Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Scott Hoyt

Going forward, sales growth will be more modest and inconsistent. Fundamentals are mixed. The biggest drag is high and rising gasoline and other energy prices.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Shawn Reynolds

Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We talked a little bit before and he was getting a little tired. We can rely on (Weaver) to close it out.

Kaley Cuoco

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Rick Adelman

Kenny came up huge in the end. He was the guy they were leaving open and he hit that one shot with a little bit of luck, then the second one was dead center and he hit the free throws.

Glenn Mitchell

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.

Jonathon Shockey

Kelly has been a warrior. He has had some real struggles and battled through. He's an emotional leader, and he's definitely been a spokesman for our club. He also puts a bit of reality in what we do for a living and what a great life we have.

Stephen Stanley

Katrina is a little bit different because you're also threatening the energy system. We're still trying to figure out exactly where we are on that. The near-term implications are pretty extreme.

Peter Moody

Just watching her last two runs, other horses have quickened around her a bit faster and I think the hood will help,

Mike Woodson

Joe is the description of what they're looking for. When you're putting a team together you're looking for guys who can do a little bit of everything. You want guys that can score, handle the ball, pass, defend and make shots in the open court. Joe can do all of those things.

Bob Woodward

Journalism is a contact sport, ... I was 29 when people who really knew how to shoot were around.

Aaron Brink

He knew who I was and that I was a fighter, and he said 'I'd like you train me, will you teach me?' And I ended up training this kid and then I ended up losing contact with him.

Pierre Dupasquier

It could be contact with some part of the bodywork.

Sylvester Croom

He says he feels a lot better. We'll see. There will be no contact at all with him.

Margie Long

He is not being looked at in any particular way, except that he was in contact with the victim before he died.

James Frey

He fabricated an evaluation report. He fabricated the evaluation report from us, using the logo from an envelope. We have no idea where he got our envelope because we had no record of ever having any contact with him.

Colin Clarke

He ended up playing 90 minutes last week when we didn't really want him to because we are trying to ease him back. It's an injury in a place that he is going to get a lot of contact so we have to take it slowly.

Bud Selig

Physical contact between player and fan in any fashion will not be tolerated.

Eric Katzman

Our recent contact with a sugar refiner indicates the pressure is not over and actually could increase due to poor crop yields.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Henry Mason

He's done some things that get your attention. Just like any young guy, you're looking for a level of consistency. That's what we're trying to get out of these 15 (spring practices). We're going to keep him in there and we're going to see what he can do.

Russ Knocke

There are no plans to raise the threat level at this time. These are rumors.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Jonathan Scott

I had three things to do: being physical the whole game. Win the game. Put on the Hat.

Kendall Simmons

That's something I'm not worried about. You just have to try to outwork them; that's it. They want you to come at them, but you just have to be more physical than them and I know we'll be able to do that.

Kim Clijsters

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

Steve Peck

Any time you play a rival, you're going to have a little more physical game.

Kelly Greenberg

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Ray Stallone

Well, you have one problem with your rant. We didn't do it.

Mary Matalin

He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.

David Tom

I don't have any problem with it whatsoever, and I wish her well.

Keith Winkowski

I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit.

Shane Matthews

He'll probably throw it at me first, ... But I don't have a problem with that. I kind of like it.

Ron McBride

He never had a problem doing his running. He usually set the pace.

Brent Sutter

I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

James Hunter

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

Alexandra Roach

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Tom Smith

We don't want to wear them down too much.

Stuart Rose

There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.

Maria Sharapova

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Paul Kuschel

I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Chris Carr

It's just crazy. This is worse than 9-11, with everything that's going on with that.

John Updike

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Jeff Johnson

I can't think of a worse place to put a church,