Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Jason LaRue

During that good stretch last year, he showed that he could keep the ball down and throw his off-speed pitches behind in the count. It's an ongoing process, but I'm confident he'll do all the things necessary to take that next step this season.

Barbara Turner

During that 15-0 run, we moved the ball really well and we got the ball to people in positions where they were comfortable to make plays. That's why we were able to do it.

Laurent Robert

During my first matches at Newcastle, I just watched the ball pass over my head!

Patrick Martin

Defensive mid is my position. I've been playing it for a while so I could read where they were going with their goal kicks. I just positioned myself well and if I needed to make adjustments I could do that. My team helped me out a lot by letting me know where the ball was. They helped me out a lot.

Colin Clarke

Defensively we were pretty solid. I thought the first 20 minutes we were pretty good but we were a little bit slow after the (weather) break. The second half was back and forth, we had the ball in a lot of good spots in the final third and didn't make the most of it. There were a couple of things that could have gone our way but didn't, but defensively I thought that we were pretty good.

Steve Hawkins

Defensively, we've got a little more depth, ... We lost quite a few good players Å  but we're deeper this year. We're still pretty young. The guys who are playing got a lot of playing time last year. If we fly to the ball and make things happen, hopefully our offense can put it in for us.

Craig Nicholson

Defensively, we're solid. As long as our pitchers throw strikes and keep the ball in the yard, we're going to make a lot of plays.

Gary Graham

Defensively, we played pretty hard and our net defense wasn't bad. But we didn't have the opportunity to put the ball away on them as much as we liked.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.

Alex Hannigan

There's a culture change in our society. People used to buy the biggest box they could afford. That is changing. People want to spend their money on a detailed home, jewel boxes that are smaller but have more detail.

John Heimlich

There's no question we never anticipated that kind of fuel reduction, ... We thought fuel prices would be going up, and instead the second biggest part of our operating pie had a big reduction.

Darryl Hill

There's no question we had circled Navy on the schedule. That was the biggest game of the season for us.

Jeff Zucker

There's no question the biggest priority for Steve in the coming two years is the evolution of news gathering and delivery of news, via new models.

Chip Durham

There's no doubt we're sending a message to these guys. The biggest thing is that the one thing I know these guys understand is playing time and traveling and when they're not doing that it hurts them a little more.

Stacey Alston

There's no excuse, we practice here everyday at the same time of day. I don't know, that's the biggest thing that bothers me about the errors. We don't have an excuse.

Cory Sarich

There's just been more of a commitment on our end. We've started playing better team defense. ... The biggest thing has been a commitment by all the guys on defense out there.

Jerry McSwords

Ryan came through. He wrestled an exceptional tournament.

Jerry McSwords

Ryan came out on a mission. I thought he wrestled a little flat at sectional, and obviously this week he didn't wrestle flat. He had something to prove.

Terry Youngbauer

Rusty Wolfe may have only scored seven points, but they were a big seven points. He came up big for us when Clinton came back on us.

Jim Webb

Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.

Brent Ellis

(Reverend Walter) McLean who came in 1927 often didn't take his salary. There just wasn't money for that.

Jason Varitek

Right now, we're just trying to get him out, just like everyone else. But he came up big for them.

Brad Smith

Pre 9-11, public health issues were seen in a different prism in Washington than security issues. After 9-11, those two worlds came together.

Madeline Albright

President Yeltsin came to this meeting with his goal to explain his view of what was going on, ... When he was here, he heard from others who saw it differently.

Douglas Brinkley

President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.

Jerry Allen

Our defense has been consistent. It's not a secret that we lost some good players (on offense) from a year ago.

Brian Baker

Our defense has always been what's helped us turn things around throughout the year.

Peter Diepenbrock

Our defense got us some transition baskets. That's what really got us energized, and got us going. We were kind of tentative in the first half.

Jacob Carey

Our defense gets into people and wants to get after it as a team and flow as one.

Jeff Kuckelman

Our defense does a lot for us. Nine points in a half, that's pretty good defense.

Dave Forster

Our defense did it. In the fourth quarter they were tired, their shots were short. But our offensive execution was excellent down the stretch, as well.

Chris Garvin

Our defense did a very good job today. We had the game we lost to Northeast and we were just out of it. Tonight the girls knew they really had to work.

Cheryl Cole

Our defense did a tremendous job, but we gave up some key offensive rebounds down the stretch that hurt us.

Vance Belew

Our defense did a real good job and kept us in the game. With the momentum we had from the late drive just before the half we were in good spirits.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Frederic Coudert

It was young, idealistic and wonderful. But idealists have a hard time in this world.

Gena Rowlands

It was when A Woman Under the Influence played at the New York Film Festival. It would be hard to top that. It was one of the most extraordinary nights of my life.

Aaron Ross

It was a long year, but when you see these rings, you know all that hard work paid off. I think this is why people come to The University of Texas, but I sure didn't think the prize was going to look like this.

David Howell

It was a little hard work to be honest.

S. Hughes

It was a little hard not to jump up and down.

Mike Seward

The second and third quarters we played hard and played well but we got tired.

Duane Witter

These seniors have been working hard the whole year in practice. That hard work paid off for them tonight. You do all this preparation and when your opportunity comes, you want to make the most of it. These seniors made the most of their opportunity. We don?t get that effort, we don?t knock off that team.

John Beilein

The stats tell the story of the game. Pitt played a tremendous game. We'll learn a lot from this game. It was very hard to get open looks in this game.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Dominic Monaghan

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

Shane Sisco

During a timeout, I told our kids it was do-or-die now.

Charlie Stewart

Essentially, I played six kids in a 44-minute game. Three of my kids played all 44 minutes and one other kid played about 42 minutes.

Walter Beck

First you have to actually teach the kids how to swim. Second, you need to show them what a meet is and third, they need to learn how to be a team. I think that they did pretty well with all three.

Peggy Brown

We lived in Port Coquitlam and the kids went to the same school as Terry Fox,

Jeff Lebo

We do not score 64 points in games. We have had maybe 10 games, maybe, where we have not scored 64 points. Our kids battled, but Tennessee was too good.

John Cohen

Better players. We have more talent and kids who have been around the league.

Pat Gabriel

Everything that's going on now has to do with what the kids have done to make themselves better over time.

Manu Ginobili

We played the whole playoff thinking they were not shooters.

Dennis Melcher

We played them pretty much evenly in the second half.

Tom Dowd

We played their (Cougars') game. We played a 5-on-5 half-court game. We don't have the shooters to do that.

Samari Rolle

We played smarter, and we played for each other.

Jack Bagley

We played pretty well tonight. I'm pretty pleased with the effort.

Jim Bowden

We haven't scored any runs. Deivi has played some shortstop, second and third base,

Ricky Ray

We just did it as a team today. This team played great.

Jon Kitna

Whether he watched or played every play that first year, I think Carson would be doing the same thing he's doing today.

Kelly Young

We played much better in the second half. We started doing the things we've been working on in practice and were more relaxed.

Danielle Clark

This can really set the tone for us for the rest of league.

Linda Wright

This is the only retail we do and it's well worth it. The rest of the time, we're wholesale.

Andy Reid

It really knotted up on him. We tried to get it out of there, but we were not as successful as we wanted to be. We'll let him rest and see what he can do (today).

Chris Carpenter

It's all in your mind, ... It has nothing to do with how much rest you have. Concentrating on what you're doing, that's what makes you successful.

Trevor Hoffman

This is where I'll live the rest of my life. I'd like to play here the rest of my career.

Paul Harvey

Now you know the rest of the story.

Scott Adkins

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Debbie DeCarlo

Word got out. He only got two cookies. The rest went in 20 minutes.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Becky Hale

I'm sure there's something out there. I'm just not sure where.

Geary Claxton

I'm not even sure why I got that one.

Jacob Micflikier

I?m not even sure we tested him as much as we would have wanted to.

Jim Danneskiold

I'm not even sure we could read these disks now, the technology is so old.

Antonin Scalia

I'm not even sure I wanted it, to tell you the truth,

Jay Bennish

I'm not even sure I'm taking a position.

Damian Woetzel

I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.

Billy Crystal

I'm sure you'll see more (celebrities) if we make the playoffs.

Shane Warne

I'm not sure I can go that long. We'll wait and see.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

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.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Denis Hayes

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

Britt Ekland

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

Ben Hecht

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.