Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Boone

It's really hard to articulate the measure of success Mike's had, because you really have to consider where (the program was) when he started. We had had several years of poor performance and it's hard to get that turned around. But he's done it pretty quickly by being consistent and getting progressively better each year.

Carolyn Snurkowski

That is the core position that the state has taken. I'm sorry if I did not articulate that.

Albert Pang

They have tried a number of times to articulate and execute a low-end strategy, but with little success. Now they are trying to rejuvenate that effort. It's a tough nut to crack.

John Roberts

It was my job to articulate the administration policy,

Lucy Alibar

My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.

Bob LaMonte

Tim is experienced, he's experienced success, he's an articulate leader and he's a great-looking guy. And he has a body of work, a successful pattern.

Anne Donovan

It's one of the few times in my life ... when you try to articulate what's going on inside and I don't think it's possible. This is up there for me.

Ed Black

They're better able to articulate their strategy than in the past, and the new management talent has contributed to that capability. But there are still some real competitive issues, especially in the computer systems division, where they're facing declining market share. Sun has always been competitive, but we're also seeing a revitalized IBM in the server space. But as long as HP can get its strategy right, then we should see a recovery as things progress.

Nathan Fielder

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Chris Aronson

It is a bit shocking no movie had done it. Still, the weekends have been pretty strong. I think we're getting a better idea of delivering what audiences want.

Leslie Dixon

I was concerned initially. But when I saw it with an audience, I relaxed. Bottom line is, out of 600 test cards, only one mentioned it.

Carlo LoParo

We are exploring ways to prevent that information - specifically Social Security numbers - from being available to mass audiences through the Internet.

Christopher Nolan

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

George Romero

I think today's audiences, the audiences that make the big money for a studio, are out for whatever the latest event picture is, or the must-see stuff. I think it's a different crowd.

Taran Adarsh

Last year nudity was new but this year there was nothing new to it so audiences rejected sleaze.

Patrick McClure

I am just so proud of John. I can't hardly stand it, but I also look forward to watching a kid whose other hobby in those days was fishing in the lake on the backside at Campbellsville Country Club mesmerizing TV audiences for years to come and to think Kehoe wanted him to go to Louisville." ()

Megan Snow

He was actually very cooperative. We spoke with him and to another person who spoke on behalf of him sometimes.

Steven Brill

I think you'll see a lot of third parties buying cards on behalf of their best customers.

Tasia Scolinos

We're pleased to be able to move forward with this important case on behalf of the thousands of victims and their families.

Ed Gillespie

What I said is demonstrably true. The record and votes that I cited on behalf of Senator Kerry are easy to cite and check. President Bush's record of honorable discharge from the National Guard is also just as easy to check. This kind of political discourse is reprehensible.

Prince Albert

Today, I'm here to express on behalf of my father, my family, and the principality of Monaco, my sorrow and sympathy to the people of New York and to the American people for the September 11 tragedy.

Saxby Chambliss

I know my 48th Brigade has been through some difficult times, ... It's a tough job. It's a dangerous job. On behalf of all Americans I want to thank you.

Steve Erickson

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

Kobe Bryant

I mean, it's tough to make the jump, ... So you know, the person's going to be faced with a lot of challenges, some ups and some downs...I can't speak on behalf of other players, but I can only speak on behalf of myself. And in that situation, you know, it was best for me to skip college and go straight to the pros. It worked out well.

Chuck Schumer

I know that a location has already been chosen for every Super Bowl until 2007, but New York has suffered the devastating economic impact of September 11, both on behalf of the entire nation and worse than any other city in the nation.

Al Cohen

It is just like a regular Broadway musical review.

Carolyn Maloney

Our Broadway shows are closing, our restaurants are empty, our hotels are vacant, ... We really need help.

Jordin Sparks

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

Luke Yankee

I realized I had this incredibly rich legacy of Broadway and Hollywood memorabilia and I had to do something with it. My mother was not a household name but everybody she knew and worked with was one.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.

Michael Riedel

You could be forgiven for walking down Broadway and thinking you're in the West End.

Oprah Winfrey

The Color Purple' has long been a part of my life, from the first time I read it over 20 years ago until now, I've always wanted as many people as possible to experience this story, ... To present this Broadway production is a dream come true and a full circle moment for me.

Laura Benanti

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

Julie Andrews

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

J. C. Chandor

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Lucas Glover

Just the experience is going to be great, just being there and walking around.

Chris Traulsen

I think it's a good long-term investment. They've got a ton of experience between Mason Hawkins and Stanley Cates, and the managers have significant portions of their own net worth in the Longleaf funds. They have every incentive to do right by their shareholders.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Brian Viloria

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

Annika Sorenstam

I think I played really well today, very solid overall; lots of fairways, lots of greens. I was really never in any trouble.

Julia Voth

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!

Michael Hurst

He needs to know the actors have done lots of theatre ... made us quite nervous, actually,

Roland Rust

If you think you want something with lots of features, you ought to think twice about that.

Simon Gagne

It's been a long stretch and lots of games, but we pulled it together and got some big wins.

Kimmo Timonen

I've got to think about our team and how we play. We've got lots of time to talk about this when we get back to Nashville.

Kenneth Fisher

I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.

Tony Parker

I've done lots of appearances, none like this.

James Joyce

No, it did lots of other things too.

Alex Jones

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

Chris Chambers

He's being a mediator on the sideline. That's more of what he is. That's what we needed down there. But he could probably go back upstairs now and everything would be the same.

Douglas Green

I already know that. I'll be talking to the police about that, not to the media.

William Safire

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

William J. Brennan

You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.

William Gibson

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Saul Bellow

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.

Sandra Day O'Connor

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Fletcher Smith

He was nowhere near the scene of the incident. But unfortunately the vehicle is registered under his name.

Bobby Cox

I don't know what Wilson was thinking, there was nobody near him. He tried to tell me, but I couldn't quite understand what he was saying.

Dan Anderson

In the state of Nevada there is nobody near her, nobody. She is a real competitor.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

Frank Lampard

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

John Laird

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Krist Novoselic

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Jon Heder

I think we have a unique voice we really want to get out there.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Werner Erhard

All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.

Wayne Dyer

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

Sandra Day O'Connor

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.