Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Yates

So far, so good, ... I'll try to keep this one on the ground and see if we can get a checkered flag Sunday.

Susan Rogers

We'll have silent auctions, live auctions, games and door prizes. We'll be there until the checkered flag drops.

Rick Crawford

To see the checkered flag was a great day, let me tell you,

Helio Castroneves

Everything is going the way we are planning but until the checkered flag, you can't count on it. Today, we are extremely happy. That's what we need to be thinking about and enjoy this moment.

Roger Bailey

Last year's Freedom 100 epitomized the racing of the Indy Pro Series. We saw numerous lead changes, side-by-side racing and a late shootout for the checkered flag. To be able to showcase that type of racing at a venue like Indianapolis is extraordinary.

Robert Gottlieb

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Vijay Singh

I still remember it. His yellow shirt and checkered pants, I still remember that. It's part of history and it's still very fresh in everybody's minds.

Carl Edwards

Johnson doesn't know it, but I completed more miles than he did by the time he took the checkered at Daytona. I was already flying west.

Allen Sinai

Greenspan is giving individuals ample warning that they need to take that into account. He's throwing out a yellow flag of caution.

William J. Brennan

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

Zebulon Pike

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

George Fernandes

Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

Cheryl Kirkland

These girls have been underdogs all year. They had to play Flag like this, and they stayed focused doing their job. That's what made them successful today.

Peter Lonard

All I saw were American flags and I thought, 'holy cow',

Lesley Stahl

It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.

Ken Kesey

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Bob Mattison

Every U.S. flag that was ever made -- we can get that. International flags, religious flags, some cities' flags, too.

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.

Frank Baumholtz

Kaiser has played pretty well this year; they have great potential.