Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Bryant

Jackson thanked Claypool for backing the airport, but he did not endorse him. He is neutral in the county board president race.

Vitor Meira

John has been backing me since I started in the IRL and we've got a great relationship and I feel very lucky,

Michael Woolfolk

There are strong economic fundamentals backing not only the U.S. economy but the U.S. dollar right now. We are likely to get two more rate hikes.

Dick Handbury

He?s got a very good staff behind him, both up on the hill (at the district offices) and down at the high school. And he?s certainly going to have the backing of the board.

Joe Girardi

He saw me a lot when he came to the park, because I was always backing up first base, ... He makes you feel pretty comfortable.

Alfred Goldman

We're in the process of making a bottom but probably not at the bottom. After the damage done to people's psyches, my guess is we'll get a bounce, but then spend a month backing and filling in this general area.

Jim Padilla

I think we'll see some degree of moderation, but I don't see any backing off to a large degree.

Jim Zalesky

Oregon State has a great tradition. You've got the backing of the administration, which is key. You've also got good Oregon high school wrestling, there's a good base there.

James Wolfensohn

If you were in a job where it was unclear what the purpose of that job was and what the backing that you had was and who had the responsibility...you would probably wonder...if that was the thing you wanted to do.

Herb Sendek

He was like a hockey goal-tender. We had difficulty getting things over, around or through him.

Ravi Shankar

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

Kelli Wildman

He may have difficulty remembering something that happened two weeks ago, unless it was something that made a real impression with him. But the doctors tell us that's just a part of the recovery process when a person has been in a coma.

Richard P. Feynman

When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Zane Grey

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Ted Hellard

In the past, the CFL has had great difficulty of where to place these players in terms of how do you give them legitimate tryouts.

Ron Glass

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Daniel Bonn

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

Michael Davies

The enactment of all kinds of laws is an advancement, but the difficulty is how to make sure it all works,

Jim Rosborough

I wouldn't put anything past him. Whatever he says typically gets done. He's just never, ever let any of his handicaps hold him back at all.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

Floyd Reese

I wouldn't be surprised if (Edwards), a veteran guy, gets gobbled up at some point,

Bill Cowher

Joey is the kind of guy who gets us going. We have some unique personalities, and Joey is unique in his own sense.

Mark Hastings

Josh is a very physical kid. He runs really well and has a great nose for the ball. When he gets a hold of you, he's going to tackle you.

John McNeley

J.R. has such a quick release, it doesn't have to be a situation where he gets that open.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Bob King

God's on the sign He made it happen, so He gets top billing.

Bill Foy

Going through that type of tournament at the regional really gets you prepared for the national tournament,

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Gale Norton

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Vijay Jayant

It increase the pie for radio in general.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

David Rose

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Tina Olson

There aren't a lot of obvious places to just go and increase rates.

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Lamar Owens

I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different level ... To come out and play the way we did was phenomenal.

Siobhan Finneran

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Marco Sullivan

I think it's great, personally. Now everyone's got to perform. It's another level of intensity. Everyone is kind of picking it up.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Karl Hobbs

I think we still have a way to go. I want to get to the point where we're playing at the level we need to play at. Because very shortly it's going to come down to one game, one play and that's my focus. We need to be at the level where its one play and your season is over.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

Benjamin Raich

Having to brake or be slow to get a better start number does not make sense. Braking is not something a skier should have to do. It isn't part of racing.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Mike Vrabel

I think you could take that and turn it around to a number of positions,

Anthony Fauci

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Mike Hultz

He was unbelievable. It was probably the second best, not points-wise, but overall performance I have seen live.

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

Amy Bloom

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Jose Guillen

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

Flip Saunders

I'm sure they will want to get a win and split the season series. We'll want to be competitive, and stay sharp.

John Abraham

I'm in shape, I've been working since the season was over with,

Steve Owens

It may be that we simply go from one high-pollution season to another.

Gwyn Howat

It was a wild weather year. The big thing this season was extremes.

John Clayton

He'll end up here. You're not going to see any other teams step up.

Ben Lee

In some places, they're so thick you can't step without killing tons of them.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I just said ?Someone had to make a play, someone had to step up,' and someone did.

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Colin Purdon

I'm nervous. But when we step on the court, it's down to business.

Richard Jewell

The first step was a long process, ... Go Braves!

Paul Turner

The first step is to do this kind of broad-brushed analysis.

Khaleda Zia

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Robert Reich

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

Rod Stewart

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

William Strunk, Jr.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

William Strunk, Jr.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Rick Warren

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

Joseph Altuzarra

You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.

Joni Eareckson Tada

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

Martin Niemoller

That which does not kill you will ultimately make you stronger.

Marian Keyes

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Sanjay Gupta

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

William Hung

I have had no professional training.

Warren Cuccurullo

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

Van Jones

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

Zach Gilford

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

Kristanna Loken

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

Kerry Bishe

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

Kerri Walsh

I'm doing mental training as well. So, you know, body, mind, and spirit - everything is being addressed, every single day. Generally I'll have three training sessions a day.

Marvin Hamlisch

I never took any vocal training

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Eric Bana

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Ashlee Simpson

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under?

Teresa Heinz

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.

John Knox

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.