Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Haslett

I was kind of surprised, to be honest, because I thought we would play here or in Baton Rouge,

Yulia Tymoshenko

picking up Kuchma's baton and wanting to get rid of me in the same way.

Pepper Keenan

I'm in Houston right now, getting ready to go to a farm in Lake Charles. I left my mom and my grandmother and her blind friend in a hotel lobby in Baton Rouge, so I've got to get them up to the farm. I grabbed my guitar, my dog and my girlfriend and got out. That was all I could do. I've got nothing left besides a little cash in my back pocket. It will take months for me to figure out a semblance of what to do.

Daniel Wilson

I'm glad I gave up baton twirling for basketball.

Steve Jones

The first two were nothing, but the third ticket said I needed to go the lottery office. I didn't know whether it was the Match-5 winnings or something else. But when they said I had to drive to Baton Rouge, I started looking for someone to drive me.

Warrick Dunn

The uncle, the one that nobody one knew where he was at, is in Baton Rouge, ... We're still looking for some cousins. My grandfather he came up. It's just a blessing, but I have so many family members that have just lost everything. Their homes and everything. I have a bunch of friends that are just traumatized. There's still a lot of people they haven't heard from. Their family members, parents, kids separated from their moms.

Chris Wiegand

All today's data tell you the business sector is becoming more engaged and consumers are handing the baton over to the business sector, making it highly likely that the recovery will turn into a fully sustainable expansion. In fact, chances are it already is.

Keith Gumbinger

The current expectation is that he'll pick up the baton where Greenspan left it off.

S. Walker

The Baton Rouge we live in and grew up in is no longer. These people are here to stay, perhaps forever.

Judy Greer

I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.

Rob Hilbun

I think it motivates the girls to some extend, and besides we like being under the radar screen. If the wins keep coming, we'll eventually get noticed. Besides, the rankings mean nothing once the tournament starts.

Joe Galante

Labels do a lot of things besides manufacture and sell records. We market musicians, we get radio stations to play songs, we help produce tracks and guide musical careers. Wal-Mart doesn't have an expertise in those things.

Jerry York

I think we have seen goals (come) from other players on our team besides Chris, and that makes us much harder to defend.

Tod Kowalczyk

I think we've been in most games -- I mean besides the Youngstown game -- we should have won that Detroit game -- but the main thing is for our guys to be consistent.

Avery Johnson

I think any of the teams at the top, I think they should have at least multiple people on it. I think with our situation, I would have liked to have seen Josh (Howard) or (Jason) Terry, just somebody else besides Dirk on it because I think they should be rewarded.

Doc Rivers

It is nice when you are a scorer like Ricky and you can make a contribution in another way besides scoring. That first quarter might have been the worst defense we played all season, but they turned it around with the way (Davis and Pierce) played in the fourth quarter.

Moustapha Akkad

I did the film because it is a personal thing for me. Besides its production values as a film, it has its story, its intrigue, its drama.

Robert Evan

I don't know what to do with them besides put them out with the regular trash.

Barack Obama

I think that given how closely divided the court is and given the magnitude of some of the decisions that will probably be coming down during the course of his tenure on the court that I will be flying blind a little bit. There's no way to tell how his judgments will come down on some of these critical issues.

Paul Dergarabedian

I think we're being blinded by the blockbusters. Sports movies have been pretty consistent. It's not a hotbed of $100 million films, but it's a solid performing genre.

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.

Nick Hardwick

I'd kind of go in blind and be fine in college, ... But now I've got to know what's going on ---- my opponent's every move and being able to see what the defense is going to do before it's going to happen. But that just happens through film study.

William Butler Yeats

I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.

Walter de La Mare

So, blind to Someone I must be.

Wyndham Lewis

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

Stacy Robinson

I love the game of basketball. But narcotics just tore me down. I was too blind to see that. I was too high to see that.

Billy Joel

I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.

Bill Meehan

I would tell people who are overweight in technology to use any bounces to lighten up in those areas, raise some cash and shift portfolios into more defensive positions.

John Zimmerman

I think investors have got to keep some of their cash ready to put in the market when things look like they're going to turn,

Megan Fox

I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

David Brown

Good design is a form of respect - on the part of the producer for the person who will eventually spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.

George Hamlin

It could be a way to signal the market that things are getting serious. I'd like to think they'd done better planning in terms of cash flow and the airline's operations. This would be a relatively new and troubling development.

Phil Gartside

There is a lack of quality around and we were not going to make signings for the sake of it. It was not just about cash availability.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

Warren Buffett

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

Robert G. Allen

Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.

Mike Hayward

Just like your dog lying down and being scratched all over ... they enjoy it.

Terry Greene

He was a dog with tons of talent and speed but not much racing sense. He was hit or miss ... no consistency.

Randy Bennett

He just needs somebody that understands these kinds of dogs.

Michael Farr

Greenspan has been like a dog with a bone, very tenacious, ... I think the Fed will make a mistake. They will go too far. They always go too far.

John Enos

He's a Lab lover, too. And he knew how I was feeling about wanting my dog back.

Mark Hines

We're pleased that it is working and making the dogs happier.

Al Wilson

We've got to have some dog about us, man. We've got a team down, and instead of kicking it, we've got to put them through the gate. We didn't do that. We didn't get it done.

Shannon Elizabeth

I have been trying to find gas masks for dogs. I have a vet friend who said that somebody in his office got some

Dick Samuels

I couldn't script a better way to spend my time. It's all about good dogs and good people.

Ron Heck

It is hard to write the perfect farm bill.

Dave Lewis

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

Wendell Berry

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

John Wallace

In total around 14 percent of global methane comes from the guts of farm animals. It is worth doing something about.

Lou Hatter

If you turn a farm silo on it's side ? that's how big these things are.

David Macdonald

Instead of wholesale adoption, we are seeing at most experimentation. Worldwide farmers have good reason to be wary.

Betty Rogers

Being a farmer is not just what he does. It's who he is.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

Justin Vernon

I'm just living in Eau Claire, not really leaving for much. I go to the farmers market, go to the studio, go home and play with my cats. I don't know if I've ever been this happy, which is really awesome.

Jim Duncan

Knowing that figure is a valuable tool that will help guide the Planning Commission's thinking as they work to update the Comprehensive Plan.

Johnny Hott

I yelled out, and no one answered, so I figured they all must be on a walk or something.

Jason Eldredge

Keep giving it to us, we've got to figure it out. When the whistle blows, let's play it.

Kawika Shoji

Kamehameha is well-coached and they're very athletic, so we knew it was going to be a battle. We figured it was going to be another low-scoring game. The key was just to be patient.

Brian Nichols

Just shut up. Just shut up. I gotta figure a way out here.

Dave Sitek

I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.

Tony Kushner

He was a giant figure in American theater,

Cass Sunstein

He is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the history of American law.

Gary Sheffield

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

Malcolm Hoenlein

He did it as a convenience to a friend and has disassociated himself from the group.

Atharva Veda

Grief is a friendly reminder, a good task-master; even a better teacher than joy.

Matt Hasselbeck

What you find is that the better you are at listening, the better friend you are, the better person you are, the better player you become.

Rich Falasca

He's always positive, never negative. He's just a friendly guy that we can relate to.

Linda Kent

Last Look' is a devastating look at humanity. A friend who saw me in it said, 'My God, you look like you're on nerve gas.' It's people relating to each other badly, people trying to tear each other's skin off.

Juli Lax

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly person and responsible. She thought it would be a good jump for me.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Abdul Aziz

I will not go back to that village where I lost my wife, my relatives and my friends.

Orlando Hernandez

He is Cuban, but in the game, he is an Angel. He's my friend outside the game, and I have a lot of respect for him. But I don't give him nothing during the game.

Willie Smith

I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.

Carl Jung

So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?

Lauren Alcorn

He'll never change. He thinks he's invincible. I feel sorry for his girlfriend because he will always stray.

Robbie Amell

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

Tyler Hoechlin

My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about reminding the other person how important and special she is to you.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again—not after they’d been apart for so many months.

Rick Riordan

My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.

Tracee Ellis Ross

[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.

Roberto Cavalli

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made.

Victor Penman

(He) walked over to this thing, grabbed it with his thumb and forefinger, and lifted it off the table. The place just erupted.

Richard Pulley

I went over, grabbed his left wrist with my right hand, and together we pulled him out of the way.

Roxy Harshbarger

He went to the pet store and a cockatiel grabbed his nose.

Brian Steckler

He grabbed the knife as she thrust it at him.

John Ellis

Instead of just stopping for lunch the kids swooped in and grabbed a handful, ... These guys all worked like Trojans.

Angel Rivera

His friends grabbed him and started shaking him and tried to wake him up. They said, 'Wake up! Wake up!' But he didn't.

Josh Smith

They said I grabbed the rim and pulled up to get the rebound. I was shocked.

Gary Johnson

The other two saw what was going on and grabbed the hostage, the store owner who was the only person in the store at the time, and held him at gunpoint,

Greg Darnell

Somebody outside grabbed me and started pounding on me again.

Todd Olson

I'm sure the hotels in town are pretty full, with all that's going on.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Remar Harvin

This is a high-volume season for a lot of these hotels and we just couldn't find anyplace else for these people to go.

Robert Wright

The hotel is the one thing they're going to work on immediately.

Hal Daub

We're not getting those large conventions because we're short hotel rooms.

John Cleese

Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Janice Smith

It's primarily a hotel (issue). In Hamilton, we only have one major hotel.

Noel White

They were most pleased. The hotel is beautiful. It?s so well done. It was really the last piece of the puzzle.

David Nalbandian

I'll be damned if I'm going to Houston to sit on my butt for a week.

Paul Tagliabue

I really thought it would take longer for Houston to get another team,

Barbara Morgan

I'm living here now. This is my place. I'm not going back. People in Houston have been wonderful to us,

Chris Palmer

Donna (Palmer's wife) and I have made a lot of friends in Houston during the two times we've lived here. We'll always maintain those friendships. I'm just sorry it didn't work out the way everyone wanted.

Jim Lovell

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

Jim Lovell

Houston, we've had a problem here

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Chase Utley

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.

Rob Francis

Lake Placid clogged the middle and they were always around the puck. They played pretty well and battled all game.

Scott Williams

Lake Howell's philosophy is if you go up and down with them, they're going to find a way to score 80 points. As we evaluated with what we do well, doing that we probably couldn't find a way to score 81.

Richard Willis

Lake Hopatcong was the place to be back then. It was a place to get meals and a room by the day or the week.

Rick Riordan

Yeah! Bring it on lake!" -Coach Gleeson Hedge

William Wordsworth

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

Wallace Stevens

The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

Ma Jun

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

Skip James

It'll stir the water up and move more saltwater into the lake on incoming tides. We need some new water to move into the lake. The tides have been abnormally low.

John Ellinger

The positives are, there is a team in Salt Lake City. And the fans; we've been received.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

Jeffrey Robbins

I take it Mr. Weaver was a registered lobbyist at this time. Was that correct?

Geraldine Ferraro

going to be able to lobby (President Clinton) in a way that no other person could possibly lobby the president of the United States and make sure that she delivers for the state of New York.

David Green

Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.

David Morehouse

Our lobbyists are talking about a new arena, and the development around the new arena.

Lou Gehrig

The agriculture lobby is very strong in the state of Wyoming. So I don't know if we're going to be successful or not, but we're going to give her a go.

Mark Kirk

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

Viet Dinh

This is what members of the media, members of the Washington policy community, lobbyists and members of congressional staffs do perhaps hundreds of times a day.

Carter Burwell

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

Ricky Nolasco

I got off the bus, I noticed nobody had their luggage. 'Where are our bags?' I got to the lobby and I still couldn't find it.

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Carl Jung

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.

Janet Ray

He was sweet from that moment on. I don't understand what happened.

Jack Bicknell

I don't know what to say to someone who doesn't know what's going on with his mom and dad.

Susanna Moore

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Penny Brown

Here we are, months later, and we're still talking about the same thing,

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Eddie Jordan

We've been waiting for two months for this quarter.

Phil Dow

We've got to get through that and it's probably several months before we get a turnaround in any sectors,

Denise Monteiro

We've established a visiting schedule months ago and we're going to keep it that way.

Shawn Holliday

He's been wandering around for nearly three months without a name, and today, we're going to give him one.

Whoopi Goldberg

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

Yorvit Torrealba

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Sasha Cohen

It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my time will come. I just have to be ready for it.

Mike Greene

Hamburg?s not going to show us anything we haven?t seen. I think we?re well-seasoned and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

Barry Alvarez

He runs through a lot of tackles. He's a very strong runner. You're not going to arm-tackle him. You'd better be ready to gang-tackle him.

Terry Hill

He said he was ready to come home.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Thor Hushovd

It is about getting ready for Madrid. But for sure I will try to get a stage here first.

Robinson Cano

I want to win a World Series, so I'm going down to spring training and get ready for the season.