Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

Bruce Huff

The alumni team we're going to put together will include two years before they moved to the Gardens, when they played at Ontario Arena at Western Fair and were called the CNRA London Nationals.

Susie Hibbeler

The alumni still come up very often to have events with us and do all that. It's a lot of fun.

Tim Barrera

The alumni game is one of the best events of the year. It is great to see a lot of the players that have done great things for the Bears over the years. I think that they will be excited about the things that are happening to Bears soccer as we move fully back into Division I. The plans for the new stadium complex are unbelievable and will give us a great new home.

Lou Holtz

The alumni buried me every week. The plots have a view of the dome. It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

Bruce Huff

That would be the junior B London Nationals. We're planning a reunion and alumni game for Hockey Day in London in March.

Steve Bilsky

We will reach out to all factions: Stan, the alumni and the current rowers.

Carol Brown

We have brought together some incredibly talented performers, and we're pleased that we can present a free show for both the Galesburg community and all the alumni who come back for Homecoming.

Pat Buckley

We're really promoting Homecoming as a chance for alumni to enjoy the energy and excitement that takes place at Colgate every weekend,

Zach Johnson

These guys that take a shower, grab a cup of coffee, and go straight to the tee? That's not the way to do it. When you warm up, hit 20 to 25 wedges, a few middle irons, and 10 to 15 3-woods and drivers. If you're going to putt, give yourself 10 minutes.

Carlos Zambrano

That was fun. I wasn't playing like we were trying to win the world championship or the World Cup ... just take it easy.

Bobby Frankel

That way, if it rains for the Breeders Cup at least we won't have to worry about it.

Marcus Samuelsson

I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup.

John Curtis

We had our Cup day on a Saturday during the Sydney Olympics and it was an enormous success.

Augustine Eguavoen

We have the ingredients to make up for the last three or four Nations Cups where we have not won the trophy and also for missing out on the World Cup.

Dean Thomas

We've lost six of our seven cup games this year and have lost virtually half a team from the one that made the top six last year.

Esteban Loaiza

Mexico is usually more about the World Cup of soccer, but people are interested in this because we have a good team. We have a lot of players who've had success in their careers. Looking at the brackets, I think we can qualify for the second round.

Lyle Bauer

Winnipeg has already been there for the league -- in good times and bad. We're back in the East and we've represented the East in five Grey Cups (1988, '90, '92, '93 and 2001). Let's hope history repeats.

Xavier Becerra

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Pete Saco

The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.

Cecelia Ahern

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

Ashton Kutcher

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

Bill Bradley

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Derek Thomas

That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.

Derek Thomas

That was the game, right there. I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision to win this game on their own.

Rod Marinelli

That would be nice. He just kind of made his decision to move in a different direction. That's kind of how I left it. I wish him the very best. The thing I can tell you is, he's got terrific talent.

Jurgen Klinsmann

That was the toughest decision of my career.

Mark Davis

Typically, we do not have fences on our property. Usually, responsibility for maintenance of these fences is that of the property owner.

Philip Dunne

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

Roman Phifer

I was right on the fence (between playing and retirement).

Brian Giles

I had it in the palm of my glove, ... but my wrist hit the top of the fence and knocked it out.

Roger Spring

Kelsey has hit the fence three times this year. We were kidding her that it was time she put one over.

Jim Cummings

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

Ron Williams

We've gone from 280-foot fences at Island Grove to 320-foot fences on the new fields. That's going to take a pretty good jack to get one out of there.

Jack Martin

He didn't keep any souvenirs of the bomb. He was given little pieces of metal from the fence after the time and took it home and put it on his mantelpiece.

Alan Young

Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.

Giles Foden

In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Joe Jamail

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Marianne Vos

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Jason Goulden

Most gold mines don't see this level of public opposition.

Kevin Garnett

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

Source Unknown

Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

Shizuka Arakawa

I think I will realize that I have won gold in the next two or three days. Many times I've thought about quitting. I'm happy I have continued.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

Rickey Henderson

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

William Shakespeare

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Pete Rose

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

Jim Boeheim

Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,

William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive.

Kathy Lien

Euro/dollar longs and shorts are practically one-to-one right now, which indicates how indecisive the market is,

Mignon McLaughlin

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Lindsey Graham

The best deal that Barack Obama can get will not be the best deal to be had because he's weak and indecisive.

W. C. Fields

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.

Kevin Eastler

We're talking 100 miles a week, which is significant over what I used to do.

Kyle Busch

Literally, I swear we could run 600 miles on this tire, I don't think we're going to need pit stops, the tires are going to be that durable.

Michael Smith

You always have people going past me going 60 to 70 miles per hour.

Dirk Benedict

I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Allan McNish

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Bill Bowerman

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bertrand Russell

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

William Shakespeare

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan King

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Chogyam Trungpa

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Charlaine Harris

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

Anne Sullivan

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Bill Nighy

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Kristin Armstrong

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Greg Wise

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Liang Chow

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Steve Chizmar

Unless you are trained to use this data, it is really meaningless.

Atticus Ross

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Jeff Mullins

She actually trained like an old mare; she never did train like a 2-year-old, ... She's always done what we wanted her to.

Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Dean Winters

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

Max von Essen

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

Julie Smith

Merkel and Chirac would not have worked particularly well together.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Zachary Gordon

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.