Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shibley Telhami

He is terrifying to those who aspire to have a normal life because ... if it could be done to the United States, it could be done to them.

Wendy Liebmann

Here, at least, there are real people. We assume they are real Wal-Mart shoppers. They are good-looking, but not so fashionista that you can't aspire to it.

Marty Heires

I think what we're going to do is offer the full spectrum of our customer financial products, ... can aspire to.

John Parrott

I think it's the venue that every snooker player should aspire to play at.

Rena Sofer

I think that when Michelle Pfeiffer goes out, she's exactly what I aspire to be - she always looks beautiful and sexy, but she never looks like she's trying to be the center of attention.

Mike Sutton

There are no perfect fisheries that I know of­ we want to certify the good fisheries and make them better, so others will aspire to emulate them.

Ariel Sharon

The Palestinians will always be our neighbors. We respect them and don't aspire to rule over them. They also deserve freedom and a sovereign national entity in their own country,

Mark Helprin

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

Alex Honnold

I am a vegetarian, and I sort of aspire to vegan-hood. So far I've noticed no difference at all in my climbing, but I feel a bit healthier overall. Though that's only because I'm eating more fruits and vegetables. I think the whole protein thing is overhyped. Most Americans eat far more than we need.

Mikhail Kasyanov

There is more than a month before the inauguration, and people mustn't get distracted from work by these thoughts,

Kathy Baker

We take the puppies everywhere we go, ... Our job is to acclimate them to everyday life. A lot of it is learning not to be distracted by normal, everyday things. It takes time for them to learn that.

Charlie Coles

We told our guys early on that we're going to play or we ain't going to play. You can't let things like that distract you.

Rob Bell

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Jane Goldman

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!

Bob McMillen

I hope it comes early to get it over with. It's starting to wear on me and, I think, it's starting to wear on my teammates. I'm treating this as another game to get our record to 3-2. I have a lot of respect for San Jose. I don't want this to distract from the game.

Kevin Hall

The mind formulates all the distractions golfers face, ... I'm deaf, yes, but I get distracted all the same.

Jeff Rainey

Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear.

Jevon Kearse

It's going to show if the veterans did a good job of keeping everyone focused and will let us know if we as professionals ... didn't let it distract us.

Frank Boulton

John is not really handicapped. Yes, he's in a wheelchair, but he isn't handicapped. What he has done is an incredible achievement. John is the engine ? he's the guy who makes it all work. His energy is infectious. We're proud to include him as part of the Ducks' family.

Mark Rodgers

It appears, at the end of the day, there are fossil fuel interests trying to stop a renewable energy project.

Dick Riley

He used his energy and influence to get things done.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Andrew McCarthy

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.

Alec Baldwin

harvesting our offshore winds to produce pollution-free energy is a forward-looking solution that protects public health, the environment and the region's quality of life.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Scott Fetzer

Having them out there kind of sets the pace for the rest of the team. Their energy kind of spreads out, and other kids feed off it.

George Gero

Gold is a safe haven. We have major political problems in Iran and energy problems in Nigeria.

Pedro Marquez

Kevin is really focused on getting 47 feet. He's working hard toward that.

Marcus Trufant

Ken's in everybody's heart right now, ... But at the same time, we've got to focus in and make sure we get things done on the field.

Mark Hendrickson

Knowing what they can do, I was just trying to stay focused and make good pitches.

Choo Freeman

Just look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what you need to do to get better as a player.

Richard Bayer

Keep the focus on networking and contacting organisations directly.

Ron Hutchins

John is a very pleasing young man to have. He's very focused on what he does. You'll see him moving up.

Chad Hedrick

I think it really helps to stay away from that and really focus on what you are here for.

Judy Jeffrey

I think it helps focus students on being accountable for what they have to learn. It also focuses accountability back on teachers so that they are doing a good job teaching students what they need to know.

Bobby Perry

I think it goes back to our focus and being ready for the game. I think it was just focus.

Scott Olsen

I was just about there on that jump (at 6-4). I just had to kick my leg over and I was there. My goal (this season) is 6-2, so I'm happy with that, but with that 6-4 jump being so close, hopefully I can get that as my highest height.

Ben Howland

Just so you know, our goal is to not let you ram it down our throat.

Joby Scroggs

I talked to them a long time in the locker room afterwards, looked several in the eye. It was a heartfelt thing - hopefully they've set some goals they truly want to accomplish.

Louis Saha

It can be a player's poor shape. It can be injuries. The number of matches played. The number of goals scored.

Robbie Earl

I take great pride in showing that I'm able to step up in key times. My role is to score goals and put up numbers.

Glen Murray

He was a big offensive threat for us, and to lose him when you're having trouble scoring goals, it's going to hurt the team. To top it off, losing to a team that we're chasing, it's not good.

Benjamin Raich

This was a goal I had long envisioned. It was not easy. I had a lot of pressure.

Dave Clark

He's a big kid, but he has great reflexes. He can come out of goal. He has great hands and a solid goal kick.

Dustin Boyd

He's a good goalie but if you get some goals on him, he'll kind of shut it down.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Hanna

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Howard Stern

I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, 'I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million.

John Huarte

I was just as surprised by that as I was when I won the Heisman. It's a great honor and it's nice to know that even so many years later people still remember what I did in football.

Chris Eyre

I was lucky, I had a Verizon phone and it had great service all through the storm,

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Maurice Garner

Kenyatta just had a great season for us. It might have surprised a lot of people, but not me because she has such a great work ethic.

Joe Paterno

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

William Cobbett

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

Robert Collier

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William Jennings Bryan

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

William Saroyan

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

William J. Clinton

America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.

William Gilmore Simms

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Samuel Smiles

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

John Tortorella

It better not be hard. We have to maintain it.

Suki Waterhouse

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job.

Daniel Bruhl

Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.

Saku Koivu

He's a strong man, tough to maintain down low.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

William McDonough

we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.

Barry Hyman

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

David Pringle

It is not enough to preserve open space. We need to maintain it.

E. Hicks

I wouldn't say it was a competition. We always pushed each other, whether I messed up or he messed up. It really didn't matter who started. We were working together.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

David Peterson

He's always been that way, ... It don't matter if he's playing ping-pong or throwing marbles. He wants to win.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Bobby Bowden

Joe's showing the world he can get it done, when nobody thought he could. That reminded me of the Penn State teams we used to see.

Carmelo Anthony

I take this as motivation. It's nothing to be upset about. I can't take away and nobody else can take away what I've done this season.

Jim McKay

It boggles my mind, ... Nobody thought it would get that high.

George Jennings

It is a little unsettling to be the first wave. It's going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.

John Scofield

I think that he is one of the most unique voices in all of jazz. Nobody sounds like him.

Ben Allen

Whatever they recommend, he will do. Nobody ordered him to do it. He did it on his own.

Rien Long

What more is there? ... In the weight room, nobody competes with Haloti.

John Hoffman

There is nobody else. We can't operate without a president.

Rena McCullough

We're pretty much the redheaded stepchild around here. Nobody respects us." ()