Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Wolfowitz

Part of the challenge is that we were moving from an era when there were very substantial subsidies in energy prices. Some kind of adjustment is necessary.

David Watters

Its becoming an extraordinarily diverse and multicultural area,

Kenneth Oppel

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

Sergei Lavrov

NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.

Alex Steffen

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Jon Choboy

People are recognizing the fact that NC State is becoming a top-flight national program. We are winning big matches and signing top talent to join in on what we're doing here. Our name is out and things are beginning to happen.

Bonnie Rosen

Our focus for Saturday is to be better than we are today. It is a step by step process, irrespective of our opponent or location of the game. What I really like about this team right now is that both our starters and bench are becoming more consistent in their strong play. If we continue making those gains and learning how to take control on game day we will be very happy with the end results.

Nichole Hiltz

I was always in love with film and becoming a character and playing something else, and nobody ever told me no, so I just followed it, and here I am, having a ton of fun.

Walter Kirn

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

Ted Sarandos

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Mike Flowers

Earlier in the year, (Greenfield head) Coach (Rob Salter) gave me the role of being the dominator on the court and one of the leaders of the team. Being that, you can't ever lose your composure.

Nate Robinson

Every time Coach talks to me he says listen to the message, not how it's said. It's kinda hard to really listen to exactly what he says instead of taking it personally, trying to do everything right for him and it's not good enough. At the same time you can't look at it that way. You've got to look at it like he's trying to help you.

Marcus Ginyard

Everybody knows at that point that he's all business. We've got to make it so he doesn't need to do that anymore. We need to play off our own intensity instead of Coach having to throw things at us.

Marcus Ginyard

Everybody knows at that point he's all business. We've just got to make it where he's not doing that anymore, where we play off our own intensity and not what Coach is throwing at us.

Bob Sanders

Everybody knows and understands what Coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.

Jason Johnson

Trammell and (pitching coach Bob) Cluck told me after the third that they were going to take me out. And I said, 'I don't want to come out.

Abby Fennessey

We were fired up. We were ready for this game. Our coach has pushed us hard in practice to get ready.

Lynn Hobbs

Susan was wonderful and we really miss her a lot. We feel glad she was with us for seven or eight years. But people want to move on and up.

Martin Rees

Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

Dave Walker

My parents raised eight kids, and I'm No. 8.

Caitlin Moran

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

Maria Sharapova

I'm so excited to be here, to be one of the top eight girls, ... It's great to be playing where the (Los Angeles) Lakers play. You just feel the excitement. I know I went out there and played my game. I was on.

Jon Zofkie

I'm hoping to place this year. It's the first time I'm ever going down there, but anything can happen. I hope to place in the top eight so I can be a state placer.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

Steve Fisher

That was huge. We turned it over 24 times in our last game and eight times in a 10-possession stretch. Without a doubt, it makes a big, big, big difference.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

Kirk Hinrich

I felt like we should have stole that game. We were right there. I see it more as a missed opportunity.

Cindy Cuthbertson

I felt like we really stepped it up a notch. I'm real proud of the kids.

Frank Catalanotto

I felt like we let him off the hook. To his credit, he settled down.

Al Horford

I felt like we had the momentum going.

Beckie Scott

I felt in a lot of ways I was racing for her today.

Greg Brunner

I felt horrible. I've been thinking about this forever. I didn't forget him. I overlooked him.

Tommy Maddox

I felt great (yesterday), really good -- just as good as (Thursday),

Dustin Almond

I felt good (Saturday), ... The line gave me time, and our receivers made plays.

Richie Sexson

I felt like I tagged him pretty good, so that's what stunned me. I think Jason knew it, too. He started walking back to the dugout. Everyone makes mistakes.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Steve Case

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

Tiger Woods

No matter who you are, the game is fluid. The game is always evolving, so you always have to keep working on it. There are plenty of hours in the day to get that done.

Saku Koivu

It's been tough for me being away from the game.

Ryne Sandberg

The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

Russell Wilson

Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play.

Vin Diesel

Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

Vida Blue

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

Vijay Singh

I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game.

Graeme Smith

We all know the skills that Polly brings, and it will be great to have him back.

Catrin Nilsmark

We all know that we're going to have to win over here at some stage. And I think this is a great opportunity because they're all playing really well. We have nothing to lose.

Javy Lopez

We all knew they had great pitching, ... but with our offense, we should have done better than we did.

Earl Boykins

Tonight we showed that you don't have to shoot great to still get the victory. As long as you do all the other things on the court, you can be OK.

Eddie Jones

Tonight was one of those nights where things didn't go my way. I got great looks at the rim, I just couldn't knock them down.

S. Walker

To see that the work is still going on is a blessing. Being able to be communicate with the kids and make friends was also a great blessing.

Tracy Byrd

We all just hope a third of these people show up. It will make for a great show.

Mike Shula

We all hope that Brodie stays healthy because we think he's a guy that can do some great things for us this year,

Steve Hogan

Tom did a great job of training his managers and the staff on how to work, how to work together and how to keep pushing forward. That's what we're doing.

Ron Clarke

More guys will see the field. It's kind of an audition. You want to play, you start battling.

Duane Peterson

My guys are able to overcome losing a tough game. It was a tough situation last night but they're remarkably mature and ready to move forward.

Ozzie Guillen

Now, we don't have to wait for Thome to hit home runs. Other guys are hitting them for him now.

Ken Jr.

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up. Guys are a week into spring training basically, so I think it's going to be a little more exciting, a little more fun.

Mark Turgeon

Now that that's over -- it's been a long two weeks -- it's about these guys right here.

Eddie Guardado

Now, that's what I try to teach these guys in here.

Ricky Proehl

Now that I really think about it, of all the people I've known in all these years, it was those two guys that were most instrumental in my career,

John Lilly

Now, you've got guys who haven't even played a down in their junior year, and they're being ranked and they're being hammered about who they like, ... They're getting tired of it by the time their senior year rolls around.

Adam Isacson

Now you have a precedent of the United States actually helping these guys come in from the cold. There's more flexibility.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Donald Cargill

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Bob Ross

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Napoleon Hill

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Emilio Pucci

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

Pattie Boyd

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

Michael Jenkins

It's like a trend that's taken over the league,

Mika

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

Jules Verne

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joey Logano

My reputation is different among different groups. You have your fans, your non-fans, your team, your crew, your family, your friends and then you have your peers. I think they're all different and each of them have their separate opinions about you.

Joey Logano

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

Joey Logano

I’m really proud of my team. They have given me great cars all year long. Today, we finally got to show what kind of cars they have been giving me. We were up front, leading laps and showing how good this No. 22 Ford is. Once again today, my team showed they have my back and that will only make us better going forward.

Joey Logano

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Joe Sakic

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Joe Nemechek

There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.

Joe Mauer

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.