Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Scott

Jack brings that year of college experience to us and will be a huge asset to our inside line backing corps and special teams.

Bill Cowher

He's a tremendous asset to this football team.

Don Phillips

We think having a community college next to our new high school could be a real asset to our graduates and our current students.

Caroline Boren

We are fortunate to have a journalist of Paul's stature leading our internal communications efforts. His broad newspaper experience, as well as technology and training expertise, will be a valuable asset to our communications team as we expand our employee communications efforts.

Uday Kotak

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

Chris Root

I think we have a PR issue, in that people do not think the utility industry has great significant technical challenges. College graduates look at us and see poles and wires, and don't realize there are things like automation, computer control and sophisticated asset management systems out there.

Ken Sheinberg

I think it's triple witching activity. The move has been pretty impressive but the liquidity has been horrendous so it doesn't take a lot to move this market. There was a rather large asset allocation and when that got through, you had a lot of short covering and bottom fishing that just fed on itself.

Mike Bobo

It gives us a chance to stretch the field vertically, and it's a big asset getting those guys out of there.

Timothy Ghriskey

I think today is a day of portfolio window dressing, with asset managers making sure they don't have cash sitting around for the end of the year, which tends to be favorable for stocks.

Mona Sutphen

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Elliott Sadler

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped, ... The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

John Jones

I would say that we won when we had to win and did what it took to win (in the first half of district). I wouldn't say our wins were pretty, but we have to put that behind us.

Rohan Verplank

Katie skied great and was only 0.6 and 0.3 seconds behind the winner.

Jeff Tedford

Joe took the game pretty hard. He just needs to know we're behind him 100 percent.

Tim Rooney

He was behind the Chrysler turnaround in the 1980s.

Eric Bruntlett

He left it up and out over the plate. I got lucky there. I got behind in the count and had a pitch earlier in the at-bat and missed it.

Kathleen Bergen

He left behind his cowboy boots and luggage but he came back and the police were there.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

Adrian Moss

I wouldn't say Anthony whipped him, but he taught him. You're defending Anthony Roberson every day, and there's probably no better scorer that's come through this program than Peep. When you're defending him every day, you have no choice but to get better.

Ani Difranco

Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

LaVerne Knox

I think that's a good choice. He didn't want to go far from home.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Kurt Campbell

We (the U.S.) face a fundamental choice between a fundamentally flawed deal and no deal.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Brian Iannessa

I think by helping alleviate the cost of veterinary care, we are giving pet owners peace of mind. It allows them to have a choice about their pets care.

Fergus Clydesdale

I think it's wonderful that people have a choice and have the money. But not all people have the money or the choice, and we have to be concerned with those people, too.

John Sculley

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Peter Greenaway

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Steve Smith

He can play either position equally well, and I don't often say that about guards. I hear that and when I see most kids, I think they become one or the other. He can honestly play either. And that helps.

Richard Berner

Greenspan's remarks will be significant, either because of what he does say or what he doesn't say, ... They will move rates higher this year but the timing of that may have changed.

Brad McClellan

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

Clint Hurdle

Hitting a Major League baseball. I wasn't that good at either one. I think I've got the marriage thing nailed down now and that took me three tries. I know I can't hit the fastball anymore.

Jerry Falwell

It could have gone either way, right to the last minute of the game. I think the players took something very positive from that game, that if they play up to their potential, they can be a competitive squad.

John Hobbs

It could have gone either way. It was pretty volatile there for a while. Thank God it didn't turn out to be a free-for-all.

Ryan Kwanten

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

Russell Baker

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Tyler Hilton

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

Tyler Oakley

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

Tyler Perry

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Toyo Ito

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

William Jennings Bryan

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

Woody Allen

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Larry Brown

He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did.

Mark Mersel

He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.

Simon Spurr

I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home.

Larry Ellison

When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Thurston Moore

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Himanshu Patel

The market is likely to be reassured that management is now putting firmer parameters around 2006 performance.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Georgeanne Bender

There will always be people who line up in the middle of the night for those specials, but it's much better to offer people a coupon that allows them, say, 50 percent off on any one item. That way they're much more likely to come in.

Trip Adler

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Joe Banner

Normally I'd say the player is not likely to just pass up getting paid. But in this case, you really can't say. This isn't a very predictable situation.

Susan Meyer

The more options we are able to offer people, the more likely they are to use one of them.

Tom Dorsa

The suspect was most likely in the passenger seat of the vehicle at the time.

Naveen Andrews

I already had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. They wanted me to get a proper job, like any right-thinking parents would.

Kathy Banks

He is a parent and he is responding as a parent and that is how I'm taking his response.

Renzo Rosso

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Russell Crowe

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

Tullian Tchividjian

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

Venus Williams

My parents always told us, you know, you have to get your education. You're not supposed to become a statistic.

Vera Farmiga

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

Valerie June

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

Robert Smith

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

Naveen Andrews

I already had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. They wanted me to get a proper job, like any right-thinking parents would.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm just doing what I've been taught by my parents to do, ... This is the right thing to do, and I'm trying to urge other people to do it.

Ann Jackson

You've got the new parents like myself who don't know what to expect, ... For me, as a first-time parent, I think it's good.

Wendy McGonigal

A lot of it has to do with parents who smoke. It was a part of their culture.

Doug Horn

I've always been told by parents how well our team handles these competitions.

David Stewart

Some will still be around because they have parents with robust businesses.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Andrew Solt

It was the only show I watched with my parents as a kid,

Jody Ault

They all have wonderful personalities and a wonderful work ethic. Their parents are hard-working people.