Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Buckman

Any given day any player on this team can shoot the ball. Daniel did it (Saturday) against Baylor and then did it again tonight.

Mike Grier

As badly as it is, it's effective what he does out there. He draws penalties. He gets under the other team's skin. So I think we are all aware of how he plays the game. It's just something you have to deal with when you play against him.

Gale Norton

As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a 17-mile stretch of river, ... In another case, she sat out the fight against a corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.

Mike Holmgren

As clean as we were against New Orleans, we were that sloppy against Dallas tonight. We were just careless. That was kind of how it went.

Robert Palmer

As a practical matter ... she now knows the charges against her. The important thing is, now she has not been terminated.

Claire Messud

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Miles Avery

As anticipated, we scored lower than in our first meets. We gave some of the younger guys experience and we weren't at full strength, but we will be ready for next week against two of the top teams in the country, Oklahoma and California.

Jerry Jasinowski

As a trial lawyer, Edwards brings to his job an inherent bias against innovation and the American entrepreneurial spirit that is essential to compete and create jobs.

Todd White

As a team we were pretty passive Friday night against them in our zone, letting them create opportunity after opportunity. We tried to tighten up defensively and eliminate their plays as quickly as we could tonight.

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Dr. Tullman

Of course, youve also got to follow up and make sure that the changes youre asking for get made. Excuses or apologies which arent accompanied by changes in behavior (and real results) are just insults.

Cliff Floyd

Day games here are definitely different than night games. The ball travels a little bit more. He ran out real quick. You're asking a guy who is very, very talented - very athletic - but who doesn't play as much to get a good read on the ball over his head off the wall. Your normal center fielder has a slightly better chance because he's out there every day.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide, ... Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

Scott Erwin

The students had a 'textbook definition' understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.

Dawud Walid

The tactics that the abductors are using -- showing her with a veil on, crying, asking for the release of the Iraqi prisoners -- is an unacceptable tactic. Even if the abductors believe the Iraqi women are being imprisoned unjustly, Islam does not condone two wrongs making a right.

Jeffrey Mount

The system can't do what we're asking it to do. That system was designed to protect mostly agricultural land.

Rich Harden

The thought never crossed my mind about not starting the season until a few reporters started asking me about it. In my mind, I'll be there. I'll be ready.

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Frederich Cepeda

This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Dave Peterson

We had a very encouraging effort from many of our athletes for the first outdoor meet.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Mark Wheeler

We have a bunch of excellent athletes and I have high hopes for the boys.

Mitch Barnhart

You have to remember where you want to compete. The schools at the lower end have not had that much success. If you want to compete, you must give your coaches and athletes the resources to do it.

Thomas Brooks

We try to do that. We have a number of athletes capable (of contributing). We don't want to be one-dimensional.

Lisa Miller

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Cherry Hill

an elderly person/couple or woman with young children.

The Archives

an opportunity to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.

Barbara Boxer

A proposed rule on human pesticide testing that fails to protect children and families should be shelved immediately. A protective rule must be issued in its place,

Alice Moore

These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to all children they come in contact with. The Archdiocese has an obligation to minimize or eradicate that threat.

Barbara Boxer

These measures are all about a power grab by Gov. Schwarzenegger that hurts our children, our schools and our teachers.

Jean Richter

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun

William Schaffner

the stunning fact that children 6 to 23 months old, if they get influenza, have the same high rate of hospitalization as adults 65 years and older.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Mark Williams

Despite the fact with the issues we have with supplies, etc, we're standing by our commitment.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Larry Usher

These seniors knew that we expected two things from them: commitment and team-first (attitude). These underclassmen know from watching the seniors.

Bryant H. McGill

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Babe Ruth

What the hell difference does it make?

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Barbara Mikulski

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Brian Tracy

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Brandon Lee

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Boris Spassky

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ben Okri

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

Ben Okri

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Ayn Rand

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

Francis Mathew

Seek to join Power, do not seek to stop power because you will fail.

Alexander Rumyantsev

Russia is ready to join the project anytime, because it has enough potential and willingness for it.

Tony Norfield

This is screwed up big-time, the whole intervention program. It's possible that there will be more intervention, but it's unlikely the U.S. will join in again.

Greg Gazin

Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Nora Roberts

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Abdullah Abdullah

Terrorists from all over the world have joined them.

Ken Kendrick

We are thrilled to have Josh join our staff,

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

David Kennerly

(The sitcom) touches so many people. The world would not have suffered had I not done this. This show lives on.

Donald Rumsfeld

The task is to keep at it until Americans can go through their lives without fear, ... It is a marathon, not a sprint. It will be years, not weeks or months.

Ronda Storms

This is a real victory for people in the community. And for moms and dads, and for people who are just trying to live their lives and have a neighborhood that's safe and that they can be proud of.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Rob Pike

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Jim Calhoun

Brandon Roy, in my opinion, is one of the top two or three players in the country.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

O. Henry

We want to get players into the NPC as soon as possible,

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Joe Cocker

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

Mario Teguh

You are the strongest when relaxed and at peace

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.