Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael McDermott

I think it is reasonable to assume we could have a definitive recertification of all the ballots by midday tomorrow,

Phil Hardberger

I think it is legitimate to assume we're not talking about next week they're going to go home, ... The city of New Orleans is effectively closed.

David Howell

It came as a big surprise, to be honest, ... We all assumed Luke (England's highest-ranked player) would pick Paul to defend the title, but Luke didn't think that was necessary and thought the man on form would be the pick.

Leslie Ballin

It certainly assumes a fact and that is that she is responsible.

Rabih Alameddine

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

John Fogerty

I always assumed I would meet him. I never got to touch base from my heart to his heart, and I'm sure that millions of us felt the same way.

Teller

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

John Fitzgerald

He wants to play, that's genuine. His record speaks for itself. I don't know if there has been a player in the modern game in Australia who has played as much as him -- I would assume that his record in terms of playing and being available is better than anybody.

Lanny Davis

He cannot erase that, whether he's innocent or not -- and I assume he is, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Ken Hill

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Tim Reitz

I was always a theater buff. One of the best things is to have your own character to craft and design.

Bob Stoops

Kirk and Dan are great friends of mine. I do my best to watch the game and not root for either one.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Archibald Hill

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Rodger Baker

Kim . . . doesn't want foreign interference in succession, or for foreigners to try to cut deals with his chosen successor instead of himself.

Darlene Rose

I think it's a fine uniform, but we have chosen not to use that style.

Mark Moller

Here's what we do know: Polls are driving President Bush's court picks. At a low ebb in his presidency, the president has passed over well-known, if controversial, constitutionalists and chosen a sphinx-like presidential pal,

Bob Rosner

He's a very effective worker, ... but he's chosen to stay out of management because he just doesn't have the temperament.

Lanny Breuer

I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.

Tom McCabe

The people who are chosen have a great opportunity. Right now, it doesn't look too special - a lot of dirt and snow in piles - but it's going to be incredible.

John Banks

We're pleased the US Marine Corps has chosen our product for use world wide. This demonstrates that Flushaways can perform under the toughest conditions, providing real convenience and ecological benefits. We look forward to growing sales with the Marines and other US Government agencies,

Carolyn Valacich

We submitted an application, and we were one of two orchestras (to be chosen for 2007) ? the other is in North Carolina.

Hani Durzy

We are extremely gratified that the Supreme Court has chosen to review this case.

Matt Frewer

I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.

John Mackey

I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.

Dan Tuck

Kingsley is the hardest course out there, so I thought the girls ran well.

John Hewson

I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a movement in due course within the Liberal Party and within the National Party to throw these people out.

Jeff Allen

I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.

Scott Tucker

I would spend days looking for these creatures, and of course I wanted to spend time with my wife Eva and my daughter Daphne, so I take them with me,

Michael Chertoff

Katrina was a crash course in things that worked well and didn't work well.

Dan Reeves

Keith Brooking of course is the worst injury. He does have some chipped vertebrates in his back. How long that will be I don't know, a lot of it depends on when the soreness goes away,

John Sunderland

I suspect in due course they will reach a fruitful conclusion.

Steven Heighton

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

Stanley Hauerwas

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Sharon Olds

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Diane Davis

We were very pleased with all the entries, but the top essays really seemed to have an outstanding quality to them.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Richard Hamilton

I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.

Ron Carey

I think working people have been taking it on the chinlong enough, ... It's acrime that they have forced our members into a strike.

Gary Knapp

We took residents completely out of this project. No residents will be forced to hook up the sewer.

Tom Wright

I think we got something accomplished. I think we forced them into this.

David Murdoch

I think we just placed our stones better today. We never made a messy shot. We forced a lot of pressure on Canada.

Tage Clausen

He was not forced out. He's on vacation, that's all.

Brian Bishop

Pine Plains outplayed us. They forced a lot of turnovers and we couldn't handle the pressure.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Bonnie Warschauer

KFC uses only the highest quality ingredients in all the meals we freshly prepare in our restaurant kitchens.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Jason Simmons

I swear I was in high school before I even knew he was a judge.

Michael W. Smith

I talked to him right before the convoy left. And they told us the next morning and I was like 'that can't be true. I went to high school with this person. That can't be happening.

Myles Munroe

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Clinton Portis

Having that one losing season made me take on more of a leadership role,

Jeff Gaucher

Her senior leadership has really made a difference. She has the mentality that she's going to get her points. She's going to do what she has to.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

Kevin McKeown

There is a leadership vacuum in this community. I want my candidacy to be about participating in the local government, to participate in the community.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Richard C. Armitage

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Rob Brown

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres...

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Yorvit Torrealba

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Sasha Cohen

It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my time will come. I just have to be ready for it.

Eli Manning

He wants to play. He is a competitor, so I know he will do everything he can to get ready for this game.

Rob Sumner

He just has a bruise. There wasn't much swelling, so he should be ready to go.

Mike Greene

Hamburg?s not going to show us anything we haven?t seen. I think we?re well-seasoned and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

Barry Alvarez

He runs through a lot of tackles. He's a very strong runner. You're not going to arm-tackle him. You'd better be ready to gang-tackle him.

Terry Hill

He said he was ready to come home.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Edmund Daukoru

In the wake of recent experience, no one is saying that this threat should be taken lightly.

Kathryn Taylor

It has to do with the recent reported suspicious surveillance attempts.

Mark McCutchen

Clarksville has hedged small amounts in recent months. They do know about hedging, they just haven't done much lately." ()

Phil Davis

Their achievements in recent years speak for themselves,

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Chris Tarry

Swissair has been strengthening its relationship with American over recent months.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Duane Ackerman

During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are going to reactivate the role of the PLO.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Josh Wood

I think the legislation really clarifies the role the two different bodies.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Andrew Cohen

I think it's unfortunate that we don't spend time talking about our role in the world.

William Daley

I think that 'strong' and 'decisive' are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president's role is to play the second position.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Kathleen Spillers

He was able to go into the school and feel very comfortable. But they didn't feel very comfortable with him.

Elizabeth Miller

He can't wait to get there in the afternoon. He was upset having to go to school.

Grant Hill

I was on the board at my children's school in Phoenix: I was Mr. Daddy Daycare.

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Larry Bird

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

Margie Feinberg

He should have called the school if there was a problem.

Diane Harris

I think it's, like, cool. I wish the whole school was like this.

Jason Thomas

I think it's kind of early. We need our time to have a break, you know. Too much school is not good.

Jason Maxiell

It hurts. He'll be OK. It makes me not want to go back to the school.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Frank Solich

He's got composure. He's seen it all. He's responded to it all.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Jim Gardner

He didn't have it and I'm not sure why.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Gary Sheffield

He's going to make sure it's done. It's always calm, but he had that look.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Curtis Baham

I thought for sure we'd win after that play.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Alan Ball

I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.