Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Cheney

proud to be here this afternoon to be one of the first members of the federal family to welcome you to Washington.

Carl Honore

We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

Royce Chadwick

First I want to say 'thank you' to all the fans. It was a great crowd. It was a Sunday afternoon with clear weather and they came out to watch us and these seniors. I'm grateful. We did the best that we could do.

Joey Browder

We played at a really high level the night before and came out this afternoon flat and unfocused. We didn't hit the ball at the plate, and they did. There were bright spots and some good plays made in the field (by infielders Knapp and Lewis and first baseman Barnes). We had one bad inning and then played fair the rest of the game.

Henry David Thoreau

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Todd Coffey

I can bring my two girls out here in the afternoon and let them play on the mini-field. It's a blast. I never did that before.

Kevin Garnett

I can't stand these afternoon games, to tell you the truth, but I know that they're a part of our schedule. When I come in here, I just know I have to get going early and try to get the blood flowing a little bit.

Marty Matzelle

I could see huge improvements from morning to afternoon everyday.

David Richard

I'd prefer it if it was Sunday afternoon right now but never mind,

Steve Norton

I can confirm we will miss the target date of January 1 for implementation with our CAFTA partners.

Larry Lucchino

I can confirm that we are in the process seeking to sign Millwood.

Diane Forden

For me, one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed by Judge Roberts is the constitutional right to privacy. ... It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade .

Dick Thompson

We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.

Mark Kimmitt

I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,

Dick Muir

There were some very pleasing performances from the new guys. Some confirmed they might have what it takes, others did not. That is what warm-up games are for. You only really know how good a guy is when you test him in a genuine match situation.

David Fischer

We know that when he was 14 years old, he was adjudicated as a delinquent. He was found guilty of molesting two children. I have confirmed that through several law enforcement sources, and I am confident.

Mulugeta Debalkew

There are many types of avian flu, so to determine what type it is and get our results confirmed we have to send the samples to Italy.

Boris Boehm

The weak dollar hits our economy at the worst possible moment. We had just seen the first signs of a small recovery. It hits our export-related companies.

Brad Miller

That must have been terrible to watch. We should give a dollar back to every fan.

Suzy Menkes

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Derek Halpenny

Towards the end of the year, we do see the dollar turning down as it loses its rate support.

Bret Calhoun

We know she has a grass pedigree, but we thought she had a good shot. You're not going to get to run for a quarter-million dollars in a Grade III like this too many times. We thought she fit as well as any other horse in here.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

Rand Paul

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

Alan Williamson

Given the positive sentiment...it would hardly be surprising if the market does take heart from any dollar weakness even though it ignored the move higher.

David Mozina

Global investors still like dollar-denominated assets. The fundamentals still auger for dollar strength.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Chris Tocq

Microsoft is taking steps to include its Hailstorm services into all of its products. Hotmail can be expected to be a key beneficiary of that integration.

Don Nelson

I think people expected too much from him. He gave what he could give, and there was a limit to that.

Roberta Baskin

I think most of the American people already expected their representatives to pay their own way.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Susanna Moore

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Jim Calhoun

He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.

Mike Piazza

I think it's important for the teams that aren't expected to be competitive to be competitive for the good of the sport. For players of Italian descent, it's a small sort of way of thanking Italy for our forefathers and mothers.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Bina Ramani

We are the only witnesses who stood firm in the case, but we did not hear anything (about the look-out notices) from the police.

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

John Hanley

I can't, and don't even know that. I do know there are no firm plans yet.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

O. J. Simpson

The AXP System automates what was typically an 18-step manual process while improving the recovery rates of the stem cells.

Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Taylor Schilling

The Notebook is one of my favorite love stories.

Scott Eastwood

If it's a good romantic movie like The Notebook or...The Longest Ride . No, I don't know. I thought it would be great to work on one of those genres and we made a pretty darn good version of one of those. There are some that come off as sort of cheesy, but this one was pretty good.

George Carlin

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

Jay-Z

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Linwood Barclay

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

Kenneth Anger

I try to remember dreams, and occasionally I'll make a note or two in a notebook if it's something extra interesting. They do mean quite a lot to me, and they don't happen all that often. In other words, I don't have some kind of loud, Technicolor dream every night. But a few times a month, I'll have a rather interesting dream. They're mostly visual - oddly enough, I don't have much dialogue in my dreams. They just don't speak.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Peter Drucker

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.