Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Neal Milner

An ombudsman has an obligation when it spots trouble, when it spots patterns, basically to speak truth to power.

Cindy Cuthbertson

The state does the spraying, and basically we just have to wait until it's our turn. They've told us it will hopefully be sometime Wednesday. But even after they spray, you still have to come inside by 5:30 p.m. or 6 p.m., so we don't know what will happen.

Joe Yevoli

These next two games basically seal our season. If we can win these next two, we've accomplished our goals. That's the thing we need to do, close the season out like we wanted to.

Ashraf Laidi

The speech is as expected. He opens the door basically for further interest rate hikes. It shows he totally agrees with the last FOMC statement that said short-term interest rates hikes 'may' be needed.

Rob Stevens

The show basically charts life. Youthful optimism, brash idealism, first love, setbacks, relationships, the drive to keep on improving one's self and life, ending on an optimistic note for the future. There is no definite script of the show. Instead we follow musical paths.

Ben Wilcox

The system has basically been rigged to protect incumbents and discourage competition.

Greg Kraft

She's really been off the charts and so consistent with it.

John Wells

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

David Jones

Once the security cordon is lifted, people will be ready to go back. This is definitely not the end of our protest.

Alicia Molik

The more matches I can play the better. I can definitely get back.

Heather Cavanagh

The mood is definitely better. There's so much more than we had before. It's really hard when we have to tell someone who needs food that we don't have any.

Chad Tracy

The momentum definitely shifted at that time. We had the momentum, then they reversed it.

Naomi Martin

During the interview process, Pete told me that the team had three girls six feet or taller, and a point guard (Kim Rich). That definitely piqued my interest, but it also made me wonder how a team with all those ingredients could be around .500.

Brian Metcalf

Defensively, I was not happy with it even though we won the game. There were some things that we definitely need to focus on in the defense.

Keith Samplawski

Defensively, I was definitely happy with the way we played.

Cameron Jensen

Defensively, I think we have a long ways to go, obviously. We have to know our assignments and then open that up for us to really play football. We're really focused on what we need to do. We have a long ways to go with this new scheme. It takes a while to not only know the scheme, but to play it well. There are so many little things you have to know. We're learning a lot each day and we're definitely getting better. But learning a new scheme definitely takes time.

Zhang Guobao

Any slightest fluctuation could drive speculations on the oil price.

Mark Solomon

Officers drive by that park constantly, since it's right up from the precinct.

Gholamhossein Elham

During the attack, the local driver and a Revolutionary Guardsman was killed. The police immediately intervened. One smuggler was killed and one arrested.

Tom Nelson

Defensively, I think we played a pretty good ballgame; they only had that one drive on us. Overall, I was pretty proud of the defense.

Tommy Jr

The thing was, I ran and I fumbled it, so I had to make up, because I couldn't go out like that. So I had to do something to make my team rally back, and I tried to put a drive together.

Ben Johnson

The things that are working here are locally driven right now.

Adan Canto

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Matt Smith

The 'movie drunk' that you see, the guy that's all over the roadway going ten miles an hour ? that?s probably about one percent of all the intoxicated drivers that will actually get arrested.

Felix Sabates

The most important factor was all the drivers are there. To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances.

Winston Churchill

The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

Keith Brooking

You've got to respect that decision, ... It would have been tough to come in here and give it everything, knowing your job was ending at the end of the year.

Andre McGee

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

The Vikings

I just saw the shot, did my routine and it worked out. I'm very glad we finished before the rain and storms came. It was just really nice to have a good day and it was a good ending to the official season.

Heather Williams

I just do not want to be a part of ending that life.

Folarin Campbell

I know it. We wanted a better ending to our story, but it had to end some way.

Matt Reeves

It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.

Allison Janney

I walk on the set every day since his ... you know, since his death, and feel a great loss. It feels like a very organic ending to the show with him gone because I just can't imagine doing it without him.

Bible Bible

And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

Dick Vermeil

I've always followed it, ... At one time, I thought I was going to be a driver, not a football coach.

Joe Crede

Rules are rules and you got to follow them.

Diane Ruggiero

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

Ian Shepherdson

This is a strong report: Manufacturing output has strengthened markedly in the past two months, following a lackluster showing in February.

Joyce Banda

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

Bob Dylan

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

We held a follow up meeting... they've done a good job.

Rodel Natividad

Don't follow my shadow if you're going to be shady with me.

John Sacchi

Ryan is starting to realize what it takes to win matches at this level. He keeps on improving every time he steps on the mat.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

Johnny Ensing

Peter is really improving. He's improving his places and that's what I am looking at right now.

Drake Johnstone

If they demonstrate improving revenue growth, they could get $20 a share.

O. J. Simpson

The AXP System automates what was typically an 18-step manual process while improving the recovery rates of the stem cells.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

James Garner

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Simon McBurney

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Troy Sunderland

That's why we really felt, if the other two kids could get to nationals, we could surprise some people and as a team do some things. Now, instead of going with 10, we'll have to do it with eight.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Demetri Martin

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Oscar Isaac

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Alex Trebek

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Claudio Monteverdi

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Chuck Klosterman

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Matt Elliott

It was very touching to get the note from the group.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

Daniel Handler

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Bruce Chatwin

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Abdullah Ocalan

Everyone should take note of the way I live, what I do and what I don't do,

Ludwig von Mises

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Reeve

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Daniel Kahneman

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Daniel Kahneman

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Joe Anderson

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

Bruce Campbell

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

Johnathan Frakes

To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.

Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find.

Clive Anderson

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Liam Hemsworth

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

Douglas Booth

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

Amber Heard

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Angelina Jolie

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Audie Murphy

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.