Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirk Hoza

He lined up out of position. That means instead of being two yards from the ball carrier, you might be seven, and then what should be an easy tackle near the line becomes an attempted tackle in the open field, and a 2-yard gain turns into 10.

Mike Coll

What we have attempted to do in this draft is try to make Colonial Avenue much more of a local street - a local cul-de-sac, actually.

Ruth Rendell

I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.

Maurice Cheeks

I thought before we attempted to trade Steven, he had started grasping the way we want him to play. Rebounding, giving us energy, I thought he was doing that.

Ashton Youboty

I think with that Ohio State defense it was a competition, it was a rush to get the tackle. That was just the mentality up there. So I attempted to get all my tackles solo because our linebacker, when they come in there, they just hit whatever's in the way. I take pride in that. I try to be a complete corner and I think that's one step to doing that.

David Smith

We've been trying to do this kind of thing for about a decade. We attempted to do it on one of our Mars probe, but either we got weathered out or the spacecraft misread some stars and everything closed down.

Kristy Curry

We took care of the basketball and made more free throws (12) than they attempted (11). Those two really helped.

John Ashcroft

Today, I can report to you that our investigation has uncovered several individuals, including individuals who may have links to the hijackers, who fraudulently have obtained or attempted to obtain hazardous material transportation licenses,

Richard Brodhead

I am aware that police attempted to enter those rooms and I am now about to leave this news conference to learn the whole story.

Rafael Ber

Kirchner will step on the breaks to avoid inflation from spinning out of control. Inflation has become the bogeyman.

Tom Dolan

Kids stay home because they don't want to face it. We have students who basically shut themselves in their homes on weekends to avoid this. That's how prevalent it is.

Brian Wice

I would say Ken Lay has been grilled by his own lawyers to avoid opening the door.

Tony Wright

Just to avoid that, we are going to pause until things are clearer.

Larry Olson

Keep records of which tags you use in any given year to avoid confusion over what ear tags to use the next year. It seems like a simple thing, but we see a lot of wrecks with fly tags because producers couldn't remember.

Frank Brown

I swerved to avoid it. I thought it was a skunk, then I realized it wasn't. It was a dog.

Jeff Gordon

I think it could have been avoided by both of us and it cost us both a lot.

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Brian Barnhart

He was a fair piece up there (alongside Cheever). But it could have been avoided by both parties.

Oscar Fonseca

Whatever happens, we will have to have a manual count of the ballots and that could last up to two weeks.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

The people can be sure that their vote will be the same as the ballot that they wrote and put in the boxes,

Gino Bucchino

I think a lot of people will get the ballots and not understand how to vote.

Paddy Ashdown

It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,

Avi Rubin

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

Cheryl Forchilli

I think we're in excellent position to be on the ballot in November. From our experiences with voters over the last five months, we have no doubt it will pass by a large margin.

Phil Beck

I think they ought to send up all the ballots up in a unified way, ensuring the integrity of the evidence.

Ozzie Guillen

I don't believe that in the next round of voting I will be selected for the Hall of Fame, but just being on the ballot makes me proud.

Geoffrey Kors

He needs to make an unequivocal statement that he opposes any ballot initiative that takes away the rights of gay and lesbian couples. That is unclear in his statement.

Sally Forman

I was interested in stepping out as a woman in philanthropy because I know that there are lots of powerful and generous women in the community and it gives us a common cause, which is schools. We show that we have strength and influence.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Frank Penela

Just spray and just do the common sense things you'd do at this time of the year.

Platen

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Todd Spencer

I suspect that is going to be a pretty common situation for the guys who worked the port.

Wang Guoliang

I think it is common practice. This is something that other countries have done in the past. The US put such a levy in place in 1972.

Joseph Cheng

He is there to promote common interests between the two countries and to try to reduce the 'China threat' image. This is a very serious challenge.

Thomas Piketty

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.

Tom Hanson

There is a need for a common-sense voice in Lincoln. I want to provide that voice for Lincoln County.

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

Robert Silverberg

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

Werner Erhard

The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary. Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader's vision. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves.

Samuel Fuller

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

Sally Ride

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

Vincent Bugliosi

I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

Vincent Bugliosi

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

Paul Dretsch

Her offensive rebounds are what is so damaging to a team. She scores a lot of her points getting offensive rebounds.

John Cridland

It could have the perverse effect of throttling private sector investment, thereby damaging the UK economy - putting the very pension schemes the regulator is trying to protect under even more pressure.

Joel Fuhrman

Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.

Usman Hamid

He has no damaging reputation involving human rights.

Ryan Smith

Pigs are probably one of the most damaging invasive species.

Damon Hill

If you lose the history of F1, that could be damaging to the long-term future of F1.

John Cridland

If the regulator gets this wrong, it could have the perverse effect of throttling private sector investment, thereby damaging the UK economy, putting the very pension schemes the regulator is trying to protect under even more pressure.

Jim Awad

The hurricane was much less damaging than was feared and therefore oil is declining. That takes the pressure off the economy, so we're getting a knee-jerk reaction.

David Gergen

You can slice and dice this thing any way you want, but I still think it's politically damaging for the administration.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Courtney Barnett

I'm self-deprecating - I spend a lot of time telling myself that things are OK, as opposed to having to tell myself to get over things.

Paul Dergarabedian

In all fairness, this was more of a typical late-October weekend, as opposed to a year ago, when 'The Grudge' surprised everyone and made this weekend look pale by comparison.

Jamie Blackley

I like dates that are really fun as opposed to just getting dinner.

Darrell Royal

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't understand it.

Dan Rice

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't know that much about it.

Bob Smith

I'm not opposed to hearings, I just don't think they're going to produce too much.

Jay Bender

The tribe was not all opposed to that.

Stan Olson

The truth is being told by the people who represent us, the people who have to stand each two years before the public and be accountable, as opposed to people who can make statements and never be accountable.

Marlon Defillo

I would not say we're at 100 percent. We're still in the process of rebuilding our infrastructure. But in terms of the department's responsiveness to the community, we are functional.

Bob McNair

It is a complicated process because of the playoffs.

Mark York

We're in the process of reviewing the bill.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Phil Frame

We're in the process of interviewing right now. We take their statements, then go back to the site to verify what they said they saw.

Pearl Norris

We're in the process of getting it started.

Bob Hill

We've got to get Vitaly in shape. And there's a process in that.

Larry Brown

I think we just sometimes don't understand how we get leads, and time and score. We're just young and this is the process you've got to live with.

Vince Dooley

I think we all realize that the more subjective the process is, the worse things are for everybody. I think it would be proper to come up with something more definitive.

Rick Riordan

Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?

Vanessa Kerry

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

Walton Goggins

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

Walter Jon Williams

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

Wendell Phillips

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Nancy Pelosi

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

Mike Matusow

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.

Kesha

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

Keith Faulkner

He said I look better today than I did the day we married,

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Alan Doss

Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.