Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

Lester Piggott

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air. Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

Francois Hollande

After what happened yesterday -- notably at the Sorbonne -- with these images of brutality, I ask the government to end its obstinacy and stubbornness and open talks toward withdrawing this law.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Larry Porter

Coach Miles has been good to me and my family, ... For him to ask me to come was an honor to me. It confirmed our relationship. It meant a lot to me.

Carl Charles

Coaches ask how we do it. I say to them it all starts with the coach. If they buy into what he's teaching, and they see he's passionate, then they'll respond positively.

Theo Epstein

Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon -- he is his own player. He brings his own strengths. Johnny was an outstanding, elite leadoff guy and center fielder for us for four years. It's unfair to ask Coco Crisp to fill those shoes. He's going to go and do it his own way.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

Mike Bibby

Coach said it was the first time in 20 years he had seen that.

Hosea Berkley

Coach (Paul) Hatcher said the streak had to end sometime. I just wish it wasn't tonight. But everything happens for a reason, just like we won 85 games in a row for a reason.

David Ryan

Coach McCaffery was great to us this year. It was a great year, and right now he's our coach.

Ben Ryan

Coach let me take a couple long ones in practice yesterday, longer than I normally take. So I was pretty confident and I got a good snap and a good hold, and just finished them off.

David Thomas

Coach Leach was the first one to offer me a scholarship. I'll never forget him.

Brandon Roy

Coach knows that when the game gets tight, a light switch goes off in my head.

Carl Tobias

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Mark Kimmitt

I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,

O. J. Simpson

It's not confirmed yet, but I want to do it. I've battled those demons. I'm ready to go back out.

Dick Muir

There were some very pleasing performances from the new guys. Some confirmed they might have what it takes, others did not. That is what warm-up games are for. You only really know how good a guy is when you test him in a genuine match situation.

David Fischer

We know that when he was 14 years old, he was adjudicated as a delinquent. He was found guilty of molesting two children. I have confirmed that through several law enforcement sources, and I am confident.

Taiji Yoshida

Today's numbers confirmed the recent share price performance.

Mulugeta Debalkew

There are many types of avian flu, so to determine what type it is and get our results confirmed we have to send the samples to Italy.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

Lisa Randall

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me.

LaDainian Tomlinson

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Ewen Bremner

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles R. Swindoll

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Charles R. Swindoll

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Liam Payne

Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Kirk Kaczor

Defensively we worked as hard as we could. But offensively we made more mistakes not getting trough screens, not going hard to the basket, not making a pump fake. All the things we talked about because we know how good Morgan was and how good their big men are.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Brenda Lee

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Dick Cheney

We are here to honor the memory of seven lost explorers,

Desiderius Erasmus

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Miguel de Cervantes

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Bill Gibbons

Phoenix is honored to be the newest member of the Glen Raven team.

Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Shane Koyczan

I was never meant to be this thing...

Nabil Sha'ath

He told me he meant everything he said in his speech.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Josh Harding

I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a lot for me that he was there.

Peter MacKay

This was not meant to be a slight to anyone.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Bill Sadler

Don't think of it as 60 miles a day.

Greg Edwards

Every 100 miles you go, you've got a new arena, ... Everybody's got one.

Kenneth Blackwell

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Thomas Haden Church

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Mark Calcavecchia

Obviously, money is not an issue. They don't need the money, which is nice to be in that position. But it's just golf, you know? It's not a marathon. It's not the Ironman out here, swim 26 miles or something. It's just golf. Take next month off.