Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Brown

He's a Chicago kid. That team had a great future. I don't know if it's ever easy being traded. My hope is that this is a good situation for him.

Maurice Cheeks

I thought Chicago had more energy, that's for sure.

Paul Greening

The people who aren't going to vote aren't going to vote if you give them two months. But if you have any kind of political organization, this is a political gold mine. If you are a well-organized township or Chicago ward, you can get a good chunk of your vote way before the election.

Andrew Bogut

We've got to win. These are our rivals, New Jersey, Chicago and Philly.

Nick Hornby

I didn't mind High Fidelity being set in Chicago at all.

Ethan Harris

In terms of being a predictor for the national index, the Chicago number has a spotty record.

Patrick Kelly

In the grand scheme of things, on a national level, Chicago and Illinois have a leg up in comparison to a good portion of the rest of the country.

Donna Martin

In our lineup there was an opening. But she still had to earn it. Our needs ended up being her strengths. She was a Chicago kid, and being close to home was a plus for her.

Juan Pierre

I'm torn. I can't really talk too much out here because I'm in Chicago and they love their sports so I have to root for the Heat silently.

Jack Straw

I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.

M. Thompson

It has always been fairly easy to do comparison shopping on the Web,

Jacques Rogge

If you look at the revenue for the next Games in 2008 we are already plus 30 percent in comparison to the previous Games. So this is a huge increase.

Jonathan Levine

I really hope everyone who saw 'Twilight' sees 'Warm Bodies,' but at the same time... I don't resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don't judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies.

Alexander Hamilton

In many cases, it will connect itself with preexisting factions and will enlist all the animosities, the partialities, the influence and the interest in one side or the other. And in such cases, it will always be dangerous that the decision will be regulated more by a comparison of strength of the parties, rather than the demonstration of innocence or guilt.

Joseph Joubert

I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage.

Michael Muller

The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.

Clark Williams

The comparison with PCBs suggests that toxic flame retardants have emerged as a major environmental health concern,

James Stack

The comparison of the 2000s (to the prior two decades) will not be favorable from a historical perspective.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Michael Young

Kevin will be fine. He's going to have a big year. He's a good hitter. It's just a matter of getting him hot, and sometimes it takes a little longer than you'd like.

Jim Sullivan

Kevin's times this year are just a shade off of what Jesse Bentley used to run, ... I think he'll have a really good year.

Goran Ivanisevic

He is strong in the head. You can't win a junior Grand Slam and knock out the world's No. 25 player in your first senior tournament if you're not strong in the head.

Charles Darwin

There is Grandeur in this view of life,

Woodrow Wilson

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

Rian Johnson

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

Richard Rorty

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

Reba McEntire

We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.

Reba McEntire

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

Tori Amos

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

Robert Plant

I'm a grandfather now.

Mary Burns

We're pleased that the Illinois legislature has seen the worth of this. And knows that this is the way we protect our children.

Lamont Bryant

Patrick is a qualifier. All this about whether Illinois has seen a transcript isn't the point. Those schools haven't seen a transcript, and they have offered.

Stan Joplin

I knew Northern Illinois was going to make a run. We withstood it and lived to play another day.

Dee Brown

I'm going to miss putting on that Illinois jersey.

Emo Philips

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

Emo Philips

I'm from Downer's Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into his car before he got too far.

Kevin Toney

They have played with some Indiana schools that would be in the South Seven in southern Illinois in terms of size. Their record is deceiving.

Nick Offerman

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

Natasha Leggero

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Jim Boeheim

He cemented his legacy long before this. But people will remember this four-day performance forever.

Gary Neville

He'll always be one of the legends of Manchester United,

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

Bob Kinniebrew

He's a legend and will always be a legend, and I for one have him to thank.

Bobby Howard

He's always had those legs and those shoulders. He could have played in the NFL.

Mike Babcock

He's got his legs back and suddenly we're a lot quicker team.

M. Powell

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Wallace Stegner

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Jane Krakowski

I never thought I'd sing or dance on national television.

David Hudson

If you look at the national numbers, we're doing very well in our economy.

Al Nash

If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Tim Thomas

I don't want to say there's not a problem with that (waivers) portion of the CBA just because I made it through.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Richard M. Nixon

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

Yoweri Museveni

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Dennis Erlich

I like those scores -- everything in the 30s. Those are the types of scores we're going to need the rest of the season.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Holly Black

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Jack Warner

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

James Farrior

I think our scheme is very difficult. It seems like we do a lot of different things and, if you don't play us that often and you have never seen anything that we've done, it's going to be tough.

Etgar Keret

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.