Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Majel Barrett

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

John Perkins

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

Nick Saban

So that was basically the end of that.

David Greenwald

So you pick out a small lesion in the lung and really focus on it, pinpoint the treatment as opposed to treating a larger area, ... It reduces toxicity and allows you to deliver a very high dose. That's basically where radiation is evolving.

Dennis Curtin

So you have a person who is basically on vacation in Las Vegas for a week and is being paid and not taking vacation time.

Dave Wannstedt

No question, we've seen it all. There's nothing in there we won't have seen. But as a defensive coach, you can't worry about defending ghosts. You can talk all you want about a team and the way they do things, but it comes down to what gets done on the field,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Doc Sadler

The strength of their team is that they are able to shoot the basketball. They've got three guys averaging in double figures. The key to the game is that we have to defend the perimeter and keep them off the offensive glass.

Regg Simon

Your guys that have scored all year should be scoring in the playoffs, too. (Sioux Falls') two big defenders were doing a good job on them with hooks and holds, but they always find a way to score.

Mohammad Ali

We are here to protest Britain's role in sending us to the U.N. Security Council. We must defend our right to nuclear technology.

Marvin Hier

Every (Holocaust) survivor in the world walked a little taller and felt a little more secure because Simon Wiesenthal was out there defending their honor and the honor of their loved ones who perished.

Kimo Oelhoffen

What they do is legal. As long as they get their heads out in front, it's up to us to defend it. It's part of the game. It has been for a long time.

Charlie Coles

We just stopped competing. They made a run; they defended us real good.

Bob Stoops

When a guy's really good, he's really good. We realize that, and we realize that everything runs through him. When you look at not only the passing but also the run game, it all goes through him. He's a big factor, and we've got to really defend him.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Lykke Li

I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.

Ban Ki-moon

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Taye Diggs

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

Michael Jackson

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

Martha Graham

The center of the stage is where I am.

Nathan Lane

I'll always go back to the stage.

Mick Ralphs

Put me on stage and I'm happy.

Lauren Bacall

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

John Gibbons

That's what this team does. This team is dangerous. They've got so much speed, they can do anything.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Bryant H. McGill

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races