Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Duva

We took a gamble on Johnson and he dogged it, ... We risked a lot of money to do it, and he didn't come through.

Robert Ray

He is dogged and he is tenacious. But he's also responsible.

Kofi Annan

the fall-out from the Oil-for-Food scandal has dogged all our lives for the last year, often gave us the feeling that we were on an inexorable downward slope.

Steven Rowe

Maine has an impeccable record of upholding our end of the settlement agreement. Our enforcement has been more than diligent; it has been dogged and determined.

Richard Corliss

By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor since Bela Lugosi hung up his fangs.

Allegra Huston

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

Bob Weir

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

David Sullivan

He is a very good player but it seemed a gamble paying that much for a young centre-half, and we had already spent our money anyway.

Frank Robinson

He may come back from this and be able to compete. But if they go in there and operate, he's done for the season. If it does work, we'll lose him for a month or so, and that's about it. Maybe two months at the most, but you would have him for the rest of the season if he holds up, which is another gamble. It's worth the gamble to try this first.

Andrew Clark

If you're not a gambler and are truly risk-averse, the speculative portion of your personal investments should not be more than 10 percent.

George Galloway

I'm 51; I'm younger than Tony Blair. I don't have a dicky heart; I'm up like a broom handle in the morning. I don't drink or gamble - I'm still a catch.

Graham Sharpe

The gamble started in South Wales and moved down towards London from there.

Steve Baker

It's not as big a gamble as you would imagine it would be. It's all geared to hotel rooms and increasing the length of stay in hotel rooms.

Daron Schoenrock

That's a gamble play there. If we had to play it over, we would do it the same way.

Susan Kalla

It just seems as if RIM is headed for a high-stakes gamble with the way they're handling the license dispute.

Susan Kalla

It just seems as if R.I.M. is headed for a high-stakes gamble with the way they're handling the license dispute. The lower-risk strategy would be just to settle. We're wrestling with what investors should do with the stock given the dispute.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Joanne Wuensch

If you want to step back, yeah, they are mucking up Johnson & Johnson's bid.

Bob Poole

I'm 0-17 in Milford in the regular season in my 17 years of coaching. When you have second and third and no one out, you start thinking that maybe this is the one. But Johnson just shut us down.

Jan Wald

The combination of Guidant and Johnson & Johnson is a stronger threat to Medtronic,

Kurt Busch

Jimmie Johnson is putting a whoopin' on everybody!

Pokey Chatman

The truth is, we really had no transition,'' Johnson said.

Muddy Waters

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

John Avery

I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Solomon Jones

We took them for granted. If we don't play hard, we took them for granted.

Norv Turner

We took a look at all 16 of them,