Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Subra Suresh

These are tools that were not available five years ago. They could help to answer one of the key questions as a disease progresses in the human body: What is the connection between the development of the disease and the ability of a cell to change shape, move through the body, and stick to a blood vessel wall?

Scott Linehan

This is an exciting sign for us. This particular player became available, fortunately for us, just prior to the weekend (in) a big need area for us. He's going to fit a big part of what we're trying to get done here, and add some veteran leadership, as well as his obvious playing ability on the defensive front.

Jim Nussle

This is huge when it comes to our ability to come together with an almost three-month jump we'll have on Democrats.

David Rohrer

This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlight our sense of loss and makes our ability to comprehend that much more difficult.

Marc Ganis

This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based business. His success with the Redskins has been nothing short of phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing when he paid a then-record $800 million for this franchise.

Bobby Clark

This is not an easy trip for Notre Dame soccer, but it's a trip I think we have got the ability to take something positive out of it.

Judy Shaubach

This isn't about beating Central or any other team in our league. This is about being committed, focused and mature enough to play to your ability every single inning. If we do that, the wins will take care of themselves.

Jim Pogue

This is not what most people think of as a typical contract, with sealed bids for a very specific job and a one-time, specific amount of money. These are task-order contracts. What we basically are awarding the big contracts for is someone's ability to do a lot of different kinds of tasks.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Scott Silverman

One of the biggest changes we're seeing is more and more consumers are accessing the Internet from high-speed connections. Retailers are able to have richer and more robust features on the Web site.

Liz Eilf

I am really excited. This is our biggest entertainment event and it could generate some really good funds for community services.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Anthony Wall

I am thrilled because this is the biggest check of my career. I was pleased with the way I finished as I played a lot of good shots.

George Galloway

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known.

James Corden

BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall's 'Bad Education,' they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on TV. I think it should always be at the forefront of what is fresh and exciting, and therefore it should be the first channel to exist online.

Emily Hughes

I'm a little sad it's over. This whole experience has been so much fun actually, not knowing what to expect. It's been the biggest learning experience. It's my first Olympics and my first senior international. It's been a big step up from last year. I'll take a lot away.

David Knight

No one has disputed it. We want to be the biggest in the world.

Paul Doyle

What did he run, about 30 meters in the first round and 40 or 50 in the second? You'll see a lot more out of him, he's really looking like he's going to do something impressive ... he's certainly looking like he's in sub-10 form.

Ted Leonsis

We'll look at free agency, but I'm still trying to find where big free-agent signings can help the team. There's certainly no magic wand to wave and the team gets instantly better, but I like the way we're playing and I like the way the players have responded to our coach.

Ryan Ford

Certainly it was big win and we're disappointed that we didn't get two. But going into this weekend, we're still in this thing.

Keith Poston

Certainly conservation and energy efficiency has a role to play, as does the continuing exploration of renewable resources.

Richard Katz

Certainly Coach Huggins is going to be looking to coach major college basketball. We're in the process of reviewing certain situations. That's all I can say at this time.

Rubin Carter

Certainly Chris is ready to go and at least start the next game for us. We also have to get Josh Driscoll ready to go depending on where Chester is.

Kim Farah

Certainly by having a chapel in a community, regardless of someone's faith, they could know that in times of disaster we would be standing by to help.

Mr Davis

Certainly better than last week, but probably can do better nonetheless.

Laurie Fisher

Certainly at this stage, all he has to do is just play the appropriate football during the Super 14 and I'll certainly back him to have a very good (competition).

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Sue Semrau

Monday will be a big, big game for us but we are going to continue to take it one game at a time and stay with the routine that we know and trust right now.

Brian Bethune

Mortgage purchase applications continue to track downwards, suggesting that most of the expected pop in housing sales in January was weather-related.

Paul Testa

My goal is to see the girls play more consistently and be more competitive and hopefully we will get more individual and team wins. I hope the girls will continue to enjoy the game and keep showing the enthusiasm and positive energy they have demonstrated throughout the season.

J. Taylor

My heart reaches out to them. We continue to pray for them.

Harry Whittington

My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week. We hope that he will continue to come to Texas and seek the relaxation that he deserves.

Jim Hendry

Getting the right leadoff guy would be important. We'll always be looking for that. There are only five or six of those guys in the game. We're not the Lone Ranger in not having that prototype guy. We'll continue to try to look into that.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Anish Kapoor

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form

Ani Difranco

My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.

Robert Henri

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Richard Branson

Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

Stephen Colbert

I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

Soulja Boy

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

Veronica Roth

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?

Veronica Roth

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Stephen Covey

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

Eric Lyons

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents,