Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Don Knapp

The whole team ran well, but with this big of a group of schools, it was not easy to make the top eight. We ran some of our fastest times to get in the top 12 to 15 teams. Some of the best Kansas City and St. Louis schools were there in addition to the best athletes from mid-Missouri. This meet was a major showcase of state-wide track talent for this early in the season.

Mark Reid

This is a perfect fit for our company, in order that we may better service our clients, ... Up to this point, we have concentrated on buying and selling in the private sector. With the addition of Walnut Green, we will now be able to handle the auction needs of our clients as well. We are very fortunate indeed to be involved with a company that boasts such a great tradition of honesty and integrity.

Eric Sorensen

This is a special dividend and is in addition to the normal quarterly dividend previously announced.

Megan Quinn

We decided in advance to limit the number of page sign-ups in order to provide users with an optimal publishing experience. Due to extraordinary demand, we recently reached the limit so we have temporarily paused additional sign-ups.

Paul Wilbur

As the Craft Centre goes away, our SSR (plant) will go with it. But we have more uses for that facility as well. We are investigating some additional opportunities that are coming up with our facility.

John Fingleton

Consumers who lose money to scams have very little chance of getting any of it back. So it is essential that, in addition to enforcing the law against scammers, we equip consumers with the skills and knowledge necessary to avoid falling victim to them in the first place.

Mark Barnes

We are very pleased with our record-setting January. In addition to improved sales of the Sonata, customer demand for the entire Hyundai product lineup continues to gain momentum in the marketplace with our strong value and safety messages.

Paul O'Neill

We are very pleased with our earnings performance for the first half of the year, since we have been able to more than offset a 16 percent drop in aluminum prices on the (London Metals Exchange) since the beginning of 1998, ... We look forward to the addition of Alumax in the next quarter and have been hard at work with Alumax employees to make the acquisition very beneficial to Alcoa customers and shareholders.

Marc Schenker

The teaching that complements these research efforts will benefit the next generation of public health specialists, as well as local, state and global health agencies.

Joe Wilcox

So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

Rick Fraser

This is a way for us to get them the tax benefits that they are entitled to.

Ryan Bedford

This raises an interesting question: Who really benefits from union representation?

Mitchell Reiss

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

Scott Wallsten

If someone would have suggested giving them $600 million to build a shopping complex in the city, you can imagine the outrage. And in fact, the economic benefit is bigger.

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Signs of a pickup in U.S. consumer confidence helped make investors more confident about the economic outlook globally. Technology stocks are sensitive to the global economy, and they tend to benefit the most when growth is evident.

Mark Messier

But I felt that I was fairly confident in what it took to win a Stanley Cup coming off five Cups in seven years, ... And I was lucky to be a part of a team that was willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the team.

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

The acquisition of the copper mine at a time when metal prices are rising will benefit the company.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Lamont Dozier

Billy Paul's song is hard to beat. I made it my own with a couple of little things, but I wasn't really going to fool with his thing. I ain't crazy.

Octavio Dotel

One thing Billy taught me is to know how to handle the situation. I learned how to handle the situation, ... It's hard to know how to handle it.

Ned Yost

He got a pitch in on Carlos that Carlos hit out of the park, and Billy drove a pitch out over the plate, but other than that we couldn't muster much offense off him.

H. Hunt

It (the AFL) was so important to me. I had a lot of money in it, a lot invested in it. Emotionally, I spent a lot of time, effort and energy on it. I felt an obligation. A guy like Billy Sullivan had everything he had in it. It wouldn't have been the right thing to do.

Vance Law

These were two big wins for us and it brings us closer to .500. Our younger players are coming through for us in big ways and we've had some outstanding pitching from our starters.

Brady Quinn

The way he handles quarterbacks is much more intense, a much more hands-on kind of approach, and you see the intensity not only that he brings to practice, but that he brings with the quarterbacks,

Dave Pauli

That's what keeps us going. Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless nights worth it.

Emmett Shear

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.

Julian Tavarez

Every time I look at the tape -- at how skinny and how little I was -- it brings back those memories, ... I played with some great guys that year in Cleveland. It's kind of tough to put it away.

Joe Walsh

Coming here makes all of us 13 or 14 years old again. It brings back all those memories.

Higinio Velez

You have a team of men and not of names. If you don't play as a team, you have to defend the flag of your country. You have to defend your homeland, the love for your country. That is what brings together the players in a team.

J. Horton

When you come some place like this, you have to keep it in your mind that you're here on business. There's opportunities to see the sights and do fun things, but the whole purpose of the trip, what brings us here, is to win this tournament.

E. O. Wilson

On the court, she brings leadership. She keeps them together. She talks to them and makes sure they know what they're doing. She's like a coach on the floor for me when they can't hear what I'm saying.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Rod Barnes

The thing that has helped him, our guys are so close. This is a close-knit group. I think that's one of the reasons why he came back. Most kids in that situation wouldn't have played today. But he made the commitment to come back, and I think the guys were excited to see him and really welcome him.

Stan Heath

The thing that got them over the top was Rondo's penetration. Time after time, where the shot clock was winding down with five or six seconds to go, he came up with the play. That's what great players do.

Antonio Villaraigosa

A few years ago, when (tourists) came to Hollywood, they were frankly a little let down because it didn't seem like that shining emerald of a place that they knew from afar.

Van Horn

A fair number of investors would like to see a sale, ... If they came out and said they're selling for $15 a share, we'd be excited too.

Jim Webb

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

Dan Hampton

The one thing that came back to me was how lucky I was to be standing there on that stage and it's all because of the benevolence of others and the great gifts and traits they helped me with and instructed me with all through my life. I could not be there without the coaches, the mentors, without the teammates I was able to play with all those years.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Jackie Young

The teachers union worked diligently during the last 21 months to secure a contract that will take care of the community, students and staff and make sure everything is equitable for everyone.

Dale Jr

The target is to run as good as you can every week. Everything else kind of takes care of itself.

Randy McClure

The thing that I'm most proud of, is tonight we got five kids in double digits. It's what we've been doing all year long. They don't care who scores and that's what I'm most proud of. They just play ball." ()

Ernie Passailaigue

After a while, they're going to drop by the wayside. The marketplace will take care of that.

Vic Tarasik

The most important thing we take care of is your immediate need, your transportation. You probably spend as much time in your car as you do in your home. It's an extension of you. It's important to you, and it's important to us.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

John Dick

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

John Hodgson

What we're trying to do is establish a holiday tradition downtown, sort of like Westlake Center in Seattle.

Gerald Galloway

Major urban centers like Sacramento, like Los Angeles, remain protected only at the margin. Engineers and scientists have got to be fully involved in this decision process, this political process.

Stacy Stewart

Katrina could reach category-one hurricane strength before the center reaches the southeastern coast of Florida.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Carleen Coelho

There were no clues to where she was. That's why the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was contacted.

Andrea M. Ghez

There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there's a central black hole.

Bill Haynie

This is the same system we installed for the White County 9-1-1 dispatch center in November 2004. I think they will be pleased with it.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Dax Maier

Sometimes you can find great people in New York.

Dave Baron

Team unity. We've got a great relationship between all the guys here.

Ernie Accorsi

Teams that dominated, that won multiple Super Bowls, all had great quarterbacks.

Spike Lee

Terrance Howard did a great job. I wanna see him win. I voted for him.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Brian Regan

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Siti Supari

The suspected person is now in a healthy condition.

Lorrin Lee

Study healthy people to learn how to be healthy.

Demi Lovato

Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

Sydney J. Harris

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Tony Parsons

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

Swami Vivekananda

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

Miranda Lambert

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Kathy Holleman

We want to make sure they're healthy in every way. We don't want to have two patients after the operation, so we put them through a pretty thorough exam.

Jake Peavy

If we can stay healthy . . .

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Don Brownlee

Much of the science of this mission hasn't been done yet.

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

David O. McKay

Every member ... a missionary!

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Alice Morse Earle

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.