Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Bill Gleason

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Dave Maguire

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it. He's a great shooter that really has a quick shot. He has the green light to shoot whenever he thinks he can make it.

Rick Smith

It certainly helps with equipment. For the average player, it makes it easier to play. But, from an optimum standpoint, you need to learn to hit the ball solid, and people don't because they don't have the mechanics necessary to do so.

Joe Jamail

I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

Jeff Koch

I think the average American has a better idea how to manage their health care costs, to make better decisions for their families than an insurance underwriter, an insurance company executive, or bureaucrat in Tallahassee or Washington. I think people make good decisions given the proper incentives.

Joshua Feinman

We've been waiting for something like this for a long time. But we need to resist the temptation to put too much weight on any one month's report -- probably the best thing to do is to average out the past few months; that gives a clearer picture.

Paul Lee

Hattiesburg has grown to support this civic chorus.

Chris Poland

The design of the new Civic is a big departure from the previous model, and its shape and features presented us with many manufacturing challenges. When you talk about the manufacturing of a vehicle like the new Civic, we want to meet the needs of the design team, while also improving production processes in terms of quality, safety, and effectiveness of the manufacturing process.

Nicholas Kristof

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

Wole Soyinka

an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportunity for the international community.

Jennifer Windsor

Rather, it is the Egyptian people's unprecedented political engagement and a burgeoning civic movement demanding sweeping political change.

Vaclav Klaus

But the Civic Forum has put me in a very visible position, and I expect that I will be in the parliament after the June elections.

Jim Calhoun

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Marta Tienda

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

Anderson Cooper

Their salt-and-pepper figurines that they had collected were sitting on the shelf untouched.

Tom Jackson

It was pretty difficult to watch for a while, ... We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.

Barton Gellman

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

Mark Norell

It was collected in this quarry that literally had hundreds of skeletons in it.

Scott Horowitz

The Robotic Lunar Exploration Program is a critical element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration. Data collected will help determine where we go, and what we find during our first human missions to the lunar surface.

Ira Glasser

The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.

David Banisar

This is a situation like the Web, where information is secretly collected without any discussion of whether it is a good idea,

Robbie Hood

The wealth of information collected ... will lead to better hurricane forecast capabilities in the future.

Don Brownlee

Every grain that we collected has a story to tell.

Craig Rigsbee

I think it's about 3,300 yards, and he's already got, I think, 2,000, so he's got eight games to get 1,300 yards, which isn't out of the realm of possibility for him.

Chuck D.

I take full responsibility for this organization not winning in my eight years,

David Mulder

He'll be out between four and eight weeks. But six weeks would be a good guesstimate.

Dan Harmon

Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.

Brian McCann

He's got great stuff. He's got about eight pitches. I put something down and he throws whatever. He just really knows how to pitch.

Frank Degen

He's going to lose on eight of them, because he's past the three-year statute.

Clay Hensley

I threw up about eight times on Sunday. It was tough today. I was a little weak.

Joe Heim

I think that has to do with the intensity issue. The voting was only 21 percent of the eligible voters. The ?yes' side was more invested, so more likely to show up as voters. They wanted to make a statement. The ?no' side was less organized. Eighty percent of the people didn't vote.

Ross Stitt

I thought he could win but he finished eighth so I wasn't in a hurry to come back.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Jared Esala

I think the entire team was very disappointed after our first dual. It's hard to win the tough matches when the same guys are winning week in and week out.

Kari Appler

I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.

Steve Hutchinson

I think the entire offense is really trying to take our game to the next level. Every position, every guy on the offense. I think we're starting to see it pay off on Sundays.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Chad Kison

We talked all week about how we needed to come out strong and focused. They did that, and they stayed that way throughout the entire game.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Jim Jones

He'll go back and forth between the two events. Basically, we're just using this indoor season to get him ready for the spring.

Walter Benjamin

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

Salman Rushdie

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Vincent Price

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Walter Lord

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Eduardo Paes

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

Andy Milonakis

I just want $1 million next season, that's all I want,

Tom Williams

because it was the right thing to do for our 1.5 million employees. We feel that they need to be treated with respect and feel valued--no exceptions.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William J. Clinton

People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Sarah Addison Allen

He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Will Rogers

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Edward Kennedy

It's a ticket of strength; it's a ticket of hope; it's a ticket of opportunity. It's a ticket for victory, and I couldn't be happier.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Brian Anderson

I have to go out there and turn some heads.

Dan Hinote

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

Roberto Hernandez

You can turn around and walk away with that one.

Tamra Strano

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

John Boland

It's NBC's turn to lag for a bit.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.