Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Delk

I think God had a lot to do with it. A lot of prayer by a lot of different people. I just continued to be professional and not really get upset about the situation that was taking place in Atlanta and continued to keep working hard. I knew, at some point in time, I could help a team out.

John Smoltz

There's a perception problem in Atlanta with the bullpen. It's hard to let go of the past. As soon as something goes wrong, everyone says, 'Here we go again.

Al Simpson

We're losing teachers to Atlanta who can move there and get a $10,000 signing bonus. We're in a global market now and we have to figure out ways to compete.

Greg Lewis

We are not ready to play Atlanta (in the season-opener on Sept. 12) yet, but we have around two weeks to prepare. We have a lot of room to improve. We had some mistakes out there, so we are going to come in and get better next week.

Dominique Moceanu

Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.

Brooke Elliott

I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

Tom Martin

The only thing I found out from Atlanta was that they thought I'd lost life on my fastball. I don't know how that happens in four appearances. I don't know if there was something else going on. I don't know if I want to know.

Mark Schweiker

When you look at Atlanta and you see that 22 foreign-based companies have set up offices there since the Olympics and you see all the jobs that moved in there, you understand what's at stake. It's a heavy initial investment, to be sure. But you also are talking about possibly a $12 billion pot at the end of the rainbow if you land the games.

Robby Gordon

We're not just thinking of the Daytona 500. We've got cars finished all the way through Atlanta right now. So our race team is a lot better race team and we've got a lot of confidence in our guys. We're getting our structures and processes and procedures and all that stuff in place where a year ago, we didn't have that.

Ronald Hill

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Elon Musk

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Paul Wolfowitz

It's not an exaggeration to say that 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty need a result from Hong Kong,

John Chamberlain

The retail operations have to find a way to make money at some point, and if you've got a $1.7 billion in debt, then you've got to generate some pretty good cash flow to service that debt.

Chris Shilakes

On calendar year 2000 revenues, this would yield a $387.9 billion market cap, or $70 per share. This is right in line with current trading levels.

Mike Karp

Not too many people know that STK does about $1 billion in IT services each year. Sun may likely get to ride their coattails.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Joe Farren

This is impersonation. These companies are engaged in an illegal activity. They're profiting from it, and they need to be prosecuted.

Steve Neimeth

This is hugely positive for the market tomorrow -- two bellwether companies reporting big upside surprises in a market where people are heavily short and pessimistic.

Alex Alben

This is good for the Internet, because it means more and more companies will have confidence that their content can be securely streamed to end-users.

David Saks

This is a theme that I think investors are missing, because as tech and retail companies continue to warn about profit shortfalls, there are no revisions in the drug area.

Joe Skorupa

This is a strong entry from F5, and it's a hot market, so other companies will move into this space.

Josh Wright

We have really heavy guitars, but the vocals aren't heavy.

Soma Somasegar

But the processes out there, I think, are too heavy weight.

Chris Evans

I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.

Mark Maselli

It's a big, heavy tax, and that's why people don't want to raise it.

Tim Buckley

I've had some initial talks. But other than that, I can't comment.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Elizabeth Strout

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Ricky Gervais

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now

Brady Quinn

It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.

Billy Bragg

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Daniel Webster

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

P. T. Barnum

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

Oliver Goldsmith

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

Margaret Thatcher

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

Philipp Meyer

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

Pol Pot

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Julianne Hough

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Jackie Chan

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

F. Stone

There was quite possibly one other person shooting, ... We do have witness statements.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Irish Proverbs

A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

Henry George Bohn

Every potter praises his own pot.

James Beard

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

Nile Easton

It's just two potholes and we'll be in and out very quickly.

Bob Marley

a pot a cook but the food na kno

Amos Lee

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Ricky Nelson

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

Roald Dahl

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Tamsin Greig

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Levi Stukes

We need to come together even more now since we're in a downfall.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Tommy Chong

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

Tom Brady

It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Steve Bruce

You could understand Emile's frustration. That's why he reacted the way he did.