Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Jason Richardson

As long as I was on the floor, I was going to play like I was healthy. If you think you're hurt, you'll play hurt. I didn't have the same jumping ability so I had to smarten up on how to get my shots to fall. I think the ankle will be a little sore tomorrow.

Arthur Andersen

raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

Howard Dean

raises serious concerns about the ability of this administration to protect the safety of our nation's food supply.

Ed Dalton

Rain or shine, and it doesn't matter what sport, boys or girls, those guys show up to show their support for Trinity. It's hard to make generalizations, but they just want to be a part of something else, to be part of a team. OK, they lack the athletic ability of the others, but they are dedicated. There's always room for them.

Cris Carter

Randy was a guy who got by on raw ability for a long time. He could do all of the stuff he was doing without working out. Now, I think he has something to prove and he's going to prove it.

Ann Turner

(Rachel) has shown great ability at a young age to work in all forms of art . . .and media. I look forward to great things happening for her in the future.

Terri Sullivan

Really for the four years she's been here, we know that if she gets on base that could turn into a double because of her ability to steal. She scores a lot. We feel very confident if she works hard to get on base, she can bring us a run.

Steve Holmes

Ray was athletic and had a lot of ability, but there were things he needed to work on in order to become a complete player.

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Jim Scantlin

The brain injury is so severe that the daughter you had is gone. It's been destroyed. And the doctor was right for 20 years. She did nothing to speak of.

Santiago Ramón

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Chuck Hogan

Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

Heather Janik

I've been racking my brain on this (issue).

Thomas Insel

These are urgent questions because we're talking about a lot of children and a tremendously disabling brain disease, which really robs a child and a family of the personhood of this child.

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

C. S. Lewis

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Debra Burlingame

This is a ruse to convey to the public that they somehow are doing something.

Henry Lee

The eyes are the most difficult part. It's essential to have a pair of eyes that convey a vivid expression and spirit.

Morris Chestnut

I felt it was important to convey to people, especially younger people, that everything on the surface is not always what it seems.

Lawrence Korb

Who is out there that is more ready than we are? What military in the world are we not ready to take on? I think it's dangerous to convey to the rest of the world who looks to us to provide leadership that we have more problems than we are letting on.

Tim Smalley

We were lucky to get Terry to help us with this project. He is not just an expert angler but also a gifted teacher. Terry puts on dozens of fishing seminars throughout the year, so he knows how to convey his knowledge to anglers in an understandable and entertaining way.

Bill Bestwick

He conveyed that to (co-owner) Ken Wagner. Ken stopped in Vancouver and met with Shaun and his father on Sunday morning, hoping to convince him on the merits of being a Nanaimo Clipper.

Robert Thomas

The administration relies on Senate to convey the students' wishes.

David A. Bednar

Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.

Dominic Purcell

There are a lot of people on death row, and I'm trying to convey that sense of a man knowing his due date,

Christy Scott

Again, we played a solid first game and then let down the second game. We struggled with hitting errors and a couple mental mistakes, but we regrouped and finished well in the third game.

George Gelnovatch

The start was not what I was looking for in terms of energy. I think in the second half, some things started to sink in and we took our level up a couple of notches. Once we did that, it really made a difference in our play.

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Herb Grace

The team put forth a courageous run with a couple of huge wins in the postseason. We had a lot of fun winning two straight league championships, and we owe a lot of that to the seniors, who have sacrificed a lot to get us here.

Bruce Johnson

A downturn of 10 to 15% in agricultural land over a couple of years could be possible.

Steve Strand

After missing a couple of years, we re-established that we are a playoff team.

Billy Davis

Sometimes you're looking at Eli and he looks just like Peyton a couple of weeks ago.

Kathy Thompson

Teachers receive a lot of training in reading instruction, and I think we've seen that start to pay off over the last couple of years.

Bonnie Reed

It would be nice if we had a couple thousand more dollars. It would really be helpful to these people.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Smith

This is really the last resort because of the expense and difficulty.

Eric Close

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Al Jarreau

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Steve Ball

We had some difficulty matching up with them in transition in the second half, but our offense was balanced, and we've shown we can play with anyone.

David Payne

There is no intention to increase the difficulty level.

Marc Touati

The recovery remains very fragile. Consumption slowed, investments are still subdued, and exports are having difficulty picking up.

Ted LePage

I've watched a lot of film (of the Jays last season) and I've been around Drew now for quite a while, and I like a lot of the things he's doing. I thought the schemes he ran last year were very good.

John Madden

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

Kelli Wildman

Drew was never really big on going to school, but now it seems he can't wait to go back.

Dan Campbell

Drew has always said he loves that guy. You can tell there's something special between the two. There are throws Drew makes because he trusts Terry, and routes that Terry runs because he trusts Drew.

Ben Crane

Drew and I had a wonderful time. It was a fun way to start the week. Drew read my last two putts and we made them both.

Chris Morris

We gave Drew plenty of time to make his throws, and he made the throws.

Chris Rogers

We knew at that point it was win or go home early, ... We drew the Sylacauga Hawks as our first opponent in the tournament.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Scott Brown

Nobody trains harder than Drew Switzer. He's as hard a worker as I've ever seen.

Paul Graham

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Robert McGrath

Feeling a sense of like, 'I'm not the only one,' expressing stress is helpful.

Mike Huckabee

I think the reimbursement is going to come, and I am not going to worry about that, ... But I was just expressing what I know is an overwhelming situation for them.

Hugo Ch

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

Timothy Noah

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

Chet Faker

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

ASAP Rocky

I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

Flea

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

David Warren

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

Tim Kaine

I am not taking anything for granted.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

Shania Twain

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

Rick Sandlin

We were hollering '3,' and when I got over to the corner, he said he didn't hear it, and I probably should've called timeout and made sure he understood that. I think I took it a little too much for granted for this young man to know what to do, being down three with 18 seconds or so.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

John Connell

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

Mark Hoppus

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Dave Smith

I feel more optimistic at this time than I did 12 months ago, but we've still got a lot of work to do.

Mariella Frostrup

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I just dont plan things. I live a month at a time.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Don Watson

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.