Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Gee

What has gratified me the most is the enthusiasm I have witnessed this week on campus and among our alumni and friends. No doubt that a winning team brings great credit to the university.

Neil Howard

Alumni Hall worked great, and he's trained real well and he's sharp. You get indecisive when you have another race that suits him 20 miles away. Of course, the Gold Cup is a great race so we're kind of on the fence right now, but we'll have a decision pretty soon.

John Lee

Alumni come out of the woodwork for this one.

Bruce Sherman

This center will greatly benefit students who will one day be alumni themselves.

Cael Sanderson

This is a chance to make a statement to the nation about where we stand as a program. We have young talent and successful alumni and this is a platform to get more experience.

David Gibson

This institution has been around since 1887. It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

David Gibson

This institution has been around since 1887, ... It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

Tony Pals

For a small institution like this to raise that large amount of money involving such a high percentage of its alumni is significant.

Wendy Kopp

It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

Scott Moore

We're in a David and Goliath type struggle, and we're David, ... And David won, as we all know.

Hermann Eilts

David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

Michael Korda

I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.

John Lone

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

Chris Widger

We've got David Carr and Michael Vick at quarterback. We've got Marvin Harrison and Roy Williams at receiver. ... Hey, A.J., who's our running backs?

Hersh Wolch

We'll be given an opportunity to show why David shouldn't be put through the trauma of reliving the horror.

Elton John

Throughout history, gay people such as myself and David have often been made scapegoats by those who fear that we are a threat to the status quo.

Edie Falco

Absolutely, in a show like this. David is really unpredictable. He's not a rule follower.

Rasual Butler

They had to rotate to David West because he is such a good shooter from 17 feet. But once they rotated, he saw me and swung it to me in rhythm and luckily for us, I was ... able to make the shot.

Alan Hansen

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

David Duval

I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

David Duval

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

David Duval

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

David Brenner

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Arnold Palmer

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

Arnold Palmer

All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.

Arnold Palmer

I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.

Thomas Bjorn

That was the worst day in my golfing life. I tried to keep it together but it just didn't work out.

Trent Dilfer

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Cat Deeley

I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'

Charlie Hunnam

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

Brian Harrison

We're looking for bodies, and we're looking for a hostage taker.

David Hoffman

It suggests that he's not particularly hostile to securities plaintiffs and many judges are.

Greg Rosenblum

There was shouting. There was hostility during the deliberation. There was adamant disagreement, but ultimately everyone respected everyone else's point of view.

Dan Kaminsky

There may be millions of hosts that are now vulnerable to something that they weren't vulnerable to before.

David Sears

It is rare that a school agrees to host a program of this size while the university is in session.

George Noory

It's a non-confrontational show. At that hour of the night and into the morning, people don't want some show host screaming and yelling. They want to be informed and entertained.

Don Cornelius

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

Tom Izzo

It's as competitive as it's been since I've been at Michigan State.

Bob Morris

This is a very rigorous program that moves Michigan from one of the lower-level states to one of the top.

Marco Killingsworth

They're Michigan State ... They're going to make that run. We just have to weather the storm.

Jose Fernandez

This is probably the strongest schedule we ever played. We had that stretch with Carolina, DePaul and Michigan State, then played LSU and opened on the road at Pitt. So we've played some quality teams.

Brent Musburger

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Bret Bielema

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

Joe Johnson

The people of Michigan will play an important role in this survey,

Adam Haluska

Up there, we rolled over, no question, but I remember saying that I thought we were a better team than Michigan State.

Tom Izzo

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Charles Evers

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

Josh Matthews

We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good

Paul Davis

As someone that respected the jersey, respected the university, respected the program and did everything for it.

LaVonda Wagner

They have done everything they could to get this program started.

Mary Campbell

They had been kind of, I guess, loosely under the volunteer program of the university.

Jon Gruden

This guy's wired. This guy's infrastructure is one that allows him to play a lot. That's how he's programmed and we're going to ride him as long as we can.

Tom Krause

They're trying to speed up their transit times in respect to providing better service for their customers.

Jeff Alexander

It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.

Dan Rosensweig

It's about providing a service that users really want.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Charles Stanley

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Daymond John

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Doug Flynn

We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.

Jim Tracy

We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.

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.

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Debbie DeCarlo

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

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Mark Warner

A lot of states wanted to help, but there was no place to turn.

Troy Pachner

They made the type of adjustments that a state championship team makes.

Tim Koerber

This ain't getting any easier. The top two state teams were in our region. You just never know.

Kelly McKeon

This has always been our goal, to get to the state championship game. We want to go there, and we want to win.

Eddie Rodriguez

It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing without Mexicans.

Adam Campbell

It's the state tournament. Everyone comes to play.

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.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Jim Johnstone

We want to thank everyone for all their help.

Edward Gibbon

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Eartha Kitt

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Alan K. Simpson

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Charlize Theron

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Bessie Smith

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Chris Breslan

Tom trained on Wednesday, and he'll be okay.