Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McDonough

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

Alex Rodriguez

The 3-2 slider, you really tip your cap. I couldn't believe it was a 3-2 slider. That situation - bases loaded, the runners going - they deserve it.

Jon Lieber

That was huge. There was no doubt in my mind that was the right decision. You have to go for it in a situation with the bases loaded. If anything, I had one or two good innings left.

Bud Maret

That was very important. That's how we won, by running the bases well and stealing. I thought the girls played decent, and they didn't get down on themselves.

O. J. Simpson

We just didn't hit well. We left the bases loaded in the second, and We just kind of shut it down after that. It was a little tough to swallow, but I think they realize next week is more important than one game tonight.

Jason Hill

We have the capability of doing everything we did today, ... We have good pitching and hitting. We run the bases well. With all those things combined, when we put it together, we're a very tough team.

Dennis Evenson

We couldn't get much going offensively, but we had one good inning where we ran the bases really well. Douglas played well enough to win, but they just couldn't get the big hit.

Mike Scioscia

We can't get into a slugfest with these guys. We have to manufacture, we have to run the bases hard and we have to run them well. We're confident we're going to do that and that's the type of game we have to bring.

Mike Scioscia

We can't get into a slugfest with these guys, ... We have to manufacture, we have to run the bases hard and we have to run them well. We're confident we're going to do that and that's the type of game we have to bring.

Yoshihiko Noda

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Ivar Giaever

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ian Watson

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

William Kamkwamba

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

Vivek Wadhwa

The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Elizabeth Warren

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Glenn Tipton

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

Zadie Smith

It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

Walter Smith

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Marc Ratner

The police did a marvelous job. So did (ring announcer) Michael Buffer. He kept everybody calm. He told everyone to stay in their seats and that everything was under control.

Anna Nicole Smith

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Brian Van Holt

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

Beeban Kidron

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Bill Hader

I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Zoe Kravitz

I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

Vladimir Kramnik

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Tuukka Rask

The Americans are such a skilled team and I just tried to not lose my focus.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Rich Rodriguez

We have a lot of work to do. But I'd rather win ugly than lose pretty.

Taquan Dean

We had our chances, and we didn't do things very smart at the end. We didn't have to lose this game, and that's what hurts.

Mari Pehkonen

We were so close; it's just a big disappointment to lose when you're so close.

Dennis Taylor

To lose your top three players and come back and do this - it was very unexpected.

Franklin Johnson

To lose a major tournament, it's quite compelling,

Carl Sagan

We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

Ashton Kutcher

Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.

Bill Vaughan

Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.

Bill Bradley

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

Bertrand Russell

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

Anthony Romero

The American military indefinitely detains individuals -- and tortures some of them -- and the Senate votes to strip them of their rights,

Oliver North

I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

William Shakespeare

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

Richard Eyre

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

Simon Travaglia

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Sathya Baba

Whoever makes me the sole object of their love, merges in me like a river in the ocean.

Maya Angelou

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Ellen Thorsen

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Kathleen Bergen

Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system.

George Allen

I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Bob Castellini

We operate it. We don't own it. That's a big difference.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Jim Frederick

Our restaurant is operated by our family, for families.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

Carl Forti

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

Mark Amdahl

Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 turnovers.

Rena Sofer

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

Ann Freeman

There is no sound for a moment, no breathing. And then a muffled scream, like she has pressed something to her mouth.

Pamela Holloway

They pressed us very well. We just didn't keep our composure.

William McArthur

It's not the pristine world that you see on Star Trek, where you see the neatly pressed uniforms, ... What we have is perhaps, from a storage and organization standpoint, is well-managed chaos.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Mayor Baker

My rules are simple. Treat everyone fairly. Treat everyone with respect.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Donald Trump

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Nancy Grace

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Noreena Hertz

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Pat Robertson

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Andy Jackson

We have a lot of talent on this team. We're not going to use somebody being out as an excuse.

Evan Osnos

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Paul Mooney

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.

Bill Owens

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

Hassan Nasrallah

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.