Famous Quotes & Sayings

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Billy Donovan

As a basketball team you have to go through it. They need it. The game came down to our inexperience on the basketball court to their experience.

Joakim Noah

As a basketball player this is your dream -- to play in the national championship game. It's just such a great feeling that it's finally here. There's been so much hard work and so much sacrifice. There's so many moments that I can go back to -- being a little kid, walking to practice. Now I'm finally playing in the game.

Michael Wong

As a group, we don't have the size and strength of other basketball players, so we try to create our own little world of basketball. We're not trying to lock people out because we're better. We're protecting our weaker status.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want the chance to do. We just did what we've been doing all along.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want. It's been an exciting, exciting week for us.

Lee Humphrey

As a college basketball player, this is what you want a chance to have an opportunity to do.

Gary Williams

As a college basketball coach, I'm upset for the future of game. Somebody has to be accountable. You can't blame just one group of people for this, unfortunately.

Craig Shoemaker

The boys are excited. When we do put four quarters of basketball together, we're a pretty decent team.

Ron Perry

Authorities are worried. Our fire conditions, as far as the grasses and the brush, in all of Texas except for the coast are in extreme fire danger.

John Rogers

Coast to coast, consumers are embracing Pay By Touch. Hands down, paying by touch is the simplest way to pay and is making consumers' lives easier everyday.

Jim Knight

Depending on the day, we'll have shipyard reps, vendors, engineers and the Coast Guard,

Joe Bastardi

The Texas coast is in for a long period of tropical activity.

Jase Robertson

I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

Brad Davis

Some people may feel that we are stating the obvious and some people may not. We want to encourage people to move away from the coast rather than towards it.

Richard Curtin

Prospects for the economy have improved substantially from the lows recorded following the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the surge in gas prices. Firms still expect a slower overall pace of economic growth during 2006 than in 2005. The expected growth slowdown is mainly due to anticipated increases in interest rates. Firms are much more optimistic about their own prospects in 2006, as they expected strong growth in revenues and profits.

Steve Pennington

I've noticed tournaments up and down the coast are all down because people are doing other things on weekends, like fixing their houses.

Craig Fugate

It would be like a weed whacker going up the coast

Jim Winchester

Any increase in Middle East oil market share is very positive for the tanker business, because the Middle East is the producer farthest from major oil consumption markets,

Julianne Moore

As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York.

Mike Brey

As of now, we're feeling pretty confident. I like that group. We've had better spacing on offense. But there's no rulebook saying we have to have a set lineup when we start Big East play.

Chris Quinn

That was a big win for us. Every night in the Big East is a battle.

Stacy Stewart

On this track, Maria should remain well to the east of Bermuda and only pose a threat to shipping interests.

Jim Graves

Approximately two-thirds of East Ship was lost to the storm.

Frank Baumholtz

Any of the East teams could surprise the field.

Jim Brown

After Florida, Virginia is the fastest growth market on the East Coast.

Mike Nichols

'Streetcar' is no longer about the moment at all. There is no Blanche DuBois anywhere; south, north, east or west. We don't have Blanche DuBois at the moment. But we have Willy Loman; everywhere we look we see Willy Loman. We are Willy Loman. We're on Facebook; we need to be known; we're selling all the time.

Larry Martin

As fast as it goes, it sounds like your popping corn.

Jason Tanner

Radford hosted the Region III meet three years ago and I actually swam there back in the day and it always was a really fast pool.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Prices have retreated unusually fast and there is still two months left for the thermometer to drop.

Al Wilson

People thought we were fast before. But now, with getting Ian back, yeah, it's like we've gone to the afterburners.

Scott Elliot

People are still walking in here as fast as we can get them out,

Bob Hamley

People don't realize that in lacrosse you need an even number of left-handers and right-handers. Matt is a lefty who is very fast and has a lot of skills.

Howard Newton

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

John Zarrella

After six months of paperwork and a year waiting, we couldn't get there fast enough.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Jerry Butler

The seniors here are about pushing you and motivating you to get better. They're not about, 'You're a freshman trying to take my job.' If you can play, they're going to push you to get better. Right now, I'm learning and they're helping.

Steve Hill

The thing with these guys is that theyve all been there before, ... They were all freshmen and sophomores when we were down at state two years ago. Thats whats been the most important thing for them. They all know what needs to be done to get to that point.

Rudy Morrow

After my freshman year when I got the gold in the 200 I was really excited. The 100 was a little too short for me.

Michael Starke

They are always tough and competitive. We just want to try to get better this week and come out fresh Friday and give them a sweat.

Judy Olson

This is attributed to the quality of the programs as they replicate what Operation Fresh Start began.

Cynthia Steffe

The white shirt looks fresh and new again; the white shirt is key. It's back for spring in a big way.

Lawrence Frank

This game was a huge test of will. The mental toughness that we showed in the overtime, of starting fresh and living in the moment was unbelievable -- a true team win.

Katia Winter

If I had a choice, I love making smoothies, or having some fresh fruit and some good snacks. A smoothie with banana, kale, blueberries and almond milk is so good.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Mary Pope Osborne

A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.

Paul Kariya

At home we just have to score in shootouts and obviously Sullivan and I didn't do that tonight.

Morris Peterson

At home, it's all about pride, and to lose so many at home at the start of the season, that was telling was that we had no character.

Joe Duffy

At home I'm obedient. The first day I'm back, I usually just listen to what she tells me to do.

Charlie Ebersol

As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.

Martin Rucinsky

That's where we go when we miss home.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Carrie Martin

People get really comfortable, and they don't want to leave. These people's lives have been completely uprooted. This is the only home they've known for weeks.

Thomas Campbell

O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Gerald Henderson

As a team we understand we can get so many buckets at the rim. We've been working on that, trying to get better at it in games.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

Alain de Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Robert H. Connelly

This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site,

e. e. cummings

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. M. Forster

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E. M. Forster

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.