Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Hahn

I think it is a very, very prestigious award for Story County. It shows that we are truly energy efficient and trying to spend the taxpayers' dollars right ... It also shows Story County is doing the right thing.

Gene Robinson

Green Hills Software offers the industry's most comprehensive IDE and RTOS solutions. When these are combined with our award winning Rhapsody systems design and software development family of products, our two companies, each the fastest growing and most successful in our respective fields, provide a truly synergistic solution. This not only benefits our mutual customers, but also sets a new standard within the embedded systems market by not just integrating products but by also integrating the manner in which these products get to the end-user,

Richard Shoemaker

We're obviously very pleased to have yet another Nobel Prize awarded to someone in our department.

Jamil Moledina

We are extremely happy to host the awards ceremony at the Game Developers Conference. We believe it's important to celebrate the individual recipients and provide them with as much exposure as possible.

Bruce Parker

It is humbling and I am very proud to have earned this honor. It may sound trite, but there is no question that this is an award that is in large part due to the great staff and outstanding student-athletes that I am fortunate to work with here at Carroll College.

Joe Gibbs

He's been very, very competitive. Some people are born to be accountants and lawyers. Some are born to be quarterbacks. And he was. He's very tough. We gave him an award this week for being tough. He's a tremendous competitor.

Marsha Samitt

There is an awards committee that makes the decision on winners, and we look at the community in general for winners, not just members of the Chamber of Commerce.

Van Huyssteen

We have to be careful not to undo things that are good. The decision was taken and I was part of it. The Test has been awarded to the Leopards and one would need a compelling reason to take it away again.

Ryan Hall

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

David Skorton

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Ron Artest

I talked to Stu Jackson, which was encouraging. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my career which (were) unfair. I support my teammates, and hopefully they'll win the game, and I'll be back Friday (for Game 3).

Jim Fuglie

He dedicated his professional career to kids, and his retirement years to volunteer work, especially work with the credit unions.

Lindsey Graham

has been in the legal trenches throughout her career and has a tremendous understanding of how the law works in people's everyday lives. Her legal experience combined with her life experience makes her a solid choice.

Andrew Larson

For me, personally, it just made my career more meaningful, ... It never gets old. Any time, anywhere, I love talking about it.

Peggy Jones

I think its a good example of how the community and the developer can work together.

Mary Bach

I think it's a direct reflection on the kind of community that we are.

Tom Daschle

I think it is essential we put as much pressure through the international community on North Korea to do the right thing and do it quickly,

Rep. Heaton

I think in Mount Pleasant we have a really great cross section of the community attending.

Susan Tucker

He was a visionary in the fact that he knew this community needed a place to gather. He saw this as the southwest hub, and it has really become that. His vision really has come to life.

Mark Curtis

Hamden is a great community. We look forward to a long relationship with the city.

Jeff Pollard

I think it's a risk in how the community will react.

Alice McGrew

It is a community issue, not just parents.

Darren Allen

It is a community field and for the entire community and that's how we see it.

Samuel Alito

I would try to emulate her dedication and her integrity and her dedication to the case-by-case process of adjudication.

James Cianciola

He's always really thorough with them and really interested in talking about writing and helping students become more efficient and more learned writers, so I really see a dedication to students.

Jay Eisenhofer

He's a very intelligent guy, very dedicated, very principled.

Jay Robinson

It involved a whole lot of hard work and dedication from us both.

Pete Moyer

I think the fact that we have all three (score) is a real testament to the hard work and the dedication those three have put in. When you get one in the top 16, that's something .... when you get three in, it's really quite a treat.

Kim Weston

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

Penelope Cruz

He's completely different from the others, and he has a special dedication to his actors.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen

John Coltrane

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

Don Brewer

If there's one thing I've said more than anything else, it's that it's great that this is (one of) the first teams to be inducted. Because that group was the epitome of team.

George Lois

If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.

John Sulston

The free market is the epitome of life itself. This is something that all scientists recognise because science itself operates on free market lines.

Corey Williams

It's very emotional. I've known them a very long time, watched them grow, and this is the epitome of their high school career.

Tami Slowiak

It was just a lot of fun. Every single kid played. Everybody, when they were in there, did something -- whether it was a dig, hit or getting a hand on a ball. Nobody on this team is an all star, but as a group they function. They're the epitome of team.

Jason Collins

It's the epitome of a lot of hard work. We're all hitting shots. Seems like if you shoot a 3, it's going in.

Alex Newell

You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

Larry Gerwig

They're not mellow. These guys really swing. They are the epitome of New Orleans.

Kevin Collins

PWC will be unregulated for two years in truly pristine natural environments, places that are the epitome of a national park, like Cumberland National Seashore in Georgia. This rule doesn't help in any way.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Frank Baumholtz

Kaiser has played pretty well this year; they have great potential.

John DeVries

Katie was playing well. She'd get herself open and put herself in position to score ... she makes things happen.

Jeremy Baker

Kate Moss has got to suffer, throw herself to public opinion and plead for mercy, and then she can rebuild her career.

Tina Deese

Holly was big. She was in the pen, and I told her to get herself right physically, get herself right mentally, and she did. She did that very well.

Debi Bell

I really wanted her to succeed. She had such high standards for herself and (her son).

Stephen Gillers

The justice is a law into himself or herself on that issue.

Kent Evans

It was just a boy's name, ... Even in the movie, (the name Madison is) a joke. She named herself after Madison Avenue. But that's where it comes from.

Owen Meredith

Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man

Debbie Dool

She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself.

Doug Caskey

This is a self-imposed imprisonment because she shuts herself away to write to try to make sense out of her life.

Janne Darata

His mother said it would be wonderful to know we were honoring Mike and thinking of him.

Patti Brooks

I think it's just an honor, but I don't know what Herbie would think of it. He didn't like all that. Like having a street named for him in St. Cloud, that wasn't his way.

Curtis Strange

I think it's a wonderful honor and privilege to be called that. But you do it to his face. I ain't doing it.

Danny Costello

I think it's an honor to win this.

Meredith Vieira

I thought about this long and hard, and I am so, so honored to join this family.

Jack Schrader

I think it was a well-deserved honor. He was a two-time player of the week and the only underclassman on the first team.

Patrik Elias

I think that's the ultimate individual honor. If you're lucky enough to stay with one team, that's awesome.

Scott Ross

It is my understanding that the parents did not want the police to become involved so we honored their wishes.

Woody Johnson

I am honored to serve on this committee.

Vivica A. Fox

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

Pam Borton

I thought she was playing scared and tentative. Jamie wasn't getting the job done.

Anthony Bourdain

I think (Travel Channel) knows it's not getting Jamie Oliver or Rachel Ray when they throw their lot in with me.

Tony Raines

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing,

Nancy O'Dell

I just love Jamie Foxx!

Jawn Murray

For many people, the Oscar can be the kiss of death, but Jamie is showing that he has staying power in this thing for the long haul. He just keeps getting better.

Diana Gabaldon

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

Richard Petty

What's your take on the Jamie McMurray and Kurt Busch deals?

Keira Knightley

She really thought what she and Jamie had was love, but it just wasn't meant to be.

Robert E. Lee

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

Richard DeVos

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Woody Hayes

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

William James

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

William Osler

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Zig Ziglar

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Zig Ziglar

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

Thomas Carlyle

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.

Jerry Krause

I wrote, 'He's as smart a young player as I've ever seen,'

Ben Chandler

I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy.

John Madden

He could do it as a player and he could do it as a coach, because they respect him. That's what it's all about.

Charlie Coe

He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.

Justin Fishman

GW has always had talented players because of where it's located.

Chris Morris

He's a very experienced and uncompromising midfielder, and I like having that type of player in my squad.

Kelvin Sampson

He's a unique player and he kind of does what we need.

Dave Tippett

He's a tremendous player who does everything so well. And he's going to be especially important under the new rules.

Michael Barrett

I think it?s going to be a lot more like home. I think players are going to end up spending a lot more time here.

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Tom Gorman

We're proud of what happened. It was important for the community.

Manson Hill

We're proud of our players. We outplayed them in the second half, and we had a shot to win it.

Brian Smith

We're proud of Levi. He's one of 11 state finalists at Bellingham.

Kevin Ellis

We're proud of everything Raynham is and stands for. That's why it's worth it.

Greg Zipadelli

What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,

John Torchetti

I was just proud of our whole team. This is a team win if I have ever seen one. From the goalie out, we competed.

Rick Barnes

He had to step back and look at a lot of things. I'm proud of him, because he took a tough situation and got the most out of it.

Rex Ryan

I can't tell you how proud I am to be the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Yvette Girouard

Softball is an easy sport to fall in love because our game is fast paced and action packed.

Yvette Girouard

In softball . . . , the softball gods giveth and the softball gods taketh away, but that evens out over the season.

Trevor Hoffman

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

Evander Holyfield

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

Lisa Fernandez

[T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day.

Lisa Fernandez

There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.

Gabrielle Reece

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

Maggie Lawson

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

Mackenzie Astin

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Dan Mclaughlin

It's probably the most broached topic we have at our town meetings.