Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Rob Enderle

IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.

Steve Maviglio

On any other expenditure done by the state, prevailing wage is the law. If you begin to chip away here, it would start undermining the wages that are paid to California workers.

Ken Goldstein

begin to make way for a better economy this fall.

Richard Hunter

I think the days of ups and downs are behind us. I think people are beginning to realize that the growth here is being sustained. Obviously our goal is to be a profitable company and return those benefits to shareholders. That's why I'm here.

Tom Daschle

I acknowledged that concern, and it is for that reason that the Intelligence Committee is going to begin this effort, trying to limit the scope and the overall review of what happened,

Kate Ford

I am disappointed that some folks who clearly are not strong citizens to begin with took this opportunity to make this statement, ... I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them. Several intimated that they had guns.

Mahmoud Abbas

Today is the beginning of the fishermen's journey to Jerusalem,

Joe Torre

Pitchers scare me to begin with. I don't know how much work pitchers have done.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Bobby Bennett

Coal mining is probably one of the best jobs you can get around here.

John Bennett

Coaches are role models. They have to be. That's the way all are. For the kids outside of the classroom, they are role models. Everybody makes mistakes. We're not here to be judged. I wish him the best of luck. I know he will land on his feet.

Sarah Lowe

Coach always tells us it's not necessarily the team with the best players but the best team that wins. I think tonight you saw that. We don't have McDonald's All-Americans. We don't have All-Americans.

Allan Schweyer

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Matt Russell

Colin made the best save of the game. He's the reason we got the momentum going in our favor early in the game.

Brian Wallace

Coin laundries have an innate sense of community. People have a lot of time to talk while waiting for their laundry to get done. The best place to get a community perspective on current events is at the coin laundry.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Edward Hirsch

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

Susan Grant

You're then urged to bring other people into the program saying you will be able to get free trips for yourself,

Noah Hathaway

You're starting out in the garage and see where it's going to take me. We'll bring them to the conventions and that'll help spread the word.

Gay Talese

You're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. ... A condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs. It'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor.

Bob Golic

You wouldn't bring me in to do play-by-play if you were having a traditional booth,

Dean Maki

You would need a dramatic slowdown in domestic U.S. demand to bring down the U.S. trade deficit, and we think that is unlikely.

E. O. Wilson

You would have to bring that up. But now that you mention it ...

Barry Bonds

You wanted me to jump off the bridge; I finally have jumped. You wanted to bring me down; you've finally brought me and my family down. You've finally done it. So now go pick a different person.

Bruce Arena

I think you can't overreact from one game, the Norway game, and ignore the Canada game. You judge players over time, not over a game. As he continues to move forward we'll have a better feel for the direction he's headed. Obviously, he's getting better. From my perspective, I need to see if he's developing into a guy who should be a player on the World Cup roster and can help us win a game.

Richard Sands

They've done a very good job in Canada of changing as consumer trends and demands have changed.

Alex Neve

For far too many years Canada has been timid and reluctant to put human rights squarely on the table in meetings with the Chinese government, scared that pushing too hard on human rights might detract from trade and investment prospects.

Neal Katyal

It's not that the States will be forced to recognize marriages from Canada in the United States, but they'll be under increasing pressure in any number of circumstances -- child custody and property being the two most obvious -- to recognize those marriages,

Peter Murphy

It's not worth it to me. I wouldn't come to Canada at all.

Bill Graham

It's a disaster for Canada, for free trade and Canadian industry.

Vinny Lecavalier

People are always ready to play Team Canada. It's been like that for a long time, but every tournament we seem to deal with it pretty well.

Kevin Finn

Our growth is coming from the North Sea, and in Western Canada and the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa. We don't have that next major growth piece identified in Yemen at this point in time.

John Rooney

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Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Roger McDowell

Obviously the success Leo had here was pretty much second to none. Hopefully we will continue that success.

Tim Knight

Right now I'm pretty happy. I'm looking forward to this semester. Hopefully I can just continue on how I finished last semester, play strong in these last three tournaments, and go from there.

Jason Hall

I always work hard on my game. I want to continue to improve each and every season.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Yasser Elguindi

But they don't want to send the wrong signal to the market. They want to continue a loose supply policy, meaning that if there's a crude problem, which there isn't now, they can supply it.

Pat Burns

But it's going to remain an open facility for any hospice program in the region. The hospice team from St. Luke's can continue to follow a patient and provide care.

David Gallop

But the survey shows they must continue to work on this issue.

Spike Jonze

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

Miles Teller

I've always felt like I can dance.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Jose Maria

Many people in Galicia may have felt upset because the prime minister hasn't been here earlier,

Andre Morgan

Our main focus was to come out (in the first half) and execute. I guess we did execute, because (Jacksonville) is a very competitive team.

Gerald Mueller

If your focus is on the past, on being compensated for something that happened in the past, you're not likely to get what you want.

Joe McNamee

I guess we're the lucky winners. It's unbelievable to watch his focus from that close. There could be a million people here, and it wouldn't matter.

P. Parks

I had hard times, but I didn't give up. The injury got better, and the pitching and focus got better, and a better team and better people people (who) make me more comfortable.

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Howard Davidowitz

If you are in a no-growth segment or a negative growth segment, your focus has to be on cost-cutting.

Frank Haith

In the first half we played well defensively and that was the key. I thought, in the second half, we lost focus a little defensively. In the second half, they got some uncontested shots. They're good players and they're going to make uncontested shots if you give them to them.

Joshua Young

Instead of waking up in the morning and wondering where am I going to get the money for the drugs, I focus on my family.

Rik Paul

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Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Fred Couples

If it stays windy, 2 or 3 under might not win.

Steve Stirling

If it wasn't for Garth, it might have been 20-1.

Steven Price

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

Tyra Grant

I get that a lot in games. But I think this might have been the most.

Jim Barry

If you are a soccer mom, you may not need to be able to send and receive e-mail from your wireless phone. If you are a soccer mom who is also a stockbroker, that might be something that is very useful to you.

Chad Millard

If that happens, that might make me cry. I wouldn't know what to do.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Theodore Roosevelt

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing worth having comes easy.