Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindy Ruff

As far as mishandling the puck, it was a contest between Eddie and Marty, and I think Eddie was worse than Marty,

Steve Perry

Soon another test would come. He must be ready for it. So he sat, but it was not mindless meditation but mindful scheming that filled him. In a contest like this, there could be no second-place winner. To be second was to be last and to be last here was to be dead.

Bob Schwartz

This is not sour grapes. This is a person who lost a contest by misinformation.

Don Ostrowsky

He was actually an image pulled from our logo, and we had a contest to name him. We thought he would make for a great mascot.

Tom Marryott

Lafayette gave us fits in the first half. They can really score some points. I was happy with how we played in the zone. We were smart and were able to contest the people we were supposed to contest. We stopped the bleeding.

Barry Alvarez

I liked the way the guys played. They were where they needed to be. They contested throws. They responded to a tough week and that's what I like to see. They didn't go into the tank. They didn't put their tail between their legs. They responded.

Tejmuni Bajracharya

The elections will be held in 36 municipalities only, in the other 22 there will be no contest because there are not enough candidates.

Debbie Johnson

They're all very sweet and to me, they're all winners. It takes a lot for a person to enter a contest like this.

Chris Fitz

It will be a hotly contested race, and I think the initiative will win.

David Sanborn

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

Yotam Tepper

This is, in Israel for sure, the earliest church.

Joel C. Rosenberg

Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

Jakob Bohme

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

James Curtis

Obviously to be successful and stay on TV, the show has to be entertaining, ... You can stick to what's real about the relationship between these individuals. That, in and of itself, is entertainment enough to warrant being kept on the air.

Dave Tippett

From an entertainment factor, we held up our end tonight.

Javier Solana

I don't think we have to enter into panic.

Christopher Clarke

Mr Huntley is fit to enter a plea and to stand trial.

Khaled Meshaal

I say it loud and clear, we will not enter a new truce. Our people are preparing for a new round in this struggle.

Terry Parish

I sat in my truck and saw 50 people enter the park, and that's when it's closed.

Edward Witten

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

Joe Crede

Rules are rules and you got to follow them.

Bob Dylan

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

We held a follow up meeting... they've done a good job.

Thomas S. Monson

Never, never, never postpone following a prompting.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Eric Walker

(Girting) told me to follow him, ... and he'd get me to the end zone. ... All I saw was the back of his jersey.

Gary Waters

I had a talk with Quincy. I told him ?You gotta lead this team. They follow your lead.? And he responded. This showed his maturity and his leadership.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Example has far more followers than reason.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Bill Cowher

I've talked to Russ and Ken and, like I said, it will be later in the week because we're in the process of game-planning for this game. We will provide that opportunity for them but there will be no more discussions about that from here on out.

Hunter Miller

Yes, you did. And you told Kenny (Weathers) the same thing. Didn't he, Kenny?

Ronald Steele

To see Kennedy Winston - the most talented player I've ever played with - not get picked was a reality check.

Jack Donovan

Ken Hodge is a major reason why we want this franchise.

J. Hoover

I could sense all week that they were ready. They were like a Kentucky thoroughbred. They knew what was there.

Bob Holthus

He doesn't have to win this to go to the Kentucky Derby, but you would like to go there on a winning note, that's for sure.

Nick Swisher

What a comeback,'' A's manager Ken Macha said.

Seth Benzel

This sets him up nicely for the Wood, if that's what Todd wants to do. It's always nice to come back with a win, but leading up to the Kentucky Derby, a win isn't always the most important thing.

African Proverbs

To be praised is to be lost. - Kikuyu, Kenya

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Chris Johnson

Each time, the team that's won had a quick start. We got the lead right away at our place, and, at their place, they got the lead right away.

Ed Belfour

You can never sit on a lead like in the past. There are a lot more power plays. Anything can happen.

Bill Watterson

You can lead people to the truth, but you can't make them understand it.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Brad Paisley

She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

James Walsh

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Carey Mulligan

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?

Camila Alves

A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Bai Ling

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Aubrey O'Day

I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.