Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Alexander

We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We wanted the bragging rights, but we all were looking forward to this game.

Bryan Mattison

(This is about) bragging rights. Bragging rights for the rest of our lives.

Scott Baugh

This is a big rivalry game for us. There's a lot at stake for us like bragging rights.

Edgerton Hartwell

It's nothing personal with those guys. We're all friends, ... But I've got bragging rights for the next year, point blank. I can brag. They can't.

Johnny Damon

It's the world bragging rights. And I'm proud to represent Team USA.

Phil Jackson

It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.

John Beary

It's a real big rivalry game. There will be 5,000 or 6,000 people at the game (tonight), this is for bragging rights.

Randy Moore

It's all for fun, but don't get me wrong -- it's about bragging rights for 364 days a year,

Jose Oquendo

This is what the event was made for. The fans are going to take it like a fight. For the players, it's all about bragging rights.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

James Park

It's kind of a holiday snoozer, ... All of the big players have locked in their gains for this year. It's just going to be quiet with exaggerated movements because of low volume this week.

Ken Simonson

This marks a real turn around for non-residential construction. I think we will see more real gains in 2005.

Brent Bracelin

It's all market share gains for Dell. You will not see Dell hint at industry growth.

Kelvin Sampson

As he's gotten healthy, he's gotten better and better. He's got a great feel for the game. He can do a lot more things than he's doing right now. As he gets older, gains maturity in this program, he's going to be a really good player in this league.

Charles Lieberman

As long as the productivity numbers are very good, the higher wage gains can be offset by higher productivity gains,

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Susan Blake

I think that the more information we have on a student, the better indicator we have of their prospective success.

David Littman

Our leading indicator - the one that's never lied to us like the politicians - suggests only 23 percent probability of recession over the next 12 months, that's very low.

Chuck D.

If you're looking for an indicator of how a teenager will drive, look at the parents.

Adam Ferrara

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

Julius Peppers

It's an indicator of what's happening, but (the numbers) really don't tell the whole story,

David Weinberger

How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

John Cornyn

The Pew report is another indicator that the immigration system is broken.

Al Sharpton

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

Al Madrigal

We're down in Mexico. It's for a bachelor party, so we go into a Mexican strip club... I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat - these ladies are all business - she goes, 'Go ahead, take out your dong.' 'I'm not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong? If you want to be hip to the lingo, they're not using the word dong up in the States.

Akshay Kumar

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!

Chris Christie

I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't...But I am not a bully.

Chris Christie

I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

Chinua Achebe

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

Edward Gibbon

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

Eddie Murphy

I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

David Remnick

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

Brian Hill

AMA sanctions races in only one place at a time.

Kate Ziegler

They're so ridiculously fast, ... I don't even take out my races that fast. They're tough records.

Roger Penske

As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can.

Robby Gordon

You run those types of races all year long, you find yourself sitting here right in the thick of the Chase.

Dan Ware

As soon as the temperature comes up tomorrow (Monday), as soon as the wind comes up - bam, we're off to the races again.

Jenson Button

We want to be winning races and so just being on the podium is disappointing.

Vedran Pavlek

She's taking a little break. It's just too many races for her right now, at the end of the season.

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Jeff Bonde

She's at the top of her game. She has trained excellent, and she does well when her races are spaced.

Earl Warren

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Earl Warren

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

David Ricardo

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.

David Henry Hwang

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

David Price

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Frederic Bastiat

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Carlos Fuentes

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Joseph Pusateri

We were always taking a back seat to him.

Jerry Berman

They try to get a seat at a lot of tables to have a dialogue, and they do spend money.

Sarah Susanka

This is what Seattle is doing getting architects, builders, designers, etc., on the same page. This is huge.

Barbara Matthews

You see this seat belt? There is too much slack, and so it doesn't secure the baby's seat tight enough.

Mohammed Habib

We won 34 seats and we could have won even more had there not been wrongdoing.

Megan Challender

My seat will be empty. I'm non-violently protesting.

Roger Staubach

I would have sworn that Indianapolis was going to go all the way. Now that Pittsburgh's in there, I think Seattle has got a shot at them.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Joshua Prager

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Akhenaton

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

Chick Corea

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Chief Joseph

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Eartha Kitt

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.