Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Subra Suresh

These are tools that were not available five years ago. They could help to answer one of the key questions as a disease progresses in the human body: What is the connection between the development of the disease and the ability of a cell to change shape, move through the body, and stick to a blood vessel wall?

Gray Davis

These are serious questions, which, if true, raise doubts about his ability to govern this state. You need to think about whether this is a risk California should take,

John McCoy

This is as important affiliation for us in that our stated objective is to be one of the top three banks in the markets we serve, ... We are very pleased to be joining Banc One, which has demonstrated an exceptional ability to dramatically improve operating performance of its affiliates." ()

Suzanne York

This is essentially another pathway into the profession. It's a little more intensive, but it actually offers access into the profession and the ability to practice medicine with a smaller financial output.

Scott Linehan

This is an exciting sign for us. This particular player became available, fortunately for us, just prior to the weekend (in) a big need area for us. He's going to fit a big part of what we're trying to get done here, and add some veteran leadership, as well as his obvious playing ability on the defensive front.

Jim Nussle

This is huge when it comes to our ability to come together with an almost three-month jump we'll have on Democrats.

David Rohrer

This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlight our sense of loss and makes our ability to comprehend that much more difficult.

Marc Ganis

This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based business. His success with the Redskins has been nothing short of phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing when he paid a then-record $800 million for this franchise.

Angelina Jolie

You hear so much just about the danger and the fear and then you come here and you meet just an amazing people. Given just a little chance, and given a little help, this is going to be a great country.

Kevin Essington

I feel like this is an amazing town with amazing leadership.

F. Schumacher

Great. What else can you say? We had an amazing weekend.

Dean Goldfine

Because he didn't go down there, that was two extra weeks he was able to spend at home and actually rest a little bit and get his body healthy. Right now he's in amazing shape, and he's moving so well out on the court. And I think that's one of the things he's going to have to do to get back to where he wants to be, which is No. 1 in the world.

Michael Showalter

He's like the best possible guy to work with. He's improvisational, adaptable, nice - and people love him. It's just been truly amazing watching Peter finally getting his due.

Josh Barfield

He's like a magician out there in drills we do. It's amazing some of the things he can do with the glove.

Chris Mihm

He's a phenomenal player. We know in the fourth quarter that he wants the ball. He's been doing amazing things with it.

Eddie George

He's an amazing talent. He's probably the most explosive back since Marshall Faulk and Barry Sanders.

Joe Girardi

He's an amazing talent. He's a special player.

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Sharon Allen

I knew at the beginning of the game we weren't ready, then they made us play at a higher level and we weren't ready again.

Cedric Garland

A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 international units. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.

Peter Dolan

You could see in the beginning some modest positive benefit, but I think in a three-to-five-year time frame ... what we modeled into our business is (a) neutral to slightly negative impact,

Mark Atherton

The kids came out from the beginning and took care of business. That is all they really wanted to do.

Chris Fuller

The kids are really excited about the start of our season, beginning 21-0, winning our first three matches. And I feel they deserve it, for they have worked really hard.

Mike Albring

The kids are beginning to understand their roles. I can't say enough about how hard they've worked and made themselves better.

Eric Smith

The TRMM team wanted field experiments from the very beginning because it knew there would be issues about validating the results from the satellite,

Dave Wannstedt

The Notre Dame game is a big one, but it is really just the beginning of a long journey for us.

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

Kevin Porter

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Charles Greene

I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold my house and brought my family down, ... The idea was to make journalism a little better in Latin America.

Kim Miller

He impacted a lot of kids, he always had a smile, and he believed in living life to the fullest.

Phil Bennett

He doesn't sugarcoat anything, and that's one of the reasons why I liked him. I believed in him. He knew coming in here there would be some tough times, but he's been a great mentor to me being a first-time head coach.

Mark Messier

Other than my dad, no one believed in me more and did more for me as a person and player.

Juan Williams

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

Mike Massucci

Our overtime loss at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard last Friday was devastating. It was a game that we believed we should have won. I was interested to see how the team would react tonight. The players came out really focused. They played with intensity.

Renato Reyes

patently illegal because it would curtail peoples right to express themselves in what is believed to be a historic rally site and freedom park.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Ai Weiwei

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Dusty Baker

At this point, it's hard to imagine him not pitching forever.

Terri Lemos

(Diver) Ryan Jones qualified for State in El Dorado last weekend. So Cody is working hard so he can qualify for State.

Rob Sanderson

DirecTV is having a hard time getting compensated appropriately for what they've delivered,

Mark Greenberg

Could they be a little more aggressive? Yes. Should they be a lot more aggressive? It's hard to say.

Patty Griffin

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Paul Arden

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Robert Allenby

Towels are the worst. They're hard to sign and the strings get stuck on the pen. Then the next one you sign is smudged.

In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be known as screw-boys.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Anthony de Mello

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

Anthony de Mello

Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

Anthony de Mello

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

Anthony de Mello

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

Anthony de Mello

Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

Anthony de Mello

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

Anthony de Mello

What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.

Annette Funicello

I am the creator of my reality

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Patti Smith

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.