Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Jim Scherr

That was absolutely improper and something we have taken great measures to have our athletes not do,

Alex Marlis

That was a beauty. There was absolutely nothing their goalie could do.

Ross Levin

Real estate prices have somewhat moved in tandem with the stock market, and it's no coincidence real estate prices in Palo Alto (Calif.) have gone through the roof as technology stocks have gone through the roof, ... There's absolutely no doubt you can potentially make money if the market goes up.

Oscar Wilde

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

Dore Gold

Prime Minister Sharon has been absolutely clear about his goals. He wants to reach limited arrangements, pragmatic arrangements with the Palestinian Authority, but there cannot be peace with terrorism.

Joanna Garcia

'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with.

Jack Layton

Privatization is taking place right across this country and there's absolutely nothing to stop it,

Brennan Bilberry

People understand the disgusting length this organization will sink to, to attack a woman who has dedicated her entire life to children. It will absolutely backfire.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Josh Elliott

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Carlo Rubbia

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

Jonathan Levine

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jim Lanzalotto

Anyone who has worked for a big brand-name company with a good reputation, and was successful there, has a real advantage, especially in moving to a different industry. Hiring someone is really a leap of faith, and interviewers know they can only tell so much about you from the interviewing process, so having that brand name in your background is important. It's almost like an endorsement.

John Shields

As a judge, you look at the basics of a recipe: Does it make sense, does the ratio of ingredients make sense? And is it a crab soup? Some of the entries we get are almost anything but.

Daron Malakian

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

James Zogby

The bottom line is that NSEERS is a failed and unfair program. An understaffed INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) couldn't implement the program and almost 14,000 of those who complied were placed in deportation proceedings.

Josh Bernoff

The cable operator almost has a responsibility to give you a tool to better figure out what to watch, now that it's given you all those choices.

Bill Muir

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Rig Veda

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Roger Launius

As a person excited by the prospect of returning to the Moon, I am thrilled that the United States is finally intent on moving beyond Earth orbit, ... Like everyone, I am curious to see how this plays out over the next few months as project definition becomes more solid. The devil will be in the details.

William Donahue

a unique animal. I see daily operations as a democracy, however at a fire situation, it becomes autocratic.

Michael Young

At some point, ... affordability becomes a negative factor on demand.

Iain Grant

A young person may be exposed to a loud noise and cause permanent damage, but a younger ear will compensate and so the effect of that damage is not noticed. As you get older, you lose hearing and the damage becomes more apparent.

Don Mays

A young child will open up a drawer on a dresser like this to try to climb up to reach something at the top. Or they might open up all the drawers, in which case a dresser like this becomes very unstable.

John Cairns

Banks, by law, are required to know their customers. What becomes difficult from the banks' point of view is being suspect of a situation that may or may not prove to be something wrong.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Tommy Fabian

Deanna was mediocre when she started. But she decided after her freshman season that she was going to work her tail off at becoming the best pitcher she could be.

Mike Degory

Coach is trying to instill core values, trust. We're becoming more of a team. Eight months ago, it wasn't really like this. Will it pay off in September? I hope so.

Rabih Alameddine

A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

Brian Kerr

A player getting a whack is becoming a daily occurrence. Yesterday Shay (Given), today Richard,

Robert Rosen

An experienced technical person can make $70,000 to $80,000. Someone with management skills can make $100,000 or more. It's all moving toward becoming a seller's market.

Bob Kerrey

The skills and methods of video games are becoming a part of our life and culture in so many ways that it is impossible to ignore.

Tom Wallin

The size of the supply hole is gradually becoming clearer.

Greg Simon

The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute -- food and water running out, no power, 4 feet of water surrounding the hospital and ... corpses outside,

John McFarland

The site of flags flying amid the rubble of Camille is the most endearing memory of that storm, and is already becoming a symbol of our neighbor's determination to rebuild again, ... There just aren't enough flags.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Jennifer Allen

Radio is incredibly effective in the Spanish-speaking community. It's definitely been an impetus.

Nathan Brown

Ray McLean said it's definitely a three-year process and I don't think you can underestimate the value of good leadership,

Gary Towne

Our sights are set on improving over our performance last year. I definitely think we have the talent to get the job done.

Rod Reid

Our early indications were that this year would be a record crowd. With the situation with the hurricane, we know some of the people who come here from Mississippi every year will not be able to come. But the show is definitely going on, and it's going to be a big deal.

Ken Hydinger

Our doubles has not been working. We definitely need work in that department, and it is something we will really work on when we get back to Bloomington.

Eric Henderson

Our eyes are definitely on the ACC championship. We definitely feel like we have a shot at being in that game on Dec. 3.

Joe Andruzzi

People point out that Romeo's never been a head coach, and this is definitely a big move that he's making,

Mark Durante

Of the duo, I?m definitely more nervous and uptight. He?s normally relaxed. In fact, he sometimes tells me to go away so he can stay focused.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Marquis Daniels

Strange things happen in this game. There were a lot of things going on, and we let them hang around for too long. Then everybody started making shots.

Christopher Harame

Something was wrong. Everybody could feel it. The majority of us figured we were going to be at war with the (Japanese) soon. We didn't figure they were going to hit us.

Matt Gray

Somebody was going to pick it up. Actually, everybody stepped up.

Martin Selmayr

Some say 10% to 15% of revenue comes from roaming. Everybody is using speculative figures at the moment.

Justin Williams

Some people thought that it was going to be a learning process because we got young guards, but all he's doing is showing everybody that they're wrong.

Kevin Stacom

Some people thought he was a lock to be a first-rounder. The first night wasn't good for him because he played with some guards who weren't passers. In the second and third night he shot the heck out of the ball. So he proved what everybody knew. And he's got some other stuff to his game.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Rinko Kikuchi

Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Mao Asada

I wasn't thinking about the championship ... just focusing on the two triple axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100.

Mao Asada

I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple axels.

Adam Gilchrist

I think people questioned whether we were even interested in trying to win this, you know, maybe focusing too much on the World Cup.

Carmelo Anthony

I think I'm starting to get into a rhythm a little more. I'm focusing more.

Preston Early

(Julius) was real smooth. She did a great job of focusing and knocking down some big shots for us.

Juwan Howard

We can't be focusing on who we have out there or not. We've just got to go out there and play hard and be aggressive. If we have one or two guys that are out, we've got to roll up our sleeves and go to work.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Craig Chilton

The summertime and late spring are the greatest times of production for this industry because dealers sell more of these vehicles at this time of year, ... How to Get Paid $30,000 a Year to Travel: Without Selling Anything.

Sarah Vandish

I've met some of the greatest people through swimming.

Jeremy Yablonski

Things weren't working out the greatest in Milwaukee and Nashville.

Ashley Hill

This is probably the greatest group of kids I've ever had in any sport at any level.

Greg Oden

This is one of my greatest moments. I'm very happy to win this award, and I'm very grateful.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Anthony Trollope

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Connie Sellecca

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Bo Ryan

As I've been saying all along, they just have to play a little older,

Larry DiRita

The secretary is not saying anything like what the memo's been characterized,

Jalen Rose

I've never said that I wanted to play for another team. I'm not saying that now,

Jason Fraser

It was all determination. As the old saying goes, ?Where there?s a will, there?s a way,? and as you saw, we had the will, literally.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Melissa Kleinman

That's why we're here tonight. (Sexual violence) touches everyone tonight we're taking the first step in saying we are not going to tolerate it.

Fidel Castro

You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Arthur Hardy

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Lyle Thomas

Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else?

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,