Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Long

Any grass-roots organization or group of individuals that come together often have an impact with local officials when they're reasonable. If someone's indignant, rude or loud, reasonable people get turned off. It's almost like they click a switch off in my brain when they get belligerent, and I almost don't hear some positives they may have.

George Young

Another rule: I took pictures of what intrigued me, but I didn't alter the pictures on the computer except to crop. And there are almost no people; it's more about scenery.

Venkaiah Naidu

As far as the successor's selection is concerned, we are holding consultations and have almost arrived at a name.

Bill Joy

As far as I know we also almost bought Apple once. We almost merged with Apple two other times.

Mark Schneider

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

Wendy Gordon

As hard as it was being away from (my family), I really felt like that's where I needed to be. You almost feel guilty coming home because they have to stay and live it for who knows how long. So, whatever relief we could give was an amazing experience for us.

Gary Barnett

as good of a practice as we've had on a Wednesday. We had good spirit and executed very well. It feels like we're almost there.

Shamir

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.

John Evans

As everyday road cars, they are not the best, ... They are quite high strung and almost demand that you push them. Although they are easy to drive, my most pervasive thought when driving on the road is 'Am I going to jail today?'--and you have to really like talking to 20 people when you buy gas.

Frank Kelly

Right now, we need qualifying donations, ... We don't want people backing up a dump truck; there is a limit to what we will accept.

John Bolton

Quite some time ago the president said unequivocally we support the development goals in the millennium summit declaration, ... Now that's different from the goals that were actually written by the secretariat. There is no backing away by the United States in the support for the millennium summit declaration.

Sebastien Bourdais

It was tough; I had serious thoughts about backing off at some point -- especially with the championship situation -- but once you're in the car, you just can't do that so you just have to keep going.

Charles Portis

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

Brian Campbell

We're showing them that we're not backing down. I think it shows a lot of character in this room and what the guys are about, how badly they want to win.

Jim Corridore

Obviously oil backing down a little today allows investors to focus more on the relatively strong earnings performances last week.

Alex Segura

If they are backing out because of political pressure, it's nothing new.

Javier Sambrano

She was backing out when, for unknown reasons, her 2-year-old daughter ended up getting in the back of the vehicle.

Steve Cole

That's backing into applications, rather than approaching by the front door,

William Butler Yeats

A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.

Jaime Pressly

As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.

Philip Omondi

The bus broke down and the next vehicle also had a technical hitch. But let us not go into the details. We now have to find a way of getting to Asmara.

Mark Loizeaux

The building actually broke up better than expected. And the rain helped mitigate the dust.

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

Robert Brusca

Back before the recession, we had strong job growth and no inflation. There's fuzzy thinking going on here -- I thought we'd broken the old idea that strong growth is bad. As long as productivity growth can remain high, fast job growth is not a problem.

Steve Fossett

As of May when we broke the Marseilles-Carthage record, we held the six fastest outright passage records. And now Maiden has encroached on that.

Rajon Rondo

That was a big key. We broke their pressure with patience. They didn't make us play up-tempo like they wanted.

Greg Gibson

Ramon ran very well. He broke 17 minutes for the first time.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Troy Hudson

Any situation you can put me in, I've been there. You just leave it up to the coaching staff and be ready when called.

Skip Bertman

As far as I'm concerned, John is going to be our coach for a long time.

Mike Ryan

As far as leadership, I have never coached a better kid, who comes to practice and games ready to play. Her desire to win is unmatched.

Wayne Morgan

As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

Frank Hadden

As far as captaincy is concerned I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night,

Charles Wang

As everyone in this room knows, Steve is one of the finest gentlemen you will ever meet in any walk of life. Steve gave us everything he had -- first as a coach of our prospects in Bridgeport and later leading the Islanders. He has been very instrumental in the development of so many of our youngest players. It is my hope that Steve will stay in the organization.

Justin Griffith

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

John Shaw

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Salomon Torres

The momentum of the game, I liked it, ... Because even though we were losing, it was coming in our favor. The guys never stopped fighting.

Condoleezza Rice

The moment of truth is coming here, ... and it's time for the co-sponsors to get together and discuss it.

Ronnie Wood

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Tim Bajarin

Dell is notorious for taking a wait-and-see approach, and then, if something catches on, coming in and dominating it.

Trevor Ariza

A new start is always good. But I'll miss those guys. That was my first NBA experience. There's always going to be some love there.

Buddy Gouldsmith

As he gets more experience, he's going to get better and better. I think he's still getting used to the speed of the game a little bit.

Rachel Weisz

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Deron Williams

As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

Bob Tate

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids that play basketball. Win or loss is not the important thing.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Greg Brunner

A senior should hit that shot, and I didn't. Nothing else I can say about that.

Peter Wright

As a team, we're starting to hit our stride. I think we're playing the type of tennis we need to be at this time of year.

Jason Boone

As a whole they need to hit the weight room, ... We were outrebounding them by huge margins every game.

Keith Andrews

The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Roger Clemens

A very hittable pitch, ... When a guy's at this level, it doesn't matter if he's 21 or 41. He's going to hit that.

John Pescatore

Back then, it was more a reaction to all these worms and viruses that would hit Windows, and Microsoft would get yelled at. Symantec's stock price would go up every time there was a virus.

Sergio Garcia

That was a big hit on my head. She was a lovely person, very caring.

Tom King

That was a big hit for us. It was pretty much the answer. When Blackwell got that hit, it really got us going.

Cathy Austin

Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Julio Franco

Why not? They signed me here for two years.

Anne Rice

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Shawn Ashmore

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Glenn Miller

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

Jennifer Capriati

I didn't even, like, look at it. It was close. I was just going to do what the umpire said,

Jack Kevorkian

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Buzz Aldrin

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

Freddie Mercury

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!