Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice Cube

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

William Kamkwamba

Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.

Ellen Key

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Beeban Kidron

The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.

Chris Robinson

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Barack Obama

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

Richard P. Feynman

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

David Smith

The acquisition of the Gannett stations strengthens station clusters in the Northeast and the Midwest, and adds to our growing presence in Florida,

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Jeff Austreng

That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and Wednesday nights and, oddly, our teams were scheduled against each other both nights. He kicked our butts Monday night, so I'll have to try to get him back. But he's a great bowler.

Jim Hinkle

That will be a tremendous game against Barrington. Whoever wins, gets the thrill of a lifetime against Glenbrook North. We're really looking forward to the opportunity.

Bob Turco

That was so important. Against Red Bank we started slow, but I think it was because these kids had never been there before. So we went back to practice, watched film and felt we had to come out strong.

Thad Matta

That was probably the lift we needed. In both of our games against Michigan, our bench has been the biggest difference.

Patrick Baker

That weekend is a tremendous opportunity for us. It is really the only true college weekend of competition that we have this spring. We play two very good teams in UAB and the traditional powerhouse of North Carolina. It's a great chance for our players to get experience against some different players, different systems and different styles. And then ultimately to play against arguably the best women's soccer program in the country under the lights should be terrific.

Kyle Brady

The 1994 season at Penn State was just a fabulous experience, ... We knew we had outstanding talent, but we also had a bunch of guys who were very focused, knew what they wanted and understood what it would take to get the job done and we went out and did it against some outstanding teams. When you see a bunch of young men coming together like that for a common goal, it is very satisfying.

Don Yaeger

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

John Yarmuth

The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

Bob Starkell

The athletes were energetic and excited to start on bars, but they were a little conservative. They wanted to stay on and get through it to have an opportunity to perform well on the next event.

Robert Greene

The athletes said they were not prepared to come back to the village.

Bob Holt

The athletes can be under cover if they're not competing, instead of having to stand there and get soaked.

Craig Ross

The athletes are youngsters whose time is still to come.

Meggie Ford

The athletes are up for the challenge. They're focused and I think our confidence is riding high. With two weeks before conference I think they really want to put up a good showing. This will be a very good test for us to see where we are mentally. If we can go out and execute as well as we have this year I think we'll be happy with the results.

Luke Bodensteiner

The athletes are happy he's sticking around and that he'll be in that leadership role. It's going to be a smooth transition.

Buzz Bissinger

That was such a horrible, tragic moment. I thought it said a lot about Tony, the way he coaxed the team into playing. ... I know the players were shell-shocked. Athletes aren't prone to feeling mortal about themselves.

Patrick Sparks

That was something between me and the team. To have your teammates cheering me on like that, it means a lot.

Rob Jeter

I thought it was Milwaukee fans making all of that noise. That's great that they were cheering for us. I am sure they won't be cheering for us (today).

Jim Haslett

I'm hoping there's 65,000 people that are cheering the Saints on and it's loud.

Todd McCullough

I wish I had another year with this program. But I know it's on the right track. I can see myself next year sitting on the couch in my old Gator uniform watching and cheering while they win championships. I know it's going to happen." ()

E. Hicks

I was the No. 1 guy cheering for Todd,

Joe Horn

It felt like an away game. The crowd obviously was cheering for their home team. But that's irrelevant. We lost a football game. . . . I felt personally like we fed them on a platter, and they ate. . . . Regardless of where we're living, regardless of Hurricane Katrina, we lost. No excuses.

Dennis Roberts

We hope the stands will be full of fans who are here cheering our team on,

Alex Johnson

While cheering for the big game can be a great way to express enthusiasm for your favorite team, you could be paying for this for days or weeks after the big event.

Alejandro Moreno

Unfortunately, that is the way things work out sometimes in our profession. You're not out there cheering for someone to get hurt, but the fact of the matter is that's how opportunities come about, and I was able to come in and do the job.

Jason Baker

The police were worried by the size of the crowd we were attracting.

Bill James

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Nayvadius Cash

The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.

Bill Buford

The crowd is not us. It never is.

Courtney Fortson

That was fun. That's stuff we do in practice all the time, plus that crowd reaction really got us going more.

Pete Carroll

That was a very good first opportunity, but we were piping in crowd noise that day. We don't have to this time.

Lyle Overbay

That was typical Bagwell, ... You're never safe, even if he hasn't seen live pitching for two years or two months. He's going to give you a battle. The crowd got into it, and I think that pumped him up.

Brandon Bowman

That was a good crowd. We're used to crowds like that in the Big East. But it was a good crowd, and they definitely made their feelings known.

Tim Tierney

We have an idea what to expect when we get down there. We know what the floor is like. We know what the crowds are like. We didn't get to play, so we didn't get the full experience of it. But now we're ready for that.

Igor Luksic

It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

Clark Gregg

New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Phil Smith

That would be, in performance, equal to let's say a window meeting the Energy Star standards today.

Rebecca Wagner

That would be a part of any energy policy with regard to pipeline supply that I would propose. It will include conservation.

Mike Davis

We just didn't play with a whole lot of intensity, with that passion and energy we needed to play with to win the game. We didn't really execute, we didn't keep our poise.

Ron Wilson

We just didn't have the energy to get anything going. It was a struggle all night. We weren't generating any shots, especially in the third period.

Julian Sensley

We just didn't have any energy left. We couldn't execute anything we were trying to do there at the end.

Jack Rose

We just didn't have any energy in the game. We had a lot of guys that didn't practice during the week (because of injuries) that played in the game. And we just had no fire. I'm real disappointed in that.

Paula Smith

We hadn't done 36 holes in one day since the fall so that was a little different. The team seemed a little tired but they proved me wrong and had lots of energy to focus on each shot.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

Tom Browning

That was a special group. They left footprints. We want to follow them and feed off them.

Jimmy Williams

That was the only way we could feed those people because all the stores were down. We were just scrapping together, making it happen.

Shannon Stewart

That will be nice to play with him. Hopefully, I can feed off of him, and he can feed off of me.

Richard Dean Anderson

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

Carl DeFebo

We've gotten very, very positive feedback on this facility.

Rich Smith

We've gotten such nice feedback about the festival - some of it from professional playwrights, talking about how well respected it is.

Clifford Galey

We're working on trying to get meals in here to feed our people.

Michael Parmly

Virtually ... 95 to 98 percent of the money that comes into the island is going to end up in the hands of the state. That ... means that money is going to feed a totalitarian state.

Ian Mckellen

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Gene Ween

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

Emilia Fox

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Horsey

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Christopher Guest

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Scott Gordon

That was probably the most intense game that they've been in.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Jamie Rodriguez

We have a mutual respect for each other competing. We would never sit on each other and make someone else do all the work. That's just kind of like a runner moral.

Gerald Grinstein

Without Atlanta, there would not be a Delta. And without a Delta, there would not be the same Atlanta. You could say we are in a mutual nonaggression pact.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Jane Goodall

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Hamilton

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

O. J. Simpson

Resilience is really about collaboration and mutual understanding,

Craig Woker

It is also getting an arms-length relationship with its own mutual funds.

Ted Menzies

I think you're going to see a totally different rapport with the Americans, rather than name-calling. I think it'll be a treatment of mutual respect.

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Michelle Snow

We have a lot of players on this team that can make shots and when you have your veterans that are not shooting (well),

Robbie Nichols

We will recognize our players at the end of the season.

Nicole Scott

We wanted to make sure their post players didn't score a lot inside. That was important for us.

Steve Bender

We've made tremendous progress. Our inexperienced post players have come long way, and our freshmen.

Urs Linsi

We have to make sure the players don't suffer from burnout.

Bobby Cox

Usually you have two players for one position,

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Ron Zook

You have to do what you feel like your players do best,

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Sam Young

They're a nationally ranked team, just like us.

Regina Rogers

We were pumped. They're ranked third in the state, so it was a big test for us.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Enrique Garcia

We're like their Santa Claus. It's kind of special and we make them feel normal.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

William Mezger

Most of them are students and don't work at other times of the year.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Brian O'Reilly

We don't want to penalize students for something that was not their fault.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Becky Lofstead

He was a 4-point student from what I understand. Just an outstanding student.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.