Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Tom Williams

We will try to exploit our depth. We would like to send two kids (to state) in five to six events that can score. That's one factor we can control.

Jim Fuller

We won more than half of the events. That was one of the goals I put on them. To win more events than the other teams.

Roger Milla

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Ray Bradbury

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

John Quincy Adams

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

Mason Cooley

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

Michael O'Donoghue

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

Tim Cranton

This was a pretty astonishing number for us. We knew that it would be a high volume, but this was an even greater volume of spam than we had anticipated passing through one computer.

Richard Holbrooke

the U.N. is being tested in Kosovo as it has never been tested before, with responsibilities greater than ever before.

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

Rig Veda

There is no religion greater than truth and a truthful person knows no fear.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Gunter Grass

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Bob Leib

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Andy Xie

If growth in the U.S. slows significantly, all of Asia's exporters will feel it.

Vladimir Putin

There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

Vladimir Putin

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

Paul Ernest

We didn't throw a lot, but when we did, we were successful,

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Willie Randolph

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.

Michael Robinson

They're in my ear, 'Tell 'em to throw it deep, Mike, throw it deep. They want the ball, and they're going to make some plays.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Nathan Paetsch

We're not mathematically eliminated, we're not going to throw in the towel.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Diane Duane

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Dana Perino

reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

Dan Ariely

The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.