Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Ben Brantley

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

Jacques Chirac

Those who admire you -- and they are as numerous in France as they are in your own country -- know that this extraordinary performance represents courage, effort, determination.

Frank Morgan

I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great.

Ani Difranco

even when i look right at you i always just see through and i always just see new things to admire about you

Dawn Roberts

They are very intriguing. I admire the way they live, get food and use sonar.

Joe Diaz

They hit him hard, but he doesn't let them get to his head. He takes it, and he's quiet about it. I admire him for that.

Matt Elliott

I've got one more week to coach Ian Hindmarsh, a guy I have the utmost respect for, and Ben Cross who I admire as well, so I want those two to go out on a high.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Joe Thompson

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Rhonda Rompola

Our slow start in the first half hurt us. We dug ourselves a hole against a very, very good team.

Wayne Grant

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Ryan Crawford

Our entire front row is (6-foot-2 or taller), and we put up a huge block against everybody. Most of the time when we block right, they're not going to be able to get it over with authority. It's going to be a roll shot or a tip to the corner. You've got to have guys back there who are on the same page and ready to get the ball back to the setter.

Henning Kagermann

Against this background we are confident of our earlier expectations that we will be able to grow pre-tax profits for the current year, excluding provisions for the STAR program, by 30 percent to 35 percent and sales by around 40 percent.

Robin Bhar

Against this background, speculative buying underpinned a rise in prices.

John Cridland

Against this background firms are cutting back on their investment plans and expect the rate of job losses to increase.

Wolfgang Schaeuble

Against this backdrop, developments in Iran not just on the question of proliferation, but also on the issue of external security and the impact on life in our own country as well represent a danger.

Donald Young

When I'm up on them, they play better, ... When I was up two set points in my pro match, they had two big serves. ... In the juniors I get a lot of balls back and make them play.

Fiona Shaw

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

D.J. Shockley

It is always good when you can get a lot of guys to catch a lot of balls. It is hard for the defense to key in on one or two guys.

Bob Tomlinson

The umpire did the best he could, but some pitches were so far out. You can't call balls one and two feet over the batters head strikes.

Paul Byrd

You want to give your team a good start and put balls on the corners. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes I give up a lot of runs.

John Gibbons

The best work you can get is taking balls off the bat, over and over and over again.

S. Hughes

It looked to me like we had the balls delivered where they were supposed to be, we had the right patterns called, and we didn't execute or make the catch. When the game is on the line, we talk about who can you count on when the game counts, and we didn't come up with a play to win the game or at least a play to keep the drive going.

Rod Delmonico

It was a poor outing for Craig. He didn't pitch that well at all. He gave up more hits and runs than he's given up all year. In the fourth inning, he got some balls up in the zone, and they hit it.

Jim Haslett

No, it has nothing to do with it. No, it has nothing to do with dropped balls, missed tackles. We can do that anywhere.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Stefan Molyneux

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Linda Tripp

Despite this expensive lesson, I continue to believe that each and every citizen has the duty to turn over evidence of criminal wrongdoing, especially evidence that implicates our highest elected government officials.

Angus Campbell

Despite the U.S. earnings commencing in earnest this week, the recent inability of indexes to sustain their highs has led many to believe that there is impending weakness. For new highs to be set U.S. companies will have to report superb results, far outstripping expectations and things did not get off to a great start last week.

Emily Rose

Demons exist whether you believe in them or not,

John Kilduff

Apparently, the market does not believe a turn to colder temperatures will boost heating demand enough to make a significant dent in supplies. Obviously some other supply disruption may have to occur to take the pressure off prices.

Dave Nabity

A plan for improved tourism and recreation in Nebraska starts with a new vision for Nebraska. It will take a governor who not only inspires citizens with this new vision, but a governor who can strategize and sell this new vision to make it a reality. I believe I am the one who can do this for our state! For more than three years now, I have been developing new creative ideas to expand tourism and recreation.

Don Marquis

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Maripol

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

Les Moonves

There is a genuine question whether people are going to want to pay $12 a month for (Howard Stern).

Chris Eigeman

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

Ephraim Sneh

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Paul Ernest

We didn't throw a lot, but when we did, we were successful,

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Willie Randolph

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.

Michael Robinson

They're in my ear, 'Tell 'em to throw it deep, Mike, throw it deep. They want the ball, and they're going to make some plays.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Zygi Wilf

We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Ang Lee

I think I can work with any type of actor.

Brenda Brathwaite

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

Bobby Lee

When 'MADtv' got cancelled, I didn't work at all - for three years.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.