Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Stephen Black

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

Curt Fredrickson

It certainly didn't feel like a 10-point win, I can say that.

Donna Newman

It certainly did not comport with due process.

David Mann

It certainly did help to see some narrowing of the trade deficit -- but the real positive for sterling will be a 'steady as she goes' message from the Fed and then the next step will be to see what the inflation report tomorrow has to offer.

Paul Gianelli

It certainly comes as a shock to my client to be charged with a crime.

Pat Rice

It certainly can't hurt. And it will give some of the dated hotel properties downtown a reason to upgrade in order to compete.

Chuck Schumer

I take her at her word, but I certainly would like to know more about these phone conversations,

Wes Miller

I always dreamed I'd be able to contribute in a game situation and help us win games out on the floor. But that was never anything that was promised to me and it was never a given at all. I've always tried to play hard and certainly I've realized that when you play hard, you put yourself in position to get out on the floor.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Dusty Baker

He's earned it. It couldn't happen to a finer young man. The whole city of Sacramento is probably proud of him.

J. J. Johnson

I think it's going to take a city staff determination on that sign.

John Keegan

I think it says a lot about the people in the city of Peoria and their commitment to making this a great community well into the future,

John Barrett

I think it's an excellent deal for the city of North Adams,

Doug Scott

I think it should be Grand Junction, Denver, Severance, whatever. Each city should have its own (ordinance). The state should stay out of it.

David Maxwell

It could be that as many as half the homes in the city are destroyed.

Andy Irvine

It is a big city with a strong rugby following, as we saw in May at Pittodrie,

John Avery

I think it (ball control) was the difference in the game,

Gregg Brandon

He's doing a nice job with it. It can get overwhelming, which it's becoming. We have to manage that and make sure it doesn't get out of control and we're able to keep him grounded and focused on the task at hand.

Steve Giambanco

I thought we really had control in that game.

Nelson Cundiff

I thought we were in control most of the night, but they were able to fight back.

Derek Jeter

I thought he battled. He lost some control in that one inning but kept us in the game. We had our opportunities to score but we couldn't come up with that big hit.

Michael Chertoff

I think the American public is rightly distressed about a situation in which they feel we do not have proper control over our borders, ... We need to have a comprehensive solution and one that really will work.

Satoru Iwata

I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer. I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

Bruce Buck

What Montel allows us to do is to control the secondary so you can do more up front,

Jamie Mahaffey

We've been through a lot of controversy today, a lot of issues, but we pulled through it. O.J. feels very sorry that he's not here, but we can't control that. One of our goals was to win state. ... We've got one to go.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Isaac Stern

His style of playing, particularly in his early years, was a stunning patrician elegance with a very natural musical line which fitted the style of whatever composition.

Ned Yost

His workload has been real heavy. To be thrown into that, even though you're big and strong, it's still a little early to have that type of pressure put on you.

Ben Dell

It could be better than the Barnett. It's in the early days, and I don't think the investment community's really woken up to that yet.

Rob Schimmoeller

I thought we set the tone early defensively.

John Gibbons

I thought Wright looked really good. It looked like he got his fastball back. We didn't see that early in the year.

Drew Stafford

I think when they got out to an early lead it was tough for us to get back on track, but we did. We battled to the end, but when you get down like we did right away, it is hard to get back into it. I'm really proud of the guys for sticking with it.

Jason Segel

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

Damon Allen

He is the heartbeat of this football team and possibly the heartbeat of this city.

Rob Ciarlo

He likes to show off his guns. He?s a good kid. He played football and he?s trying to be more of a leader.

Jim Duncan

He's a good player for us, ... He's not a huge bulky linebacker, but just a good wrestler-type of a football player.

Tom Coughlin

He's a football guy, ... He's always around the office. He's always looking at tape. He's always grabbing guys and talking football.

Joe Theismann

For me, Monday night still is the big night for football in the NFL. It's the last football game of the week and it's a showcase for all the players.

Bryant Young

He's a little dinged up right now, but when he's healthy he gives us a guy who makes a lot of plays on the offensive side. He's fun to watch. He can do a lot of things on a football field. But we've got to get him healthy and back out there.

Donte Whitner

He showed me how to watch film and what tendencies to look for. What I see on film, I just take it to the football field, because football is a mental game.

Jerry Simonson

His son got a football scholarship at Weber State, so he started to look for a job here in Utah so he could see him play.

Andy Reid

He's good at everything. He's good at running the football, receiving the football and, obviously, if they need him to throw the ball, he's good at that, too.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Bud Childers

I think it'll be an edge, but once the game gets going, I just think it comes down to playing ball.

Marcus Greer

It always helps to start out the game well. It set the tempo of the game, I think.

Lofa Tatupu

He was a helluva an athlete, ... If that's somebody they have on their practice squad, then you know the guy taking snaps in the game is the real deal.

Antawn Jamison

He didn't really look to look for his teammates as often as he did in the first two games. I think he really took this game personally and he wanted to really come out and play well.

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Duce Staley

I didn't get involved in an altercation. That happened in the club, but that didn't involve me. I wasn't robbed, and I had my 2 earrings. I lost my bracelet, that's all.

Kyle Williams

I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half.

Patrice Lauzon

I don't know what happened, it's never happened before. The lifts are usually our strength and for some reason, Marie slipped.

Arthur Travers

I don't know where the shooting happened or how.

Branny Vickory

I don't know what kind of impact this sentencing that happened back in '91 had on his behavior.

Robin Williams

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

Drew Brees

I couldn't say that was our motivation, but obviously we all knew about it. But Kansas City's 8-4 now, and we've got to go there. So there are plenty of tough tests ahead.

Chuck Neinas

The blue-chippers wouldn't even talk to Kansas State,

Mick Caba

It was interesting talking to Lyonel. When he played for us he was oozing with confidence. When he was at Kansas he was the same way.

Bill Kurtis

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

Shirley Knight

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

Gore Vidal

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

Warren Moon

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

John Alexander

We are looking at all the options. I have been to Kansas and looked at (ethanol) plants up there and how they do things.

LaDainian Tomlinson

But nobody really recruited me: TCU, Baylor, North Texas, UTEP ... teams like that. I went on a visit to Kansas State but they didn't offer me. A&M was waiting on another running back and didn't offer me. I was overlooked.

Rex Ryan

I know we'll lead the league in defense.

Willie Mays

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

Johnny Oates

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

Paul Jennings

All the teams in the league really need to support one another.

Nick Saban

This is a league decision, and we are disappointed in what it means for Ricky and the team.

Felipe Alou

It looked like a World Series American League team when I wrote it.

Norv Turner

It's what this league is now. A lot of it is schedule. A lot of it is how you start. A lot of it is staying healthy.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Jeff Nelson

They just want livable wages and a realistic per diem. I had to live with my parents until the day I got a major league job. Nobody's going to want to take these jobs.

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

Ben Kugler

We looked at what would it take to be a winner and not a casualty.

Andra Davis

He made some plays when it looked like we had him,

Rafael Chaves

He looked like he was on a mission out there. Like he had something to prove.

Ron Gardenhire

He looked like he was on a mission. He wasn't going to give us anything.

Dick LeBeau

He looked like he was 100 percent to me. They said he's 90 percent. If he's got more than that, he's pretty good.

Karen Bass

He looked like he needed to be rescued from this person.

Debbie Carter

He said he got disoriented and lost his sense of direction.

J. Horton

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

Gary Powers

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

Julian Sensley

I think we just got by on talent. If we were playing a WAC team right now, we might have lost this game.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw his picture somewhere I would get angry, ... I hadn't lost somebody to a shooting before - it wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Braylon Edwards

We lost to the team with the worst record in the NFL. It's time for some answers.

Patrice Neveu

We lost to a superior Senegal side who were more mobile and put a lot of pressure on us.

Scott Ballard

We lost that one in the first 10 minutes.

Paul Brutto

We lost some people. They lost some people. When you get to this point and the teams are so evenly matched, sometimes that's all it is. We probably made just one more play than they did.

Woody Allen

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would sit there and I would be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" So who wants to think about that stuff?

Woody Allen

In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

William Scranton

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

William J. Clinton

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

William James

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

William G. Boykin

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

William Gaddis

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

William Gibson

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

Will Ferrell

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Alex Brown

I don't know that we've got his number yet.

Robert Keats

I don't know where their number comes from.

Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Russell Hoban

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

Russell Brand

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Hank Davidson

He shot 3-over on the back nine, and that was pretty good, too. The back is tough because it's long and it plays into the wind.

Bob Stoops

It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.

Clint Hurdle

It's still a long season. We'll see how it plays out.

Kim Maher

They are well prepared for the turf. It is a lot quicker surface. We need to be ready to make plays and be aggressive.

Gary Cole

It made no sense to put it in a metropolitan area. Most Southern plays are not set in the big city.

Joe Gibbs

Any time you lose, it's tough. There are always 50 plays where you could have won and 50 plays where you could have lost,

Gus Frerotte

And I didn't play well. I've got to step up and make better plays for these guys.

Jeff Lerg

They made smart plays going to the net.

Jeff Tedford

There were a lot of plays to be made and we didn't make them.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Will Ferrell

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

Richard M. Nixon

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Richard M. Nixon

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Richard Rorty

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Walt Disney

The wonders of nature are endless...

Scott Macartney

I'm having a wonderful time. It's a wonderful experience.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To wonder is to begin to understand.

Gary Cherone

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

Roz Savage

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

Tyler Hoechlin

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

Reza Aslan

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.