Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Horacio Ramirez

I think it's a little different because we're opening up here. It's a little more exciting because it's the opening series. But last year was almost as exciting, because it was the first time I pitched in L.A. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.

Mike Browning

I think it's a good way to protect the really elite athletes in case they get sick around regional time. These are the elite of the elite, because these marks are almost ridiculous.

Zoe Lofgren

I think it's a blessing that we've managed to keep the heavy hand of regulation off the Internet, ... When the government moves in to regulate the Internet, we'll almost always get it wrong.

Dexter Filkins

I think - I think the real nightmare place now is less Afghanistan than it is Pakistan. I mean, again, Pakistan is this gigantic country, deeply troubled, kind of almost ungovernable, sitting on top of probably 50 or 60 nuclear warheads. Nobody really knows where the warheads are; the Americans certainly don't know where they are.

Mike Cooke

I think it is almost inevitable that it will happen. It's not going to go away.

Jolene Ortego

I think it almost provides comfort for parents to know they have that instant way of communicating with their kids.

Matt Ward

Keeping up with your schoolwork is difficult, but coach does a good job of keeping us on task and all the kids here are well-rounded. Good students, good athletes stand up to the challenge.

Jonathan Williams

I think it really opened the door for black athletes at the time.

Steve Shephard

It came down to those last two athletes to do their job the best they could and both Stephanie and Meredith really came through in the clutch.

Denny Green

He'll be one of the best athletes they've got there. He can dunk a ball any way you want to dunk it. Absolutely. He's got exceptional speed, exceptional jumping ability. He'll be a regular gym rat.

Dave Johnson

He is passionate about coaching, he values and develops each athlete's unique skills and leadership abilities, and he challenges both his veteran athletes and neophytes to be better persons in and out of the pool.

Kevin Meyer

He knows we need to get him involved more. He is one of our best athletes and we need to find ways to keep him out on the field.

Hilton Armstrong

There are so many athletes on this team. But everybody gives up a little bit to make the team better.

Lennox Lewis

Here I will help build up other athletes around the world and help them avoid the mistakes I made,

Pete Noble

Having them split time might hurt us early. Both are versatile athletes that we need on the field. Michael had an edge with experience.

Dave Roberts

Khalil and I talked about it, ... He's just extremely confident that he can hit it out in this ballpark, because no matter where you hit it, it can go out of this ballpark. That's not the case in our park.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Nigel Worthington

Johansson is a player that we have monitored for some time but with all transfers it is a case of waiting for something to happen and it being right for the club and player.

Patrick Guerriero

John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not mentioning Mary Cheney.

Douglas Johnson

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

Mike Ford

I suspect that this is another case of a senator hyperventilating on a Sunday talk show.

Neil Miller

I think I solved the case myself in jail just by sitting up there and thinking about it, the many holes that I found.

Richard Perle

I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

Phil Gramm

I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other occasions, in those 15 cases where there was an impeachment in the House and where the person impeached did not resign first.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Bobby Burton

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country. I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn't have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

Mark Romanek

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

Don Waddell

Ilya is an important part of our franchise and we share in our fans excitement that he is back with us for many seasons to come. He is one of the league's elite players and will play a pivotal role in our success.

Lamar Butler

Everybody said we weren't supposed to be here, and now we're in the Elite Eight. I'm just enjoying the rush from my head down to my feet.

S. Walker

It's an elite sport, and to win a national junior road title puts her on the road to success, and it was a fantastic effort.

Gene Kimmelman

It's an elite clientele, probably the top 20 percent of the market that's attractive.

Steve Bietau

They were thought of as an elite team all year long. At times they have struggled to keep that elite status, but they've been very good all the way through.

Michele Perry

It wasn't a shock to me, ... I know most people in the world are shocked. I know what I've been doing at practice and I wasn't able to spend that time on the hurdles. Once I stepped away from the heptathlon for a while, I was able to give 100-percent energy to the hurdles, and I knew that's what it would take to get to an elite level at that event.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Jim Brown

Kids today don't have any idea about these tools, or what they were used for. It a good history lesson for them.

Buck Showalter

Knuckleball guys are going to have their ups and downs. This was a down for R.A., who's had some good ones for us. We'll sit down and talk about it.

Bill Polick

There are no skid marks on the runway.

Robin Hobb

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.

Jan Rokita

This marks the end of the post-communist era.

Hank Brown

This marks a new day for the university.

Scott Brooker

This is a place to start. That's the way we look at those meets. We'll take the marks that we set today and start whittling away at those.

Peter Kalikow

today marks a turning point in the relationship of the MTA and its unions.

Maxim Marinin

We just thought about skating, not a medal. We just thought to skate well and we did it, and the marks were OK.

Louis Cataldie

We'll look for things like identifying marks such as tattoos and personal effects. We'll get DNA. We'll do X-rays if they have prostheses and we'll do fingerprints if we can.

H. L. Mencken

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Gary Thompson

Whatever has to be done to protect the citizens. If it's going to save lives, I know that's really important.

Darian Townes

We've got to protect our home, and we let this one get away. It's very disappointing.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Richelle Mead

I'd do a lot of things to protect you.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Kathy Raymond

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Jimmy Rollins

Keep him sick all year long. I have this new virus, Ryan, I want you to try it.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day, ... She didn't come to school. So she was very fortunate.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day,

William Wilberforce

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy. I am healthy. I am not sick anymore,

Richelle Mead

I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just sitting under a table right now—they’ll just have a good laugh at our sappy talk. No one’s going to be like, ‘Aha! Proof of an illicit human-and-vampire affair.

Ryan Lochte

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

William Wordsworth

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

Wesley Willis

Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.