Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Wong

We are proud to bring the Scripps National Spelling Bee to ABC for the first time in its storied, 79-year history. It's exciting for us as a network to bring this competition of some of America's brightest young minds to a broader audience.

Paul Tagliabue

We appreciate the leadership of ABC and ESPN in helping us turn this particular Monday night into far more than a primetime football doubleheader, making it part of the overall Gulf Coast relief effort. The New Orleans Saints know the importance of rising to help meet the Gulf Coast's extraordinary challenges, and we salute them, too.

Mark Palmer

We have no knowledge about the documents in possession of ABC News, nor the significance of those documents, but we do know what we have repeatedly told our employees since October 25 -- and that is in no uncertain terms that they are to preserve all documents and materials,

David Brickman

There is no procedure what so ever in the ABC law for a suspension of a license prior to a hearing.

Robert Iger

We believe that, barring the unforeseen -- a significant downturn in the market -- the ABC network will likely be profitable in '05,

Chris Bailey

To most people, when they drive by, it will be the ABC Columbia building. You get extra recognition. It draws a little more attention to what you're doing.

John Rash

As with last season, it will be a highly competitive year. CBS and ABC are the two probable combatants for the top spot for the first half of the season. But January will bring a new ratings wrinkle with 'American Idol' re-ascending for Fox.

Al Franken

A brief digression on whether that suspicious-looking mole is actually cancer. ... Take this simple test called the ABC test. 'A' is for age. What is your age? Is it over thirteen? If so, it's cancer. That's how the ABC test works.

I. Stone

ABC would not allow that, nor would it give permission for us to edit out the graphic language,

Geoff Salmon

We want them to get caught up in it. It's something they'll never be able to do again, for the seniors. We'll get after them in practice and go hard like we have all year, but we also want them to appreciate what they're doing.

Chris Colfer

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Audrey Hepburn

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

Arthur Rock

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Russ Johnson

We appreciate the concern they have and them coming by, and I know C.R. would appreciate it, too. But now is just a real critical time. His brain has a lot of healing to do.

Brian Hutchinson

We appreciate the commitment of Kyle and his staff to Morehead State and the Eagle basketball program. There is no question that many facets of our program improved under his direction. We will immediately begin the process of a national search to fill this void in our athletics program.

Linda Newman

We appreciate the break, it gives us a little more leeway.

Tubby Smith

We appreciate the Big Blue faithful. The faith they have in us is remarkable.

Brian Sullivan

We appreciate that this has put some stress on waiting lists, It really comes down to the fact that these people have lost everything. You can't get around that.

Tyga

I feel like too many people on the West Coast, they're too needy. They feel they need Snoop or Game. I never did any tracks with any West Coast artists. Not because I didn't want to, but because I didn't feel like that's what I had to do in order to get on. I just did music.

Dick Tomey

We're running the West Coast offense whatever that means. We're going to focus on the intermediate passing game. We'll throw it every down if we have to or we'll run it every down if we have to.

Geoff Sundstrom

We're going to continue to see not only higher prices but gasoline availability issues on the Gulf Coast and other issues in the southeast United States, mainly due to fuel distribution problems over the short term.

Howard Coble

As we are witnessing in the Gulf Coast region of our country,

Britani Pittullo

It's exciting for Cari. This is the first time she is traveling to the East Coast in a long time.

Gary Ray

It's far from over and people are still in dire straits in a lot of the Gulf Coast communities. It may have dropped from our consciousness somewhat, but from talking to people in New Iberia, they are still desperate. Some still don't have running water.

Eddie Jordan

It's early. They've been on an East Coast trip. I don't want to measure our team as far as predicting how good we are or will be.

Serdar Bankaci

It seems that Orlando and the west coast are hot spots now because of the overvaluation and unaffordable homes in South Florida.

Richard Codey

Americans have always been there for one another, ... We're like a family. When one sibling is in need, it's up to the others to step up to the plate and help out. Today it's the Gulf Coast that needs help.

Michael MacCambridge

When everybody starts broadcasting games the way 'Monday Night Football' did, then 'Monday Night Football' is not as exceptional and unique as it once was. You can turn on ESPN 2 now and see the same techniques being used for the Kent State-Akron game.

Terry Hoeppner

A lot of people will be looking for an alternative. I think it will be one of the most watched games on ESPN this year.

Mathieu Schneider

That's what you're going to see when you turn on ESPN highlights every night, ... Or the OLN (Outdoor Life Network) highlights.

David Joyce

ESPN is still a valuable property, ... But it can't grow the way it used to.

Donnie Jones

ESPN is involved with a lot of home-and-home situations with teams. That didn't happen for us this year.

Oscar Hoya

Lose this fight and you'll be fighting on ESPN on Friday nights.

Richard Greenfield

Nobody could have anticipated how much of a financial juggernaut ESPN would become.

Stephen Rodrick

Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.

Jeff Feagles

I'm a realist. I don't think they're going to open up ESPN the next day with my story,

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Arthur Rimbaud

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Mark Adler

We always hope. So far we've been OK.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Jeb Bush

As Rita moves into the Gulf of Mexico, we are looking to ... make sure that people can get back into their homes as quickly as possible in the Keys.

Roger Simon

A lot of the ice ... floated out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Bill Parsons

You can't just watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I have seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Doug Leggate

Any storm going through the Gulf is going to slow the pace of the recovery from Katrina.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Edith Wharton

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Mark Cuban

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charlie Munger

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Megan Quinn

Always our users' privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. This is a planning process.

Brian Hanna

This is a big milestone for Mountain View. The importance of this match in our minds was huge.

Richard Jefferson

It's not so much the type of shot he hit, but the importance of the shot.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

The relations with Russia are of key importance to our state,

Porter Goss

As a member right now on the Hill, I know the value of that and the importance of that,

Steve Carpenter

Safety does, however, remain to be of paramount importance on our campus.

Isaiah Stanback

I've come to understand the importance of practices and rehearsals.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Neve McIntosh

You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

Emmett Hanger

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $100 million a year.

David Davies

We're going to meet up and have a training session before I go.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Charles Spurgeon

Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.

Alan Jay Lerner

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

Alan Cohen

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.

Audrey Hepburn

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Richard Moore

We are a little banged up. Hopefully, we can recoup this weekend and come in Monday and get ready for Magnolia.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Spurgeon

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Charles Spurgeon

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!

Tim Chapman

When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelters here.

Walter Baumy

We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.

David Wagner

They don't have much New Orleans to come to right now.

Wayne Gandy

You can't just be thinking about yourself now. Watching what's going on back in New Orleans just makes you thankful you're not in that situation.

Robin Milano

There was no water in it. We're in the 10-20 percent of New Orleans that was not flooded.

Paul Tagliabue

I told our owners (while planning the event) that this would be a true celebration of the New Orleans Saints, and, before you know it, they'll be America's team.

Wayne Gandy

Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.

Mike Tidwell

The same levees that made New Orleans inhabitable have now made New Orleans uninhabitable.

Shawna Graham

I've been going there since I was 6 years old. But they're going to have a whole new New Orleans than what we did. It will never be the same.

Charles M. Schwab

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Jess Blackburn

It's a very small percentage of our overall workforce that was impacted.

Bob Gibbons

No question, the No. 1 overall player is Greg (Oden).

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Michael Barrett

Even right now, I'm still a little light-headed, but overall I feel a lot better than I thought I was going to feel,

Dennis Kelly

We were flabbergasted by the overall size of the market. It's incredible.

Craig Drury

We got some turnovers that were big. I'm sure we got the most transition hoops, but the tempo overall was set by Orem.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Jim Hackett

This particular trail is very heavily used, and the resurfacing is warranted.

Timothy Wu

This particular subpoena does not raise serious privacy issues.

David Strathairn

This movie isn't out to railroad you toward any particular bias, and that's where I think its power comes from,

Phil Klay

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Ron Nelson

It's just getting them showers, someplace to get some relief from the heat, because they got nothing down here.

Kris Benson

It's kind of a relief just to get it over with. It's been a tough day.

Terrence McGee

It's a sense of relief to just get it done - period,

Jan Ullrich

It's not really a relief that he quit,

Jay Gallagher

It's a real sense of relief to have Tim home.

Libby Lenton

It's a relief to get it over and done with, especially in such style.

Frank Robinson

It's a relief for everybody, it really is.

Fay Wray

It was such a sweet relief to me, because I had always worked, I had always worked, I had always worked-and it was time to do something else.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Bible Bible

Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Ambrose Bierce

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

George Santayana

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

Wayne Gandy

That wasn't the Saints of old out there,

Reggie Bush

I want the Saints to be one of those teams where when other teams see us on the schedule, they know they're in for one hell of a game.

Karla Comfort

They salute the boys, and my tears start flowing.

Mike Doss

A salute to him. For being so strong.

Gordon Brown

Today we salute him as the most accomplished parliamentarian of his generation.

Corazon Aquino

I salute the 51 congressmen who voted (for the impeachment complaints.) It's not over yet. There will always be hope.

Frank Deford

Those of you doing that with the Samaritan Center, ... I salute you.

Max Lucado

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

Marianne Williamson

The love in me salutes the love in you.

Abdul Kalam

IF you Salute your work,You do not have to salute anybody. IF you pollute your work,You have to salute everybody.

George Herbert

They that know one another salute a farre off.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Brian Smith

We're going to go down there, turn over every stone.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...