Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Madden

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Paul Lawrie

Colin has always been a world class player and I can't say I'm surprised by what he's done. Obviously, Colin has dug in and got it going again, which is great. But the Order of Merit race isn't over yet by any means - there's still a long way to go.

J. J. Johnson

Some reporters even indicated that this class of land no longer exists in their markets due to moratoriums on further development.

Ron Parks

So we really made sure that the cost of this new teacher would be workable if we have to go back to a Class I budget.

Matt Lawrence

Now it's my turn to start, and I am going to try to fill the (previous lineman's) shoes. There is more pressure because we don't want to be the senior class that let coach (Barry) Alvarez down in his last season with Wisconsin.

James Quinn

Now he's worth millions and one of a number of world-class players in their squad but there is zero pressure on us and they know they will have been in a game.

Nat Friedman

Now Linux has a world-class totally modern graphics system that will last us for the next decade.

Dave Miley

Sometimes you get into a rehab start and the guy is going out there only to get his work in. Smally, you have to tip your hat to him, went out to win the game. Smally?s a class act.

Jeff Greene

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.

Jim Brown

Colin should be our No. 1 man this season. The schedule sets up well this year, where it's so competitive, and if Colin plays the way we know he can then he could be an All-American.

Jose Aznar

I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld

Greg Puhalski

We've got some versatility with our lineup. We've played without Colin in our lineup before and played pretty well. That's what we're going to need to do again.

Jill Malko

It was two games in a row where we dug ourselves into a hole where we couldn't get ourselves out. We started off slow and played flat in the first half.

Steve MacFarlane

It would have to be a significant shift from where they've dug in so far. If they're not interested in talking, our guys may leave.

Buddy Bell

You should have seen Hansen and Zack talking in the dugout today, ... They never shut up.

Dennis Emery

Florida is just a solid veteran team that was ranked No. 1 earlier this year. We dug ourselves a hole early and they did a good job of getting the much needed three-set win at No. 3. I thought our team fought hard today.

Brian Fuentes

At this point, nobody on our side is surprised by what he does. The guys in the other dugout are probably trying to figure out who he is, but even if they do, with his stuff he's going to be fine.

Dick Bliss

I am so proud of these girls. That was the largest we have been down all year. But the girls dug in on defense, and turned some turnovers into points in the second half.

Bud Childers

If we just could have gotten some shots to fall in the first half. We started off so well, but we just dug ourselves too big of a hole to get out of.

Eric Anderson

I didn't know (if we could rebound in overtime). It really hurt. But somehow we dug down and regrouped to do it.

Jay Brown

I think they dug themselves in a big hole.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Mahmoud Othman

Someone should have said something. The other side is talking, and the American side is silent. To be silent here means you are on the weak side.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Rod Carew

Your first hit in the majors - that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.

Romeo Crennel

We're 2-2 and all that means is we're .500.

Jeph Howard

Everything means a lot to him. Lyrically, it's very personal to him. I think he's more open now than he has been in the past.

Bernie Sanders

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

Bonnie McKee

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

James Edwards

Transferring, however, means other things we budgeted for won't be accomplished,

Bob Kluba

As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Alexander Pope

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Stephen Jay Gould

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Auguste Comte

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Azar Nafisi

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Ayn Rand

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

Jane Jacobs

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

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.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Russell Branyan

I should make that play. I'm a lot better player than that.

Pete Hald

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

Richard Chu

Things are bad. They are not the strongest player out there.

Joachim Loew

This is a shock for us and a tragedy for him. He's such an important player for us.

Gil Brandt

That shows the quality of their program. Very seldom do you even have one player who starts as a rookie.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Roger Staubach

That's how important this race is to me.

Argus Hamilton

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Benito Mussolini

We must give Italians a sense of race.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Charles Babbage

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Janet Guthrie

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

Steve Smith

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

Dana Cody

We are disappointed but not surprised with the judge's ruling.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

George Whalin

I would be very surprised if Kmart doesn't completely go away in the two to three years, or become something completely different,