Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Dave Peterson

We had a very encouraging effort from many of our athletes for the first outdoor meet.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Mitch Barnhart

You have to remember where you want to compete. The schools at the lower end have not had that much success. If you want to compete, you must give your coaches and athletes the resources to do it.

Doug Dexheimer

I have a good feeling. We have some good athletes and good attitudes.

Dennis White

It is a very lofty but reachable goal, ... It's difficult to obtain, some of the best tae kwon do athletes never make it to the Olympics. It's definitely possible though, and it will be quite an accomplishment if he reaches it.

Cui Dalin

It is also the first time that the number of the athletes in snow events exceeds those in ice events. Though we are just rookies in snow events, our athletes are confident to try their best in the Games.

Bill Trumbo

Jeff gets good athletes and they play hard. He's a great competitor and tries to get it done the right way.

Scott Terry

We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.

Michael Ryan

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

E. O. Wilson

I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good.

Johnny Gimble

I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

George Stavropoulos

In this show there is no fourth wall whatsoever. This show is completely wink-wink, nudge-nudge with the audience.

David Hare

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

Audie Blaylock

I love to record and do new stuff. I also love to perform live because there's a connection between you and the audience.

Tom Stoppard

the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.

Francois Cluzet

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

Jiang Xiaoyu

The budget of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not surpass that of 2.4 billion US dollars for the Games in Athens.

Liu Qi

The slogan of the Beijing Games One World, One Dream will also be the theme of the torch relay. Through the torch relay, we hope to promote the Olympic spirit of peace, friendship and progress globally and send the good wishes of Chinese people to the whole world.

Joe Lin

The Olympics in 2008 in Beijing and the World Expo in 2010 in Shanghai will ensure that the IT industry and the government will throw in their might to ensure a smooth introduction of all cutting edge communication technologies.

Liu Peng

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

Mike Canales

I want this to remain fun. That's goal No. 1. No. 2, when this thing is all done and I don't know when it's going to end - no one's making any commitments to Beijing because a lot can happen - I want her to feel more positive about gymnastics than ever before.

Dave Salo

It's always going to raise suspicion if we get to Beijing and they haven't done anything for three years and all of a sudden we've got names that we've never heard of showing up in the finals.

Greg Buzek

The market in the entire Asia/Pacific region is growing well, but it is extremely strong in China with the build-up to the Beijing Olympics.

Barack Obama

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.

Evan Osnos

Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.

Louie Schwartzberg

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Tim Bray

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

Seth Shostak

We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.

Matt Yates

Cruise and containers can happily coexist. The container port is a vibrant and essential component of Brooklyn's varied waterfront. By bringing both aesthetics and billions of dollars in economic activity, it provides Brooklyn with a worthwhile use for her storied piers, and brings much-needed wealth to our local economy.

George Bell

If you were to build a Yahoo! or an Excite today, the cost of doing so would have to be measured in the billions of dollars,

Jan Egeland

It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years,

Tamar Jacoby

It's going to cost billions and take five to 10 years. But do we want to get a grip on this or not? I think we do.

Susan Collins

It's going to take billions of dollars, but I want to make sure that money is not wasted.

Donna Taylor

On this memorable day, we were honored to witness 50 petitioners, representing 24 different countries, take the oath of United States citizenship at a naturalization ceremony in the courtroom of Judge Gregory Frost. Having the privilege of watching this naturalization ceremony was an experience these fourth-graders and their teachers will never forget.

Dusty Baker

It was only appropriate that we won on Sandberg's day. It was quite a ceremony and we played well.

Russ Hellickson

We are proud to be able to honor Ray. We are looking forward to sharing this ceremony with all of his family. He certainly earned it.

Deborah Benaim

We have a special ceremony to give out the medals, complete with the Olympic fanfare music. At the end of the 11 weeks, the person who has lost the most weight out of the two teams wins a trip to Italy.

Ann Widdecombe

As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.

Karen Peterson

People think prices are going to go down and the statistics keep telling us they're not. They need to buy. We have an excellent inventory, excellent interest rates. What are they waiting for?

Brian Leonard

People that really know the game know we have an excellent team.

Michael DeBakey

After reviewing all facts, I am pleased to say that the operation is needed, that it shall provide excellent results,

Jerome Meyer

After five years of excellent financial performance, we are extremely disappointed with these results,

Diane Feinstein

strength, experience, leadership and judgment to be an excellent president.

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Scott Simons

the road to excellent service is paved with gold.

Larry Coker

The protection was excellent and I saw some good things. Things are starting to come around the way we want to see them.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tyler Fleck

The Thunder has great fans, and they're very loyal to their team, so I know they hate me. I'm sure there will be a lot of boos. I expect nothing less.

Dan DiMicco

Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our government will not withhold natural gas supply that they control.

Kamal Sharma

The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

Andreas Renschler

There won't be a total downturn ... overall we expect a slight weakening next year and I think all manufacturers are saying this.

Rusty Petrea

Now my passion is different. Now my passion is guiding this fantastic thing known as the First Tee.

Dougray Scott

It was very hot, very rugged and quite inaccessible. But I had a fantastic time. The work is the thing that motivates me.

Richard Miller

It was an outstanding show. She's a great show person, and she did a superb job. There was really something for everybody. I looked around and could just see smiles on everyone's faces. It was a fantastic show and everyone had a really great evening.

Graeme Souness

I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

Andy Ball

The women had a fantastic season and will do even better in 2006!

Ciaran Hinds

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Gary Maurer

We're having some fantastic meals. They sure know how to cook.

Ted Sarandos

'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

Bill Daly

Brendan was fantastic throughout the process, ... He always put the game first.

Smith Thammasaroj

At the moment, they (hotels) do not even have a map or instructions to tell the guests what to do in a tsunami.

Alexander Pope

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Donald Berwick

We are guests in our patients' lives.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Theophile Gautier

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Martha Stewart

(She) also (said) that she wanted me to be one of the first guests on her show.

Author unknown

Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.

Anton LaVey

If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

William Watson

On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

Nicole Murphy

A lot of people get the impression that it's BS, but there is a lot involved in it. We do play a lot of games, but what we actually do has a lot of structure to it.

John Rampe

Our initial impression is that they aren't that large, aren't that significant. Whether we pull the trigger on whether or not to do more work, we don't know yet.

Diego Della Valle

I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Kevin Towers

The way I look at it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to leave (the offer) out there for other teams to beat.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Al Hubbard

The timing is unclear. In terms of priorities for next year, that's up -- I'm going to leave it up to him to share his priorities with the American people.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Shaun White

I didn't understand how big a thing the Olympics are until I showed up here.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Jessica Ennis

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Jackie Chan

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Dennis Tomasevicz

How many people do you know that are on a bobsled in the Olympics from Nebraska?

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Charles Woodson

I'm trying to make a play. I saw an opening and tried to run with it.

Genesis Rodriguez

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Jeff Cirillo

Even with opening day being what it was, I was very calm, very relaxed.

Mary Hart

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

Beth Macmillan

They said not only would they like to sponsor it, but they would like to have it on site as part of their opening ceremonies.

Danny Boyle

The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Clay Aiken

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

Curt Weldon

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

Amanda Hocking

My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.

Cindy Margolis

Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!

Richard Madden

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

Steve Martin

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.