Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Nothaft

As a matter of fact, it looks as though 1998 will register the lowest annual mortgage rates in 30 years.

James Richardson

We are suggesting the factory itself will support 1,527 direct and indirect jobs with an annual impact of $51.5 million.

Bobby Hatfield

My wife was diagnosed with lupus 16 or 17 years ago, and that's how I kinda got involved in it. I just finished my fifth annual Bobby Hatfield Classic Golf Tournament, and happily I can report that we raised over $52,000. Through the years we've raised not only through the golf tournament, but through other charitable concerts, we've raised over $600,000.

Ann Davis

It is, I think, a little sobering to look at those job growth numbers year over year. The annual numbers are showing a significant decrease throughout the region, and that tends to suggest a slowing economy.

James Hoffa

can articulate why we need annual review for this treaty.

John Peyton

This highly anticipated annual event not only provides outstanding entertainment but also plays a valued role in our economy,

Karen Davis

The average premium for health insurance exceeds the annual income of a minimum wage worker.

Pat Gillick

The average annual value of a contract doesn't bother me as much as the length. In a 5-year contract, somebody is usually disappointed. If a player performs well, he feels he's underpaid. If he doesn't, the club feels like it got a raw deal. And, with pitchers, you're dealing with the injury factor. You need flexibility. You need to be able to change your roster around.

Patrick McVerry

The auditions have become an exciting annual event for the team and our fans. We always enjoy giving some very talented singers the opportunity to audition for a chance to perform at the ballpark.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Dwayne Johnson

If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

Daniel Tammet

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

Daniel Suarez

For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

Albert Camus

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

Andy Warhol

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Darrell Butler

Maybe the long inning bothered him, maybe he got tired. But no excuses, when you're up 20 runs, you throw strikes, he knows that. But he was very good in the early part of the game, so I'm not sure what happened. I liked his slider, it looked very sharp and his fastball was good.

John Hawkes

Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

Don Warren

If it brings more jobs to town, it's alright. It doesn't bother me any. Everybody will get used to it.

Mack Brown

It's not about me. That's why it didn't bother me then and that's why I'm not mad at them now. They'll just be quiet for a little while.

Matt Dineen

It's not a big deal for me. I played college hockey at St. Mary's in Minnesota. We'd have bus trips that were 15, 16 hours long. It doesn't bother me, but for a 17-, 15-, 14-year-old kid, it might as well be to the moon and back.

James Miller

It's relaxed and they don't really bother you here. It's kind of comfortable.

Ryan Williams

It's really going to bother us. A lot of guys are hurting. It's going to bother me for a long time.

Dave Morris

That's something I ain't going to forget. I've seen dead people before. The parents didn't bother me. But the kid bothered me.

Kirk Hinrich

It's something that used to really bother me in my first couple of years. But at this point, I go into every game knowing I'm not going to get any calls and just play through it. What else can you do?

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Leo Apotheker

SAP is the clear market leader in the U.S. Acquisitions won't be able to change that.

Gareth Davis

The simple fact is the vast majority of professional sport clubs have some sort of level of debt.

Kim Schoemer

South Brunswick should have a good club this season. They have their No. 1 pitcher back, and this game should be a good starting point for us. I think they'll be one of the top teams in the division this year.

Gus Cooper

We tried to figure out how we were going to pay for it, ... The Dunedin Country Club Foundation has come up with $15,000, which will go toward the bridge. That leaves $71,000. So how do you fund that?

Tony Smith

Matt has been a terrific young player for the club and he is just coming into the prime of his career.

Mike Brown

Marvin has done a wonderful job for the football club on the field and off, and we want to reward his efforts and continue the relationship well into the future.

Ernie Els

I was thinking about that, trying to maybe work on a utility club the next couple of weeks to use it at Augusta.

Brad Friedel

I still have four to five good years at the top level, so I was very comfortable and confident to sign. I think I can give the club three very good years.

Randy Lerner

While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.

Rob Andrew

We're delighted he has committed himself to the club for a further two years.

Faure Gnassingbe

But the contract stipulates that the workers must receive a daily wage of 3000 FCFA,

Richard Eaton

Even being up on ladders and dealing with big wood is fraught with more peril than people realize.

Christian Sachs

First there were doubts about the security of the stadiums and at present we are dealing with human trafficking, forced prostitution and right-wing extremism.

Chelan Simmons

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Minnie Driver

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

Corey Koskie

It was a long time. It feels good to be back here.

Ariana Grande

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Delta Goodrem

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

Jim Furyk

We helped each other and there's a lot of emotions, so a half-point kind of feels like a disappointment,

Chris Davis

We help a lot of people out, ... It feels good inside to know that you're making a difference.

John Grahame

Feels good to be able to make some saves and be out there battling.

Deena Kastor

There's nothing I can think of that parallels what that feels like,

Karen Cantou

I spoke with the superintendent this morning, and he feels this is a positive thing that we are doing. He doesn't feel that it is negative.

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Bobby Johnson

It's been kind of a normal injury pattern,

E. Hicks

There is pain in the top of her shoulder. It doesn't look like a rotator cuff injury right now, but nobody knows for sure. Nobody's really sure what's wrong.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Sparky Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Slash

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.