Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arne Duncan

This grant is really an investment in our collective future. It will help create great new schools in Chicago that will produce the kind of students who can one day grow up and lead companies like Abbott.

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Dan Henning

We knew Chicago was a good team going in there. We didn't know it was as good as it is on defense. We made a couple of errors, and they got ahead. That's the way they like to play.

Thomas Middleditch

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Bernard Harcourt

My sense is that 'business as usual' in Chicago politics is ripe for investigation.

Perry Farrell

For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.

Fred Armisen

I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C.

Lionel Hampton

Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Matt Baker

There's just such a mass of hotels that just want to give the service away for free. When that's what you're competing against, it just gets harder.

Willie Graham

I give our kids a lot of credit because they are kind of down right now. They have had some tough losses and they didn't pack it in. They did a good job of competing and made some plays.

Jamal Mayers

I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a lot of work in every day, and it's just frustrating to think that we're not going to be competing for a Stanley Cup ... that's why we play.

Mike Schuster

She's competing a little harder and taking it little more serious than last year. She's doing a nice job.

Barbara Turner

I was out there competing just as hard as I could, working without my legs. I tried to go until I couldn't go any more.

Darryl Anderson

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.

Steve Carpenter

It's real surprising because I know they were a high competing team and they were ranked nationally.

Lawrence Dallaglio

It's up to all of us now to make sure that England go out and play as well as we can, and I'm looking forward to competing for a place in the team.

Henry Willmore

And the main reason for that will be the job cuts that enabled firms to do a more effective job of holding down labor costs.

Fred Lewis

The system is the problem. It's not the people. Whatever we paid them, it would be well worth it to cut them from being subsidized by private interests. It's wrong.

Carl Laundrie

The storm is eating up our dunes. It has cut up right next to the road.

Carole Strayhorn

It would be wrong to use this session to only cut property taxes when Texas needs long-term solutions for our fundamental priorities.

Brandon Sanderson

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Jamie Bell

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Kris Kristofferson

I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Terry Boe

Michelle has to take the front seat tonight. She led our team up and down the floor tonight.

Karl Hobbs

His status is at the point where he's getting up and down the floor a little bit. And we're hoping that he'll be able to play on Thursday.

Doc Rivers

He's been great. He's been in a zone on the floor, off the floor with teammates. He's just been in a zone all the way around.

Rick Forney

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His vision on the floor is tremendous and he showed that.

John Washington

The floor plan has expanded about 30 feet,

Stephen Braveman

The floor is a nice place to be when you're trying to be quiet and have intimacy. You can't hit your head on anything, and you have more space to spread out.

Billy Donovan

They like to go up and down the floor and we like to go up and down the floor. The team that executes that phase better is the team that will win the game.

Kristi LaFleur

A lot of people have thought we weren't going to make it all year long. So the girls psychologically wanted to go out on our home floor and prove them wrong.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Nick Cannon

You structure the games and then you just hope, you know, everything goes well and it plays funny.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

James Wolcott

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Miley Cyrus

When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

Anthony Trollope

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Demetri Martin

The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.

Daniel H. Pink

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

Daniel Handler

To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

Bob Dylan

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Ezra Koenig

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

Frank Sinatra

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Herb Caen

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'