Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Paul Johnston

It is a lot of money. We've never had that kind of funding for this kind of work.

John McKay

It's not a lack of initiative or a lack of trying. The funding is simply not there right now.

Jo Salyers

There was never any funding to work with.

Rod Nelson

We know we have it (PRP) for 2006, but funding has been taken away for 2007. However, it could be back in 2008.

Ray Durham

We're just not getting the funding for the legislature to get updated and new equipment.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Russ Williams

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Doug Wilson

We are very pleased to have received funding for all the projects we forwarded to Washington,

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

Evelyn Fox

I personally am pleased with the strategic planning process. Staff, and the board, set goals and are accountable.

Wendy Ward

I know she's thinking that everything has to be perfect. You have in mind these individual goals of how you want to remember your first round. You can put a lot of pressure on yourself that just doesn't need to be there.

Paul Harris

I'm real disappointed. It really hurts because it's one of the goals I really wanted to accomplish.

Dan Stauber

The guys know what's at stake if we win, we're in, and if we lose, we're done. One of our goals was to make it to the national tournament -- to give us an opportunity -- and we have it right now.

Steve Graham

The goals of NCLB are good, but realistically it's not going to happen,

Lofa Tatupu

We still have a lot to prove. We have to reset our goals now and make new ones.

Scott DeMonte

We had some of our younger players get their first goals for us today.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Chris Williamson

As we saw last month, there were signs of increased overseas spending on UK services.

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Darrell Bricker

Harper is going to win on Monday, there's no question about that.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Tracey Smith

I'm sure he'll be tried one way or the other. The question is how and when.

Michael Cimino

I know the market's there, ... The question is, 'How do you reach it, and how do you communicate with the end user?'

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

Robert Hill

And it's really a question of how long that takes. But what I'm saying to you is I don't think that should take too long.

Nicholas Johnson

All television is educational television. The only question is what is it teaching?

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

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.

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.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

James Dunn

I have never seen such solidarity. It was a consistently united voice.

Greg Willett

I have never seen him so white and sick.

Phil Jackson

I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

Lori Crunk

I haven't actually seen it because every time I've been around it's been wrapped. I do know there was some discoloration and swelling.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

William H. Wharton

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Jon Meacham

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Molly Ivins

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

Molly Ivins

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Molly Ivins

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

Molly Ivins

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Molly Ivins

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

Krista Allen

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.