Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

Jerry Palm

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

Peter Power

The political question that needs to be answered is: is it better to go ahead with the meeting if you are unsure of the result or postpone for a couple of weeks and have a greater chance of a result.

Scott Brockman

(The pilot) contacted the tower, did a fly-by in which (air traffic controllers) inspected the gear, found the other landing gear was intact and made the decision at that point to go ahead and land the aircraft.

Dan Ahrens

The overall industry is a boom industry. It has demographics and favorable growth prospects on its side, ... Valuations may get ahead of themselves sometimes but that's only a concern for the short term.

Tom Schrader

The payroll data Friday is going to be the big swing factor. Ahead of that, I would expect that we could drift a little higher, but nothing too substantial.

Paul Kujak

The approach to hitting is excellent with these guys. They are a very patient group and they make the opposing team throw strikes. That's a credit to them. Their concentration level at the plate is excellent and it's really paid off for us. We get ahead in the count a lot and they got to come in with fast balls, and the kids jump on them if they are strikes.

Jim McCrossin

The amount of time that Simon is going to be out will be to where he can tolerate being able to go ahead and skate and push off and get the strength back in that one leg. We're looking at no more than two weeks at that point." ()

Natasa Kandic

The arrests were timed to shore up Serbia's position ahead of the Kosovo talks, show they are dealing with the crimes.

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Gareth Bale

Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.

Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

John Smith

The American way is very much about passing on knowledge. This person will become an adviser, a point of contact for the public.

David Bone

We have virtually no records, ... Everyone who we know had an interest in the mausoleum was contacted long ago, or had the opportunity to contact us (after public notices about the demolition).

Thomas Steg

We have to use existing contacts to contribute to de-escalation.

Ruth Ozeki

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

Peter Grant

We've made contact to say we're interested. We would love the opportunity to speak to him. If Roy decides he wants to come to London - then bang, we're in for him.

Mike Holmgren

Usually, when there's contact like that, it's a no-call. But they called it and that's that. That's the way the day went.

Don Black

With the exponential growth of the Net we were able to reach many thousands of people that we otherwise would never have been in contact with our publications and organizations.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Lyle Overbay

That was typical Bagwell. You're never safe, even if he hasn't seen live pitching for two years or two months.

Alex Rodriguez

We need to just take what the pitchers give us.

Joe Torre

with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.

Dave Littlefield

We need to preserve our starting pitching depth.

Lisa Peifer

We haven't seen as skilled of a pitcher as her.

A.J. Burnett

Wherever they want me to throw 90 pitches I'm up for it.

Bobby Cox

I thought he would pitch better than this. I don't know what happened.

Adam Dunn

I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands? Where's this, where's that? Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm.

Greg Bee

We have a way to go to become competitive at the plate. On the positive side, our pitching was good. Unfortunately, we wasted two quality starting performances.

Jeff Flowers

We just couldn't get it done at the plate today.

Rusty Wallace

When I took the plate off, I went 'Holy (smoke), you don't want to do this,'

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Keith Baird

It's not an earthquake, it's more of a plate shift,

Bud Grant

I've got more on my plate than I can handle.

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Pete Eliades

I thought if I did big increments, I'd throw him off. I just started him up, and he couldn't stop.

Mack Brown

Justin's really good. He's big and strong. And he can throw it all over the lot,

Gregg Brandon

We don't have Omar anymore. We know Omar can throw a lot of touchdown passes. We don't know that about our quarterbacks now.

Henry Beard

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.