Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Stretch

The statement was a lot more forceful than the market was expecting and that has given Asian currencies a strong boost. Japan is going to have to tolerate a stronger currency, like the rest of the countries in the region.

John Boultbee

We should be pleased to have avoided some of the heavyweights of Asian football. It's a good draw.

O. Singh

I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.

Richard Florida

L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity.

David Mann

The falling rupiah ... puts general pressure on Asian currencies.

Sepp Blatter

The Iraqi footballers have overcome testing times to win a qualifying berth for next year's Asian Cup finals in China and their coach has shown a lot of courage to continue on the job,

Mahinda Rajapakse

All those who bring honor to our country at world class sports events such as the Olympic Games, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will be richly rewarded.

Luo Xuejuan

This is my first East Asian Games gold and I'm very happy for it.

Ivor Heerden

This has the potential to be as disastrous as the Asian tsunami. Tens of thousands of people could lose their lives. We could witness the total destruction of New Orleans as we know it.

Scott Simmons

We were OK energy-wise in the first half. But they clearly had a lot more energy in the second half. Courtney got to the basket and really attacked our defense. They have a lot of talent on that team.

Rashad Williams

I could've made less mistakes and attacked him more.

Jim Walsh

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

Karl Rove

He (Gore) attacked Governor Bush as being unworthy of being president for having some of the same views that he now compliments his running mate for having. I guess it's risky if you are a Republican to have those views, but it's courageous if you are Joe Lieberman,

Billy Donovan

I'm just happy for everybody. I'm very blessed and very thankful for the opportunity to coach these kids. I thought whoever attacked the other team's defense better was going to have the best chance of winning the game.

Pau Gasol

I knew they were not very fast off their feet and that they are very foul-prone - they put you on the line a lot. I knew if I tried to take them off the dribble and attacked early, it would open up for me and my teammates.

Argus Hamilton

Pakistan test-fired its first cruise missile Thursday in a blatant attempt to intimidate India. It flies beneath radar. If they attacked India with a nuclear cruise missile it could wipe out the entire United States customer service industry.

Peter Gregg

Our farmer members have seen their crops attacked by deer year after year, and it's caused a large economic toll.

Robert Pendleton

We were a little shaky early and out of sync offensively. Then we calmed down, spread the floor and attacked the basket.

Rob Neyland

Nobody else has a ski resort in the background to make their snow.

Maajid Nawaz

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Suzanne Jones

They just kind of paired nicely. Mom really enjoyed sharing the background of his show and the story. She enjoyed sharing that with tourists.

Al Groh

We could just as easily lose a player in the fall as we can right now. This is an opportunity for us to build a little background for some of the things that could possibly happen during the course of a real season.

Seanan McGuire

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.

Jim Flanagan

We were so impressed with his background -- not only in government, but as a surgeon, and his interest in becoming connected to the community.

Connie Williams

We do get more requests from elementary schools. The background checks are very valuable, and we think it's worth the investment.

Dan Roberts

We do everything from a criminal history check to a background check of their employment history to checking personal references. We check criminal history; we check driving record.

Richard Kouri

We believe Carole has the best chance of winning in November. She has the money in her campaign, she has the background and she has the best stance on the issues.

Shane Battier

We need Pau to be our focal point. Everyone knows that.

Martin Brodeur

The opponent was always so petrified of him.

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Art Hogan

We were up more than 100 points yesterday, so you're seeing a reaction to that today,

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Tramain Hall

All of a sudden they took the points off the board, ... It was like, 'Are you serious?'

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

W. S. Gilbert

It's a tight race in the WCHA and we know these points are so important.

Bob Fredericks

It wasn't rocket science. We let up 18 points in the first quarter and three in the second. That's the quarter where we won the ballgame.

Joe James

It was a solid team effort. We had 62 points off assists, 35 rebounds and steals.

Andy Reid

We feel that we have the quality to get the three points and we want to win the group.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Dr. Seuss

Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam,

Robert A. Heinlein

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

Graeme Souness

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Charlie Anderson

He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

Sean Kelly

I just remember thinking, 'I don't know what I'm doing so open,' so I just ran in and scored.