Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Ed Ratledge

People use it for everything from trying to build a road, deciding on a prison almost any kind of public purpose like that.

Ken Whisenhunt

(Our) thinking was since they (Colts) had all of their time outs, taking knees would give the ball back to them. Besides, how often does Jerome fumble the ball? Almost never. It was just a crazy thing.

Greg Wilkinson

Our estimation is that he's under about 30 feet of snow right now which is going to make it almost impossible to find him with poles or regular things that you would use in an avalanche type of situation.

Chris Cooper

Our decline rate is almost double that of the national rate. We've got 150 construction projects per year, mostly for capacity and safety.

Brian Hoffman

Our eyes almost popped out of our head.

Alan Greenspan

Our analysis of economic developments almost surely will need to deal in greater detail with balance sheet considerations than was the case in the earlier decades of the postwar period,

G. H. Hardy

People seem to want to hug New Orleans right now, and this is one way they can do it. It's almost like a patriotism toward the city.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Joe Novak

As a whole, this class is the best athletically we've brought in here.

Jon Gruden

As a football player, Woodson is such a unique guy. He can stand in there and play man-to-man, old-school bump-and-run coverage with the best of them, and he will knock you out.

Jim Haslett

As a football coach that is not the best thing for this team.

Tom DeLay

As a member of the House leadership, I am fully supportive of doing what is in the best interests of young Elian and moving this bill through Congress when we return,

Riley Wallace

The seniors have led the way, there's no question about that. There was a time during the year when we lost a couple games that they could have gotten down, but they never did that. They just went to work and really kept it going. It all starts at the top with the leadership.

Herb Grace

The team put forth a courageous run with a couple of huge wins in the postseason. We had a lot of fun winning two straight league championships, and we owe a lot of that to the seniors, who have sacrificed a lot to get us here.

Bruce Johnson

A downturn of 10 to 15% in agricultural land over a couple of years could be possible.

Steve Strand

After missing a couple of years, we re-established that we are a playoff team.

Billy Davis

Sometimes you're looking at Eli and he looks just like Peyton a couple of weeks ago.

Kathy Thompson

Teachers receive a lot of training in reading instruction, and I think we've seen that start to pay off over the last couple of years.

Bonnie Reed

It would be nice if we had a couple thousand more dollars. It would really be helpful to these people.

Al Jefferson

It was tiring. I had a couple dunks and a lot of jumpers, jump hooks and free throws. It was crazy.

Robin Pemberton

These seats are strong. They don't move around. You can see the head's surrounded when they take an impact. It's got a couple of inches of foam.

Vidal Querol

The slope was so steep that when one person stumbled, they fell like dominoes.

Kaley Cuoco

When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.

Tony Martin

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

Marvin Imel

Dr. Stratton also had a practice in an office just south of the post office and served the Odd Fellows for about 50 years.

Jonathan Levine

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

Nancy Mitford

Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late

Scott Niedermayer

We fell on the wrong end of the stick on a lot of the calls.

Robert Browning

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth

Bob Yagge

She's very tough, she's a very competitive pitcher. We were just prepared better in that inning for her. We prepared the whole game for her, but that inning everything kind of fell into place.

M. Wolfe

The more participants we have, the better we can be. I think we can have a real strength in numbers.

Jeff Carnazzo

The strength of our team has been our defense.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Benjamin Bratt

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

Jane Goodall

I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

Bruce Lee

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Sergey Brin

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

Anne Robinson

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Manny Pacquiao

If he wants a rematch, I will give him a rematch. There should be a third fight.

Paul Duca

It's the third time I've done it. It doesn't feel weird any more.

Jack Roush

This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,

Dusty Baker

It was a tough day to be a third baseman.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Denny McCrotty

We tried to manufacture some runs, it was too much. That's kind of been our story for some kind now." ()

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.