Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.

John Lynch

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

Joe Quinlan

We are very excited to add Bobby Gonzalez as our head coach to an already storied basketball tradition at Seton Hall. Our search process was very thorough and we talked with extremely talented candidates, but in the end we felt Bobby stood out as the best coach to represent the university and lead our student-athletes. He has an established presence in the metropolitan area and his teams have been perennial winners on the court.

Toby Chaudhuri

The president called for ending our addiction to oil but there's no 12-step program in his budget. ... The president's energy policy ... is constrained by lack of imagination, scope, resources and an unwillingness to roll back subsidies to energy companies already enjoying record profits.

Nido Qubein

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energieson a limited set of targets.

Rocky Steagall

Riding judge is a matter of opinion. It's like gymnastics. In gymnastics, a girl can't get a 6.0 if the difficulty of all your tricks only add up to 3.0.

Tom Jurich

Rick has continued to exceed all of my expectations and we look forward to even further heights, particularly with our move into the Big East Conference. I hope we can add Rick for another nine years in 2010.

David Neeleman

Richmond will play an important part of that. If we're successful in Richmond, we're going to add more flights and more cities.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RICHES, n.A gift from Heaven signifying, ""This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased."" --John D. RockefellerThe reward of toil and virtue. --J.P. MorganThe sayings of many in the hands of one. --Eugene DebsTo these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of value.

Rachel Platten

I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

Tedy Bruschi

I've been doing everything I could possibly do except for putting the pads on, ... 'I had to make myself ready first and I believe I did that.

Alexi Lalas

I've been corresponding with his people and different people within MLS and within our organization have different contacts down there to try and get a hold of him because he's not the easiest guy to get a hold of. From what I've heard back, the feedback we've gotten, is that he is en route. I'll believe it when I see it.

Jon Heacock

I've been coaching defense a long time and I still believe you have to be able to run the football to win and win consistently. I don't get as nervous about large passing numbers.

Tim Ritchey

I've been a trainer over 30 years, so you put your time in at the small tracks, you finally get an opportunity to find a horse of this ability, believe me it's the horse,

Dan Rosensweig

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

Harry Moberly

I've been doing this for a long time - longer than the governor's been involved in state government. And I don't believe that using some of the rainy day fund will be any negative at all toward our bond rating or our position in financial markets because of our overall economic growth and stability.

Ted Fabian

I've been nervous all day. It's a great honor and I can't believe I actually won.

Joan Kirner

I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Rebecca Bell

If we continue to use foreign oil, we're always going to be in somebody's hip pocket.

Terry Butcher

If we continue playing like that we'll win more games than we lose.

George Bishop

I could see someone tearing this down and subdividing it for house lots, ... It would be a shame because of its history. I get a little teary-eyed whenever I think about not seeing this continue as a theater.

Aaron Glenn

He went out there and he battled. He was truly battle-tested for the whole game. And to me, it shows a sign of a true corner to have the mentality that he had to go out there and continue to play the whole game.

Joe Maddon

He felt really good, because he was taking his time. So I told him to continue taking your time. I think he's going to leave here (Friday) feeling pretty good about himself.

Mark Hutson

He'd take anything. He would like to continue playing football.

Gary Wheeler

In that effort we made great strides. That is an ongoing effort and is something that will continue this year.

Ken Scholen

If you owe money on the house you can use part of your reverse mortgage to pay off your current debt.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Isaac Newton

If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Shelby Seyrafi

Who wants to be No.1 in a market which is saturated and has slow growth prospects near term.

Bobby Douglas

Trent will be OK. There is no reason to risk anything when the Big 12 meet is two weeks away.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Alison Brie

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

Alicia Keys

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

Alice Sebold

He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

Alice Meynell

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Miller

It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

Alice Miller

People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

Alice Miller

Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

Alice Munro

As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go." "Passion