Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Mohammad Farzaneh

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters to the exterior walls down to the foundation. If windows and doors are broken and the house is twisted on its foundation, the occupants are still safe.

Anthony Johnson

It was a broken play. When it's a broken play, you've just got to do your 1-on-1 thing.

Barry Scheck

The whole system has broken down. It's time to find out whether Texas has executed an innocent man.

Andy Talley

The x-rays haven't come back. It looks like it's fractured, but it's not conclusive until tomorrow, once we get the x-rays. But it sure looked like it was broken and felt like it was broken. He knew something was wrong. He couldn't even pick it up.

Lucas Sithole

The woman's home was broken into at the weekend while she was missing, but so far that is being treated as a separate case.

Ben Howland

This is his second broken nose of the year. He's got two broken noses and a broken leg going right now. Hopefully, he can stay healthy here the rest of the way.

Morgan Ensberg

This is obviously a crucial time for us. It's just not a fun time to be hurt. But again, I can't concentrate on that. I have to concentrate on the fact that I'm happy that I even have a chance to play, that my hand should be broken right now.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Phil Garner

No question about it, he's got to send him. I'd been upset if he hadn't sent him. If the throw's off at all, he's got a chance to be safe.

Phil Garner

No question about it, he's got to send him, ... I'd been upset if he hadn't sent him. If the throw's off at all, he's got a chance to be safe.

Mahela Jayawardene

No problems with him right now, I can say there is 90 percent chance of him playing tomorrow morning.

Chris Cauble

Northwest is too good a hitting team to take any kind of chance at all. We had to win. We knew we couldn't get down two games to them.

Matt Cooke

Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke it away from him and fortunately it went in the net.

Hiroichi Nishi

After the big losses in the U.S., Japanese stocks look likely to fall ... High-techs in particular have a good chance of being dragged down.

Shawn Berner

Again, we put out a lot of video, and it was another situation where we had to find a school that had a need. And also the kid has got to like the school as well, and Larry did. They run a lot of one-back offense, and he has a shot to play right away. He will be going with a teammate (Jesse Fox), and he has a chance to do good in the classroom and on the football field. He's excited and it's a great fit.

Tim Arnold

After-prom is the place to be. I think it's probably our last chance to hang out as a class and it's a better way to remember the night than being high or drunk.

Rekalin Sims

The bye factor is huge. You get the extra day off and you're ready to go on Friday. That's crucial for us.

Stanley B. Prusiner

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

Ramon Sanchez

Cuba is the most crucial issue that motivates us. Each family has been divided.

Kathy Leitke

Discipline at the plate is crucial to being a good hitter. We made good adjustments as hitters this weekend.

Taran Adarsh

This year is crucial since there is strong competition. Nobody can take things lightly.

Evan Mann

The timing of (the upgrade) makes sense given that the fourth quarter is such a crucial part of a retailer's year.

Will Dunman

If we have a first grader and they are late 50 times and they come in at 8:15 a.m., they have missed 12 and a half hours of school. As a first grader, reading is crucial for them and we've lost that time. We can hold them in at recess and do interventions, but that's not (fun for the child). We have older students that come in an hour and a half late. Do the math on that one. Plus, they are missing math first thing in the morning.

Rory Huff

She jump-started our offense in the second half, hitting two crucial threes. She really stepped up.

James Costos

I have a direct line with Obama. It's a crucial link. And I can put Spain in the spotlight.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Peter Lehman

The technology needs to get out of the lab and into the factory to reduce costs,

Glen Johnson

After four years, people have gotten used to the fact that Accelerated Technology is part of Mentor.

Vuk Draskovic

The most important is the fact that forces would come under the mandate of the United Nations and flag of the U.N.,

Jim Calhoun

Some teams play loose, and better than what they have. They were never scared off by the NCAA Tournament; in fact they were inspired by it.

James Mulva

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Steve Robertson

Cocaine trafficking, the profits involved that are immense and terrorist organizations, just like any other organization, have to fund their organization.

Cathy Nixon

Any win is a good thing for us. This was one of the goals we set, this is something we wanted to accomplish. I'm proud of the kids, they played well and it's fun to see the reward of their hard work.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Joe Jones

The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.

Ray Allen

The shots were there for me tonight. It was a fun game to play because it went back and forth.

Steve Oestreicher

Now it's in the hands of the Legislature. We're going to see what they're going to do with it.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Brandon Sanderson

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Barbara Kingsolver

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

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.

Jim Calhoun

Could he have played (Friday)? Probably. But obviously we didn't need him.

John Gamble

We are obviously relieved that so much work has resulted in a just and appropriate verdict,

Alan McCollough

We were obviously dissatisfied with the overall comparable-store sales decline,

Steve Loney

When you only have one touchdown in two games, you obviously have some things to fix.

Tyrone Marshall

You look at our record, obviously it doesn't tell the tale of the Galaxy,

Lyndsey Medders

Everything we do we're going to try to do it together. We obviously don't have any All-Americans on this team, so everything we do is going to have to be done by a group.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.