Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plautus

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Sen. McKinley

The cross country thing, I think, is a real potential problem. I know a lot of high school athletes that go out for (track) just for conditioning for football the following season.

Sal Capaccio

These girls have been told for so many years that (Lemon Bay doesn't) have the athletes to compete in track and field. But they proved everybody wrong today.

Richard Quick

This is my last swimming meet as a coach, and it's kind of a strange feeling because I've wanted to be a swimming coach since I was 12-years-old, ... The biggest thing I'm going to miss is being a partner with the athletes and living their dreams. I just loved that, and I'm going to miss it a lot. But, I'm closing out this phase of my life, and I'm very excited about where I'm headed.

Keith Scott

This is like the coming-out party for track and field. Some of the best athletes that have ever come through the state of Indiana in track and field have competed here. Just the meet itself is big because it's the North Side Relays.

Mike Cowan

This is a huge win for the Wildcats. These girls are a very competitive group of young athletes who have tasted victory and hate to lose.

Terry Madden

This is a conspiracy involving chemists, coaches and certain athletes using what they developed to be 'undetectable' designer steroids to defraud their fellow competitors and the American and world public who pay to attend sporting events,

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Pat Brown

We decided to go where the kids are.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Mike DiNovo

We decided that if they said he could go, he was going to go. I think it was a lot just to get him on the mat. He did not want to go down quietly.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Ellen Simon

We have decided to make sure that we are the safety net for our patients and our community,

Tom Edwards

This union has effectively decided to shut down the ports on the West Coast.

Brian Hill

We gave ourselves more than a chance, and I was disappointed that the game wasn't decided by the players, that it was decided by the officials.

Billy Donovan

We had won 17 games, but going into tonight we were 0-0. I knew Duke had lost, but these are different guys. They are more wrapped up in trying to become a good team, to become better individually and really sacrifice for one another.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Jeff Holland

Quite honestly, I don't know anything about (the fungus). I guess it just reiterated the fact that it's important to be careful.

H. Hunt

The sad fact it is could have been anybody. My feeling is that whoever is involved in this is still walking free.

James St. James

I've sort of come to accept the fact that when I'm 80, people will ask about Michael Alig. I've had to realize that this is part of who I am.

Deena Kastor

The fact that I won makes it a little sweeter.

Brenda Frese

The fact that it has never been done before in a conference, to have three teams is really special. I think it really validates the three teams and the conference.

James Mercer

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.

William O. Douglas

A reporter is no better than his source of information.

Mayor O'Reilly

I need more information about how it got where it was.

Tim Potts

Information that you can't trust is not very helpful.

Paul Samuelson

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

Ted Kennedy

This administration manipulated and misused intelligence information that rushed us to war.

Mark Carter

This has been a much requested thing. People want more information and more education.

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Katie Gearlds

There's no moral victory here; we wanted to win and that's why it hurts.

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Al Gore

Make this a moral moment, ... This is your moment.

Henry David Thoreau

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Jesse Jackson

If (Clinton) passed the moral test he had with Kosovo, he can pass this one as well.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Ryan Love

We have some players with a lot of experience.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

Brittany Snow

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'