Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Whetsell

As Blackstone started to look at some of our assets they made an offer for the whole company which we felt was very attractive.

Scott Benesch

The cable assets are growing the fastest. There's not a whole lot of growth in the rest of the business, which is why the stock is not going anywhere.

Janet Murguia

A fully bilingual young man like Zach Rubio should be considered an asset to the community.

Frederic Panizzutti

The momentum higher in gold continues. The consensus in the market is that gold will trade to between $600/oz and $800/oz in 2006. The asset relocation into gold continues.

Mary Adams

Do you think GE is going to go out of business? Do you think Microsoft is going to go out of business? You have to distinguish between the asset and the price of the asset.

Jimmy Tallent

During the fourth quarter, we resolved several non-performing assets, which slightly increased net charge-offs while lowering non-performing assets. Asset quality continues to compare favorably with peer banks and remains well within our tolerance levels. Strong credit quality, rooted with our guiding principle of securing loans with hard assets, is essential to our balanced growth strategy and overall success.

Janet Dickey

Defense is, for some reason, always an asset here.

Tammy Johnson

Definitely seeing (the police) out more, even at night, would be a huge asset to this community.

David Paulison

Dee brings a wealth of federal acquisition experience to this position and she will be a valuable asset to FEMA and the department.

Jeff Tedford

Any time a team goes 1-10, their confidence and self-esteem is low, ... You really have to get that back up and believe in one another. That was the main thing. We just tried to take care of that in-house and get our mindset a little bit better to where they felt like they had a trust level that they could play through anything. Then a little bit of success breeds more success and goes from there.

Sathya Baba

Any happiness that you can give to others will result in happiness for yourself in the end. Man must realize that he cannot get anything without sharing it with humanity around him. So, you must believe that happiness of the people around you will lead to your own happiness in due course.

Lance Briggs

As far as this year, our goals are through the sky right now, ... Some of the goals we have right now, a lot of people might think are unattainable or farfetched. We believe with the unit we have put together, we can do it.

Wen Jiabao

As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

Bible Bible

As he spake these words, many believed on him.

Mike Holmgren

As he explained to me exactly what happened, I believe I understand what happened. At that point I have made the decision that he will play in the football game.

James Gunn

As for going to the stars, The Listeners concluded that it was inherently impossible and the only contact would be through radio. I believe that this may be true; on the other hand, I still nurse my youthful aspirations to go to the stars, and I think that humanity should pursue it - after all, we have not reached the pinnacle of science and technology.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

Irwin Jacobs

As expected, second quarter revenues reflected lower shipments in our chip business, ... However, we believe industry inventories have returned to normal levels and we expect a strong second half with record MSM chip shipments.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Troy Hudson

Any situation you can put me in, I've been there. You just leave it up to the coaching staff and be ready when called.

Skip Bertman

As far as I'm concerned, John is going to be our coach for a long time.

Mike Ryan

As far as leadership, I have never coached a better kid, who comes to practice and games ready to play. Her desire to win is unmatched.

Wayne Morgan

As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

Frank Hadden

As far as captaincy is concerned I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night,

Charles Wang

As everyone in this room knows, Steve is one of the finest gentlemen you will ever meet in any walk of life. Steve gave us everything he had -- first as a coach of our prospects in Bridgeport and later leading the Islanders. He has been very instrumental in the development of so many of our youngest players. It is my hope that Steve will stay in the organization.

Justin Griffith

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

John Shaw

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

Troy Hudson

Any situation you can put me in, I've been there. You just leave it up to the coaching staff and be ready when called.

Wayne Morgan

As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

John Shaw

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

Ray Giacoletti

Randy would do a great job, he's ready to be a head coach. I don't think he has a weakness. He just needs the opportunity. None of us had head coaching experience until we got our first chance.

Vaughn Charlton

Really, I could not find any negatives. We play at Lincoln Financial Field, we?re moving into the MAC, we just got a three-year contract with Penn State and the coaching staff is great. Everything about it was amazing.

John Calipari

People thought I was crazy. I've had more fun coaching this style.

Roy Young

Our defense was the difference tonight. This is my fourth year coaching and I've never seen defense like that. Holding a team to four points in a half is impressive.

Zygi Wilf

After significant evaluation, we feel that now is the time to make a coaching change.

Joe Kuhn

During the last five games, we've limited teams to shooting a combined 38 percent. We're most happy as a coaching staff with the way we have been playing at the defensive end.

Kim Elizabeth

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

Vince Carter

As guards, we felt we needed to come back and help the big guys rebound.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Terry Glenn

As an offense, ... we felt we had to go out and hit 'em in the mouth.

John Williams

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

Juan Felipe Herrera

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.

Mark Pryor

As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done.

Jade Jagger

As a kid, when I was living in America, I started using those Noxzema wipes that just felt like you removed half your face. I quite like that tingly sensation.

Charlie Strong

Avery is very talented. The thing about him is he has a great up side. He's got great size and speed. He had been learning the defense. Once he learned it, we felt it was time to play him and he responded really well.

Winona Ryder

Back then, you used to lock people up and throw away the key if they just felt sensitive, or if they rebelled in any way.

Tim Ruskell

As a scout you have to look at the hands so the guy doesn't come off the field when it's a passing situation.

Mike Reilly

As a competitor, you want to be on the field when the game is on the line. So no, it wasn't fun from that standpoint. We were all just pulling for our defense. We were all just trying to get out of this thing alive.

Richie Zisk

A veteran can provide leadership not only on the field but in the clubhouse. They're really invaluable.

J. Horton

A year ago he was just trying to play and not make mistakes. This year you've seen not just his improvement on the football field but in the other intangible things also.

Steve Spurrier

As long as his play on the field is good he doesn't have to be a vocal guy.

Eric Trudo

That play got us going. We marched right down the field and scored.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Nasser Hussain

Rachael has a good head on her shoulders and has played a huge role off the field in helping Freddie become such an outstanding performer. Long may it continue.

Doug Young

Anything that we didn't water didn't do well. Field tomatoes were way off, cucumbers were way off.

Sheldon Brown

Any time he steps on the football field, he makes a difference. But we can do it with the guys we have.

E. O. Wilson

As a result, we're not a very good football team right now. What we have to do is get better.

Wayne Jackson

Aycock is a good, solid football team. It's going to be tough for us to stop them.

Justin Tuck

As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me.

Scott Riggs

As our new sponsor, Checkers/Rally's has been fantastic. It's great to be able to take our relationship to a new level with a football tie-in. This is a very relevant program for our fans.

Scott Riggs

As our new sponsor, Checkers/Rally's has been fantastic, ... It's great to be able to take our relationship to a new level with a football tie-in. This is a very relevant program for our fans.

Joe Gibbs

People say, 'Why would you go get the free agents? Well, look at the guys we wouldn't have on our football team.

Clint Walker

People are surprised when I tell them that I didn't play football in high school with my size and strength.

LeBron James

Opposing teams don't realize I'm a football player first. I can take those hits.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Madonna Madonna

People do see me as a less threatening individual now. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

John Ashcroft

An individual with that kind of situation is an individual who might know a lot about what could happen, might know the names of individuals, information being so key to intelligence and prevention,

Sam Brownback

an individual of unquestionable qualifications and a long judicial track record.

Mark Jones

The team won't be with me, so I'll just go look at it as an individual tournament just like the ones I play in over the summer.

Festus Mogae

The sorting (and valuation) normally would take place in each individual country,

Louis MacNeice

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Lindsay Whalen

I've been having that my whole life, where there haven't been a lot of individual awards,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Yuriko Koike

Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little,

Kate Warne

Pullback time. All the leaders turned tail and ran.

Darrel Mitchell

That's what leaders do. They step up and make big plays.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Mike Vrabel

I've always tried to think that it was an unwritten rule that you never try to put yourself in another team's locker room.

Ruth Gordon

. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Jonathan Lewis

In the locker room, on the bus, on the plane.

Steve Mariucci

They feel sick in that locker room, because we thought we had it, thought we won it, and then it was not to be, ... It tests your resiliency.

Chad Ambuehl

It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those quick shots we made right out of the locker room were really big for us.

Phillip Fulmer

We're going to miss him in the locker room as a leader. I know Jason. He'll be around and part of what we're trying to do.

Larry Brown

With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.

Kim Clijsters

We were talking even when we were walking on the court, ... It was fun. Afterwards, in the locker room, as well, we were chatting. That's how it should be.

Claudio Reyna

We were saying in the locker room, if we got the second, it really could have been four, five.

Mark Atkinson

Yes, this is obviously a relief for us.

Russ Feingold

You are obviously very talented. And you also look healthy.

Quin Snyder

We've had some highs. This is obviously a low.

Jim Calhoun

Could he have played (Friday)? Probably. But obviously we didn't need him.

John Gamble

We are obviously relieved that so much work has resulted in a just and appropriate verdict,

Alan McCollough

We were obviously dissatisfied with the overall comparable-store sales decline,

Steve Loney

When you only have one touchdown in two games, you obviously have some things to fix.

Tyrone Marshall

You look at our record, obviously it doesn't tell the tale of the Galaxy,

Lyndsey Medders

Everything we do we're going to try to do it together. We obviously don't have any All-Americans on this team, so everything we do is going to have to be done by a group.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Michael Finley

As a player and a man, I really respected him saying that. I took that to heart.

Bob Haffele

(Rayfield) got them going early. He's a tough player to stop.

Randy Carlyle

Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.

Dottie Pepper

Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm special' attitude.

Jaime Moreno

No one wants to see a player that young retire. He's a big weapon we have.

Tomas Vokoun

A player like (Parker) shouldn't be in the NHL anyway.

Bill Belichick

Anything any other player would do, that's what he's going to do

James Grant

The teams they've come up against, individually, you probably say have better players than (the Tigers),

Lou Lefevre

I've never been as proud of a player.

Jim Miller

I've always been very proud of Robbie. Every time I see him on Sundays, it's an amazement.

Robert Wise

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier, ... When I talk to people, I tell them that.

Holly Ismail

Samantha was phenomenal. She's done everything for us all year, and I'm really proud of her effort.

Dan Walker

Put it this way, speaking for myself, I'm a proud man, ... I'm very proud of what I did as governor.

Nelson Wolff

proud of what we're doing in San Antonio.

Georges Goven

The Russians are real fighters. They are a united team and are so proud to represent their country.

Robert Horan

I've seen a lot of killers, but this is the only one I've tried who was proud of what he had done,

Chris Oliver

I've very proud of her. Most of these words I couldn't even spell myself.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

Mark Sanchez

That's what the staff wants to do with it.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Tom Shepard

Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,

Robin Sutton

Pretty soon, we had to start turning down donations.

Joe Pinyan

Quarterback is wide open. We don't know who's going to start Friday.

Tom Craft

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.

Jim Veltman

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

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

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,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alfred North Whitehead

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.