Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Costello

I think it could be done in a clean, safe way to deliver cheap energy and we in Australia have the energy they need.

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

David Graveney

How we're going to manage the players through all this is something we're going to have to talk about. We have to make sure that our key guys like Freddie are fit and raring to go for the Australia and World Cup legs.

David Jones

I have been to Australia three times I think now ... but this is the first time I have come to present something which is all my own,

Fred Couples

I did play with Tiger in Australia and it was truly, truly a treat. I think I'm looking forward to that.

Grant Hackett

I am in two minds about it (the criteria). I think basing selection on world rankings is a bit harsh. I can understand Swimming Australia wants to set the bar fairly high, but I don't think it should be at the expense of a Commonwealth Games medal. I am a fan of choosing the team based on Commonwealth rankings.

Darren Lehmann

He is a bloke who can win a World Cup for Australia - he is that good.

Justin Smith

In three weeks he's gone from being a garbage collector in Australia to meeting with Valentino in New York.

James Wolfensohn

If you want to blow each other up, I have a nice house in Wyoming, and in New York and in Australia and I will watch with sadness as you do it,

H. Hunt

He is the essence of sports in Kansas City and why there is a Truman Sports Complex and, frankly, why the two teams are there. He is and always will be a champion of all sports in Kansas City.

O.J. Mayo

I'd like to wrap it up with three in a row and be national champions next year.

Nigel Collins

If you're the champion and you get beat, the fighter who wins is the new champion. It's very straightforward. We offer fighters an alternative, and we don't strip them of their belts, and we don't charge sanctioning fees. It's very simple.

Jeff Thomson

In the end, if we don't win the Champions Trophy, who really gives a toss? For Australia, as long as these other guys are getting a game and learning something, then they are ready to go when they're picked (later).

Charlie Cyr

If the world champion falls, they get a minus-3.

Mary McGee

I'm looking to be a champion sometime next year. I want as many fights as they can give me so I can keep moving up. Fighting once a month would be just fine with me.

Marcelo Bielsa

I haven't cried but not crying does not mean I am not very satisfied. To be Olympic champions is very special, a unique feeling you can't compare to anything else.

Maxim Marinin

I have no words to express how great it is to be Olympic champion. So many people try to be Olympic champion and not so many get to be it.

Chuck D.

I'm sure he won't be seeded any higher than fourth. Even though he's a three-time section champion, that doesn't matter. It's about what he did this year and he just didn't get to wrestle that much.

Chauncey Billups

He's a volume shooter and he's pretty much the No. 1 and No. 2 options for them. He's going to shoot a lot of shots, and he's going to make some tough ones and score some points. We'll be right there doing whatever we can to make it harder on him.

Shari Schau

I think we just played harder than they did.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

Herman Edwards

It is harder for me because we know all the work he has put into it,

Barry Bonds

I'm used to it. It's harder with my leg, though, a lot harder. Why should it be different past to present?

H. Hunt

If the purpose was to simplify the process, why are we throwing up obstacles? ... Where I'm hearing this going is that we're making it harder ... for an overlay than for a conservation district.

Jeff Taylor

If there's savings there, we can work a little longer, a little harder on some work projects in the summer.

Joni Pitkanen

I push myself to play harder and I feel stronger. Just keep going.

James Haynes

I'm just going to work harder and train harder for next year.

Patrick Fugit

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

Jim Day

Knock on wood, Larry is staying, but you need to be prepared.

Magic Johnson

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says no, then you have to knock on the next door,

Eric Cunliffe

In a slow market you want to price to sell. If you price too high... you'll knock yourself out of the running.

Joe Breen

I'm excited. I love the competition. I've always taken it one match at a time. Everyone wants to come in and knock off the No. 1 guy, and I'm right there.

Bruce Fuller

It was powerful enough to knock me down a row and lift me off my feet.

Dave Ketterman

They just really needed a win more than we did. They played with a sense of urgency and knocked some shots down.

Dennis Roland

I've got two more rounds of treatment that I had been mentally putting off. But now I know I can go in and knock them off.

Daylon McCutcheon

I've had the wind knocked out of me before. This was way worse than that." ()

Kobe Bryant

When they double-team me and triple-team me and I swing the ball, we've got to step up and knock those shots down.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Wangari Maathai

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

Yunus Emre

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

William Graham Sumner

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

William Graham Sumner

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Steve Trachsel

It's not as strong as it obviously was with Kris and Jae. Jae was on the verge of really taking off. But it's still pretty solid.

William McCarthy

That is obviously not a safe way to do business, and it will be reviewed,

Ed Davis

They wanted closure. This obviously opened a lot of old wounds.

Mark Atkinson

Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.

Russ Feingold

You are obviously very talented. And you also look healthy.

Quin Snyder

We've had some highs. This is obviously a low.

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Theo Holtwijk

In concept, I'm willing to sign off on it.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Joe Hurwitz

There was a sign that said, 'Church for sale' and some of the parishioners were upset.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Oprah Winfrey

Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

Joss Whedon

Can't stop the signal

Larry Ceisler

It's tough, you're a state representative, you're sort of like the little fish.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Dwight Howard

It's sort of like I got it, but I've got to make sure I get a confirmation on it.

James Goss

It's sort of a temporary lease on the properties.

Jack Beven

It just sort of weakened and fizzled out,

James Comey

I view this as sort of a model,

Pat Riley

It will always be sort of game-to-game, I think, with him.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

They have used this sort of phrasing every so often,

Karl Pilkington

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?