Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Dusty Baker

He's earned it. It couldn't happen to a finer young man. The whole city of Sacramento is probably proud of him.

J. J. Johnson

I think it's going to take a city staff determination on that sign.

John Keegan

I think it says a lot about the people in the city of Peoria and their commitment to making this a great community well into the future,

John Barrett

I think it's an excellent deal for the city of North Adams,

Doug Scott

I think it should be Grand Junction, Denver, Severance, whatever. Each city should have its own (ordinance). The state should stay out of it.

David Maxwell

It could be that as many as half the homes in the city are destroyed.

Bill Gibson

It is about time we did something in this city for seniors.

Georg Hackl

I'm too old to race further. I have exceeded the expiration date.

Darryl Sutter

Every goal that we've quietly set in our room, our players have reached it as a team. As a team, we've exceeded what I've expected. What we haven't exceeded -- or reached -- is individuals, where we thought they should be.

Paul English

We had some fairly high expectations and it exceeded our expectations. We're more than happy.

Paul Allen

What's happened so far has exceeded my expectations.

Kevin White

From Sunday through Friday our football team has exceeded all expectations. In fact, it's never been better.

Barry Trotz

But he thinks the game so well, and you don't have to skate as well if you're a real intelligent player. And we found out he was a real intelligent player, and he's been quite productive to this point. He's probably exceeded any expectations that we have.

David Graveney

People have a spring in their step. When you read that the TV ratings exceeded the final night of Big Brother, you know that you're heading in the right direction.

Mike Pline

That far exceeded my expectations. We had two one-goal games previously. The girls have worked hard since spring break.

Bob Turcotte

We have more than exceeded my expectations. I thought perhaps going 14-5 would be reasonable.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Geno Auriemma

I think this is the first time in my life I have been rendered speechless.

Sylvia Fraser

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Jason Robert Brown

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Roger Angell

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

Walker Percy

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

Wesley Snipes

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

Warren G

The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

Ronnie Dunn

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Brad Pitt

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Anita Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Tim Blake Nelson

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Chris Paul

I had never been to Oklahoma City before. I had no clue. Just heard there were a lot of tornadoes.

J. C. Watts

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Bill Self

I thought it was two teams playing really hard. I thought Oklahoma State played really tough and it rebounded well and pressured us out of what we wanted to do. We kind of did the same to them for awhile.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Phil Jackson

That was something to behold. That was at another level. I've seen some remarkable things before, but I've never seen anything like that.

John Banville

I thought it was remarkable on his part to be so generous.

Isaac Asimov

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

Tom Patton

We have come off a really remarkable year.

Joe Shields

We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way.