Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Dixon

First of all, I want to apologize to my coach, teammates and the organization. That was way out of my character and I was wrong. I was frustrated, thought I had been fouled a number of times trying to get the ball up the court and I just really wanted to win this game.

Andy Roddick

I apologize to the loyal fans and sponsors that have expected my participation in Tennis Masters Cup, ... It is an honor for me to have qualified for this event for the third-straight year.

Matt Lawton

I apologize to the fans, the game, my family and all those people that I let down. I'm truly sorry and deeply regret my terrible lapse in judgment.

Boris Yeltsin

I apologize to the families of the victims. I apologize, because I carry the responsibility for it all, ... I also declare we will fight (the bombers) mercilessly.

Micah Downs

I apologize to my former teammates and coaches for leaving at midyear. I feel I can best deal with some personal problems closer to home that have been weighing on me over the last few months. I wish KU the best the rest of the season.

Carl Edwards

I apologize to Kyle and his fans. I should have done a better job of slowing down.

Jim Compton

I apologize to all parents, but I don't have any choices, ... We will work the the parents on an installment pay plan if necessary.

Masahiko Harada

I apologize to all of the officials, the people who supported me, and the Japanese jumpers who missed out on a place on the team.

Tony Dang

I apologize. I feel sorry for people who got gift cards and can't redeem (them.) I apologize and feel real bad.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

John Davis

As an incumbent, Marty has to show that she has done a good job and she has done the best job possible with the situations she faces, ... He has got to prove that she has not been a good leader and he has to prove that he is a good leader and can take her place. That's the tough job. You just can't tear down the other person.

Johnathan Frakes

As an executive producer who's not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in.

Lyssa Dennard

As a team we never give up. We made that run at the end. The excitement was there. We had the momentum. We did the best that we could. It just didn't work out for us.

Zach Puchtel

As a team, we need to play the best defense we've ever played. We just need to be tough, we need to control their offense and not let them feel comfortable at any point.

Darrell Arthur

(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.

Justin Duchscherer

You see the closer and the starter on ESPN, and that's it. The only time you see us is when we mess up.

Debbie Ford

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

Saffet Catovic

You're not mesmerized by the lights and can actually see the stars. You're getting back to your origins. You're closer to God.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

Gerris Wilkinson

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Dennis Franchione

Are we there yet? I can't say that, but we're a lot closer than we were. Hopefully we'll take another step this year.

Jozef Stumpel

Each game we win we get closer and closer. We still have hope and we will keep pushing.

Tarja Halonen

Even during difficult times, he contributed to positive developments in his own country as in the other Baltic states and paved the way for them to come closer to Europe.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Bryan Pata

Coaches say the only way teams will start passing deep is if we're up by 21. Otherwise, they'll run, the ball, run the ball, then throw a quick slant.

Adam Haluska

Coaches have been doing a great job keeping my confidence level up. We've been coming in a lot at night putting extra shots in. That's been the turnaround in my game, in my shooting touch.

Al Groh

coaches don't. You can't win games without the ball. You understand that, you take it and you just move on.

Mike Rippee

Coaches can get a little skewed about wanting their kids to get bigger, stronger and faster. It's important you tell your kids to do it the right way.

Michael Taylor

Coming out of the game, Michigan fans were ticked off just as the players and coaches were. They were mad that 'they' lost. But then you have to go back and watch the game tape. And here is what the film showed.

Ricky Stokes

Despite our mark on the road, I think we are playing better each game. I don't think the record shows the progress we have seen as coaches on the floor.

Bill Ripke

Anything can happen. These kids know each other so well, probably better than the coaches do. It's always a challenging game. You never know what can happen.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

Michael Bean

Any deal that might be reached could come undone in conference.

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

Julio Mora

The situation is a good deal calmer with the recovery of markets outside. But people are still nervous because a lot of money was lost. They are just praying for the market to go up.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Tracii Guns

Actually, it's funny that you mention that, we just started making plans within the last few days. We're going to hopefully do at least three videos for this album. We have tons of live footage and tons of the making of this record on film so we're hoping that by the end of next summer here that it will be out and it will run for about two hours.

Josh Stewart

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.

Jason Gerken

During the final round, we sprayed the ball, left ourselves long putts and made a few big numbers that sent our scores soaring,?. . ?And as has been our problem all year long, we finished poorly over the last few holes.

Greg Davidson

Defensively, we're playing pretty sound. There've been lower-scoring games, but we've been able to pull out some shutouts for a few games.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Cedomir Jovanovic

We have to remove the judges who were the spearhead of the former regime.

John Hanson

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Werner Arber

In the 1950s, the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva was lucky enough to receive each summer for several months the visit of Jean Weigle. He was the former professor of experimental physics at the University of Geneva.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Alex Cintron

It was unbelievable pressure to win in your home country. It was kind of like playing in a World Series, but you are playing for your country.

Frantisek Kaberle

It was very important that we come back home and get back on track. One point? I don't know -- at home, we need to get two points.

Eric Williams

It was all about the hustle plays. That shows a team that doesn't want to go home yet.

Carolyn Hinsey

It was a little small-minded of NBC to take their marbles and go home and I don't think the actors appreciated that. NBC shows are really popular with the fans.

Luis Avila

It was about as different from home as I could imagine.

Daryl Hall

I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Gary Pruitt

You're the last mass medium here. Everything else is fragmenting.

Edward Hirsch

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

Busta Rhymes

You stop at all of the greasy nasty-ass truck stops and you never get a proper rest. But every night you party like it's the last night that you're ever going to have to party.

Fadela Chaib

A WHO team is leaving tomorrow for Reunion, where they'll stay for several days, then to Mauritius, Madagascar and the Seychelles.

Steve Anderson

People think they're doing the right thing by leaving them here - but they're not.

Andy Jones

The ones that are left are the die-hards. These are people who are more scared of leaving than staying.

Dennis Roth

The science says if you can keep the soil from leaving the property, you keep pesticides out of the water.

Colton Fretter

That thing's not leaving my side all night.

Jamie Zawinski

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

Michael Hachey

At this point in time, we're not sure. We're leaving all options open. We feel a presence in the West End is important, so some level of service there is likely.

Donald Trump

Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special interests and the special interests want those companies to leave, because in many cases, they own the companies. So what I'm saying is, we can stop them from leaving. We have to stop them from leaving.

Donald Trump

The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Thomas Mallon

American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adamss diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

Susan Cain

Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

Jason Kubel

No problems at all to report. It hasn't been sore in a long time.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

David Freeman

You're trying to put all of this in to solve problems you caused.

Scott Bullock

Blight 50 years ago entailed serious problems and neglect,

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

Valentino Castellani

We are very satisfied and committed. We don't have any structural problems. Everything is working. ... We will have always some small problems to solve. What is important is to solve them quickly.

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;