Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

Ken Tower

These are things that people can be nervous about and, yes, they're concerns. But let's face it: the world has trouble almost every day. It's probably not a major factor for our market.

John Pratt

The richest man in the world got wealthy even though his company sells almost nothing tangible.

Paige Patterson

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

Asma Jehangir

This is definitely one of the most terrible stories I have ever heard and we deal with women victims of crime almost every day.

Rob Enderle

This is an initiative to create a high level of integration and is almost a complete reorganization of the Microsoft architecture, ... But I haven't seen anything new they've done that has gotten me excited.

David Koo

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

Ann Miller

This is an umbrella kind of conference, meaning we cover almost anything in communications. We'll ... have 18 different sessions focused on topics like wireless networking, security and quality of service.

Amanda Bynes

I remember people saying that they brought cousins or people to the set and they had no idea that was me. So, that was really cool. I was proud that we fooled people.

Michael Keaton

I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.'

Chauncey Billups

I love that young kid's game, man. He's been playing really well, and he's brought some hope to that franchise. He will be one day where I am at -- one day fast.

Marnie Stern

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

Robert Horry

I hadn't seen the spin move in a long time, and he brought that out. He looked really good. I hope he can maintain it.

Pamela Anderson

I'm vegetarian, ... I can't do a roast. No, that's why I brought my vegetable, so I could eat something tonight.

Dan Powers

In general, we've been pleased to see that the larger notion of competitiveness has been, in a sense, brought into the document in ways that it hadn't been before, ... Just the recognition that Boulder needs to perceive itself as being in a regionally competitive situation is a step forward, from our point of view.

Mike Hamilton

In his first year at Tennessee, Coach Pearl accomplished more than we could have hoped for. His energy and enthusiasm have brought new life to Tennessee basketball.

James McCartney

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Wendy Williams

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Sally Ride

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

Sally Ride

So I decided on science when I was in college.

Salman Rushdie

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Ryan Sypek

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Wesley Snipes

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

Vinny Guadagnino

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

William Congreve

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Joni Vaughan

They're better than people give them credit for. Their lead-off girl hit a triple in the last game.

Donald Trump

I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.

Donald Trump

We will immediately terminate President [Barack] Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants, five million.

Donald Trump

We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.

Adolf Hitler

I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

Adam Richman

One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health, I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.

Abraham Verghese

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

Andy Gibb

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

Ally Carter

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

Ally Carter

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Picabo Street

You have to accommodate the whole field. The first group can handle the biggies. The last group can't.

Greg Pettis

We're really hoping to get a large group of people from the community. We want everyone to be involved.

Larry Strader

We've improved all the way through. Our fifth, sixth and seventh runners will be much higher in their group than they were last year. The state meet may come down to our fifth, sixth and seventh runners.

Jim Bowden

We wanted to get two of that group. We got two of that group today. From that group we are finished. Another starting pitcher, it would be a number one or number two type starter, and it would come via trade.

Gil Gall

We are double-checking the situation regarding COBRA benefits. Some authorities say even if they discontinue business, they have to maintain group health insurance.

Dennis Ritchie

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

John Brophy

We organized ourselves into a pretty tightly knit group and put together a plan and a team,

Reggie Sanders

Winning is an attitude. Winning is being able to go out to have a relentless attitude. Yeah, you can teach that. It is going to take a lot to understand. It is a group effort, not an individual effort. We have to try to embed that in their heads.

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

Rob Judson

Senior day is really a special day. I could tell at our morning shoot-around that these guys were really focused. Everyone went out there and made sure that NIU would get the win.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Jimmy Carter

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

John C. Maxwell

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

John C. Maxwell

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

Emily Dickinson

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

Elliott Smith

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Edie Brickell

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

Edie Falco

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Eckhart Tolle

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.