Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Bloch

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Boethius

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Antonio Porchia

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Gary Chapman

This team accomplished much more than anyone, including me, expected. They overcame adversity and lots of youthfulness and did a fantastic job.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Bob Thomason

We know that if we play well we can beat them. Our goal is to play better than we did. We might not shoot better, but we can play defense and rebound better.

Keith Newman

You don't know what a guy does when you go home or what he does at night. As long as a guy is coming focused and ready to play football this week, that's all I'm concerned about. You're going to have some adversity, but I'm focused right now on the Chicago Bears, and how to get this football team turned around.

Mark Buehrle

One day, I'll hopefully pitch here in St. Louis. I love Chicago right now, and if they signed me to a lifetime deal, I'd sign it. But if I get the opportunity to put that (Cardinals) uniform on for at least one game, I'll do it.

Arne Duncan

This grant is really an investment in our collective future. It will help create great new schools in Chicago that will produce the kind of students who can one day grow up and lead companies like Abbott.

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Jack Foley

You can't do the level we are doing by just having these niche demographics of strictly gay or female. You can see in the suburbs of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago where you have lots of straights and married couples going.

Mike Richter

We are a polite people. You'll find Chicago to be a very friendly town. There won't be anything physical, but you can expect a little verbal harassment coming your way.

Dan Henning

We knew Chicago was a good team going in there. We didn't know it was as good as it is on defense. We made a couple of errors, and they got ahead. That's the way they like to play.

Ed Shimon

To have a storm that actually stays together from all the way west of Kansas City to just south of Chicago is highly unusual.

Jeanie Simpson

You have to be a Chicago driver. We have a pattern.

Thomas Middleditch

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

Chuck Darby

Coming out of the Dallas game and through that Giants game, that's when things really started to pick up for us. We've had players go down and other guys had to step in, but everything kept going. We didn't miss a beat.

Carnell Williams

Coming out of spring we knew exactly how good we could be,

Jim Tracy

Coming out of Spring Training, I thought we'd score some runs. We've scored 20 runs in the last three days and haven't won a game.

Stephane Dujarric

As far as we're concerned the planning is going ahead. We're talking to the AU.

Arnie Owen

People are still concerned about the Asia-Pacific Rim, there are noises from some of the brokerages that PC demand is starting to slow -- that is what's sending investors looking for an alternative place to put their money,

Michael Town

North Carolinians should be very concerned about what is going on with (regards to) Virginia.

Louis Thompson

The thing the SEC has to be concerned about is if it's fraud --they can't tell analysts how to run their models.

Gary Ruskin

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

Peter Scheer

One has to be concerned with not impeding on two constitutional rights: the right to petition the government, and the other, of course, is free speech. If you make it too difficult, too onerous, for people to express their views, you've gone too far.

Alexander Medvedev

One gets the impression that our president was more concerned about the problems of the Ukrainian people than its own leadership, since energy is vital for any country's economy.

Bob McKee

Texas is very concerned and takes (hurricane preparedness) very seriously.

Jim Phillips

Sometimes there is a thing called divine intervention. I was very concerned about them. I was hoping they'd find them and he'd ditch in the mangrove.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Herman Edwards

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

Gladys Bettis

That's his football family, so we were proud to have them here. They've been a part of our lives, too.

Greg Paulus

A little two-hand touch football -- that's enough for me right now,

Mike DeBord

You're trying to give them information. You might give them a stat about the University of Michigan academically or you may give them a stat about the football program. It's a way to communicate, and a way to give them information.

David Carr

You want more than anything else to win a football game. Just one. We can't go much lower than this.

Jon Gruden

You've got to score points to win football games and we regret what happened here, having to send one of our key players home, but looking at it in the rearview mirror, we would do the same thing again. Hopefully Simeon comes back ready to roll and he learns from this.

Gianluca Vialli

You should take your time and do it now and again, like watching football

Jeff Fisher

You're going to have to go back and look at his football skills.

Mardy Collins

See that guy, that's the guy who's key for us. When he plays well, we play well.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Dan Richardson

Right now we are still struggling to find a lineup. We are trying to get some guys who can play well under the pressure of a tournament.

Bill Bavasi

Right now, this doesn't threaten anybody. This doesn't threaten Lawton at all; he's an important guy on our club.

Mike Adras

Right now, the guys are so hurt. I don't want to shortchange the NIT because we're going to be a part of it. It's not the tournament we wanted to be in. But you know what? It's still an accomplishment for us to get our team into the postseason.

E. B. White

Pound for pound, he's the scariest guy we have. He's nasty.

Jerry Wainwright

Sammy to me is a guy who has to be healthy to play well. I'd rather come down on the side of safety.

Mark Dacey

Quebec can throw some serious heat. Those guys throw it a million miles an hour, so if you're ever two down to them you are working hard to get your points back.

Ted Schmitz

Quarterbacks don't have to have a gun. Everything you do is a touch pass. We looked for that as well as a leader. We wanted an experienced guy and we got two of them.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Flip Saunders

I've been impressed with him since Day One. At times, when I don't play him, I always go home at night, sit and watch the film and try to find ways why I didn't play him.

Judah Friedlander

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

Brad Goreski

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

Jalal Talabani

I understand that Italians want their troops in Iraq to come home as soon as possible,

Sarah Waters

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Frank Robinson

Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.

Jeff Suppan

Really I'm just getting ready to pitch, whenever that is.

Austin Boyce

The system he has is set up for the underclassmen to step up. When you're a senior, you're ready to be a leader.

Ray Scott

Somebody that's 0-8 or someone 8-0, it doesn't make any difference, you have got to be ready to play in this conference.

Bill Shepherd

Sail her well, ... I am ready to be relieved.

Jake Peavy

It was an ER in there at 6:30, getting me ready to go out.

Rick Barnes

It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist.

Jose Castillo

I've been working out every day and I feel very strong. I'm ready to go.

Jason Maas

I've been ready all year. I've tried to reiterate that to everyone,

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

John Gibbons

That's what this team does. This team is dangerous. They've got so much speed, they can do anything.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.