Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Jeff Banks

It almost got away from us. But we didn't give up just because we were behind. That's the best part.

Alex Rodriguez

It almost feels like we're in their shoes.

Mark Sweeney

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn't know where it was going. But in a game? He'd get killed. It's one thing to play catch. It's another thing to pitch.

Jerry Sloan

Greg didn't burn any bridges, ... Greg and I fought almost every day (but) I apologized to Greg more than anyone I've ever coached.

Author unknown

Hallmark Card: "I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like you're still here.

Greg Behrendt

I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.

Steve Nash

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Graeme Smith

He (Clark) was unbelievable. He got the ball in the right areas and got it to go both ways.

Maurice Luque

Having an engine dedicated to the valley is a step in the right direction so other units may remain in their respective areas for proper coverage.

Alex Honnold

I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.

Anibal Reluz

It could get better, but all in all, we did good. It's experience and it's the first time. We took care of all the areas we need to take care of.

Michelle Bell

I think the police have better things to do than to drive around looking in people's cars checking if they're wear a seat belt. There are other areas of law enforcement that need to be focused on.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

Doug Cooper

I think Bell and Rogers are probably formulating their opinions on the subject.

Kyle McSlarrow

It is important to take stock of where we are in 2006. In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of recreating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

William Faulkner

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Lori Brumbach

Our most popular design perfect for the belle of the ball.

Chad Knaus

His bell has definitely been rung. That was a pretty hard hit that he took out there.

Kim Smith

I have to sneak in food too. Yesterday I was in line when the bell rang.

Jimmy Smith

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Madison Smartt Bell

In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Scott Paxson

He's a little different. He's a little more nifty, a little quicker. He reads the blocking pretty well. He's not the biggest guy, but he can hide a little bit. When you get to him, you've really got to wrap up because he can spin out of things.

Kyle McKenzie

He's helped me a lot. He always gave me pointers and tips. He would come to games, and he was my biggest critic. When I played on the field, I played for him, as well as myself.

Bob Thomas

He's had two real good games now. He sprays it around and every once in a while he'll pull one like he did today. The biggest problem is getting him to swing, which he's starting to do part of the time now.

Ron Hassler

He's gotten his teammates involved this year. That's probably his biggest improvement ? trusting his teammates.

Dean Baker

Hawaii's home prices suffered in the 1990s because of economic trouble in Japan, ... If home prices in California reverse, it will have ripple effects.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today California has given me the greatest gift of all: You've given me your trust by voting for me,

Robin Williams

In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going That's weird.

Warren Beatty

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Robert Stack

Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too.

Rod Stewart

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

Wally Herger

Our Northern California congressional district has been ground zero for many tragic events from an outdated and inflexible ESA, including ... the Klamath Basin water shut-off of 2001,

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.

Shawn Holliday

In 2006 we'll have a lot of players coming up from (Class A Advanced) San Jose, where they won the California League Championship. If they can do that here it would be the icing on the cake.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Gerhard Richter

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Jim Hawkins

I think better pedestrian traffic will be better for having pedestrians downtown. And, the long range plan calls for that. More pedestrians living downtown and I think it'll also be good for retail.

Keith Lucky

I don't know much about them. I've made a few phone calls and not had much luck. But we have to worry about us. If we take care of ourselves, that is all that matters.

Jim Calhoun

I can feel the emotions start to build, ... I've had conversations with my first recruit at Northeastern, with eight kids from my Dedham High School team that won 21 straight games, a lot of phone calls from my former players ... it's an exciting time for me.

Jay Carson

He takes calls from world leaders every day on a variety of topics.

Chan Gailey

He's a young player who had not played center; we moved him to center when he got here. He's got excellent toughness and good strength. He is lost right now, learning how to play the position. Centers have to make all the calls and are in charge of a lot, so he's got to learn that and it's going to take some time. He's made very good progress, but he's got a long way to go.

Mike Trgovac

He doesn't get into the calls that I make. Sometimes he'll talk about certain situations ... but he doesn't mess with you much on game day. Sometimes, he will come up to you and say stuff. A lot of times I've already seen it, but he's making sure that I've seen it. It's the job of a head coach to do that. He doesn't leave any stone unturned.

Jason Collins

He got fined $15,000? Well, maybe we need to get fined, too, because there were some calls tonight that didn't go our way.

Dave Ramsey

I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and led the investments cover it.

Michael James

Jack couldn't find a wall he didn't want to run into. He'd write insulting cover letters to editors. When I'd say, 'Jack, you're shooting yourself in the foot,' he'd launch into a tirade about the worthlessness of a life lived untruly to oneself.

Andre Patterson

J.J. makes a lot of open 3's and off of picks. C-Lo just discourages defenses because guys will be hanging all over him, and he's still going to make it. He's a tough cover for anybody.

Montae Reagor

We've earned the right to be there, so you've got to enjoy the moment in the moment. It's good to see all the media and all the coverage because we've worked hard and it's been a long journey, but it has been fun.

Adam Davis

I was just looking for a pitch to hit. All day they were pitching us outside, so I knew I had to cover the outside half.

Jim Ferree

I think they just wanted to cover all of their bases.

Kevin Flynn

The rain this weekend will help us out a lot. It is going take the high danger down until we get some cover on the trees.

Louis Orr

We may have to use different people. It's a tough match-up for us because of his size and talent. He's a tough match-up for any team. He's great in transition. He can also hit 15- and 18-foot pull-ups and post you. He's just a tough cover at the three.

Martina Navratilova

I don't know why the TV doesn't cover it more, ... You don't even know about it when I'm in the U.S. Open semifinals.

Ron Iwami

I talked to A&B and HCDA, the two parties involved and they told me 'Ron, we will not move on this signing until the Legislature decides'.

Jim Bell

I think it is our role to get involved and not just sit back and wait for someone else to help.

Charles Mason

There are simply too many players involved for a (conspiracy) to be plausible.

Raymond Cruz

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

Nick Cave

When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down.

Louise Nurding

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

Ryan Phillippe

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

Joe Hall

Relatives said (Mr. Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son,

John Foxe

If you watch us play, Steve Smith is involved quite a bit.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Shawcross

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Bob Lachky

I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.

Stephen Smith

It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.

Chris Lofton

He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.

Jackie Gentry

I'd been talking about it for a long time.

Richard Ayoade

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

Umberto Eco

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

William Safire

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

William Shawcross

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Katy Perry

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.