Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Brennan Bilberry

People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has dedicated her entire life to children. It will absolutely backfire.

John Schuerholz

Our doctors say that injury heals itself. I hate to lose him for one day (but) it just takes time. It should take no more than that time and maybe not even quite as much time as the 15 days will provide. To be absolutely certain that he is healthy when he returns, we're putting him on the list.

James Lockyer

Dr. Blake and Dr. Butt told us that there's absolutely nothing of forensic value in Lynne Harper's grave and, frankly, they never expected it, and neither did I. They certainly told me in advance that nothing would be found. I think it was really a matter of common sense that it wouldn't be.

Doug Green

Defensively, our back four were great tonight. Sarah (Burns) was absolutely outstanding. And what else can you say about Gillian Williams? Two goals in seven games now. She's played outstanding.

Pete Shuler

Coach Shepard has my vote for Coach of the Year. He did an absolutely great job with getting the most out of what he has.

Lou Lefevre

Coach Just has his team in absolutely splendid condition. We're not a deep team and we're not in good enough condition.

Jerry Costello

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

Marc Short

Despite the scoring, the results are absolutely in accord with our risk assessment.

Carl Zetie

As for commercial vendors, you have to remember that Eclipse provides a barebones IDE. It really doesn't compete in features and functions with an enterprise IDE, nor does it try to. So what commercial vendors need to do is to focus on adding value in the form of more sophisticated capabilities on top of the commoditized base features that Eclipse provides for free.

Matt Blunt

As a state, we were put in the unfortunate position of having to make up for lost time because of earlier failures to address these important issues,

John Hutchinson

As animals get bigger, their muscles have to be bigger and bigger to support their own weight. But adding muscle adds weight, and eventually something has to give.

Marie Lu

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Tom Ridge

The bottom line is they were going after a national icon, and if you struck one or the other, the horror, the death and destruction, coupled with the notion of vulnerability to either the executive or legislative branch, would have accomplished their means of adding another level of anxiety or fear in this country.

Yingxi Yu

A weak dollar has been the key supportive theme recently, while the surrounding geopolitical backdrop is adding to the support.

Jan Koum

At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product, and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

David Friedman

As our service has expanded to more airlines and destinations worldwide, passengers have enjoyed the benefits of airborne Internet access. Yet, through our customer research, passengers also have told us they want simplified pricing based on the time they are connected and more options for how to pay for it. We've listened closely and are making changes that provide added flexibility at price points more favorable to our customers.

Pete Piringer

That person was killed, it looks, upon impact. But also that vehicle was struck by several other vehicles, causing additional damage.

Mariella Frostrup

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

Chris Chute

That technology in particular would be appealing to a variety of potential companies from a Fuji or Kodak, who would want to buy that for their kiosks, to a Sony or a Cannon who kind of want to do the same thing,

Jonathan Brown

Even though I will be a Canadian by the end of this year the thought of having to work with Athletics Canada is not appealing right now.

Kyle MacLachlan

The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef.

John Ridley

As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero.

Ray Park

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.

Steve Duplessie

It is completely unrealistic to think that remote office operations are going to get rid of all the functions they run, no matter how appealing the concept. Microsoft plays a role at both ends of the WAN, so I like the Tacit Networks' implementation of providing Microsoft-based services locally while centralizing the data itself back at the corporate data center.

James Smith

I'm not sure who they (Health Net) are appealing to in this market. If you are healthy and poor, you don't spend money on health care.

Mark Messier

I never thought about any individual records. Coming back to break any records, especially that record, wasn't all that appealing to me.

Jean Charest

Rather, what has been a threat to national unity is those who think that in Canada it should be one size fits all.

Alex Rodriguez

Really? Even before we play on Friday? Shoot. We're cheering for Canada, right?

John Johnston

Defensive and interest-rate sensitive sectors did well because Canadian rates were very low - up until recently we saw the 10-year Canada yield get down to 3.73 per cent - very constructive to utilities and the dividend payers and the defensives.

David Murdoch

Defeating such a big curling nation as Canada, it's colossal. As far as Scottish curling goes, it's huge. There's a lot of pride at stake, making sure we do ourselves justice.

Ralph Goodale

Anything we do over the next several months will be juxtaposed over the timing of the campaign. Whether there is an election or not, Canadians would want to know what, if anything, the government of Canada can do to be of assistance.

Donald Coxe

The story for Canada just gets better. Canadian energy and mining stocks will continue to be driven by strong global demand for commodities.

Daniel Brodsky

The system is broke. Cases like this make the Correctional Service of Canada look really terrible.

Robert Morrow

Thank you for choosing Canada. We're very, very proud of each and every one of our new citizens of Canada.

Alexander Radulov

Team Canada is a good team. We have to be ready.

Marc Singer

Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.

Michael Sprung

Oil is stronger. That'll be reflected in the Canadian market. We'll wait and see what the Fed does. One more quarter point after today is fine, but if there's a hint that the current course will continue further, there will be concern in the market.

Monty Hall

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

Brent Grulke

Are all Canadians talented musicians? Sometimes it seems like it.

Justin Trudeau

I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.

Paul Kariya

I've love to get the opportunity again. But to be honest on my end I haven't heard anything. Obviously I don't get too much Canadian press down here. I'm in the dark really.

Chris Hadfield

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded,

Andrea Martin

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

Mike Tudor

This is the first time that Canadian crude oil has been delivered to a Gulf Coast pipeline.

Juvenal

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

Thomas Heywood

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Matthew Arnold

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

Martin Luther

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Scott Kessler

For some time now Western Union has been the crown jewel of this company.

John Donne

Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm.

David Cole

The electronics part of Delphi really is one of its crown jewels.

Tom Johnson

The difficult part is I love Crown Point. It was the first place I ever lived, including where I grew up, where I really felt like I was at home,

Joe Greene

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

Donald Kettl

As catastrophic an event as 9/11 was, it was at least geographically bounded,

Steve Roukis

a one-time event but part of doing business, so if you split the difference, (profit per share) is 99 cents.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Joss Whedon

I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it.'

Ann Williams

The water was waist deep, ... We grabbed all the kids and held them up because the water eventually got up to our necks.

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Philip Rivers

That's good. You have to play those (top) teams eventually anyway.

Chris Morris

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Douglas William Jerrold

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Richard Bach

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Sophia Loren

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

Sophie Kinsella

This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels

Tammin Sursok

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Swami Vivekananda

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.

John Steinbeck

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

Maya Angelou

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Guillaume Salluste

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul

Ron Santo

I've always loved this stadium. I'm going to miss it.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Rutina Wesley

I usually love to go bowling when I'm in Vegas. There's something about Vegas and bowling, do you know what I mean? You know what I mean. Bowling is just the thing to do.

Dick Sargent

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

Joe Thornton

I wanted to come back and they wanted to have me, so it was really a no-brainer to come back here. I love this city, I love playing here and I'm just excited.

Bode Miller

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

Tom Wilson

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Michael Andretti

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Michael Andretti

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

Jenson Button

Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

Frank Shorter

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

Cliff Persons

He's skiing again, but he's not racing this year.

Charlie Kimball

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Colin Chapman

Simplify and add lightness

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Barbara Pym

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Art Buchwald

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Art Buchwald

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.