Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Niven

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

Mike Redwine

No question this is a big game because, according to the preseason poll, this is one of the teams were supposed to be close to. This is probably going to be a game that's decided in the fourth quarter. If we can win, it will set us up with some momentum for the tough stretch we have ahead.

Bible Bible

And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper; / And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; / And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

Daniel Bell

A radical is a prodigal son. For him, the world is a strange place whose contours have to be explored according to one's destiny. He may eventually return to the house of his elders, but the return is by choice, and not, as of those who stayed behind, of unblinking filial obedience.

Prakash Karat

The stand India has taken according to us is not in conformity with the pursuit of an independent foreign policy. It is in our national interest to maintain good relations with Iran.

Bible Bible

The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

Thane Bublitz

The strategy of taking market share and growing its securities portfolio is going according to plan.

Tony Blair

The strategy and timing are proceeding according to plan,

Naci Mocan

The study shows that the quality of schooling that these individuals are receiving according to beauty is influencing the extent of their human capital when they enter the labor market after school.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Alvaro Garcia

Producers need to consider that trying to save a few dollars worth of gas when ensiling their crop could later cost them hundreds making up for forage quality losses. The objective when we ensile any crop is to maintain its quality as close as possible to that of the original forage. We will never be able to have a better product than what we started with and we can only expect to reduce losses to a minimum.

Sung Sohn

Probably the overall (CPI) number will be somewhat higher than anticipated, but like PPI, the core-number should be close to forecasts,

Daniel Briere

Probably after the Olympics I should be close to returning.

Bill Schneider

People thought the election still might be so close that he could make a decisive difference in some states, and he very nearly did. But the states weren't quite that close, the way Florida and New Hampshire were in 2000,

Paul Patton

Our desire is downtown. We desire close proximity.

Mark Dinger

Our consideration is the safety of the public. We don't want to arbitrarily close the highway if we don't have to.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Asahi Shimbun

A difference in the level of eagerness decided the outcome.

Ned Riley

A demon in the market decided to punish us on the last session of the year.

John Carney

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Steve Gray

After great consideration, and hundreds of requests from non-members wanting to know how they could join, we decided to make the change. These are very exciting times for our members.

David Coulter

After five great years at this company, I've decided it's time for me to go on to something else,

Steven Pressley

After our team meeting we decided unanimously to seek a meeting with Mr Romanov to try to resolve the situation.

Steven Sinofsky

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

Hiroshi Oshima

After discussing Honda's future F1 participation, we have decided that Honda should own 100 percent of the team.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Toni Sacconaghi

This is the fourth straight year where your priority is to make money. It's the third where your priority is to grow . You haven't fulfilled those priorities.

Samuel Gruber

This is the fourth home of America's oldest Jewish congregation,

Lorenzo Romar

That was a big win for us. I thought we played about as solid a game as we have played in a while.

Vladimir Radmanovic

Really, I don't think about it any more. I signed a one-year deal, ... My game is going to show what needs to be shown.

Kenyatta Walker

Really disappointed. Probably my worst game of the whole year.

Rickey Henderson

Our theory was get Eck in the game. You knew the game was over.

Sylvia Hatchell

Our team will be very motivated by the strength of our bracket. We'll use it as a positive to prepare for every game we play.

Ryan Howard

People are trying to play, they're not out there trying to mess up. That's just how the game goes sometimes. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose and unfortunately we were on the losing end today. We know we're better than that.

Jason Giambi

People don't realize this game is not fair. I've seen some great players who, for whatever reason, never got the opportunity. To keep going back to Triple A, when you know in your heart you have nothing to prove there, it takes a special kid to do that.

Jim Tracy

Offensively, we did some great things. To get back in the game in the manner in which we did took some great at-bats.

Melanie Hall

Offensively, the team was very patient. Made good decisions. We played hard. We played smart. And we had fun. That was a big game for us.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Shane Doan

To get momentum like that is huge. We've got to find a way to keep it going. We've let it slip away too many times.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Marlon Brando

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Kasey Kahne

We had momentum. We've had momentum all weekend long.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Hannah Arendt

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

Tom Daschle

As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,

Sean Avery

No question that this is a way (for the league) to do something to me,

Pete Carroll

No question it helps. I wish I had two weeks for every game.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Bob Goin

The stakes are higher, ... There's no question about that.

Allen Mesch

The summer's going to be without much question very bad.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Apolo Ohno

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Sue Miller

Right now, we're stretched payday to payday, but we'll get it done.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Mark Hendrickson

It was more important for me to get stretched out.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Brenda Jones

Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,

Eugene Wilson

We all were where we were supposed to be,

John Pike

We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.

Jeff Garcia

I don't know if I was supposed to,

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Roy Hall

I think for us it would be more satisfaction than any other year if we won the title. We are not supposed to win and that is what makes it more exciting.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Jim Brown

This one is a very competitive tournament. There's probably 10 teams in the top 20 there, at least.

Lynn Meger

There's not a lot of differences between their teams in that district. There aren't a lot of differences between our teams.

Cadillac Williams

We want to be great. No question. Even more than that, we want our teams to be great.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Randy Schaedig

From that standpoint, this isn't really much of a change. We play all those teams already anyway.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Rich Davis

Britt made a tough play. It would have been tough to get around it.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Chris Hernandez

We slowed them down. They didn't get a lot of transition baskets. We made them take tough shots.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.