Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norv Turner

I wanted to be here and appreciate the opportunity. I understand the nature of this business. I wish nothing but the best for the Raider organization.

Norv Turner

I wanted to be here and appreciate the opportunity.

Salvatore Ferragamo

Thanks to an early start, we are in good position - and we have to make sure we maintain it, ... At the top end of the market, they appreciate especially things that are not made in China. And we are 100 percent made in Italy.

Jim Simmons

Thanks for your military career, Stan. We appreciate it.

Dryden Mitchell

Thanks for being nice, ... We really appreciate it.

Kobe Bryant

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it,

Tarik Glenn

Thank you for all the hard work that you have done, ... I have seen the salary sheets so I know that you guys are not doing it for the money. I truly do appreciate that.

Mike Matheny

So much of me feeling that I did my job goes hand in hand with how the pitching does. We had some tough times this year. In that regard, no, I didn't feel I did (deserve the Gold Glove). I do appreciate the fact the managers and the coaches in the league appreciate what I do bring to the table. It's a great honor.

Augie Garrido

Sometimes when people overcome something difficult, it makes them appreciate other things on a higher level. Bradley is very conscientious, and his accountability is impeccable. He's taken what some people see as a negative and turned it into a positive.

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.

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.

Joe Novak

As a whole, this class is the best athletically we've brought in here.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

Amy Butcher

As a group, we're going to decide the best family for the dog. It's going to be pretty hard.

Alison Vincent

The bottom line is that it's for the kids and the parents so they can all have the best experience possible.

Stephen Stanley

The bottom line is that, excluding the hurricane, to the best that we can tell, job growth continues to be good, as was made clear by the upward revisions to the previous two months.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is stronger than education.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Al Davis

It may take a short while, but we'll get that nastiness of the Raiders back.

Jim Otto

I've been a Raider all my life.

Jim Otto

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;