they can do. Especially for a senior-leaden team.

John Doolittle

have somebody of a high caliber and someone with a demonstrated track record of making courageous decisions by the Constitution.

Mike Ferda

I thought we responded well after the Libby game (a 49-6 loss in Libby on Oct. 7) and came out and played the caliber of football, at least emotion-wise, that we can play.

Doug Johnson

We're proud of Michelle. We're grateful to be able to participate in such a wonderful honor . . . It's a big deal, and what's really wonderful about it is that it's a person of Michelle's caliber that will be representing us.

Brian Carter

I'm curious to see the caliber of team we'll be playing.

Sunny Hale

I love this level of polo. You're out there and 90 percent of the players are better than you, so I have to step up my game to match them. Being a woman isn't a factor for me, it's just an honor being out there with that caliber of players.

Rowan Atkinson

I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would like to do.

Peter Scheer

The high caliber of these stories demonstrates the value, to journalists, of public records laws as tools for reporting.

Matt Hall

The incoming freshman class is unbelievable. We've got kids coming from all over the nation that are top caliber and will help our chances of going to the CWS (College World Series) again.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Gillian Zucker

His name is synonymous with Southern California, making him a perfect fit to get the state of California's largest spectator event under way.

Denis Petukhov

I think it's just an honor to be an Olympian. I think it's the greatest event in the world. I think everybody is going to feel honored.

Martin Laina

I think it's fair to say that we don't want this event to be in opposition with the university. We want this to be as inclusive as possible.

Mark Tooley

I think it's inappropriate to use a children's event to make a political statement.

Brian Noble

I think you have to do both. We want to make it an entertaining event for our fans, but we also intend to field a competitive team. I think the two go hand-in-hand. Fans want to come out and have fun, but they also want their team to win.

Melinda Gilpin

We've been very pleased with the response and interest. This is the kind of event people would want to come to.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

Kevin McCarthy

It's regrettable that we're going to spend local property taxes on schools the state would otherwise fund. As I understand it, we don't get back that money.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Herb Landau

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.

Jerry Spinelli

I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Frank Melton

It occurs to me that I'm not protecting a source. I am the source and I don't need protecting.

Michael Bamberger

That didn't occur to me. I was still in my reporter's mode. I wanted to talk to her first.

Richard Greenberg

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

Rob Morosi

We have work going on practically everywhere. It is a worry. It?s a worry for the motorists. It?s a worry for the workers. It?s a worry for their families. Every day they step out the door, and you just don?t know what going to occur out here.

Spencer Grammer

When I went to college, it didn't even occur to me that I should be in a sorority at all. I went to school in New York City, where you don't need to be in a sorority to go to a party!

Abdel Khaddam

But, of course, at no time did it occur to me that Syria could assassinate Hariri.

Harrison Ford

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Narendra Modi

Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.

Raul Hernandez

Tourism is all we have. Nobody's coming. Things are sad.

Serge Daney

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace grows best in winter.

Samuel Beckett

The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.

W. H. Auden

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have

Robert Fitzgerald

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Rudyard Kipling

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Morgan Freeman

And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

Kelley Armstrong

On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

Khaled Hosseini

Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

Louise Gluck

You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.