Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Vladimir Radmanovic

I don't think we're going to play football in the playoffs. Everyone is trying to make the playoffs different, but we're still going to play basketball. Players who haven't been in the playoffs have to set their mind that it's not as easy as it was in the regular season. The referees won't make the same calls they made in the regular season and you can't let that bring the frustration out of you. That's the biggest adjustment.

Bob Djurdjevic

Global Services results are disappointing, especially a $2 billion drop in its backlog in the fourth quarter. And a 9% decline in new contract signings? That means that the biggest IBM unit is losing more business from its backlog than it is signing.

Tony Wingen

If this wasn't the biggest win in school history, it's right up there with any of them. It was fantastic. To prepare to win, carry out the game plan to perfection, and actually win the game, it was like winning a championship.

Pat Metheny

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Rachel Yeggy

He was definitely one of my biggest fans.

Alan Johnston

He was wearing a skull cap, and it was the biggest lift for me, personally. I came down to my office and cried because I knew everything was fine.

Al Frost

I got him a good one, right on the neck. I might give him another one before the night is over, I'm sure. Kyle is a strong kid. He's big and physical. He was a JV kid last year. This was definitely the biggest win in his life.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Jerrad Jeske

We were probably a minute-and-a-half out of the playoffs. That was a heartbreaker. We hope to build on that. We're right there knocking on the playoff step. They can taste it.

E. P. Thompson

We were planning to build another hangar, but the cost of building materials has gone through the roof.

Gene Briggs

We lose or draw, what we cared about is that we played hard and took something from the match. I think we can build on this.

Ed Peters

What if in 20 years we say, 'small schools? What was that all about?' We're trying to build for a variety of uses because we know it's going to change.

Eugene McCabe

What we set out to create is a system that will support a one-touch supply chain. The goal is that you only touch it once, which is the first time you build it.

Mickey Levy

What we see is manufacturers are increasing production slightly but only enough to meet demand. They're not really comfortable enough to build inventories or hire a lot yet, but things are improving modestly.

Harold Christ

What we're trying to do in communities we build is do exactly that, build a community.

Tim Barrera

We have a very young team and the spring is a great time to help prepare our team for the fall. With 10 starters back, we want to build on our late season success.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Tony Vis

Their seniors stepped up and made free throws - I think of the two one-and-ones there at the end. You have to tip your hat to them. I don't think we lost it or gave it away as much as they made plays and won it.

Landon Donovan

The first half was sluggish. We didn't play so great. After the halftime, we got a little momentum and we started to get some free kicks in good areas. You knew that if we got a goal that they would be dead.

Morgan Spurlock

The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech.

George W. Bush

The image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics, it's fantastic, isn't it? It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted.

Terry Hollander

You could see the pressure in those free throws when he went to the line. You could see how much of a weight he was carrying.

Clarence Darrow

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Lorraine Berg

You can pay $50,000 or take the free tour.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sophia Loren

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

Rush Limbaugh

When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

Thomas Mann

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Tony Dungy

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

Steve Ballmer

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

Ron Paul

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

Sam Rayburn

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.