Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Sims

King County has completed a remarkable financial turnaround that any corporation would envy.

Landon Donovan

I would not say it is greatest moment. I would say it is the most gratifying, ... It's been strange. I am used to everyone telling me how great I am and how wonderful things are. This year has been the complete opposite. It's validating and gratifying at the same time.

Dan Fink

Jake had a great sophomore year. He was the focus of everyone's scouting report, and he was still able to get his looks. He is turning into a complete player as he continues to work hard on his game, and more recognition and team success are in the near future for him.

Jack Campbell

Kelly made everyone else better tonight and that's tough when you've got that scoring mentality. She was the complete player and played within herself.

Jose Gil

Jorge is the complete package. He is a great team player. We wanted him to always have the ball, but he constantly was finding ways to get it to the open guy. He's very unselfish.

Michael Robinson

Joe has complete control of this team, honestly.

Tommy Russell

It can be labor intensive. But with any industry, machines make it possible to complete the job fastest and make it less stressful on the employees. We've been integrating these machines into our repairs a little at a time the past 20 years or so.

Rod Thorn

He was a big piece to our puzzle and a quality player. So if it works out that we don't complete the trade, then we've lost a quality player.

Steve Sampson

He's a great goal scorer. I think he has deceptive speed. Technically I think he's gifted. He's got the complete package. He just lacks the experience at this level. We don't want to rush the situation.

Edmund Burke

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sam Jr

He decided to wait because he knew he was going to get some interest late. It was a very good decision for him to wait.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

William Phillips

I was down and couldn't do anything about it and in 2001 I had a lung transplant. Then I got to where I could get out and do things and I just decided to do it one day.

Kobe Bryant

I was aggressive. I saw how they played defense and decided to come at them.

Mahesh Bhatt

He marks the end of a definitive era.

John Simone

We can draw hypotheses but no definitive conclusions as to why red heads have a greater epidemiological risk than dark-haired groups.

Brian Walker

The curling team had not fared well to that point. There was no definitive end in sight, and we had to make a decision. Had we stayed with the curling match, we would have missed the first five minutes of the hockey game.

Stewart Baker

This is a very big win for this administration. It is going to be the definitive statement on this issue for years to come.

Lukas Haas

It's scary to work with first time directors, but he had a definitive idea of what he wanted to accomplish, he didn't seem like a first time director.

John Ridley

Doing adaptations is hard, ... because once you say, 'I'm going to take everything that millions of other readers have thought of and I'm going to make the definitive version of that,' ... I think it's a really hard thing to do.

Kip Thorne

We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.

Barry Hyman

The markets are really going to be determined by what the Fed has to say. We'll be looking for more definitive talk from the Federal government and (Alan) Greenspan to get some indication of what the Fed is really thinking.

Joel Thomas

They have a really definitive social structure. Other coyotes would want nothing to do with it, and it would just more than likely die of stress and being run out of territory already established by other coyotes.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Frank Warren

Joe is never going to be ready for that (November date) so we'll try to rearrange it for next year. It is frustrating for Joe but these things happen in boxing. It is a great shame. We'll do the fight early next year, maybe February.

Kevin Merkle

I think it is too early to form a long-lasting opinion. It is good to get some feedback first.

Jim Schmitz

He comes out early all the time. But he's struggling.

Amir Peretz

He (Sharon) also insisted that we must go to early elections as early as possible.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

Seth Palansky

We are following the same format, the same protocol that exists for games shown on ESPN.

Saint-John Perse

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

Yingxi Yu

Interest still exists even at such high prices.

Julie Gayet

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

Alex Pareene

The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.

Larry James

Absolutely, with the growth we experienced last year, Lithia Toyota recognized the opportunity that exists here in Odessa.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

It is true that nothing exists without a thought first, but the idea that thought comes from form is backwards.

Andrei Kostin

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there. The shares will be sold this year and next.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Mark Heiderscheid

John Day does a great job in the first half to keep us in it. There's got to be six or seven opportunities they get and he comes up big on saves.

Jaime Nelson

He was inspired by it and wondered why we didn't have anything like it in the States.

Wayne Dyer

When you're inspired you attract abundance.

Mary J. Blige

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

Oswald Chambers

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Elaine Stritch

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Eric Clapton

It's been so long since I've been around something from somebody else that's inspired me. For the last 20 years, it's been up to me to inspire me.

Ben Marsh

They played inspired defense. They simply took it to us.

Matthew Bourne

It's a piece of theater that's been inspired by a movie that we all love. But it has to surprise people who know the film really well.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Karel Poborsky

I do not see any reason why I should be less prepared than in a top-flight team.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Tim Haskins

Kelly, our sweeper, had nice shot in to the top corner.

Brendan Fehr

had a nice talk since we haven't in a while.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, scopey, nice colt. He's got a lot of size and scope for a Kingmambo.

Tom Hoppe

He's a real nice young man. He's real knowledgeable.

Craig Allen

He's a real nice guy, he's a wonderful person.

Bill Stoneman

He's always had the potential to do what he's done toward the end of this season. It's nice to see him do well.

Mike Daniels

His wife is just the sweetest person, just about the nicest person you every met, ... She has that sweet soprano voice. They sang together. They were just inseparable. He was her whole life.

Tina Barrett

I think it's kind of nice to be in the lead, it's kind of fun. Why not get as much under as you can?

Eric Blake

It could be the nicest weather of the season.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Kevin Flanagan

In San Diego, we don't try quite as hard.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Muhammad Iqbal

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Queen Latifah

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Swizz Beatz

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.

Sidney Lumet

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Darrent Williams

I tried to give him encouragement. At times he was down because he was used to starting.

Tyler Oakley

I'm usually so in control, especially for YouTube videos.

Sarah Silverman

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

Mark Cuban

Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

Lilly Singh

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Nia Long

Directing music videos is all about capturing images.

Kimiko Glenn

When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.

Niklas Zennstrom

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.

Placido Domingo

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

John Landis

I'm very lucky to have worked in the '70s. It's a different industry and distribution is in a state of flux. It's all different platforms, they're doing this video-on-demand thing and also playing the film theatrically. It's funny to me: In the States it's an arthouse movie.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.