Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Robinson

We intend to be the benchmark of collegiate football polls.

Daniel Barcelo

We continue to see Exxon Mobil as the benchmark for operational performance in the sector. On ROCE (return on capital employed), Exxon Mobil continues to lead the industry and we see this leadership sustained through our forecast period through 2009.

Robert Rosen

The problem is, unless you are benchmarking your own work, it is hard to decide what value the benchmark has. Usually it is just another data point and it allows you to compare two different systems.

William Sullivan

I think right now the stock market is very comfortable with the benchmark 30-year-bond trading at between 6.5 and 7 percent. But if we start moving that range up to 7.25 and above, that could really be a major speed bump in the way of the stock market.

Tiger Woods

He's been the benchmark for every player that's ever played the game, at least in my generation.

Jackson Wong

I don't expect the market to have sharp movement today, with the benchmark index likely to hover within a range of 100 points.

Ellen MacArthur

Francis has set us another very high benchmark - the chances of breaking it are very slim but if we don't try, we won't know.

James Preissler

The perception here is that traffic on the Internet was weak and, definitely, Yahoo!'s numbers are going to be used as a proxy or benchmark for the other players in the space.

Mike Babcock

There are a whole bunch of teams right now that think they have an opportunity. Everybody looks at us and says, 'If they did it, we can do it.' The measure of a great coach, player and organization is the test of time. Being recognized as good isn't a one-time thing, so you have to hang around to earn that. That's what Detroit and New Jersey have done by each winning three Cups in a 10-year span. If you want to be a benchmark team, you have to do it again.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

William Fichtner

Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.

Don Warren

The pedigree on the bottom is good for 1 1/8 miles or a mile and a quarter.

John Sullivan

The pastors have to rise to the occasion. That's the bottom line.

Big Sean

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

David Pratt

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Richard Rogers

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Gore Vidal

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

John Edward

The American people need to get to the bottom of this,

Ron Brant

We could have even a stronger program team than '04. We're trying not to let the bottom fall.

Ibrahima Fall

The political process in the Congo is due to end with the swearing in of a president on 30 June. The conference will be held after this.

Tiffany Jackson

The past two games have been a huge confidence boost. After we lost two games on the road, we had a sense of urgency because we knew the conference is going to get tougher and tougher as we go.

Tony Pullen

That was huge, a sophomore on the mound. You go on the road for the first conference game, and he comes up big for us.

Dave Vestal

That was a very impressive win for Blackhawk last week. They've gotten better and better each game. Blackhawk is so well coached, there's no way there would be a letdown. In the conference we play in you have to be ready each week.

Terri Sullivan

That win was very critical for us. We obviously want to be in it till the end in the conference race. You have to get some wins. That's not easy, especially in this conference, but that's why it's an honor to play in the Big Ten.

Mark Kellogg

That will be a good test or us a big conference game at home.

Darren Alexander

That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.

Damon Coupe

We have a much tougher schedule this year than in years past. I have focused on playing as many ranked teams as possible. Our conference schools have become much more competitive this year. We do not have any walkover matches.

Ashley Langen

We have two games left, but we want to keep on winning. We don't want to go into the conference and region tournaments on a downfall.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Bertrand Russell

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

Mike Listerman

That was very difficult. As happy as I was I had sadness in my heart because my son was hurting on the other side. ... This one's a lot easier.

Billy Gillispie

That was a hard-fought win, and I'm very, very, very happy to get it.

Olli Jokinen

We can't give him credit. He's probably happy he got his first shutout in the NHL, but we made him look good. We really didn't test that guy.

Steve Todd

We just didn't have enough speed. He has a lot more water length than we did. I was happy we stayed with him.

Kelvin Sampson

We were happy we won those games, but you could just tell that we didn't have our edge. When you lose your edge, it's hard to get back.

Chris Davis

We were happy we were able to negotiate it amicably,

Josh Wilson

We were happy to get 17 votes from his home turf.

Yolanda Griffith

We were happy in the locker room, but I was disappointed that we let our lead go away so easy. This has got to be a lesson for us.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dana Rohrabacher

The American people understand that in order to get an organization like the United Nations to reform, there must be consequences.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Viktor Yushchenko

Today, the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian people have won. The Ukrainian people have won,

Mike McGavick

We just can't put up with it anymore. The partisan nonsense that is ruining our nation has to stop.

Maurice Ager

Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave.

Richard Bush

Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?

Brian Dawkins

Those are things you don't understand and can't sweep under the rug,

Peter Ward

He is the new broom, and he can sweep clean.

John Eaton

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

Mark Buehrle

It's not like if we sweep them or they sweep us, then the season's over.

Shireen Dodson

It's very gratifying. I had no idea it would be something that would sweep the country.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

J. Horton

If you could sweep a team like that it would do wonders for our confidence.

William Blake

Your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Gary Hudson

For us to come out on top again, we've got to play hard, smart, and unselfishly.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.

Gary Wright

We're on top of each other. It's very crowded.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.