Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Stephanie Alexander

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Owen McClain

As to the myth about Fat Girls and certain abilities to achieve multiple...ummm...my only comment on THAT topic, having both thin and fat and, also, coincidently a girl...is that it most likely has to do with genetics. And praise the Goddess Aphrodite and her son Eros that I know all about those good genetics.

Mike Dunlop

At that point, instability in the processes being used required the dedication of vast amounts of time and money to inspection. We wanted complete stability and reliability in our operations. To achieve that, we began shopping for software that would identify any defects in our manufacturing processes.

Paul Butler

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Terry Gilliam

At the time I was frustrated, but it was the right decision, ... We wouldn't have been able to achieve what we did if we'd stayed on location. The forest was both realistic and believable, and also magical. People can't believe that we actually built all that, but we did.

Marc Manley

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Andie MacDowell

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

Shahid Kapoor

Eventually, the most important thing is success. I want to achieve a lot of success. It doesn't feel good when your film doesn't do well, and yet you are appreciated... everybody should succeed.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Phil Carlson

The second half saw both teams make runs, and Cathedral hit key threes to extend the lead enough to stay ahead. It was a strong battle, and our team has nothing but these type of games left. We have struggled to get a win lately, but we have battled sickness and injury. We are looking to get to full strength soon and to keep playing exciting basketball.

John Roberts

These small businesses are hungry to both learn about existing technologies and to deploy them in their day-to-day business operations. Because many are start-ups, they see selling products or services online as a way to generate revenue quickly.

John Bunting

These quarterbacks that are going to be competing throughout summer camp and there's no way to know how it will work out. It's fun to see that competition and see them both getting better. Both guys can operate in the pocket and outside the pocket. The only difference is that Joe has been under center 11 times before (at Nebraska).

Isabella Bird

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.

Joan Claybrook

The shame of this situation is that both Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone have known about this problem for eight years, ... The companies have settled a number of lawsuits under gag orders, which prohibited the lawyers or victims in the cases from talking about them. As a result, safety officials and the public have been kept in the dark.

John Markell

These were two evenly matched teams, both missing a player. So it probably evened out.

Dean Waters

The seeds are both right on the nose. Given the criteria, we are right where we should be.

Michael Maggio

Driving our decision to go back to our roots is that the market is mature and expects a certain type of system-level security.

Kofi Annan

During this election period, maybe there are certain proposals or issues that can not be pushed, and things are going to be at a standstill for a while ... I hope that these elections will go smoothly and we can get back to pressing the parties on the peace process.

Albert Rauch

Each time they win, the stock will go up and each time they lose, it will go down, ... But this verdict shows that Merck's strategy of using solid science and medical information to defend themselves can work in certain situations.

Dick Williams

Especially at this time when it's obvious that government has certain expenditure needs in the wake of two hurricanes and we don't know what else.

Mark James

Ernie Els, into a stiff one and he'll certainly be able to feel it up by the green

Nancy Adams

Ethically, if the physician feels the person would be a danger, they are certainly obligated to enlist some type of intervention to prevent the person from driving.

Dean Maki

First-quarter growth is going to be very strong, so the question now is whether that strength is going to continue. These reports suggest that at least certain parts of the economy aren't going to continue accelerating, with housing being the most notable example.

Siri Hustvedt

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

Richie Meade

Five minutes into the fourth quarter is when the game was won and lost. With a two-goal lead, if we start the fourth quarter with possession it gives you a certain comfort level.

Tom Vosa

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

Mahmoud Alinejad

These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.

Owen Fitzpatrick

There was a little concern over some of the comments made by one of the Fed presidents.

Richard Scudamore

Those comments and those concerns have been addressed.

Rick Tocchet

I got a summons the other day about (it). It's not a hockey-related issue, it's a football thing. And at this time I can't comment any further.

Jennie Rylee

I always get at least one barf comment when I do it in a classroom.

Tim LaHaye

One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.

Larry Kelly

I wouldn't comment on that at this point. I don't think I can.

James Sutherland

I would have thought so, yeah, I would have thought if it is regarded as a racist comment then yes.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Tallulah Bankhead

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

Suzy Kassem

My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

Swami Vivekananda

We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.

Tony Benn

I don't believe in the hereditary principle in the House of Lords. Imagine going to the dentist, sitting in the chair and he says, 'I'm not a dentist myself, but my father was a dentist and his father before him. Now, open wide!

Tony Abbott

Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were connected with that of a son; and there was no son who must not be disturbed and disquieted by imputations on his father.

Simone Elkeles

Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.

Donna Nicholson

The girls played real well together. They bounced back from losing two in a row and played real hard.

Rachel McKay

The girls played really well. They had some big hits that hurt us.

Darcy Wingo

The girls played really hard tonight. I'm pleased with the way we ran up and down the court. It's a good way to start league.

Adrian Benziger

The girls played outstanding. The girls played through injuries and played with a lot of heart.

Jennifer Truman

The girls just couldn't seem to get past the mud. The mud stopped every shot cold.

Brian Fanelli

The girls have the heart to do it.

Penny Dean

The girls have bounced back. They are ready to move on.

John Franceschi

The girls have been waiting a whole year for this. They're ready to play.

Mike Cross

The girls didn't give up. We made a little run there but couldn't get it to (single digits).

Butch Harmon

The thing I like is he's open-minded. He works hard to get better at the things he's not good at. Other than putting there's nothing impressive about his game, but he does nothing badly.

Mick Jagger

The thing about the NFL is they run a good show. Occasionally they make a mistake but they have been quick to rectify it.

James Bay

The thing about 'Hold Back The River' that I like is that it's a good starting place, and it was the perfect first single.

Mark Tauscher

The thing I've noticed is that he's just even-keeled, ... To be a good offensive lineman in this league, you have to be that way. His personality is low key, but he's very confident.

Randy Edsall

I've never been in this situation before, ... But hopefully the kids that get the opportunity to get in and play will do a good job.

Pokey Reese

I've never done anything like that before. The game's probably going to be pretty good after all the stuff they did in there. It's going to be so real.

Mike Rumbolz

I've made a living from the industry since I was 14 years old. It's been very good to me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've met with the president several times in the past. We've worked together, and we have a good working relationship, ... ... We would have appreciated it if he had done his fundraising after Nov. 8.

Lee Freedman

I've always suspected he had good staying potential.

Peter Marcus

By 6:30 p.m., the number likely rose to 2 million.

Anthony Chan

The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.

James Thurber

The unicorn is a mythical beast,

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

Arnold H. Glasow

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Bobby Rahal

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Cory Hardrict

My son is my routine and priority, period!

Drew Goddard

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

Douglas Coupland

maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better to not know the lyrics to your life.

Donald Trump

I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable.But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that's true throughout our whole governmental society.

Adolf Hitler

Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

Adele

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

Adele

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Thomas Fuller

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Bernie Sanders

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

Bernie Sanders

I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness that [George W.]Bush has in making the government respond to the needs of the people. They are so separated from the lives of normal, low-income people that it never occurred to them that if you're poor and have no money, no car, that you can't leave.

Bernie Sanders

I don`t go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don`t think I ever have.