Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Michael Zaslow

Originally, the part was an architect, but when they found out I was a pianist, they changed it to a world-renowned conductor and pianist.

Rob Detzel

After Wight went out with his fourth foul (in the third quarter) we got four or five steals in a row. I really thought that changed the complexion of the game.

Luis Polar

The name was changed because we want to have branding recognition for the Hispanic side of the company.

Colta Ives

Drawing really changed the way he painted, once he realized he could draw his paintings in his own quirky way.

Raf Simons

Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.

Hideki Matsui

The situation hasn't changed at all. I'm still thinking it over. But I would like to let manager Sadaharu Oh know what I'll do as soon as he comes back from Taiwan.

Dario Gradi

The sending-off changed the game but we didn't have the quality to finish them off.

Mike McCurry

The standard in the statute hasn't changed in the last week -- it's 'imperil the national health and safety' -- and we monitor the strike conditions and the economic conditions to see if that standard has been met. So far it has not." ()

Derek Jeter

As of now, as a team and as an organization, we can't think about Rocket. He hasn't made up his mind. Let him decide first. We need to focus on the guys that we have now. We have a great pitching staff.

Gerhard Schroeder

Ratification must continue. We must decide what to do at the end of that process,

E. B. White

Prior to the law, the president and vice president could decide if the department were to exist or not at any time.

Marilyn Nelson

Our family foundation decided we'd make a significant contribution and be a co-founder.

Glynis Johns

Originally my father was a medical student. He suddenly gave up his studies and walked out to become an actor. I thought perhaps I ought to make a decision like that, too, and so I decided to plump for being a film actress. I have not given up the stage, but I am concentrating on the screen until I reach the top.

Chauncey Billups

Once we got to that fourth quarter, we just decided we were going to have to grind it out. We've been through this before, man. We know how to handle these situations.

Publilius Syrus

Deliberate as often as you please, but when you decide it is once for all

Mike Dirnt

Definitely 'Jesus Of Suburbia' because it's pulverizing and I really love playing 'Homecoming' whenever we decide to pull that one out,

John Bytheway

Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Shane Been

Defensively, we didn't help our pitcher out. She made a lot of nice pitches and we either made an error or made a mental error and we just have to work on that. It's early in the season.

Jay Wright

Defensively, they're so big at every position. We tried early with Mike (Nardi) to stick with our four guards, but he got two fouls so we had to come with Shane (Clark). They were just too big. We couldn't rebound and they were shooting over us.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Michael Apted

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

David Eckstein

Anyone, you want to try and put pressure on him as early as possible. He threw very well throughout Spring Training -- his last outing was his toughest.

John Longworth

April's survey could be interpreted as an early sign of a mild revival on the high street but let's not jump the gun.

Steve Martarano

The slot limit will revert to the former 72- to 46-inch framework from early June through Dec. 31. We're only restricting the slot limit during the time when female sturgeon are spawning.

Robert Lane

The special early retirement offer is part of ongoing efforts to run lean and enhance our efficiency, competitiveness and financial strength for future growth opportunities,

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Mike Lordemann

Our seniors have won two state championships and been to a final four. They know what it's like to win, they know how to win, (and) when they step on the field they expect to win. For them to have that experience and pass it on to our younger kids is invaluable.

Michael Phelps

People really expect to get news and information for free. They get it free on TV, they get it free on the web, and there's no reason they shouldn't get it free in the newspaper.

Kofi Annan

peoples look to you to solve problems, expect you to work together as governments ... with other institutions.

Jim Struzzi

People can expect pretty much the same scenario.

Alan Faneca

People don't really expect that from us. They know we're trying to get the run going. Maybe they're thinking that a little too much. We're able to open up a little bit.

Martin Nissenbaum

People don't expect it. The presumption is that when you pay taxes that are deductible you won't have to pay tax again. Just having a lot of kids can put you into the AMT.

Martin Nissenbaum

People don't expect it, ... The presumption is that when you pay taxes that are deductible you won't have to pay tax again. Just having a lot of kids can put you into the AMT.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Andy Anderson

The speed on the water feels like 200 miles per hour.

Joanne Ciulla

Somebody who doesn't have a lot of self-confidence, ... Somebody who feels the need to have some kind of pep talk, who's not self-motivated.

Minnie Driver

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

Jack Whitehall

Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.

Barbara Amiel

One always feels that not only should each speaking occasion require a new speech but also for everybody's sake including my own, a new past.

Larry James

Tell him what you would like for him to do. Tell him what feels good.

Al Groh

Sometimes he says it feels better than yesterday. Sometimes he says it feels the same. Sometimes he says it doesn't feel as good as yesterday.

Mikael Tellqvist

Sometimes it feels like a loss. We just wanted to get two points. It's okay to get one point at home but we wanted to get two.

Jim Calhoun

Right now, we have to prepare ourselves for a team that feels very good about itself. We have to tighten our defense.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Oscar Levant

A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first

Howard Kurtz

These conventions are staged for television, but it's not very good television, and most people are watching more interesting programs. I think a lot of people are going to form their impressions on how the party did by front-page headlines, by the pictures on the front page, by some of the analysis. By what's in the paper.

Merrill Stabile

The strength of our competitors is what really helped me form an opinion on this. They're all on a much grander scale.

John Romano

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Leonardo da Vinci

The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.

Kathy Bailey

Prior to that, it was mostly in the single digits. A week later it was 20.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, you can work hard, but you have to be lucky too and you have to have a lot of talent. And later in the season, it's just my opinion, the talent is always going to show up.

Dan Bonner

The Monday after Selection Sunday, I'm scrambling to learn all the teams that I'll have to do later in the week. And then I'm out on the road.

Greg Evans

The secret is if you write enough words, sooner or later you have a book.

Romano Prodi

Sooner or later they will recognize how things are. It is very sad that there should be something like this in a mature democracy.

Roy Williams

Q's been playing much better lately and I told him he's got to play. I thought Q did some nice things for us. I think he really has played much better.

James Marsh

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

Hollis Thomas

It was too little too late I guess.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

These words are the same ones that the late Imam (Khomeini) said,

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Wendy Watson

Elena was very consistent. She's very mentally tough.

Jonathan Papelbon

When I was starting I would start getting mentally prepared before the game. Now, I'm getting mentally ready during the game. There really isn't that much of a difference.

Ozzie Guillen

You have to prepare yourself mentally and physically to get through a tough season. When you prepare yourself that way, you make it easier.

Greg Smith

We've recently been having problems getting mentally prepared for games. We keep starting out slow. But after halftime, it seems we always come out to play.

Sherron Collins

We just tried to stay mentally focused. They were trying to get in our heads, but we slowed it down at the end.

Rachael Ackerman

We weren't mentally prepared to play in the first half. We had our wake-up call. We haven't had many of those this season, but we showed that we could respond to it.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Brian Black

This is not just a program doing its own thing. We want to be a part of the whole success plan of the school.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Dean Darling

That's what we plan to do and we'll take this into consideration then.

Jack Lamb

That's not a plan that I would support at all. I think there are other things we can do.

Larry Giangrosso

You never plan for something like this to happen.

Pam Baker

You never plan anything for the third Saturday in April.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Willie Randolph

The team's been playing well and we'll just start another streak tomorrow.

Paul Marsh

Something has got to give. They are playing too much and there's too much travel.

Shawn Lewinski

Once we scored that first goal, I thought we were going to get going. Unfortunately they actually settled in, they started playing their game. I think we relaxed, and that was a big mistake.

Larry Stevens

So much of what we're doing is playing catch-up.

Marc Crawford

Right now Todd is playing so well, we could probably play him in net.

Ed Coyle

Quincy's getting better and better with every game. Right now, he's playing well. He's playing like a senior.

Dereck Whittenburg

Psychologically for us, we're the underdog every game. So Xavier (today) will be like playing on the road. We're used to that.

Doug Gottlieb

I've never sensed in all the three years I was playing for him and the six years since I never once suspected that (Sutton) was back drinking.

John Higgins

It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.

Johan Botha

The tests went all right, but I was very disappointed in the results.

Brigham Young

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

Stephen Jay Gould

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.

Mark Rosenker

We terminated the test because it was unsafe at that point.

Daniel Tosh

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Alfred Bester

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.