Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Dugan

Soon as I could walk and threw my first baseball, I have dreamed of this moment of playing in the major leagues, and now I have an opportunity of a lifetime to accomplish my dream.

H. Hart

There are two things we could do -- re-bid it or re-design it. It's the call of the agency. They'll make the decision on which way to go from an operational standpoint. The armory stands on it own as a building as far as we're concerned. Operationally, they may be able to accomplish that work somewhere else.

Ted Demme

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

Claire Buchan

Well, he's said at least $550 billion. So, as I said, there are a number of ways to work with Congress to try to accomplish this, and we're in the process of doing that right now.

Alando Tucker

So I see a lot that we have to offer and a lot that we can do and accomplish but it has to be for 40 minutes.

Larry Harris

Obviously, it's an exciting day for Michael and his family. And it's an exciting day for our organization. Michael has established himself as an All-Star and one of the premiere players in the league, and we feel that he's going to accomplish much more in the upcoming years.

Jim Morris

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

Tyson Slocum

GNEP cannot accomplish the administration's proliferation or waste management goals. The reprocessing technologies that DOE is currently researching are far from 'proliferation-resistant' and are decades from commercialization.

Jimmy Johnson

Give your people the feeling that if THEY don't do the job, it won't get done. Also let them know that when they accomplish something, they will share in the accolades.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Bob Corscadden

This is an invitation for people to get a better glimpse of who we are as a company and what we stand for.

Carol Bartz

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

Jim Albaugh

The whole company is firing on all cylinders.

David Cole

The upcoming console transition period is a time when a struggling company can either make a turnaround or plummet to the point of no return.

Greg Sorbara

This deal ... will mean a strong steel company in Hamilton and will mean a viable pension plan.

Jonathan Oppenheimer

This deal recognizes the shoulders on which our company was built.

Irv DeGraw

This deal is really speculative, but the company has enough breakthrough to turn out OK.

Greg Sorbara

This deal . . . will mean a strong steel company in Hamilton and will mean a viable pension plan.

Larry Steach

Every penny of the donations goes into the memorial fund.

Salvation Army

With all of the donations going south we expect to be hurt locally, ... A lot of people will say they already gave.

Stacey James

The players have all made donations through the Players' Association.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Claire Bloom

I learned from watching and I learned form doing

Chuck Todd

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.

Amy Tan

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Julie Futch

This gives us motivation for the next game.

Mark Jensen

This gives everyone a lift on and off the pitch. Whether Shearer wants the job in the long term, we'll have to wait and see.

Jennifer Warnes

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

Jerry York

Cory gives us a great presence in goal. When you have him back in the net, it allows you to do a lot of positive things.

Gang Four

Nobody knows you, and nobody gives a damn.

Lisa Abron

Now we've got to pray and hope somebody gives us a wildcard.

James Monaghan

If a large holder is giving up on Exxon, a large holder gives up on a blue-chip stock.

Peter Cullen

For these large retailers, it gives them the opportunity to communicate one-to-one with their customers.

Sen. Mulliken

For those people who are not up to the task physically, this at least gives them another option.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Jim Moore

As you can imagine, it's been an ordeal for all members of the family.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Stockwell Day

Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

John Milton

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

Kevin Watkins

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

Marianne Williamson

Family... a group experience of love and support.

Jamaica Kincaid

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

Jim DeMint

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

Jenny Frost

I have the most amazing support network around me.

Glenn Beck

I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Dave Ramsey

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

John Goldsberry

Drexel is a team a lot like us, they're not going to give up, and they didn't, it was a tough game.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Dalai Lama

The time has come to think more wisely, hasn't it?

Todd Burns

We just started to see these things within the (past) hour. Our crews haven't had time to get there and find the cause.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ratan Tata

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

Tom Waits

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

Sam Keen

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

Susan Powter

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

Susan B. Anthony

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

Sukarno

It was [the concept of] nationalism that Indonesia was established on. Not the Javanese, not the Sumatran, not the Bornean, Sulawesi, Bali or others, but the Indonesian, that together became the foundation of one nationale staat (nation-state).

Studs Terkel

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.

Barbara Bush

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Evan Esar

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Neal A. Maxwell

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but...

Vincente Minnelli

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

Carol Kennedy

It was just so wonderful to go down there and be of some help.

Katherine Paterson

It was a wonderful way to be awakened.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.