Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Basel

As fragile as this market is, that could have really hurt. This doesn't seem bad at all.

John Dunford

A school's reputation can easily be lost through bad behavior on the buses. There is always a degree of uncertainty about the extent of power outside school and this will clarify that right.

Will Rogers

As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.

Dave Adams

As bad as we played in the first half, ... you go in at halftime and say, 'Gosh, if we just played decent football, we could've been tied.'

Whit Cornell

As bad as we played at times, we put ourselves in a position to win the game. That's what good teams do.

Charlie Melancon

As bad as things are in south Louisiana right now, can you imagine how much worse they'd be without functioning local governments?

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Antwan Peek

As bad as the season was, it shows that everything they talked about concerning our pass rush improving has proved to be true. We're going to continue to get better season.

Brian Riedl

As bad as the last five years have been, it's going to get even worse the next five years.

Andre Previn

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

Lerone Bennett

People say he was a great black publisher, but I worked for him for 52 years and it is my unbiased, objective opinion that considering the depth from which he came and the height to which he climbed and the obstacles he overcame he was the greatest of all American publishers, black or white,

Spike Lee

People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala.,and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life.

David Bositis

Officials should have realized that the poor were not going to be able to evacuate the way everybody evacuated and some special provisions should have involved community leaders, ... People in those poor, black communities in New Orleans don't trust the government very much. If pastors, doctors and other trusted leaders had been involved, they would have pressured for a plan for people who rely on public transportation.

Shirley Chisholm

Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black

Thomas Carlyle

No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

Kathleen Blanco

The National Guard has been dropping sandbags into it, but it's like dropping it into a black hole,

Michael Flynn

Do you think I look this red in the face because we won? The question was raised about the blue but the video showed she was clearly sitting on the black line all the way.

Sally Griffith

During that time period, there was an escalation ... and I ended up with a black eye. He was agitated and more antagonistic because I was so excited by my work at Microsoft.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

James Wolk

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

Jamie Shea

As a result NATO is taking certain precautionary measures.

Pankaj Mishra

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Joel Robuchon

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Alfred Mutua

As a government, we could not stand and look at people starving. WFP was only covering a certain part of the population. We were forced to use our network to save the lives of our people. At the end of the day, people were saved.

Eleanor Catton

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

Joan Lunden

As a journalist I reported on health stories and certainly knew what I needed to do to be more fit and lower my risk of heart disease, but I wasn't incorporating it into my life, ... The more I learned about eating healthy and staying fit, the better my life became.

Rasmus Lerdorf

As a large collection of male geeks, we don't really know how to encourage/attract these female creatures. We certainly are not doing anything consciously to discourage females from volunteering and helping out.

John Russell

People are there by choice. It's increasingly unusual that undergraduates are willing to commit their time to something like this. What we do tends to fly in the face of a lot of popular culture. It's being committed to music making of a fairly high order.

Jim Wallis

On this budget, we have the starkest choice we've had in a long time -- tax cuts for the wealthiest versus food stamps and Medicaid.

David Bookbinder

The more one learns about his positions, the clearer it is that he's the wrong choice.

Nishi Silva

Death makes us forget everything we love and loved ones at the most fearful moment of doubt on loosing our lives. This moment convinces us how much we are selfish of struggling to save ourselves rather than saving others. It would be worthy to live as we do not need to make a choice like that by not getting bounded much in relationships or being indifferent by loosing you to yourself and loosing others to yourself.

Michael Dunne

Competition in the TV service market will be good because customers will get better prices. Cox has been hiking rates year after year, and they'll keep on doing it until customers have a choice and can make their voice heard.

Tom Jurkowsky

Coffman continues to have the full confidence of the board. Coffman's decision to retire was a personal choice. He's ready to move on to the next stage of his life,

Mike Kramer

Dennis is the No. 1 choice right now. The people in Idaho would love to see him return.

Scott Watson

Any opportunity that we have where we can demonstrate some of the different programs that we have helps the parents make a better decision and helps the students make a better choice of what they want to do.

Blaine Lee

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.

Martha Thomas

A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

F. Sagan

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

Tasha Smith

One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.

Mariah Carey

I used to play poker with my sister. But I think my low-cut dress put some of the guys off.

Jimmy Barnes

This is the ARIAs. What am I getting dressed up for?

Brene Brown

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

Jason Wu

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

Clem Metz

And we have painted a skirt on her. Actually, the dress comes off. And she has a swimsuit underneath.

Jake Gold

Dress for success. It's like if you're going to a job interview, you don't walk in (wearing) sweat pants.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Scott Brown

We did real well. Having three girls in five events and we got 10th, I'll take that.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Chris Bucknam

You have to have the right surface, the right field events venues and the right track width in order to win those bids.

Stephen Jay Gould

If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ...

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Kevin Johnson

Ray really starts with the customer. He looks at things 'outside in,' as he says, not technology-out.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Mark Grudzielanek

This is a team that strives to do the little things. When we do it out there, like we did tonight, it just looks so good.

David Wimhurst

This is really quite disturbing, and it looks like it's going to mess up things quite a bit.

Matthew Geller

(The wet AMD market) is already pretty big. There are treatments, but this looks like a positive step.

Tom Glavine

That's how we won them when I was there. It looks like it still works.

Roy Williams

I've rarely watched film of T.O. or Jerry,

Randy Pausch

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Rebecca Stead

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Roy Johnson

Its just not that rare if you look at the whole picture,

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Marianne Williamson

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.