Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Durbin

As it turns out, the seniors are going to be the victims -- at least for the next few months while they struggle through this terrible transition trying to figure out how many plans to choose from,

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

John Boehner

aren't forced to choose between relinquishing their identities or being shut out of the program altogether.

Randy Halcomb

I usually choose a player, but Robby expressed to me that he wanted to take it. If a player is ready to step up and take the challenge, I will give him that opportunity. He got the job done.

Gary Smith

The music we choose is very diverse. And that's deliberate. That's part of the message of the convention.

Randy Winn

After my senior year in high school, I was playing in some summer league and a scout said, 'If you keep after this, you might be able to make some money doing this.' So I knew I'd choose baseball.

Stephanie Herseth

South Dakota enjoys a wonderful quality of life and a dedicated workforce, and it is easy to see why John Morrell would choose to expand here. I am pleased that this expansion not only will result in new jobs for Sioux Falls, but also because it demonstrates John Morrell's long-term commitment to the region. This expansion also reflects the talent and dedication of the folks who already work at John Morrell.

Ron Dellums

Now I choose to make a personal decision and to empower myself to regain my life, ... It's important for me to now move on.

Chris Bell

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Allan Heinberg

As for 119, there are a few twists and turns and one revelation in particular that I think readers won't be expecting.

Jochen Clausnitzer

As a result, there will be very few orders won (by German companies).

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Kevin VanDam

As a group, we spend a lot of time at functions, and we are pretty tight from that standpoint. But in the events, you see smaller groups of guys who work together and try to help each other out. Stacey and I are really good friends, and he is one of the few anglers on tour that I share information with. We don't go out of the way, but I stop if I see him on the water. We help each other with patterns and stuff like that.

Jonathan Anderson

The big question is what will happen over the next few years,

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Russell Smith

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Karen Garmon

That play was the turning point. Brittany's a finisher, and she has a left hand like few girls have.

Stacy Palmer

People are very frustrated when they see the slowness of the response (to the hurricane). People figure they can give a gift very quickly. The slowness of the response is part of what triggered this outpouring of donations.

Julie Morgenstern

People figure they'll get to the personal stuff as soon as the work is finished,

Pat Pownall

Officiating is a lot like being married. You tend to have selective hearing after a while. The toughest part to figure out is when to respond. When does (a coach) have a question, or when is he talking to be talking?

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Paul Spear

Any person with a little math sense can make up their mind as to how big this was. You look at the opponents we have left and the schedule we have left and you can figure out that obviously with a minute and a half left, we needed a goal.

Phil Condit

And then you go to the main systems integrator -- us -- and you say, 'go figure out how to do this.'

Jeff Byrd

The spring race, we have a 99-percent renewal rate on tickets, ... For this race, it's 99.6 percent, which proves that 0.4 percent of the people don't renew their tickets to Bristol. We figure those are the ones that died.

Scott McNealy

The technology industry is consolidating. People are trying to figure out who the winners are and who the losers are.

Syamsir Siregar

The terrorists want to get money by kidnapping influential figures and this could include businessmen and politicians.

Mark Hoppus

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Marcus Giles

When you're getting $2,000 a month in the minors, it's hard not to eat Taco Bell every day.

Max Born

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

Matthew McGrory

It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.

Mary Ann Mobley

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Spike Milligan

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Mila Kunis

Always have a backup plan.

Kevin Reilly

It's not dead, but I don't have any plans on it.

Joshua Chamberlain

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Gil Reyes

It's just not in our plans yet to retire.

Walter Kirn

My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Aravind Adiga

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Jane Campion

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

Ben Fountain

You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

Cesar Chavez

Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.

Carson McCullers

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Alan Keyes

I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.

Bob Dylan

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Anna Nicole Smith

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

Matt Smith

I am a terrible sleeper.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Gina Hern

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Victoria Pratt

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

Mark Messier

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Doug Freeman

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.

Greg Buckner

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).

Cilla Black

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Ian Mckellen

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Ariel Rechtshaid

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Joss Whedon

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Jeremy Moore

I've always been trying to be a writer. This is the first thing I've ever finished.

David Dunn

The most important thing that we're trying to do,

Domo Genesis

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Marsha Thomsen

Right now, we are all just trying to adjust.

Craig Venter

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Rumi

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

Rumi

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

Theodore Kaczynski

I would just turn my back and wouldn't talk to him.

Meg Cabot

You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.