Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roberta Smith

Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.

Bryan Alvarez

Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.

Edoardo Molinari

Obviously I made the right decision. I guess I'll be an amateur for a little while longer.

Ron Moody

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Greg Bear

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Don Waddell

One of our scouts said he was the best amateur goalie he had seen in the past 10 years.

Rick Magnante

It is an amateur team. There is no way to handicap it to make it a level playing field. Nonetheless, memories are going to be made here and maybe we can grow the game and create a greater interest.

Joe Pantoliano

The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews.

Shelby Gross

That was my amateur background. I fought about 55 fights and took a year off before deciding I wanted to try and make a living at boxing.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Casey Moore

Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivation for me.

Dwane Casey

Decision-making down the stretch is so huge. Marcus is going to be a super point guard in this league. You have to take his good with his bad.

John Vigeland

Dec. 23 and 24 were really good and Dec. 26 was huge. I'm not sure why but returns are down -- we were prepared for more returns than we received on Dec. 26 -- and sales are up.

George Goncalves

Dealers weren't that interested even though we had good indirect bidding.

John Ellinger

D.C. is a very good team that prides itself on its work ethic, ... I've already said that if you've got talent and if you work hard, they're going to win a lot of games.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Joe Ayoob

I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard.

Paul Johnson

So sometimes it's hard to know who's got the ball.

Francis Mathew

Sorry is too simple to say, but we make it to hard because of Pride in Us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

Deirdre O'Kane

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

John Vance

There are 69 sex offenders now living in Surprise,

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Don Flanagan

Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.

Eric Reed

Nobody has a sure spot. We need to win our playing time.

Dr. Kane

Nobody had any inkling back then that this would get so big.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Jonathan Cheechoo

I just turned and seen there was nobody between me and the net, so I just shot it. I didn't even look at the clock.

Herbie Hancock

I mean, nobody has a statement on their record.

George Taplin

All we have to do is just stand there with our cameras. Nobody is going to show up.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Kevin Steele

He's ready to play. I've been wrestling trying to find him playing time anyway.

Chauncey Billups

I don't know if we can play that much better. We don't need to, though. If we can keep playing like this, that's fine.

Alan Faneca

I didn't feel that way. But I never thought they were playing soft.

Ryan Diggs

I didn't even know. I was just playing to win.

Kevin Steele

Most places, they'd be starting. We've wrestled with playing time anyway.

John Thornton

As a pro player, you want to be respected.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Clint Zandt

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Questlove

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,

Dan Davis

I told them to stop their friend. They didn't.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Anastasia Myskina

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

Rafael Nadal

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

Monica Seles

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Monica Seles

I'm about the present.

Ivan Lendl

He's a haircut and a forehand.

Andy Roddick

I don't think about 1-9 to be honest, ... ... I'm just going to try to think about how to win the tennis match.

Marat Safin

Everything is possible in this life...