Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoran Djindjic

As a U.N. member state, we are obliged to fully cooperate with The Hague tribunal and have asked all state bodies for full cooperation.

Bob Margolis

As a councilman, they asked me to intervene and I did. My job is to protect the neighborhood.

Andy Kopplin

The burden of suggesting good ideas, you get asked to contribute to the implementation.

George Franck

The boys approached me and asked if they could do it. The seniors grew up with him. It was a nice thing to do.

Leslie Elliard

('Barbershop' executive producer) John Ridley asked me if I wanted to see the new scene, and of course I said, 'yes,'

John Hall

Banks have been asked by regulators to do many things to help. But you have to let them know about your situation.

John Hall

Banks have been asked by regulators to do many things to help,

Jennifer Granholm

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

John Langdon

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Hiroichi Nishi

As a series of key economic events is scheduled this week in both Japan and the United States, it's hard to make major moves now.

Brian Orol

As a planner and a dad, I think it's wonderful. I'm doing this for both my boys.

Carmen Schoolcraft

As a whole, we didn't play up to our potential. We kept them out of the circle okay, except for the one goal, but on the rest of the field they pretty much dominated us in both halves. We just got outplayed today, and the limited opportunities we had, we didn't finish off.

Gerald Turner

As a graduate of both our undergraduate program and our school of law, she brings honor to SMU through this nomination and through her distinguished legal career,

Ron Fournier

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

David Morrissey

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

Bill Sadler

As a defensive measure all of the officers had drawn service weapons and aimed at the individual while they continued to repeatedly order the man to show both hands.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Rick Carlisle

As a staff we have to keep coaching hard and keep getting these guys prepared to play. The games keep coming. That's just the way it is in this league. We're going to fight our way out of this as a group collectively: players, coaches and everybody. Losing streaks are no fun.

Renee Wright

As Coach has been stressing, our freshmen are only freshmen in name. They're very mature, smart people. It's actually been an easy transition playing with them.

Lauren Jackson

As a team, we want to win just for her. For someone to make a team want to win for their coach is a pretty powerful thing.

Vance Cooksey

As a captain, I knew coming out of the locker room that I had to step up. Coach Taylor has a lot of confidence in us, and he told us to go out and play with confidence in ourselves.

Steven Bernstein

As a blocker, coach Hueber even congratulated me, ... That's a big deal, a big step in life. I was pretty happy about that.

Michael Brown

As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?

Temo Trujillo

As an athlete, you get to the starting line and run. As a coach you are going from one spot to another. I'm still figuring things out. But I'm starting to enjoy it.

Emanuel Brown

As a head coach, we go to such tough tournaments, this is my first win. We've placed second everywhere and third everywhere. We finally get a win.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.

Mike Morgan

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Jules Carlysle

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Al Green

Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

Brian Regan

Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

Bradley Whitford

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

Billie Piper

Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

Rhys Ifans

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Laurey Stryker

It wouldn't be good to have an empty building, would it?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

German Proverb

Empty heads are very fond of long titles

Scott Drew

Even if you're in an empty gym, it's hard to make the 13 shots he did.

John Furlong

Everything around the Games is not as positive if there are empty seats in the building.

Henning Mankell

There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.

George W. Bush

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

Ed DeChellis

We went 15 straight weeks. We were kind of running on empty towards the end.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

P. James

We're gonna have some fun here. We always have a good time on this team. I've been getting out to see a few things and the fans have been great to me.

Brendan Fehr

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Brad Delson

I was a big Transformers fan.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Cameron Diaz

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Juli Veee

The seniors especially have stepped up and helped the new girls. It's all about how the girls jell together. If they become friends and work for each other, then we have (good) results. Honestly, it's not about the coaching.

Jennifer Zimmerman

The split differences between some of our girls are a matter of one-hundredth of a second. We probably won't know what those teams will be until Friday.

Michelle Moreno

The team did well and they got the job done. The girls knew what they had to do and got themselves another win.

Mike Flusche

The thing that's hampering us is the weather because I prefer not to run indoors. It's not good for the shins. We (lost only three graduates), but we lost three pretty good girls. With the girls we have back, we've been working pretty hard. It's nice to see some (junior varsity)-type girls stepping up.

Robert Williams

The mother of the two girls had left the two -- one was 3 years old, one was 4 years old -- inside the residence and went to a neighborhood establishment.

Jeff Neal

After losing those two last week, which were devastating for us, for the girls to come out and play the way they did tonight just shows the kind of heart they've got. They played big time and I couldn't be more proud of them.

Stan Crump

Once we won the first relay that just set the tone for the night. The girls swam really good tonight.

Mike Frisk

Sometimes you win ugly, and I was proud of the way the girls battled back.

Don Patterson

Sometimes you get a little rusty after not playing for more than a week, but our girls are mature and they know what's at stake. They'll be mentally prepared and ready to play.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Carroll O'Connor

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Bob Ladouceur

The team we saw on film was not the team we played out there tonight.

Donna Cowing

I've always played for him. I think about him every day.

Johnny Marr

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

Shane Warne

The one thing I'll remember from this series is the way it's been played and the spirit it's been played in.

London Fletcher

After a victory like that it's great, but it's also sad because you think this is the team we could have been all season long and we could have played like this in other games.

John Sebastian

Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

Robert Corn

Ten turnovers is a big key. I'll take 10 every time out. We played unselfish basketball.

Greg Baudo

Right now, we're playing better than we've ever played before.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

John Fox

Sometimes players don't like to be reminded of their mistakes, at least not right away.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Jim Calhoun

Brandon Roy, in my opinion, is one of the top two or three players in the country.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Chris Hanson

You would think that would be enough. There is nothing wrong with being an underdog. We just go out and make teams respect us.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

Zach Pollakoff

Our shows can be uplifting for somebody having a rough day.

Dwyane Wade

Every time we play them, it's a rough game.

Mike McCoy

We just got out there and it got really rough and we couldn't get back in." ()

John Jones

We were pretty physical. That was the plan. We wanted to get rough with them and win the match.

Rumi

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Greg Olsen

I had rough times. There were times that I wanted to give up and quit. Don't give up.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jon Lieber

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

John Hartford

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo