Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Thiel

It barely passed, and it shows the pilots are not in favor of giving the company anything more. That's the smallest margin that anything has ever been passed by Delta pilots.

F. Schumacher

It barely opened anywhere! They didn't put any money behind it at all.

Ron Gardenhire

He just didn't make enough pitches today. He was all around the zone but he just missed. He was barely missing, but when you get behind these guys, those types of hitters, that's what happens.

Alan Mulally

Having barely moved off their original positions, union negotiators were demanding more than $1 billion more than what was in our best and final offer,

Keith Simmons

He was pinned behind the dash board pretty good. He was in there so tight he could barely move.

George Beck

I'd like to have a third and a fourth. I'm hoping to stay away from injuries. We need more bodies because we barely have enough to perform.

Gary Mills

Really, this has been a tough season. We've had some chemistry issues. We've had to practice with machinery going on, so that we could barely hear each other. There's just been a lot of adversity, some of it self-made, but we came together.

Rory Bremner

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

Stan Wasowski

If you slept too many hours, you didn't even know it. We barely caught the tail end of it.

Olympia Snowe

I think it demonstrates their effectiveness, ... It makes you realize they are critical at moments like this, as we have seen off the coast of Maine.

Jim Lee

I'd like to see some of the things that ordinary folks have. Our local folks, with their tradition of joining the Coast Guard, and the Life-Saving Service before that, traveled all over the world. So they'll have some souvenirs from Lord knows where.

Dwane Casey

He gets them in so many different ways. He is as quick as Iverson with the ball, probably not from coast to coast, but from a standstill going to the basket, he is as quick.

Brad Thor

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

Tony Skinn

Being on the court is a whole lot easier than being on the bench. It's a roller coaster ride on the bench.

Flip Saunders

The first game back after a West Coast trip is always dangerous. I thought we had terrible energy and terrible passion in the first half. We seemed very disinterested.

David Feider

The impact to us is our export grain operations are essentially halted until the U.S. Coast Guard and Corps of Engineers reopens the river to ocean-going vessels. Until then, we can't unload the cargo.

John Hamm

All Nova Scotians have been shocked and moved by the terrible destruction and suffering on the Gulf Coast of the United States, ... The victims have been in our thoughts and prayers all week.

Paul Tagliabue

This is not about a football game, ... It's about the NFL and the Saints making a statement as to what we stand for as far as rebuilding in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region.

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

John Hollman

There is no comfort words can provide in a situation like that. The truest comfort I could give was simply holding him in my arms, and letting him lay his head on my shoulder and crying with him. That's all I could do.

Sam Martin

We try to provide comfort at school so they know they have someone to talk to.

Allen Terrell

We've been waiting all year for someone to step up and grab hold of that fifth spot, and he's obviously doing that and then some. He's finding that level of comfort freshmen usually take time to find. He wants to step up and show he's a player we can count on.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Arvo Part

I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Larry Snow

I am completely out of my comfort zone making this commitment.

John Gadd

He had comfort from seeing that cross, and I guess he just went there.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Tony Nathan

I would think with Jamal coming back, he's been the horse here for a while and we're still going to continue to ride that.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Kevin Boyd

Katie is a creative, technical player who can impact a game from any position. She is easily one of the top players coming out this year.

Chuck D.

Joey is a phenomenal talent and his knowledge of the sport and athleticism are off the chart. Now everything is coming together for him.

Luis Fernandez

Juan Miguel is coming as soon as he receives the guarantee from the Justice Department and the INS that he's going to receive the custody of his boy,

David Leibowitz

I suspect that software is going to drive this generation of products much as it drove the prior generation. Nintendo has proven itself a master of coming up with software that has play value.

Nick Saban

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

Steve Nash

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

Phyllis Lehman

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

SuzAnne Miller

He was a wonderful dad and a wonderful man.

Nick Saban

He'd come and visit his dad in the summer,

Bill Scott

He kept telling me he was ready and his dad told me he was ready. After we missed the extra point, I figured enough was enough.

Richelle Nice

There are so many things, so many things. Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Daniel Baldwin

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

Maverick Golden

I think you earn what you get out of life. I've always worked hard I was working hard in my dad's cornfields by the time I was seven.

Richelle Nice

Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring.

Kenny Wallace

I think it's more about letting the world have a piece of NASCAR. I think this is more about making some money, spreading the word about NASCAR, and getting your feet wet.

Trevor Richards

We're in the middle of this formal occasion, and my brother-in-law shoots me this look of 'Trevor, you ought to know better!' ... But I hadn't planned it. I was just trying to get her feet back on the ground.

Elaine Agather

We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.

Brock Blassingame

I think we match up well with them and, likewise, they match up well with us. They like to press and play all 94 feet defensively. The key for us is to handle their pressure and take good shoots when we get them.

Dan Stevens

When they're four, five, six-thousand feet up in the air, there's nothing you can do for them.

Mark Nardone

He had plenty of leg, but he just missed it by two feet to the left. I'm proud of that kid for the game he played.

Stephen Hess

He does hold the administration's feet to the fire, and that's awfully helpful at this point.

Willie Aames

I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.

William S. Burroughs

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

Peter Beutel

This is all about Tropical Storm Rita ... obviously, the last thing that this market needs is for a hurricane to hit the western gulf where it didn't hit last time.

Larry Wall

These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Donte' Stallworth

He said we are it. We are the Gulf South now.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Jerry Snyder

I talked to the coach; he said that'd be great. He's actually one of the reasons I'm pushing so hard is because he was so enthusiastic about it. I think if I do get to play I'm going to love that coach.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

Hal Chiodo

He keeps it simple and pushes the kids hard and teaches to take pride in your responsibilities.

Gary Pinkel

He just worked hard and got back in, so he's ready to go.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Benjamin Franklin

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Michel de Montaigne

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Jim Butcher

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

George Glynos

It should remain in a 6.12 to 6.20 range.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Slim Jimmy

Around women, I try to remain calm and collected.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

Samuel Beckett

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

John Prendergast

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Robert C. Solomon

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Wayne Dyer

St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

W. C. Fields

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Samuel Johnson

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Zoe Saldana

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

Julianne Moore

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Saint Basil

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

William Tyndale

There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.

Will Rogers

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.