Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Green

This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,

Ben Schott

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

Jose Mujica

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.

Joe Namath

I don't like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, 'broad' to me is not a detrimental term for women; it's simply another word for female. Anyway, I don't really go out a whole lot, because there aren't many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with - at least not an evening in public.

Joe Strummer

I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.

Joe Girardi

Until Jake establishes himself a little bit they might pitch around him more.

Wayne Lawson

Yes, we've been getting a fair bit of media.

Bud Selig

Yes, we caught quite a bit of heat. But in the end, the only thing that really matters is how did it end? And we ended up with the toughest steroids program in American sports.

Jamey Wright

to put it in (the Rockies') mind whether they want me back or open somebody's eyes a little bit where they'll want me.

Bruce Arena

I'm not saying anyone's in or anyone's out after tonight. But Taylor's chances are looking as good as they did (after the Norway game). He's had a good couple weeks, and he's certainly putting himself into a good position. Tonight's play didn't hurt.

Buck Showalter

I'm going to play everybody, but Mark has certainly earned that opportunity.

Ed Comeau

I'm glad it's over. It was disappointing in that we knew how big of a game it was and we certainly didn't come with our best.

Bill Callahan

I'm going to fight for my team, for my players, and that's my prerogative as a head coach. If I don't think something is right, if I think something is unjust, I'm going to speak up. I certainly did that on Saturday.

David Bowles

I'm getting increasingly alarmed at how much we still have to do, given the few days that are left to do it. I've mentioned my concerns to the speaker, and he certainly shares those concerns.

Humberto Cota

The first two weeks, we've had (seven) day games. Then we have the sponsor lunch and we have to get up early that day before a night game. Everybody's not dragging but we could certainly use the sleep.

Bill Self

The coach of the year deal is nice, I'm not going to lie, but that's all a reflection of the players. That's the way it always works. If you have good players, you have a good chance to win those things. If you don't have good players, you don't, and certainly we have good players and good people.

Mike Boyd

The city is smart to do this. It certainly makes a lot of sense. And dumping the regional jet facility is a good move for everybody. Regional jets are yesterday's airplanes.

Maj. Dowsett

The children were turned over to Child Protective Services. And they will look at placing them in an appropriate environment, which certainly this is not.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Irv DeGraw

February is going to be an extremely weak month. But some of the companies that go out are going to be a lot more interesting and a lot more valuable.

Paul Nolte

Few companies are pounding the table and saying things are terrific so there's not the wild enthusiasm you would expect with a good earnings season,

Christopher Chute

There's seven or eight companies fighting for 20 percent of the market.

David Carey

There's probably only a handful of companies we could imagine doing something like this with and Target is at the very top of the list,

Len Yaffe

There's isolated incidents of companies (warning) because of patent expiration or pipeline problems or both, but they are very isolated.

Richard Smith

There simply aren't hundreds of derelict companies out there. It could happen on an isolated basis, but the mechanics don't exist for this to happen every 15 minutes.

Peter Doyle

There's going to be pockets of technology that do incredibly well, ... But the valuation is still being the core of the very large companies are quite high, especially if they're really cyclical in nature.

Franklin Morton

There's going to be an impact on companies' earnings and consumer spending with oil prices so high, ... will be high enough to be felt once companies start reporting third-quarter earnings.

Og Mandino

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.