Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Don Knapp

The whole team ran well, but with this big of a group of schools, it was not easy to make the top eight. We ran some of our fastest times to get in the top 12 to 15 teams. Some of the best Kansas City and St. Louis schools were there in addition to the best athletes from mid-Missouri. This meet was a major showcase of state-wide track talent for this early in the season.

Mark Reid

This is a perfect fit for our company, in order that we may better service our clients, ... Up to this point, we have concentrated on buying and selling in the private sector. With the addition of Walnut Green, we will now be able to handle the auction needs of our clients as well. We are very fortunate indeed to be involved with a company that boasts such a great tradition of honesty and integrity.

Eric Sorensen

This is a special dividend and is in addition to the normal quarterly dividend previously announced.

Megan Quinn

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Nick Saban

During his tenure in Pittsburgh, the Steelers had one of the most effective offenses in the league. His expertise produced an explosive and physical style of play, and he raised the production level of his quarterbacks during that time. We feel Mike is a quality person who will be a great addition to our team.

Kiki Vandeweghe

Earl is one of the up-and-coming guards in this league and we're excited to have him. His addition gives us great depth in our backcourt.

Mushtaq Shah

We have deployed an extra 2,500 policemen, in addition to the 5,000 normally on duty, and have increased patrols.

Tom Kraemer

Both HP and Compaq have been pursuing several common strategies: Becoming more services-centric, Wintel in the enterprise, storage as a technology growth engine, and moving to an overall solution sell. There will obviously be regulatory and enormous execution hurdles, but, with the addition of Compaq, HP should be better positioned to move forward on every one of these fronts.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Vance Law

These were two big wins for us and it brings us closer to .500. Our younger players are coming through for us in big ways and we've had some outstanding pitching from our starters.

Brady Quinn

The way he handles quarterbacks is much more intense, a much more hands-on kind of approach, and you see the intensity not only that he brings to practice, but that he brings with the quarterbacks,

Dave Pauli

That's what keeps us going. Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless nights worth it.

Emmett Shear

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.

Julian Tavarez

Every time I look at the tape -- at how skinny and how little I was -- it brings back those memories, ... I played with some great guys that year in Cleveland. It's kind of tough to put it away.

Joe Walsh

Coming here makes all of us 13 or 14 years old again. It brings back all those memories.

Chris Kelsay

We got after them and it was good to see because we didn't do a whole lot of fire zones or blitzes like we normally do. Jerry was just letting us rush with four guys and we were getting to the quarterback, so any time you can do that it opens your defense wide open. It brings more to the table and you can do a lot more off of it.

Jeff Gundy

We cannot shoot the ball. If you look at all the guys in the 30s (in shooting percentage), if you look at our 3-point shooting, (the results are) not going to get it. Last year, we rode the wave of great shooting. That brings passion and energy. When you're not shooting well in today's NBA, it's very deflating.

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Ice Cube

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

Anita Elberse

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Arthur Adamov

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Tom Peters

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Socrates

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Socrates

I know what I do not know.

Socrates

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

John Owen

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

Heather Thomas

I am really pleased I am just so proud that he did a lot better than me. That's what you want for them to do better than you. He can go on to do what he wants now.

Howard Stern

He was very supportive. I was so pleased that he had called.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Mark Geragos

He's pleased with the outcome, and he's back at work.

Marc Walters

That was a real big win for us. I was real pleased with how they played. They were businesslike.

David Mitchell

We have supported the school throughout this process and are pleased that a satisfactory resolution has been reached.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Jack Canfield

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Aristophanes

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Lois McMaster Bujold

All true wealth is biological.

Hesiod

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

Adrian Rogers

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.