Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Scott Linehan

This is an exciting sign for us. This particular player became available, fortunately for us, just prior to the weekend (in) a big need area for us. He's going to fit a big part of what we're trying to get done here, and add some veteran leadership, as well as his obvious playing ability on the defensive front.

Jim Nussle

This is huge when it comes to our ability to come together with an almost three-month jump we'll have on Democrats.

Marc Ganis

This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based business. His success with the Redskins has been nothing short of phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing when he paid a then-record $800 million for this franchise.

Bobby Clark

This is not an easy trip for Notre Dame soccer, but it's a trip I think we have got the ability to take something positive out of it.

Judy Shaubach

This isn't about beating Central or any other team in our league. This is about being committed, focused and mature enough to play to your ability every single inning. If we do that, the wins will take care of themselves.

Tom Brokaw

This is so unfair and so outrageous and so maddening it's beyond my ability to express it in socially acceptable terms. So we'll just reserve our thoughts and our prayers for our friend and her family.

Dan Olds

This is something that Sun has needed to do for a long time in order to get parity with HP and IBM. They need to show customers that their systems have the ability to manage IT resources according to business need--without human intervention--in order to catch up to HP and IBM.

Rick Comley

This is one of the few times in recent seasons where how Michigan State and Michigan do against each other impacts how each of us finishes in the league. Before, it didn't impact the ability to be home for the first round of the playoffs.

Scott Briggs

We do try to get to the free-throw line and that was a physical game. They're a strong, athletic team and it was a tough game to officiate.

Jeff Bower

I think he's in the development stages of his career right now, but I think he's got the athletic tools that you need to be successful and he's got the mentality and attitude that you need to be successful.

Lenny Walls

I thought he showed he was ready. We were fortunate to have athletic safeties like Sam Brandon.

E. O. Wilson

Justin is a very athletic kid, even if he's not the most orthodox. He's a gangly player and finds way to score. He's been playing great.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Whether everybody who shows up is rooting for the Rebels or not, I don't know, but certainly it will be exciting. I would imagine they would (travel well) coming off a national championship ... and just because of some of the momentum that their athletic department has.

Don Montuori

While the athletic footwear giants are breaking the bank with their new technology-driven footwear, today's consumers are also looking for fashionable functionality and affordability in all of their shoes. Many urban styles are evolving into a classier and dressier look, and comfort-wear consumers are looking for additions like ornaments and textures, whatever will make their shoes a unique expression of their own evolving sense of style.

Shawn Hunter

We continue to be thrilled with the tremendous support from the great California fans we have seen every day in record numbers. I truly believe that years from now, fans of this great sport will look back upon this event as a true moment of truth that played a significant role in the development of road cycling as a major sports competition. With records for largest-ever crowds for both a cycling race and an athletic event held in the state of California on track to be broken, we can easily witness first-hand the popularity of cycling to an incredibly broad and diverse group of all ages.

Billy Gillispie

We couldn't get the ball to the basket because of athletic ability, couldn't finish enough plays, couldn't get to the foul line quite as much as they did.

Garry Donna

We were able to call Todd Hanni at a moment's notice and he raced here from Avon in about 30 minutes. I know his dad (Manual athletic director, Jeff Hanni). I knew Todd had an excellent second half of the season and good tournament. He just didn't quite make it (on the workout team) the first time around. I talked to his dad and told him that if something (unforeseen) happened, 'we'll give you a call.' I just didn't think it would be this 11th hour.

Ignacio Bunye

The president believes she has a mandate based on the 2004 elections...Maybe at a later time, we can talk about transitory provisions.

Srikumar Rao

Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.

Alan Doss

We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,

David Dobson

Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories came from Daniel Defoe, who of course wrote a lot of myth and legend.

Samuel Bodman

Many oil producing countries do not operate in a manner consistent with U.S. federal law, but they are not based here.

Pat Scales

There are people who want their kids to read books about gays and lesbians. Therefore, we have an obligation to have those books. We select those books the same way we select all others -- based on their literary merit.

Andrew Strait

Obviously, the seeding is based on a lot of different things. They were a great team, they played in a tough league, they've beaten a lot of good teams this year.

Jacob Lew

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Steve Ballmer

Businesses are based on people. Software is a tool that can empower those people. I think Microsoft software is fairly unique in the way that it can do that.

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.

Woody Harrelson

And then going and just hanging with my family for a long time and living the life of Riley, I think was the best thing I could've done.

Brad Radke

The start that I have had has been very frustrating for me. I want to do my best and get the team going.

Jack Whitaker

The Sixties and Seventies were the best times in the NFL, ... I covered Jim Brown, Gayle Sayers, Jurgenson, Unitas, Star and those great Packers teams. It was more fun than work.

Arabian Proverb

The sinning is the best part of repentance

Kevin Raylman

The seniors know and realize what is at stake. And for the underclassmen, it may be their best shot as well.

Roger Cressey

The Secret Service is the best in the business, but their pucker factor right now is really high. They're very worried because it is a high risk environment, and they cannot control the environment within which the President is handled.

Edward Hirsch

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.

Don Maloney

On paper, I like the team that we've put together. Then again, I've felt the same way each of the past six seasons. But I like this group that we have assembled, and I think we may be even stronger by opening day.

Lorenzo Booker

My goals are a lot higher than that. I'm only twenty-something hours away from graduating. And, more importantly, I never felt like I was through, and once you leave, that's it.

David Jennings

From that point on. I think they felt like they could do nothing wrong.

Jose Vidro

I don't remember the last time I felt this good going into the season.

Stuart Raper

I was sure we were good enough to win the game and I spoke to the players about how I felt it was there for the taking.

Quin Snyder

I wouldn't even characterize it as benching. That kind of implies he was doing something that was upsetting me. He wasn't playing well. I felt like there were other guys who were playing better.

Elisabeth Shue

She reminds you of the joyfulness that you felt when you first started and reminds you to never let that go.

Randy Johnson

I felt pretty good. That's what I've been talking about all along.

Dan Grunfeld

Points are points and different guys are going to score them different nights. The big thing is that we won.

R. Ingram

Poor tackling. We had guys in position. We've just got to make that play.

Sean Foley

My swim was fantastic. It's always refreshing after you get pushed in after a meet like that. I told the guys that they couldn't touch me unless we won the meet. So I don't know if they really wanted the trophy or if they just wanted to push me in.

David Thomas

Nick's awesome. He's such a nice guy. He's one of the hardest working guys on the team.

Brad Herndon

Nobody knows it all. I don't, hunters in Indiana don't, and none of the guys in Texas do. We've all got something to learn every year.

Eric Chavez

Nobody knew this year these guys were going to do as well as they've done,

Matt Hogan

On offense, we were being unselfish and I thought that was good. There's a lot of different guys out there that can score for us. Now, we just have to be smart and learn how to use them all.

Phillip Fulmer

On the penalties, you have to hope you have better control. The late hits on the quarterback were close. You want your guys to be aggressive.

Jeff Blair

Only with this team. These guys are unbelievable. We've got such a whole team here that it makes our job that much easier.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Peter Moody

We've got some work to do, ... but we'll go back and do that and get ready for the next one.

Hubert Astier

We have to plant new ones for the next centuries.

Jessie Evans

We have to live for today. We can't worry about next year.

Pat Metheny

If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

Larry Phillips

We'll work on it. We're going to try to get our numbers back up next semester.

Andy Reid

We will know a lot more in the next 48 hours.

Sidney Crosby

We want to use that as momentum. It's important to keep that going as we prepare for our next game.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Mason Cooley

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

Mary Astell

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Lea Michele

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

Natalie Goldberg

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

Paul Verlaine

I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

Katharine Whitehorn

Spring makes everything look filthy.

George MacDonald

The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.

Elizabeth Goudge

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

Judith McNaught

True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.

James Lee

The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

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.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Ernest Hemingway

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Nate McMillan

I thought we were aggressive. We made them work for the most part.

William Russell

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.