Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

James Hardway

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

John Sarbanes

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

Michael Ward

The special prosecutor basically supported what we had told the Board of Elections all along,

Rhett Miller

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.

Pete Carroll

The thing I like is that I'm in charge of everything, so I can structure things the way I like. I get to wear all the hats. There are a few guys in the NFL who have that opportunity, but not many. You basically have to win a Super Bowl.

Dom Capers

The thing I was the most disappointed in (Sunday) was basically the fundamentals of our team. Our tackling, our blocking, there were far too many penalties right now, it's a gut check and a character check for our team.

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

George Vecsey

The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.

Todd Larsen

The boys made state last year, and we have all of our varsity runners back this season. If we can stay healthy, we should qualify for state once again. We have a solid group that should be very good.

Rebecca Behm

The boys knew they had a good chance (to win the regional). They skied strong.

Jake Peavy

The boys just went together and realized what a good time we're having and hired a photographer to sit there and take candid shots in the clubhouse. This is something that you're going to remember the rest of your life.

Pete Moyer

The boys just swam out of their minds the last two days. They sort of feed off each other.

Catherine Hardwicke

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.

Greg Murphy

The boys have too much on their plate to even worry about it.

Bill Steiner

See? We didn't want you to stress and miss out on enjoying your weekend.

Damien Chazelle

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

Joe Legerski

You start wondering when that first victory is going to come. That victory made them relax and start enjoying the season.

Chad Jackson

There's not usually much to watch, so hopefully they're enjoying the sun.

John Fitzgerald

I am reading it more and enjoying it less.

Bill Cowher

Next year is the only future I've looked at. It's going to be starting over and trying to re-establish a group of guys that is going to be different than it was this year. But I can tell you that next week I'm going to be doing a lot of reflecting, and enjoying every moment of it.

Andy Blackston

I think these kids are just having a lot of fun right now, and that's really important. They are just together and enjoying being around each other.

Susan Parker

We got a wonderful response. And the women are truly enjoying it.

Kiril Wachsmann

I don't want to think about that. I haven't given any thought to the fact that the next game we lose, that's it. I'm just enjoying this right now.

Randy Couture

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Ryan Zimmerman

It was up to the older guys. I guess they figured I will be in the game for a long time, so they figure I might as well learn what goes on. It will be a good learning experience.

Bob Gray

The word 'flu' is always dangerous. So I figured I'd see what it was all about.

Alan Paller

There is a wave of people looking for infected machines. We are getting into the second wave of infections. We haven't figured what they are doing. But we are seeing a very big wave of scanning.

Hanya Yanagihara

We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

Orlando Palmeiro

You have a man on third and less than two outs, you're going to try to jam him. I figured at some point he was going to come in.

Maurice Jackson

We figured if we just kept pounding and pounding them with the number of players they had we'd wear them out,

Bob Becker

We figured if we got two dozen, we'd be really happy.

John Conway

We figured if one was 30 or 40 years old, that would be the winner.

Jeb Bush

People had ample time to prepare. It isn't that hard to get 72 hours worth of food and water,

Joe Morgan

A plate of spaghetti back then was $1.50, and it was very good food, that's why it lasted,

Joel Fuhrman

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

Jose Andres Puerta

The right use of food can end hunger.

Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Brendan Behan

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

Dave Williams

We are here to provide the most good to the most people. If they want to stay, we give them food and water. If they want to leave, we rescue them.

Jane Smiley

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Kim Allen

There are no foods which are completely forbidden. It's a matter of how much and how often.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

John Ruskin

That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones

Al Groh

That's more positive than it was last week.

Adam Boone

That's kind of the way our season had been with us struggling in the last minute. But we were resilient. We didn't let the free-throw shooting problems spill over into other areas.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all