Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Ricky Barnes

As of right now I'm planning to play these next six tournaments well enough to avoid Q-School. It's really, really iffy right now so I need a couple of good weeks.

Jon Daniels

As important as he is to the club on the field, to the organization, to this community, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting where effectively we're paying lawyers to tell independent arbitrators how little we think of Mark. We wanted to avoid that. He shared that sentiment with us. It's a mutually beneficial deal.

Bob Motzko

That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.

Carol Thorp

Prices rose 4 cents today (in San Diego), and that is not unusual lately. There is profit-taking; no one can avoid that conclusion.

John Ashcroft

Our efforts have been crafted carefully to avoid infringing on constitutional rights, while saving American lives.

Sen Hawkins

People take you out to dinner. It's just a normal practice down here, but I have made it a point to avoid doing such a thing.

William Millar

People are trying to avoid the high cost of gasoline by using public transportation.

Jay Feaster

John Grahame is licking his chops to compete for that spot.

Johnny Estrada

He might be licking his chops right now.

Barbara Walters

If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be?

Dennis Herlong

It will be like trying to chop down a sequoia.

Suzanne Fields

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

Heather Jensen

They think there's a ring, and they think there's a chop shop in town.

Peter Jackson

When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.

Larry Sassorossi

We compare what we're doing to those guys in Korea going up Pork Chop Hill. They didn't make it to the top the first time. But they kept trying until they made it.

Fran Drescher

The thing about Fran Fine is she'll always be the flashy girl from Flushing.

Ben Steele

I wanted to come back, ... That's what's disappointing - I missed out on a pretty good opportunity (to play). But I'll be fine and ready to go on Monday.

Stephen Hadley

Scooter Libby is a fine person. And he served the president and the vice president well,

Rich Anderson

Ryan gets a little upset when he doesn't get a hit. He's really aggressive. He'll simmer down though, he'll be fine on Thursday.

Bob Etheridge

Rural Americans need to read the fine print in President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security,

Billy Joel

Rolling Stone magazine would not say anything positive about me, and they were the tastemakers at the time. There were people from the old guard who insisted I wasn't a real rock and roller. Well, O.K., fine -- I'm not a real rock and roller. You got me.

Source Unknown

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

Sarah Parker

Samantha is my friend. She's my family. My insides. She will be fine because she has to be fine. That's how important she is to me.

Tim Ryan

The script doesn't spoof the movie entirely. It just walks a really fine line where they're playing that style to the hilt, so some of it is quite funny.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Philip Hoffman

I wish there was a podium here - you wouldn't see my knees shaking.

Matthew Wright

Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow. . . and a scratch to her lower back,

Ethel Barrymore

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Fulton J. Sheen

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

Frank Ocean

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

Malcolm McDowell

I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'

Satchel Paige

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Zakk Wylde

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Brett Gardner

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

Brett Favre

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

Ashton Eaton

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Baruch Spinoza

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Augusten Burroughs

After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go running and not because I'd just been on a killing spree.

Jim Mowen

I've been walking on eggshells and trying not to badmouth any other candidates.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.

Virginia Jackson

I've been trying to get it done for a long time.

Jimmy Rollins

I understood that he was trying to get to third,

Robby Wine

That's what they're trying to do right now, show that it is worldwide.

Steve Sullivan

You're always trying to improve. When you see everyone else around you bettering themselves, you want to do the same thing.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Aziz Ansari

No one's trying to get with jugglers.