Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Mike Cameron

I was kind of using it as a joke. But I wanted a team with a little bit of character to it, some diversity. I wanted (the Padres) to get some young, talented athletes.

Geoff Brown

I was just about to sweep it up. Then I saw something move and got a bit of a fright.

Janet Fitch

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Diane Cilento

I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.

Jack Rew

Kevin knew quite a bit and he got me into more and more. I liked it and I got to be pretty decent.

John Beilein

Kevin came in here on a mission. I thought we were a little bit out of character at Pitt. We probably tried to do a little bit too much and probably didn't realize what good defense Pitt plays. We took shots we thought were good and they weren't because Pitt guards you.

Shawn Reynolds

Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We talked a little bit before and he was getting a little tired. We can rely on (Weaver) to close it out.

Luol Deng

Kirk carried us. I had some good looks in the fourth quarter, but the whole game I struggled. But I thought Kirk stepped up, and we followed him.

Tom Neises

Kevin really carried us through stretches of the season when we had people out. He is a team leader. He is a great model on and off the court.

Roy H. Williams

James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or too emotional out there. They were just businesslike, and they got their team into what they wanted to do.

Rob Carter

It carried me a long ways in life. It really did. It opened up a lot of doors. It got my college paid for. I was then able to take out loans and go to law school, become a lawyer and earn a good living.

Bob Bolen

He was a hard worker at Woodrow, and it's carried over to his coaching, I think he's doing a great job. He was a tremendous player and always a joy to be around. He's always been a great kid, he was a great kid growing up, now he's a great young man.

Aaron Mattox

He was big down the stretch. He's carried us lately. I couldn't be more proud of his effort all the way around. He's improved big time and not just at shooting, but his defense and going to the rack and rebounding.

Ben Wallace

He carried us tonight. He's been like that all season.

Kirk Hinrich

He carried us throughout the game, making big shots and big plays.

Todd Galloway

He carried us the whole game. That's just letting people know how great of a player he is. We just have to come to play with him.

Steve Wammer

Katie had a tremendous freshman season. She's a very good hitter and has a lot of potential.

Jake Grove

I think it's a great opportunity for us. Obviously last year was disappointing, and this year we have a chance, a fresh slate to come out on national TV - everybody's going to be watching - and show people what we're all about.

Dick Booth

He didn't surprise me. He's quite a guy. He was fresh because he didn't jump in the long jump (Saturday). I think he will end up being special.

John Marhefka

He is one of our top scorers this season, but he still has a long way, like all freshmen do, to understand our system and his role.

Janis Serrano

Haley is experienced and talented. You would never guess that she's just a third-year skier. She started when she was a freshman and just took to it - she's a natural.

Ronny LeMelle

Having all those freshmen at one time, I knew before the year even started that somebody was going to leave. I didn't know who it would be, but somebody wasn't going to be happy with playing time.

John Danowski

Guys are playing their role, more people are playing then ever, we're playing more freshmen and those guys are stepping up. All things are pointing in the right direction.

Tony Lee

He's a sophomore. He's not a freshman anymore. He's showed he's tough. He can score, but he does all the little things, too.

Kent Kanoy

He's got seniority. They don't want to trade that for a freshman representative.

David Nalbandian

I'll be damned if I'm going to Houston to sit on my butt for a week.

Paul Tagliabue

I really thought it would take longer for Houston to get another team,

Barbara Morgan

I'm living here now. This is my place. I'm not going back. People in Houston have been wonderful to us,

Chris Palmer

Donna (Palmer's wife) and I have made a lot of friends in Houston during the two times we've lived here. We'll always maintain those friendships. I'm just sorry it didn't work out the way everyone wanted.

Jim Lovell

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

Jim Lovell

Houston, we've had a problem here

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Chase Utley

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.

Graham Hawkes

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

Tibor Kalman

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Suki Waterhouse

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

Dave Roberts

There are so many other ways that they could go with their lives. If I can be a role model in any way, I welcome that.

Mike Urbanski

What I like most about him is his leadership. He is a terrific role model for the younger guys.

Bob Dole

I think it's pretty obvious the model for victory is the Ronald Reagan model,

Rebecca Romijn

I'd never planned on being a model.

Joe Browne

Other sports have modeled their drug programs after ours, which has been around more than 15 years.

Jeff Raines

Resale is a model that won't work over the long haul.

Mark Wood

Just something to get her to open up and not be so shy.

Rich Harris

I think it is an open question whether they would want them released while there are two investigations ongoing.

Bonnie Raitt

He used to let me open for him and he tuned my guitar.

James Cotton

Greg and I just have this special connection. When he is open down low, he will say 'Yes!' and I will give him the ball.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Jamie Rains

Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people.

Rob Spear

I think it's going to open up. Would you be interested?

Brian Roberts

I think, without a setback, I don't see why I won't be ready for Opening Day. I haven't really put that much thought into Tuesday yet.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

John Flaherty

He's been pitching better, but tomorrow is going to be a big one. You don't want to say 'must win,' but we need this one tomorrow. Hopefully, he'll come out on top of his game.

Brandon Claussen

He was pitching great, ... He doesn't need any more runs than that.

Thomas Murphy

I come because I do pitching lessons. I come to watch and to be a better pitcher.

Yogi Berra

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

Derrick Landrus

Pitching should be one of our strengths. We have a lot of depth.

Mike Allard

Pitching is going to be our strongest asset.

Jason Bay

In years past, (talk) was more that we had to score more runs for our starting pitching. Now, it's more that we're going score some runs, can the starting pitching keep us in games?

A.J. Pierzynski

In the end, our pitching was amazing. I don't know if you'll ever see it again.

Roger Clemens

I planned on pitching the whole time, ... No way I was going to run out on the team.

Derek Jeter

He can play. He has an approach, and he sticks to it. He can pretty much do it all.

Allard Baird

We've got to stick with our plan. We have no other alternative. We feel like we have some good, young players.

Richard Petty

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

Robin Hobb

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

Wale

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

Zaha Hadid

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Winston Churchill

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Winston Churchill

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Olli Jokinen

I just took a shot, and it went over his pad, but he made a stick save.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Robert Cormier

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

Richard Dawkins

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

Russell Baker

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Ruben Hinojosa

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Ron Atkinson

His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

Truman Capote

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.