Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clyde Drexler

I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 1/2 years, which was a nice. But when you can spend your hold career with one team, that's a blessing.

Scott White

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

Robby Ginepri

I was almost there, so I feel that anyone on any given day could take out anybody.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Brian Dawkins

I was almost in tears when I walked in there and saw that I was going to be a part of that, answering the phones and hearing the joy in peoples' hearts as they were giving.

Giuliana Sgrena

kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart is in a condition of repair right now, ... It is almost surprising they are down only 2 percent. They have a huge amount of over-age inventory they have to unload.

Kelvin Sampson

I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to what they say. If I were putting together a 64-team (field), I think it's almost impossible to say Colorado does not deserve it.

Jack Rio

I would think it would be out of character for a guy who has been a successful coach for as long as he has. It almost sounds desperate.

Ray Lewis

I was leaving ... Cobalt nightclub, ... And on my way to my limousine ... a fight broke out way up past my limousine. We saw it, I grabbed my people, we hopped in my truck, we left. While we're driving off, we heard gun shots. We left the scene, and that is basically it.

Luke Yankee

I was just always struck, in the original one-act play, by the intensity of the relationship between these two women. It's a very pure and loving relationship, and those lifelong friendships are so rare and unique. . . . One of them is getting ready to make her transition, and basically she's getting all of her ducks in a row. And her best friend does not know this and is terrified of death.

Sandra Oh

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

Jack Horner

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Craig Anderson

Kids are basically little learning machines. Whatever the content is in front of them, they're going to pick it up.

Aaron Miller

I would say that basically having solely a cell-phone, Internet relationship definitely required us to be good communicators. I see that as a definite benefit of having an online relationship.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dwight Freeney

Just turn on the film of the last game. We basically dominated, physically. You see a guy flat on his back, we're playing physical.

Roger Baird

Jim was in his element that day. He was a fantastic choreographer of words and he wanted us to pretend we were the SAS on a raid. We were to go in there, shoot 'em up, grab their beer and women and then bugger off. And that, of course, is basically what we did.

Kelvin Sampson

Kevin's in all our drills, ... He's shooting, doing his hook shot, shooting free throws. He's doing everything except contact.

Darrel Hoffman

Katie had a good front nine with the exception of one little glitch.

Larry Kerr

John Hale is an exception to the rule because he's a true freshman who belies his experience. He picks things up well. He's smart, he's strong and physical.

Amy Fisher

I talked my friend into going with me. It was all adults except for us,

Carey Hazell

He didn't say specifically why he played so great, except he was playing well and putting well. That was a real plus, because we fell in some other places.

Jill Johnson

He didn't have anything to gain from that except doing the right thing.

Lee Brumbaugh

He is totally unknown at present, except by historians. He is possibly the greatest unknown photographer.

Tami Harrison

Her performance was nearly perfect except for the beam, but that was her last routine and she got a little conservative.

Gary Scelzi

He's a Jeff Gordon, a Tony Stewart, an exception to the rule, ... What he lacks in experience, he makes up for in focus. He's that one in a million. I hope he snaps out of it pretty soon.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Erin Horn

I think it'll be a good series. We've faced good pitchers before and we did fine.

Jerry Hairston

Guys like Nomar (Garciaparra) and (Todd) Walker, we faced him in the American League, and we're like, 'I don't remember him being like that.'

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Kyle Davis

(Harang) helped by botching up the first two pitches. Then, I was going for the strikeout. I felt good about facing Freel because I've faced him in the minor leagues.

Jimmy Page

I think when you're faced with a plight that's inescapable, and there's something you can do about it, you hope you can make a difference.

Ray Nagin

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

Robert Eenhoorn

When he went the second time through the lineup I thought it would be hard to get a hit off him. He faced hitters like Carlos Lee, and these hitters are usually very good making adjustments after seeing a pitcher for the first time.

Chuck Fehr

We've faced some good pitchers, but some guys have also been pressing and putting too much pressure on themselves. We finally had a good day at the plate.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Greg Willis

He did not hardly play any offensive line last year.

David Morse

He didn't hardly ever wear a hat around here,

Rep. Lawlor

Today is a milestone, but it's hardly the end of the story. One way or another we're going to be living the rowland scandal for the foreseeable future.

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Shahzia Sikander

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.

Tim Ross

He was hardly ever in trouble. The walk was in the first inning.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

Elliott Abrams

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Sara Bareilles

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Robbie Robertson

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Howard Davidowitz

Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Murray Walker

I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable.

Doug Wilson

He's a freak, ... totally off the charts.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.

Dom Capers

I think what you have is two totally different situations.

John Ashton

I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.

Nick Hardwick

He is just crisp out there. He is totally in control.

Penny Sweet

When he started getting sick, we were unaware of what was really wrong with him.

Eric Hoffer

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

Rajneesh

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Bryan Callen

There are so many hot, sexy women in L.A.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Teri Hatcher

I think we women need to be kinder to ourselves. That we are just the way we are is enough.

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Trish McDermott

I think Valentine's day is more of a woman's holiday. Women have more expectations.

Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day

Julianne Moore

I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25.