Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Olli Rehn

It is high time that Serbia reaches full co-operation with the ICTY. That is the way to avoid the disruption of the negotiations, that the negotiations would be put on hold when the next round takes place.

Paolo Canio

I will avoid certain situations, but I will continue my battles, without second thoughts and with even more decisiveness.

Mary Karr

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

Tuomo Ruutu

We have to avoid the penalties. It's too easy to fall behind big with them. You make a few mistakes and you're down two or three goals.

Phil Keinzley

If we come out of those three games on the right side of the ledger it will be a huge plus, and anything could happen then. But if we lose all three it will be an uphill battle we want to avoid that.

Jasmine Tookes

I don't have a specific favorite product, but I deep condition my hair regularly. When I can, I'll avoid heat styling and wear my hair in a bun.

Carrie Davis

It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.

Ryan Sullivan

It brings foot health and foot technology into the 21st century.

Jermaine Dye

It brings back memories. I think it's something you may think about every now and then. It's something I'll never forget and at the same time, it's another season and I just have to get ready.

Don Payne

It brings back emotions how down we were. At the same time, there's happiness. There's some closure, because it's been a mystery.

Mike Trgovac

He keeps growing every year. There are certain times when Pep is going to have growing processes. It seems like early in the year he seems to get frustrated because everybody is bringing people to him.

Billy Gillispie

He knew what he had. He knew the talent he had and that it was only a matter of time. Sometimes it does take time to bring a team along. No one is better about guiding young players through troubled waters better than Bill.

John Milton

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles

Promise Keepers

guys in the West are a little more laid-back . . . We have to work harder to get guys organized and make sure they know about it and bring friends and guys to the meetings.

Sam Simon

One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Carrie Shelver

It also comes down to how society perceives the role of men, as opposed to the role of women. Men can do well to change these perceptions, and the violation of women's rights, by redefining their role as the dominant partner.

Mike O'Connell

He wants a better opportunity. I think he looks at our team and sees he's not going to be able to make our team. I don't know what it is. I think he just wants a change of scenery.

Jeffrey Lichtman

He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

Gerhard Schroeder

You are playing on fears that run contrary to our interests,

Suzanne Somers

Contrary to what everyone thinks, I am not a fanatic. I do work out when I'm not on the road, three times a week for 40 minutes.

Stephen Harper

I am waiting to hear somebody in the Prime Minister's Office put out some information that is contrary to what we're reading in the papers now,

William Shakespeare

Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Stuart Scott

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

William Wordsworth

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.

Bill Polian

We have the greatest role model there is in Tony Dungy. And as Jim said to the team (Thursday) morning, we'll emulate our leader.

Daryl Hall

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Randy Dunn

In one sense, we have now a much better picture about (how) various groups of students are doing, because this law has really forced us to peel back and look back at performance for various groups of students.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

David Murphy

I just forced myself to relax today. I've been very tense up at the plate.

Rick Barnes

I keep harping on turnovers. They forced some of those, some they didn't.

Gene Rasmussen

The girls responded well and forced turnovers in the second half.

Don Davidson

We had some nice looks, but not a lot of them. We had trouble moving the ball, and we forced some shots also.

Bobby Knight

They impress me as much as any team I have seen in this league. We made a lot of mistakes, but most of them were forced as a result of the way they play.

Meat Loaf

It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Forrest Gump

Just stay a little longer.....Okay Jenny I'll stay.

Richard McIntyre

Hamid took him as a brother. He let him stay at his house.

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Larry Pleau

He's going to stay with the organization for a long time.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Sara Ramirez

Stay true to who you are. Don't let anyone else define you

Brian Zimmerman

I'll stay until they give me my papers.

Brent Peterson

I'm part of some support groups, but I just try and stay low-key and not say much,

Gus Frerotte

I'm just going to do everything I can to stay here.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Judith Jamison

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Kelly Jennings

A shutout is something that always is impressive. That's something we always strive for. We're disappointed we didn't get one.

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Ralph Nader

We must strive to become good ancestors.

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

William J. Clinton

An innocent bureaucratic snafu

William J. Clinton

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

William J. Clinton

Character doesn't matter.

William J. Clinton

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

William J. Clinton

I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.

William J. Clinton

They are cutting medicare

William Galston

It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

Will Forte

We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.