Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shamalene Broner

If you're just doing what you're supposed to do, make a compact swing, you're going to get a hit.

Michael Chung

The new criteria hurts the hybrid because it's not a straight, simple gasoline engine. I've heard the mileage numbers will drop by as much as 20 percent. That 20 percent is the difference between a hybrid and a compact that runs entirely on gasoline.

Shigeki Maruyama

It worked very well. I just make my swing compact and make it smooth.

Jacob Lew

Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.

Michael Ballack

It's not so important if I get into a shooting position. Our strength is the defense, that's where we have to win balls. We have to play our normal game, be very compact in midfield. That's our game and that's what we do best.

Katherine Young

Where in years past things were removed from one another, now it'll be together -- it'll be more compact and it wouldn't be as removed from the local residents.

Bill Fulkerson

The Supreme Court dealt with the compact issue ... but it's a completely different issue than the first time. It's a different argument.

Christy Williams

This is the first time we have found so many rhinos in a compact location ... it's a great discovery.

Justin McNaull

Drive your most sensible car. If it's a trip to the grocery store, don't take the pickup, take your compact car.

H. Hart

I think the number one criteria (for getting into NCAA Tournament) has to be how you did in your conference.

Wayne Smith

Our acquisition pace has been strong and steady, and we have established a track record for not only finding hospitals that fit our criteria but also for successfully assimilating these facilities into our system.

Ben Howland

I'm excited about a No. 2 seed. It was well-deserved. Our guys have worked very, very hard. One of the criteria that is used is how are you playing at the end of the season.

Tom Kelley

(The Federal Emergency Management Agency) has some pretty tight criteria to get any disaster relief. People need to take some initiative on their own.

Sean Connery

It makes you wonder at times what exactly is the criteria to qualify.

Neal A. Maxwell

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

Bud Selig

It's exceeded in intensity, in interest, in just every way that you can ---- criteria that you can use to judge something, it has been really successful.

Jack Powell

They need to have a more well-defined criteria on who moves on, so that everyone knows what it takes. I really can't speak to when a response might come.

Wayne Oakes

They should be reconsidering the criteria in light of what's happened. Four young men are dead.

Buck Showalter

I wouldn't put any limits on him. He can be a difference maker defensively, one of those guys who turns hits into outs.

Paul Levinson

I think in the long run it's not going to make much difference for CBS.

Bonnie Stewart

He wants to be able to learn. He wants to be able to make a difference in someone's life.

Rick Barnes

He is the difference in this team. We know he is going to give us everything he?s got, and he does every night he goes out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

Dean Bonham

Here is a substantial and growing difference between the high and low revenue teams and it's a significant issue. It has to be resolved or they're headed for the kind of disparity we've seen in Major League Baseball.

Carlos Rivera

He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first started three years ago.

Norm Gagne

It hurts to lose. What we did, the things I didn't want to see us do, stay out of the box, and that's what killed us. The two five-on-three goals, that was the difference in the game.

Royal Galipeau

I think you have to know what difference you're going to make when you go somewhere, and then you've got to work to make that difference. If you can't do it in two terms, obviously it wasn't there for you.

Tim Henman

I think I said I would put on a skirt if I dropped serve again.

Jarret Stoll

Guys are dropping like flies. Hopefully one day will make a difference.

Bill Cowher

He's a good target. He doesn't drop many balls. He can get anything near him.

Pat Mastelotto

Here's the exact date: The day I got word we were dropped by the label was on Monday 25th September 1990, a year later than I remembered!

Mark Harnly

He's (Davis) tough, and he'd be real fun to watch if I was sitting in the bleachers and scouting, but he's not real fun when he's dropping 21 on you.

David Wright

He seems to be the one to always drop the hammer.

Buddy Bell

He's dropping a few pounds and starting to look better. He's got a ways to go.

Karl Muggeridge

It could have been worse because my fast lap in regular qualifying was second fastest of all and that means I only drop down to start form the second row.

John Bridgeland

We've gone in and talked face to face with kids who have dropped out of school. What they're telling us debunks popular assumptions. The problem is solvable.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Vicki Culver

I think that this is entirely too much to take on for this organization. I feel that the rest of our programs will suffer.

Jean Chretien

I will fulfill my mandate and focus entirely on governing from now until February 2004 -- at which time my work will be done and at which time my successor will be chosen,

Tom Brady

I'd love to be here for the rest of my career, but it's not entirely my decision.

Jonathan Maberry

If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.

Jay Rockefeller

In other words, he's an entirely unreliable individual upon whom the White House was placing substantial intelligence trust,

Steve Orlando

We're not going to be canceling classes. If a student wants to work out something with their instructor, that's entirely up to him and that's fine.

Jim Smith

I think the drive-to travel market is still up in the air, and we won't know until Thanksgiving, ... That's the next big travel holiday in the petroleum industry. But, generally, I think the rapid escalation in the price of gasoline has slowed down demand.

Robert Brown

We look at it as an alternative renewable fuel. Ideally, we would be able to use it the same way we use gasoline in our engines.

Kevin Forbes

Right now our wholesale prices are so high we're going to be sucking in gasoline from everywhere. Which is what we want.

Michael Ervin

Inventories of gasoline are very robust right now.

Michael McNamara

If you take gasoline out, it's still a good number.

David Huether

Clearly, high gasoline prices took quite a toll on the typical consumer.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

John Lichtblau

They (drivers) are not going to substantially reduce gasoline consumption.

Bill Richards

They say this station has pumped gasoline for over 50 years. I hope we never stop.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

Unknown

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

Mike Sanford

He's a tough guy. He had shoulder surgery and has come back. His shoulder hurts him, but he still practices.

Tom Davies

It hurts when you lose a tough one like that. That's why Southern Illinois is where they are, and where they've been.

Tyrell Sutton

It hurts to go from the 20 to the 20 and not put it in for six.

Bill Fisher

It hurts that he hasn't seen my rise in the film industry or opening the Pop Shop,

Jaret Wright

It hurts right now, ... My neck's real stiff and I have a headache. But it could have been worse.

Derek Raivio

It hurts real bad. The worst part is we shouldn't have lost.

Ben Voogd

To come out and not show up the one day we need to, that hurts the most.

Reggie Brown

And it's kind of tight! It hurts my head,

Richard Mason

There are no other hybrid products like this in the market.

Don Esmond

Hybrid technology has moved solidly into the mainstream.

P. Herbert

Hybrid deployment will be more important to companies. Whatever can get them on a system quickly.

Paul Williams

If you want to see how a hybrid stands up, this is the place to be.

Jason Alexander

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.

Rick Bell

And it's trending quickly upward. In so many sets, people are getting a hybrid to replace their 3 and 4 iron.

Jeff Schuster

What hybrid owners want is to stand out.

John German

We literally haven't made up our minds about what our next hybrid will be.

Ann Wright

That won't be our last hybrid model, ... But we're not in a race with Toyota.

Andy Grove

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Anthony Fauci

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Kyle Whittingham

I don't know what his numbers were. But they weren't good.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Bruce Cranna

Can we think of this as a 10 or 11 percent top-line story again? That's unclear.

John Sullivan

It is important our door-to-door service runs efficiently, ... I'm worried about the transportation issue.

Bill Rees

In some ways, he may be more of an unknown than Vince Young. He didn't have the supporting cast. But he runs well and has a lot of ability.

James Altucher

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Rusty Wallace

I'm having better runs than I've had in a long time, ... I want to go out on top of my game, and I'm doing that right now.

Rory Bremner

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Chris Capuano

It seems like we've been scoring a lot of runs in my starts. Even when I haven't pitched well, we've been able to find ways to win.

Alan Trammel

A lot of things aren't going our way. You score that many runs in the first inning and then give up six, it's depleting and it takes its toll on you.

Phillip Fulmer

They split the reps (in practice). We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first.

Brenda Ball

There were so many times we didn't think she would make it through the night, so many runs to the hospital.

Joe Clark

I think it is too simple to suggest that it's simply Mr. Harper's fault.

Darius Kasparaitis

We have to be more gritty, more hitting. We probably have to play much simpler hockey.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard John Neuhaus

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

Richard Hofstadter

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Wordsworth

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.