Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Freddy Peralta

The people have united. The people have awakened, and they have decided to fight for their rights.

Mike Healy

We're in the process of replacing old machines right now. So we decided to put the new software that recognizes the $20s only into the new machines, starting with the highest-volume locations.

Tony Dungy

We're obviously happy for Mike. I don't know what the league's rationale is on it, but I'm sure they looked at all the facts and that's what they decided to. It's really out of our hands and we've just decided to be thankful for whatever happens.

Dave Anderson

We then decided to get together and play.

Jim Parker

We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets,

Dusty Auxier

We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.

Shirley Thompson

I thought they had made a decision. We don't know if they have decided to retract their decision.

Tonya Harding

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Brendan Wilders

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.

John Wilson

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

Eric Lascelles

It's hard to imagine that individual month-to-month figures are going to have much bearing.

Nick Offerman

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Leighton Meester

Figure out what works for you and what doesn't.

Pearl Bailey

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Kami Garcia

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

Lou Reed

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Steve Baker

It's not as big a gamble as you would imagine it would be. It's all geared to hotel rooms and increasing the length of stay in hotel rooms.

Nasir Khan

I don't Understand why People become Farmers, Gangsters & Gamblers when they join Facebook...

Christopher Meeker

If it didn't have Gillette, Procter & Gamble would be in a tougher spot.

Dan Bennett

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

Craig Benson

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

David Neumark

I think this is a gamble by opening up to more research. Some will be good, and some will be bad.

Gary Kendall

I thought, I'm going to gamble here. We haven't been putting too many hits back-to-back-to-back all year and that's what I was thinking there.

Fernando Alonso

We did the right thing. We didn't need to take the gamble and played it safe.

Paul Menard

We didn't have much to lose, so we took a gamble there. I was a little nervous. I was lifting early. It all worked out.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Joe DeSantis

John is the kind of player who can give us something positive or something negative. Tonight he gave something very positive.

Ken Lucas

I think in the long run it will prove to be a good thing for the team and myself that we gave it a week off and let it heal. I hate to miss any game, but I think it was the right thing to do.

A. Johnson

(Greenspan) gave those words of reassurance. Today will set the tone, and, on balance, tomorrow should be positive.

James Sullivan

Greenspan gave no hint of an end to tightening.

Quinn Shephard

The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.

Grant McCasland

His play won't show up on the stat sheet but Jordan did a good job of guarding and rebounding. Jordan played about 25 minutes and really gave us a spark tonight.

Danny Nee

I thought we played well. We played hard. We gave a good effort. Pops was really unstoppable. He's a man-child. He's an NBA player, that's for sure.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Vivien Leigh

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Will Smith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Warren Buffett

If you have a new son or grandson in 2006, name him Tony.

Otto Schily

If you look at the results of the grand coalition, it accomplished a lot.

Larry Scott

In the 21st century, it is morally indefensible that women competitors in a Grand Slam tournament should be receiving considerably less prize money than their male counterparts.

Kevin McCarrick

I'm probably more proud of Doc than any other member in the organization. He's got quite a career. We've got a great individual for grand marshal, and considering what's going on overseas, it's very timely.

John Bryan

I'm not going to pass a grand plan without the money to pay for it.

Tsutomu Tomita

The first grand prix weekend of 2006 has been a shocking way to start the year.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Mike Babcock

I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Bon Battu

He has no personal problems whatsoever and will be back training next week.

Shimon Peres

He indicated he may do it in the first part of next year.

Ricky Bennett

He doesn't throw it a whole lot in games, but at least he's trying something he can work on going into next year.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Jeff Perreault

I kind of thought the third was going to be our period, it was just one of those nights where things didn't go our way.

Roy Williams

It was one of those nights that kind of snowballed on Dave's team.

Maurice Cheeks

You are not going to have too many nights where he shoots like that. We were very fortunate.

Antawn Jamison

Tonight was one of those nights when we were short-handed.

Bob Motzko

We weren't sharp tonight, but we did a lot of things well enough to find a way to win. You're not going to be sharp every night, and tonight was one of those nights that we weren't.

Rubin Salter

That was the maids' and butlers' nights off.

Patrik Elias

We had a lot of opportunities. We would've been in trouble if we couldn't score on those chances. It was just one of those nights where everything went in for us.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Russell Crowe

If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.

Roy Halladay

I had some time off to rest and haven't had any problems ever since then. It's kind of disappeared this winter so that's nice.

Jon Heacock

I know they are special team problems, but they are important ones.

Jeffrey Loria

They're telling us we have to solve our problems here.

Erik Morales

It's OK. He can say what he wants. I have no problems with him.

Ellen Monrad

It's the centerpiece for problems on Queen Anne.

Andy Reid

They're not having problems communicating. There is no problem. It's not something we have to prove every game.

Emerson Craig

There's a lot of problems in school right now.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Andy Johnson

I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the second quarter.

Frank Beamer

We have to be able to run it and throw it,

Keith Ellison

If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.

Larry Hogan

He was open. But we've done that all year. We just run and shoot.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Doug McCuistion

It's a little nerve-racking even though it's exciting." ()

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Bobby Frasor

Just watching him out there tonight was something special.

Raymond Chandler

I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

Nancy O'Dell

I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

John Green

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

John Fahey

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Gary Enis

That's why tonight was so big. We've got to go back there and play Grenada.

Stephen Kress

Every puffin we see tonight is a miracle.

Demetrius Williams

Tonight just didn't go our way and we just didn't play to our ability.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Anthony Davis

It has to be like Hawaii. We went in there and it was about basketball, and we took them one at a time.

Kimberly Smith

It took a long time, in part because it was a donation.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Karlyn Supple

It took a little wind out of our sails.

Gina Jones

They just don't know what they took away from me.

Brett Nelson

It was like our other matches. He took fifth, so he did pretty good.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Robert M. Pirsig

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Robert Farrar Capon

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Robin Trower

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

Sam Altman

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

Sam Altman

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

Jordan Peele

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

Eric Bana

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

Norman Ralph Augustine

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Joel McHale

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tony Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Tom Hooper

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

Woody Allen

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

Roz Savage

A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

Tyler Hoechlin

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

Reza Aslan

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.