Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristi LaFleur

Our girls really want to get to the finals, because a number of them haven't experienced that yet. Some of them just want to know what it is like, and I think being able to compete at home really gives us an added bonus to accomplish that chance. We are really excited to perform for our home crowd.

Corey Medeiros

We did so well. We did things that we've never done before. I had so much fun. To see the kids accomplish so much in such a little time, it's amazing. The kids get all excited. To see them make their first tackle and first touchdown, they break into full smiles. It was a blast.

Joe Horn

We didn't really accomplish what we wanted to do. Going straight down the field and scoring a touchdown is what we wanted to do, and obviously that did not happen. We have to go back to the film and the drawing board and look at it.

Sen Hawkins

We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.

Ramez Naam

Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.

James Hall

The debris fields are as dangerous as any we have dealt with in NTSB experience, so we are going to try to accomplish this task with these remote vehicles,

Ned Yost

Those guys should be proud, for what they had to do to accomplish that. They started out with a great team, a very talented group of kids. By the end, we had taken all their best players, and they still persevered through it and found ways to win a championship.

Scott Ritter

You know we can't expect the inspectors to accomplish anything in a country the size of Iraq.

Robert Vega

When I received the platinum record for 'Coyote Ugly,' I sent it to James because if it wasn't for him, none of this would have happened, ... So I gave him my first one and said, 'Hey, this was for you and I and what we did.' It was just wonderful. It's exciting to see your names as the credits roll by because you're from El Paso and you never think you're going to accomplish so much. I lived in New York for years, and I still had that mentality.

Chris Mihm

I've never seen anyone score 62 points. That third quarter was something else. He was scoring at will.

Orrin Hatch

I've never seen anyone do a better job. You have made a very, very strong presentation here.

Mike Richter

I've never met anyone who's a bigger fan of other people's success than him. I think that's a unique thing to his personality and that's an empowering thing, particularly to the young guys in the organization. He is interested in how people are doing and not just as a team, but personally and what contributions they are making and what he can do to make them better. It sounds unimportant, but it's a really subtle and special thing that comes from him.

Micky Mallette

I've never met anyone as special as Maggie Dixon, and I'm positive I'll never meet another person who can even come close to matching her love for life or her love for people. Even though we only knew her for a short period of time, we'll always carry her in our hearts.

Ben Street

I've probably been out there when it's been 15 below to 20 below. I don't think anyone will beat Mac on that one.

James Browning

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Wolfensohn

It would surprise me if one could win by getting all the kids out of school or starving the Palestinians. And I don't think anyone in the Quartet believes that to be the policy.

Cade Bernsen

It was worse than anyone would imagine. It's a nightmare. We need to do our part here at the U of A, and we're going to.

John Hogan

It was vulgar, offensive and insulting, not just to women and African-Americans but to anyone with a sense of common decency.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Diana Sebzda

We are asking people to call and register first so we can see what the group is going to be like. If it meets with success, I'd love to see it continue.

Rosario Dawson

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.

Michelle Obama

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

John Tukey

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

Pat Burke

(Legislators) are reinventing the wheel, making it square and asking us to do it for them.

Roman Phifer

Right now I'm the one asking the questions. In my heart, I still wanted to play, but the opportunity wasn't there. I was moving on in the transition of life after football. But this opportunity came up and I'm here to try and contribute.

Rene Portland

I bring it up, and the kids are so relieved and the parents are so relieved. But they would probably go without asking the question otherwise, which is really dumb.

Katherine Mansfield

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Jerry Jarrell

One or more of the (forecast) models bring it on shore (along) the Georgia-South Carolina border with winds of, perhaps, 50 miles an hour.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Taylor Dane

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

Ray Rice

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

Ray Lewis

Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'

Rashida Jones

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

Ruth Reichl

Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson, which was hidden in her notes and leters. As I read them I began to understand that in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

Susan Smith

My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say

Susan Smith

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live

Susan Smith

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

Miyamoto Musashi

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Sheldon Adelson

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

Leonard Cohen

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

Lilith Saintcrow

I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.

Lil Wayne

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

Peter Kreeft

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

Phyllis Bottome

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Kelly Miller

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

James A. Moore

I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.