Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Dugan

Soon as I could walk and threw my first baseball, I have dreamed of this moment of playing in the major leagues, and now I have an opportunity of a lifetime to accomplish my dream.

Lavoy Allen

It would be a remarkable thing for all of us. Right now, we feel like we can accomplish a lot of things.

H. Hart

There are two things we could do -- re-bid it or re-design it. It's the call of the agency. They'll make the decision on which way to go from an operational standpoint. The armory stands on it own as a building as far as we're concerned. Operationally, they may be able to accomplish that work somewhere else.

Ted Demme

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

Claire Buchan

Well, he's said at least $550 billion. So, as I said, there are a number of ways to work with Congress to try to accomplish this, and we're in the process of doing that right now.

Rick Peckinpaugh

You have to go back three years and all the hard times, Michael didn't want to go through another season like that. He helped our team accomplish a great deal the last two seasons. That's a testament of his ability.

Mike Pressler

This was a year we didn't need a whole lot of depth from the class. Our goal was to land quality players at each position, and I believe we were able to accomplish that. We are counting on these seven outstanding student-athletes to help us continue the tradition of success we experienced on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

Larry Brown

We have to figure out how we defend. It doesn't matter if you have five bad defenders, as a team you can accomplish a lot. That's where we have to get a whole lot better.

Melanie Boeglin

We have not won at either place in my career. Hopefully this is the year we accomplish this.

Martin Brodeur

Definitely, it would be nice. That's what I'm planning to do. ... It's not something I'm going to regret all of my life. But it's going to be nice if we're able to do it. We know there's a lot of work ahead of us to get it done.

Terrence Royal

The sky's the limit for the young guys. I know there's nothing but greater things ahead for those guys.

Art Hogan

The second quarter is lining up to be another good quarter but people are looking ahead to the third and fourth quarters. Barring any major upsets on the earnings calendar I'd say the market is pretty range bound.

Rob Parish

The teams ahead of them in the poll were not there, so they know they have their work cut out of them. They have two months of hard work ahead of them. They can't relax, and they aren't going to be content with their performance (Thursday).

David Skilton

Things started to quiet down yesterday ahead of the Easter break with volumes on the low side and concerns about oil prices keeping the brakes on the markets.

Graeme McDowell

Things haven't been great for me recently. I'm working hard on my game and relish the challenge that lies ahead - it promises to be an exciting tournament.

Carol Bruce

Things have moved ahead of the nature center a number of times. It's time to build.

Eric Ross

The worst of the news is behind us and if people think the sector will bounce back, investors will buy stocks ahead of that,

Sergei Brylin

They are ahead of us in the standings. They have played pretty well this year. It was a big game for us and we really wanted to see what we were made of. I think we did pretty well.

Anatoly Chubais

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

Bob Woodward

I was first contacted by Fitzgerald's office on November 3 after one of these (three) officials went to Fitzgerald to discuss an interview with me in mid-June 2003 during which the person told me Wilson's wife worked for the CIA on weapons of mass destruction as a WMD analyst,

Ingrid Seward

Neither the CIA nor French intelligence seems to be cooperating.

George Tenet

When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I've referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it was a CIA conclusion that there were weapons.

Dick Marty

The proof is completely clear and the CIA has never denied it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Bob Gainey

Our team was stumbling and bumbling and we didn't have a player really who was committed to doing what they needed to do.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Anthony Zinni

I sense everyone is committed to get out of this terrible situation. I think in the next few days we can start on my mission and the implementation of the plan that we've brought.

Jim Doyle

The ripples of Hurricane Katrina will touch every state and I remain committed to do all that we can to help minimize the devastation ... and restore hope,

Christopher Hill

The United States is very much committed to this diplomatic process. We want it to work and we want full participation in it and we want it to succeed.

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

Jim Cook

Our direction from (supervisors) has been to facilitate the effort, and there lies why we are putting up $1.3 million.

Ted Moskonas

It would be very easy to direct a show with four or five students. But that's not what we're trying to do here.

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Chad Reed

This was a step in the right direction for me. I will take it any way I can get it. Something told me it was going to get ugly tonight.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

E. Hurley

We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of the tax law change.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Eric Anderson

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

Geoff Hoon

to do so would risk the operational security of the mission and potentially the safety of our forces.

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Paul Theroux

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

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?

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Scott Brooks

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

Sarah Silverman

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

Jeremy Irons

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

H. L. Mencken

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

David Davies

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

Linda Wagner

I can't stand violence. I can't picture myself doing anything like that paper says.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Nappi

Wherever there was an event, we tried to be there with buckets.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.