Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Graves

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Kate Delhagen

The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a whole. It has actually led online retailers to renew their focus on customer service, cost reduction and profitability.

Greg Turner

We've already noticed that people are starting to correct their behaviors.

Matthew Barnaby

We spotted them a two-goal lead, ... To win in this league, you've got to play for 60 minutes. We've got to find a way to correct that.

Gretchen Rubin

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Tony Russa

We have to get (Juan) going. I think (hitting coach) Hal (McRae) sees the correction that he needs to make.

Natasha Trethewey

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

Mike Nolan

We don't have any excuses. We didn't play very well. We'll correct our mistakes. We'll learn from them.

Marcus Ginyard

Watching with buddies, you're talking about look at that dunk, look at that 3. You sit down with a coach, and he's talking about look at this defensive mistake that team made and how to correct it. So you're getting a totally different look from him.

Bill Cowher

We've all had heroes, and I know Jack Lambert was for me because I was a defensive guy.

Dennis Richardson

We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season.

Terri Holmes

We struggled early, but the nice thing about it we rebounded in the third inning on great defensive play.

Jason Mathenia

We strive to deny the other team any opportunities in the defensive third. We've taken pride in that this year and it's really paid off.

Josh Smith

We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half.

Kris Kalivas

We spotted them a good 10 (points) in the first quarter. We played a real nice second quarter, defensively. Unfortunately, we didn't duplicate that defensive effort the rest of the ballgame.

Kelly Knuth

We spot serve and she is one of our top servers. She has been on varsity for three years now and has gotten better each season. She is also one of our top defensive players.

Pankaj Patel

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

Ronald Coleman

We have to go up there and have another defensive mindset and get the job done.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Spurgeon

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Alan Grayson

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

Alan Greenspan

If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.

Alan Greenspan

People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Alan Greenspan

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,

Alain Prost

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Al Neuharth

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Mary Bowen

We boarded up the windows and were going to sit and wait out the storm.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Chris Colfer

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Chief Seattle

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Larry Coker

We were totally inept, to put it bluntly.

Doug MacLean

Absolutely, absolutely, totally, totally false. I'm wondering how to say it any stronger.

Tom Petersen

They (the stores) don't have to be totally upscale, but we need some better things.

Helene Cixous

It is totally different from my philosophical work,

Shinji Mori

It's two totally different things. There was nothing wrong until I got injured.

Alan Mosley

This is totally unacceptable. This is going to have to be fixed, and right now.

Craig Venter

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Calvin Klein

The woman is totally different. She's really sexy, she's really healthy, attractive. She's got a body,

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Brenda Johnson

It was surreal, just watching her. But this wasn't her first rodeo.

Felipe Alou

It would've been worse if I was watching the game, but I didn't see any of it.

Pete Carroll

The whole world is watching us. You never feel you can say enough about this stuff.

Kenneth Warren

The whole country's going to be watching this.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.