Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rosenberg

A year ago, 'deflation' was dripping off everybody's lips. Today, core inflation is off its low, but it's about the same as it was a year ago, yet all anybody can talk about is how far the Fed will hike.

Greg Erwin

Again, we're not overly concerned, and maybe that's wrong, with what anybody else is doing.

Teddy Atlas

Definitely a scenario of musical chairs. Anybody who's the last guy sitting can be champ that day.

Justin Cage

Coach Miller takes it so hard. I've never seen a person take a loss so hard. I've never seen anybody take it so hard.

D. James

Coach Dungy is doing a great job of keeping everything in perspective. He's not letting anybody get ahead. He won't let you talk about two weeks, three weeks down the road. Everything is strictly on the opponent we have the upcoming week.

Jason Treutelaar

Coming into this season, I don't think anybody expected us to do this. It was quite a surprise.

Richard Seymour

Denver caused a lot of those mistakes. I don't care what anybody says -- you have to give them credit.

David Card

AOL isn't letting anybody into their network, if they don't have to. There's no incentive for AOL to cooperate with anyone.

Paul Gillis

Anybody you play is going to be a battle. We expect (Quad City) to give us a fight for our lives.

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Max Mosley

ask the public what they want -- probably through the television companies, but that's a matter for Bernie. I think he would prefer to change but I think he's quite easy about it.

Masi Marjamaki

Personally, I like what they ask me to do. I like going into the corners and finishing my checks every day. I?d like to keep it simple. After Christmas, it?s come to me what this team expects from me and what I should do if I want to get to the next level.

Tony Parrish

Personally I like his game, he is a good receiver. He plays hard, he comes to work and he produces. What else can you ask of him as a football player? Now as a person, I don't know him, so I can't speak on it.

Reese Witherspoon

People used to ask June how she was doing, and she would say I'm just trying to matter. I know what she means.

George Clooney

People thought I was Tom and Nicole's bodyguard. They'd come up and go, "Is it okay if I go up and ask for an autograph? It was good. I'd charge 'em three bucks a person. Yeah, you gotta make some money off of that.

Grant Tolbert

People think we ask for too much information or are too stringent, but we don't offer any apologies because we don't ask for anything more than the state code requires.

Reno Saccoccia

Our defense played a great game. I felt, coming in to this game, that we had to win this game with our defense. And that's what we did. You can't ask for much more than two fumbles, an interception and a blocked punt.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Mike Sabock

After signing Ryan Diem (now a starting lineman with the Indianapolis Colts), I asked him about the mail he had received, and his mom said he got one letter or more a day from Kentucky and they never came to his school and never called him. It just shows he was on their list, but they never followed up on it. It's crazy.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Marcus Thornton

Coach (Scott Schumacher) called play number two and I came off the screen. I was just fortunate that I was asked to make the shot. It reminded me of the last Jacksonville game, when they used a lot of screens on us. It feels good to knock them out of the tournament.

Abe Lemons

Coaches are creatures of habit. I knew a coach who got a deal going where his players had to run a mile in six minutes. I asked why. He said, 'gut check'.

Greg Davis

Coach Brown asked us to call all of our players and let them know so they didn't hear it on TV. I told Colt to get ready, it was time to go.

Drew Shubik

Coach asked us how many of the other seven teams in the tournament would practice hard and with intensity, and we said all seven. So that's what we did. & It's hard to mentally prepare yourself when you know there's a chance you won't get in. For those two days I was sick to my stomach. It was a terrible wait.

J. Horton

Coach asked me to be our best worker and best player a long time ago. I've done my best to try and be that. These guys have really bought into practicing hard every day. That's not something we've always done.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

John Davis

As an incumbent, Marty has to show that she has done a good job and she has done the best job possible with the situations she faces, ... He has got to prove that she has not been a good leader and he has to prove that he is a good leader and can take her place. That's the tough job. You just can't tear down the other person.

Johnathan Frakes

As an executive producer who's not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in.

Lyssa Dennard

As a team we never give up. We made that run at the end. The excitement was there. We had the momentum. We did the best that we could. It just didn't work out for us.

Zach Puchtel

As a team, we need to play the best defense we've ever played. We just need to be tough, we need to control their offense and not let them feel comfortable at any point.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Tom Hiddleston

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Lana Turner

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Patricia Richardson

When youre a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are.

Pablo Picasso

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Jean Lacordaire

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Don King

gained his fame not by winning, but by losing.

William Shakespeare

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Barry Bonds

I guess I'm in (the Hall of Fame) then, huh? Otherwise, I really don't have a comment.

John Shepard

If Andrew's the guy that finishes it, Andrew's the guy that finishes it.

Jeff Probst

Right off the bat, we send all the castaways on an 11-mile trek through the jungle. It starts one minute into show and finishes the next day. People are getting sick and everything. You'll see.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Carlos Silva

That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Luke Reilly

Ortiz played like a senior leader and we had some great contributions off the bench. It was two great teams battling. I'm happy with the way we played.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

O great and sane and simple race of brutes/ That own no lust because they have no law!

Mike McKee

Offensively and defensively he did a great job. It was one of our better team efforts.

John Cannon

Officers went to great lengths to find witnesses, but no one saw or heard anything.

O. Singh

Oh, he's a great player. I don't think he's scared to go out there and play, especially with a lead.

Rodney Clark

So we opened it up and started scooping. Hopefully everyone else can have a better day than the guys in electrical.

Dan Cleary

So, yeah, the rivalry is still there. Especially for the guys that have been around the last number of years.

Philip Smith

Once we rebuild, we'll get you guys to come down there.

Nick Mangold

No way. I don't like those guys too much.

Kari Anderson

Now, if you can get 25 percent guys in a class, you're doing great. I think it's because there are so many other options.

Phil Smyth

Sometimes you have to win ugly -- the Pigs are a scrappy team and I was really happy with how the guys stuck it out.

Mack Brown

So much for hangovers. I worried about it all week, and the guys went out and did what they're supposed to do.

Flip Saunders

Sometimes in these types of situations, you want to get some organization. I thought that the way these guys play together, they can get some organization. We went through some stuff with Paul (Pierce) and he seemed to pick things up and play well off those guys.

Roger Clemens

Teams were playing us tough anyway, but maybe more so after we got back in the race. The guys persevered, and this makes that trip back home a whole lot easier.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Brian De Palma

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

Brendan Shanahan

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

Clive Barker

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

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.

William Shakespeare

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

Rita Rudner

Never take candy from strangers.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Steve Bruce

We are upset Emile has got another ban. He has an impeccable record and we hoped it would have been taken into account.

Rashid Johnson

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

Bill Royer

We had hoped to win it, but we rebounded from some tough matches and had three kids on the podium.

Pat Smith

We had hoped to get more done, but there were so many obstacles.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Diane Williams

I prefer open space, ... We always hoped that it would stay that way.

Tim Gramling

I hoped after today, I'd have a better idea of how long this would take, but now I couldn't even guess. There's just so much to do. I'd say cleanup will be going on probably for several months.

Chris Samuels

It has to be instincts because he's been around a long time.

Courteney Cox

In this movie, I feel like I didn't notice Monica in it at all, ... Your instincts would probably be to think about Monica, but I have to make sure you don't.

Andrew Friedman

We think Jason is going to be a big part of our future.

Tom McMillan

Certainly, we want to get him over to meet Jason Bay.

Lee Iacocca

Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them,

Kale Ane

Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands.

Gerald Perry

Jason is only going to get better. His track record shows that. He's going to be fine.

Mark Richt

Jason is a talented kid and a tough son of a gun. He's going to play. We've always been pleased with him and he's stepped it up.

Glenn Walsh

Jason has had a tremendous year. This is his second year with me, and he has really come into his own this season.

Mark Bradley

Jason has a whole new set of legs.

Mike Tannenbaum

Jason Fabini and Jerald Sowell were players that the Jets could rely upon every week.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Marc Levesque

This is really a tale of two job markets.

John Bruton

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

Chone Figgins

That's my job, to try and get on base. I'm not used to doing things like that.

Margie Sillery

That's my job to find out if there's going to be a parent there.

Jerome Bettis

That's my job. There was no way I wasn't going to get into the end zone.

Matt Rosoff

That number three job at Microsoft is a tough position to be in.

Ken Swanson

That must be quite a job to hand-thin them.

Jackie Scales

All 10 of the players know that they have a job to do, and they know that they'll get quality playing time if they get it done.

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Tom Richardson

Even though it was an outside chance, that could have been me on the shuttle. It's kind of scary.

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Joe Hale

We wanted an urban look with an outside that was simple and symmetrical.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Brian Tracy

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Carl von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Calvin Coolidge

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Alain de Botton

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Azita Ghanizada

Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

James Wan

If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.

Socrates

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, Average people from their experiences, Stupid people already have all the answers.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Alain de Botton

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Janet Napolitano

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

John Avlon

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

Derrick Rose

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Derrick Rose

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bonnie Henrickson

This is not a knee-jerk thing. We've just go to get better. Ivana and Taylor will be the first ones off the bench.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.