Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Faulkner

I think today's bid was a 'don't-come-near-me' bid.

Peter Ueberroth

It is important to any future bid city from the United States that this be reversed. It's disappointing. This will impact IOC members negatively. This may be the only example of a country prohibiting competition on an international scale.

Nick Zito

I watched Spectacular Bid break his maiden (27) years ago, and he reminded me of him.

Craig Chan

There are shifting expectations on whether the Fed will pause or not after its meeting next week. Signals from the Fed that it may pause in June may see a bid for Treasuries.

Tony Kornheiser

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he suppoprt the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

Tony Kornheiser

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe ? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he support the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

Gene Shull

I did not use my position on P&Z to better my company. And the only money I can ever remember receiving from Smith County was for jury duty. I think we all know there are very strict regulations on conflicts of interest. I don't intend to become county judge just so I can bid on county work.

Peter Braendle

I can imagine that a bid does actually happen and I'd be happy with somewhere under 900 pence. It has got predictable earnings and that's attractive.

Scott Long

Our bid of more ambulances and response times 1 1/2 minutes faster than our competitor would have a direct impact on the safety of Scottsdale residents.

Chad Swank

He was a great man. Brian worked hard at everything he did.

Ken Klee

He was a great addition, but I don't think Brian Leetch was the reason for our 100-plus point season.

Steve Hawkins

He showed his competitive greatness tonight. At a point when things were getting shaky, Brian was our steadying force.

David Hoffman

To get a group of people like that to take you seriously is a big task. I think Brian would have a much easier time of that than I did.

Chris Coleman

I am delighted that we have secured the services of Brian for a further season. Brian is a consummate professional who always gives 100% whether it's on the training pitch or in a game, and it's a pleasure to have him in my squad.

Lloyd Carr

I gained a lot of respect for Brian Calhoun today. He's one tough guy. He keeps coming. He's proved to have incredible endurance and he doesn't fumble the football.

Felipe Alou

I know we're going to get somebody else. Brian is a real go-getting guy.

Tom Brokaw

I knew that Brian had a lot of overtures from other networks. The last thing we wanted to do was to lose him.

Jim Perry

This is a great opportunity for Brian to contribute to the resurgence of Temple football.

Nancy Tellem

Jack's extensive background, contacts and expertise in the music industry make him the ideal person to become CBS' go-to executive for all music-related enterprises.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Keith's a contact guy and one thing he won't do is strike out. I didn't want us to go down swinging in that situation. I wanted contact, but I didn't know he was going to hit a grand slam.

Bob Woodward

Journalism is a contact sport, ... I was 29 when people who really knew how to shoot were around.

Paul Kennedy

I also had to make contact with native Palestinians and learn how I would go from Jerusalem to the checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank. Different routes were inaccessible, and some of the checkpoints were closed,

Bill Bailey

He very kindly let me set up so I could start communicating back to the insurance companies. The more I had contact with George, got to know him better, the more I realized this is a very wise man. He's been around a long time.

Aaron Brink

He knew who I was and that I was a fighter, and he said 'I'd like you train me, will you teach me?' And I ended up training this kid and then I ended up losing contact with him.

Pierre Dupasquier

It could be contact with some part of the bodywork.

Sylvester Croom

He says he feels a lot better. We'll see. There will be no contact at all with him.

Margie Long

He is not being looked at in any particular way, except that he was in contact with the victim before he died.

David Collier

What we have done is made sure that we've safeguarded the future of English cricket.

Ian Bradshaw

It is great to be selected in a West Indies Test squad. I've really enjoyed my time representing the West Indies at the one-day level, but Test cricket is the real test.

Rahul Dravid

We're playing some good cricket and everyone in the team is contributing. We ran away with this one.

Marvan Atapattu

In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, than thinking about it too much.

Malcolm Speed

For 18 months the ICC have been consistently reviewing the role that Twenty20 cricket could play internationally, and this response indicates there is strong interest from many parts of the cricket world in this type of event.

Rahul Dravid

Seeing the video, cricket seems like fun, I didn't know that. We only know about fast bowlers, dressing room and hotels. Now I know what to do after I finish with cricket. You meet so many people and have such fun. It is quite interesting and exciting.

David Davies

Rugby didn't start planning early enough and cricket needs to learn from that,

Trafalgar Square

Say it loud, we're cricket lovers and proud.

Ehsan Mani

The Zimbabwe team has demonstrated in recent series that it is not in a position to be competitive in Test cricket and its decision to withdraw from its commitments over the next 12 months helps protect the integrity of the international game.

Rosalind Wiseman

Kids for the most part talk to me about parents gossiping about each other and the other kids. I can't think of one kid who didn't know where her parents fit in the parents' social hierarchy.

Pierre Littbarski

Jacob looked good today. If he's fit he will play.

Justin Bocot

I talk to him. I tell him I know it's going to be hard the first two years fitting in. He was the star of his eighth-grade team. He's in the same spot as me. I talk to him about my experiences and tell him what not to do.

Dinara Safina

I talk to him every day and he is getting fitter and hopes to return in Rotterdam next week.

Carl Crawford

He knows what's what and what he needs to do. He just has the mind-set to be a real professional and business-like and to find where he fits in.

Tom Hansen

He's a drop-back, three-step quarterback. His forte is throwing the football, ... Physically, I think his talents fit well with that style offense. It's similar to what he did in high school.

Jim Oyster

He's here now and we couldn't wait. The fit for the kids is sensational and I'm thrilled to have him as coach.

Tom Renney

He's a terrific young player who fits so nicely into their scheme. He's just a selfless player.

Jamie Winborn

I think it's going to be a perfect fit for me.

Anita Elberse

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

Jacques Villeneuve

He should give up motorbikes and join us.

Willie Nelson

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

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

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.

Trip Hawkins

You'd be surprised at how many women are joining those leagues.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Nick Saban

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Mitch Mitchell

It is a big one. We have to win it to be in the playoffs.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Trent Strickland

We've got to play with a hunger. We've got to want a win and we've got to get a win.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this again, and as long as I can keep going I have a chance.

Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

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