Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Sheffield

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Jeffrey Logsdon

He's been such a lightning rod for criticism, oftentimes for things that were clearly not in his purview to make better. If theme park attendance goes down because of 9/11, is that Michael's fault?

Charlie Cook

I think the leadership conference will be the first major cattle show before the 2008 election, and it should be pretty much mandatory attendance for any candidate seeking election in 2008.

E. O. Wilson

We are getting a good response so far for this being our first try at a craft show, and depending on the participation by vendors and attendance by the community. We would like to try to do this annually.

Jeff Shue

If you think about it, they want to make sure that we've got people from McLean participating, they want to make sure that we've got good attendance ? these are all things that we strive to do anyway. So we are really looking at this as a codification of our goals.

Byron Scott

I really don't think they'll have the residency, the economics to support a second franchise. I think our attendance would probably be worse, because I don't think you have enough people. That's my main concern.

S. Walker

I'm really totally convinced, and I can't predict the time frame, but someday these cartoonists, like Charles Schulz, will have the same reputation in American culture as Mark Twain. This location has tremendous potential for attendance if we do it right.

Chuck D.

The consensus is that we don't want to do it; we don't want to leave Pueblo. We've had record attendance in Pueblo the last two years. But enough people have real concerns about the hotel industry down there, so much so that they said we should start looking elsewhere.

Donna Martin

An attendance committee looked at the enrollment and Pinkham still has room while Washington is quite full.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Saul Bellow

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.