Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Davies

Here is an opportunity for a great experience to play in our backyard in front of a lot of people and fans, ... As a coach you really think about wanting to win at state. You usually don't want to duck the better teams and usually Dade has the great teams. I look at it as a challenge.

Mike Hudema

Hockey's our national sport and I think most people you talk to have their story about when they played in the backyard rink or on the pond.

Chuck D.

I think it's going to be a backyard brawl and it would be great to get that first 'W' on the board. But it's going to be like a street fight. This is the best JB team I've seen since I've been here (18 years). They've got good size and are physical. So we're expecting a fight.

Steven Klein

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

Tony Wise

I thought we played OK. That's not the easiest game to play when you're playing a team ... that tries to make it a backyard brawl.

Robert Patrick

I was working around the backyard and I looked up, 'Is that snow? Right on.'We don't have to go all the way to the mountains to see that now.

Jim Dixon

He was playing point guard and directing teams all over the place at 6 years old. And Maggie was the same way. She just loved it. She used to play in the backyard all the time.

Jerry Angelo

I didn't like how we ended that '01 season. We got beat. It made us look weak, and I've got that taste in my mouth still. We just didn't look like we were ready to play. We got beat in our own backyard and got our butts kicked.

Fred Espenak

I had a great view, out in my backyard with a couple of telescopes.

Samuel Jutzi

Knowing the flyways and the bird species that use them, there is a high likelihood that the virus will continue to spread as it has so far,

Dave Mitchell

I would think the pheasant season will be half as good as it was last year, because there are going to be half as many birds out there. You're not just going to be able to walk out on the Game Lands and expect to shoot a bird.

Albert Osterhaus

I think it is a worrisome situation, especially because we think that swans could be an indicator species, meaning that swans are relatively susceptible and so it could well be that other aquatic birds could be infected. Now we have seen it in Greece and Italy and now Germany. It is spreading all over Europe.

Fred Funk

It came down to 18 and I didn't think with the wind and those conditions that I could get home, but I hit a really good drive and a really good three-wood to get it up there. I didn't think birdie would win it, but you just never know in the Skins Game.

Mary Kindred

There are so many people that go through their entire lives trying to experience happiness. And we have gotten true joy out of being able to do something so simple as to keep a little bird warm to get it to a bird rehabilitator.

Stephen Ames

Having the opportunity to birdie the last three holes like I did today was good. And maybe a couple of fortunate times, like 18, a little scare on the 3-wood (drive), it ended up being way up the fairway and only a 6-iron in. It was fortunate and the nature of the game.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Dr. Calonge

It is a bird flu. It is aptly named. This is a rare human disease.

Norman Rockwell

Lady Bird Johnson had that extra-special Southern charm that you just can't resist. Mrs. Goldwater was charming, too. And she was the smart one. She really didn't want to be the First Lady at all. And she got her wish.

Dave Mitchell

I would think the pheasant season will be half as good as it was last year, because there are going to be half as many birds out there. You're not just going to be able to walk out on the Game Lands and expect to shoot a bird.

Albert Osterhaus

I think it is a worrisome situation, especially because we think that swans could be an indicator species, meaning that swans are relatively susceptible and so it could well be that other aquatic birds could be infected. Now we have seen it in Greece and Italy and now Germany. It is spreading all over Europe.

Irwin Redlener

Within the next six months, we'll have infected birds in the U.S..

Deb Steffen

We're in the middle of our migration season now where birds are flying. Are they going to bring it back to the Midwest on their flight patterns, we don't know. They're monitoring the birds closely--Alaska is the primary spot where they're watching the birds because it's the closest point where we would see contact.

Juan Lubroth

I think that wild birds may introduce the virus but it is through man and man's marketing systems (the poultry trade) that the disease spreads. It is also possible that poultry can transmit the virus to wildlife when they share the same ecosystem.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5NI virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only.

Dave Mitchell

Later in the season, I think it's going be pretty slim pickings. Pheasant season is ... a stocked, put-and-take situation. Once those birds are dead, they're done and there are no native birds to hunt. That's just the way it is.

Dennis Richardson

He's been both personally quite generous and he's been generous with Birds Eye resources, ... I'm hoping we can tap into more of his time.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

... there is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Adam Ereli

I would say we're at a preliminary stage. Let's see how the vote count goes and the results of the investigation are.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Karen Airola

Katie's only a junior, but she really stepped up this year. She always works hard. You know you can count on her when you're out there on the court.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

John Newsom

Keeling is also wanted for two counts of rape and 24 counts of gross sexual imposition involving a child,

Katy Trotter

Just to be a member of the Stanford women's cross country team with those girls, I was in awe.

Patrick Sweeney

Kaneohe's kind of a country town, I guess. There's not really too many places to go not too much stuff to do.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Brian Smith

Kieron has played some great rugby for us this season.

Larry Martin

Knoxville is a great place to live. It's a great place to raise kids.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Alastair Reynolds

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Rudolf Arnheim

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

Norah Jones

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

Gerhard Richter

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

Jon Heder

I think we have a unique voice we really want to get out there.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William Shirley

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

William J. Clinton

We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Samuel P. Huntington

I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is focused on just one issue, which is the survival of Israel, which is understandable, and promoting Israeli development and aid to Israel, and so forth and so on.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.