Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Scott Hoyt

Going forward, sales growth will be more modest and inconsistent. Fundamentals are mixed. The biggest drag is high and rising gasoline and other energy prices.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Julian Fellowes

He wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an actor to be treated as one of the grown-ups. Half the time, you are treated as a demented child who has wandered onto the set.

Ciara

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Adrian Moss

I wouldn't say Anthony whipped him, but he taught him. You're defending Anthony Roberson every day, and there's probably no better scorer that's come through this program than Peep. When you're defending him every day, you have no choice but to get better.

Ani Difranco

Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

LaVerne Knox

I think that's a good choice. He didn't want to go far from home.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Kurt Campbell

We (the U.S.) face a fundamental choice between a fundamentally flawed deal and no deal.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Brian Iannessa

I think by helping alleviate the cost of veterinary care, we are giving pet owners peace of mind. It allows them to have a choice about their pets care.

Fergus Clydesdale

I think it's wonderful that people have a choice and have the money. But not all people have the money or the choice, and we have to be concerned with those people, too.

Christie Hefner

It gives no more choice or control to parents, but it takes away the choice of millions of adults who enjoy watching Playboy-TV before 10 o'clock at night,

John Lewis Gaddis

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

Mike Chinoy

It leaves questions open about the mechanics of choosing a long-term successor,

Najib Razak

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Chuck Schumer

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,

Dave Annable

After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.

Anthony Hitt

Engel & Volkers real estate advisors are specifically - and continuously - trained to understand and handle the needs of property transactions in the premium segments of their markets. We keep our shops small, with truly talented professionals who are choosing Engel & Volkers because of the extensive connections and support we provide them.

Bob Muglia

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

Parker Palmer

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

Nick Saban

I would stop short of saying that Ronnie was 100 percent, but he did do everything in practice. Those decisions will be made on a day-to-day basis.

Bruce Norris

It is good to make decisions about taxes prior to selling because you can't undo it.

David Trimble

Whatever decisions are taken, there is no place for violence and riot and the incidents that we have seen over the last few days,

Robert Dunn

The people that made the decisions and tied our hands are in Lansing, and Washington, D.C..

Bill Cowher

I thought the game slowed down for him this week. He made good decisions and looked comfortable out there. When you've been out that long, you have to get back up to game speed.

David Ruhnke

It is highly likely - virtually indisputable - that final decisions had not been reached as to any of the five defendants when these false notices were served.

Ted Schadler

It is more than just a hum in the background, ... There are real decisions being made and money being spent, and Microsoft is starting to see, at the margin, an impact.

Ken Hitchcock

We made some really poor decisions and we gave up three or four odd man rushes. Even though we only gave up 15 shots, we played really poor defensively.

Gary Capaldi

We made some good decisions and just played our game. We just got it done.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Byron Scott

He just doesn't seem real sure of what he's doing out there right now. Again, it goes back to repetition and knowing how to run our offense. . . . I can't wait for Speedy to get back.

Willie Randolph

He'll be fine. He's a good kid. Goes about his business. He's got a lot of teammates who can take him under their wing and I'm sure they'll do that.

Brentson Buckner

He knows what to do and he goes out and plays hard, and you can't teach a person to play hard. You can teach them technique, help them get stronger, help them get faster. But playing hard, that comes from inside.

Ozzie Guillen

He reminds me of Greg Maddux. He goes out, throws 200-plus innings and throws as quick as he can.

Winston Justice

Happy with what I did and happy it's over. We'll just have to see where it goes from here.

John Burke

If you want to say Roger's guilty of being nasty and distasteful, that's okay. He wanted attention.

David Blunkett

I'm guilty of a mistake and I'm paying the price of it,

Joe Rogers

We serve all races, ... We're just a target. We're not guilty and never have been.

Glen Sather

It was like yelling at your own kid, and you know how guilty you feel after that.

Terry Goodkind

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan

Joel Osteen

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

Mark Thompson

It's a frightening thing. You don't know what's going to happen. You don't know anything will be resolved and you must prove that you are innocent. You are guilty - everyone treats you as if you have stolen all this money from them.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view.

Amy Childs

I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.

Fatih Terim

We managed to pass the first hurdle by reaching the playoffs.

Mark Rowen

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

Keith Foulke

The big hurdle was after my last injections. Me being able to squat down and pick up my son with no pain, that's a big hurdle.

Mike Tice

This is just another hurdle we have to overcome.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

Terry Porter

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Pam Gregory

She is typically a long program skater. I think she got over a big hurdle mentally in the short program, and she's going to be very ready.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ruben Blades

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Hoechlin

I will never be as busy as I was in high school and college.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Abraham Nunez

You've got to do whatever you can to win. Whatever you have is whatever it takes.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Larry Coker

With Olsen, whatever he does, it's like, 'Wow,'

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.

Giuliana Rancic

We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.