Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Dino Ebel

That was a bad one. Like I've said since day one, this team never gives up. We gave up seven runs in an inning, but battled back. It's exciting. We still have a lot of games left.

Harry Smith

People cannot give up on the city as bad as this looks, ... It's devastating and it's catastrophic, but I have also been around the city and there are pockets of the city that can come back quickly, and I want people to come back.

Heather Stephens

Oh! I feel really bad about that now that I think about that. She's just so good and she's a senior. She's amazing. I've always looked up to her.

Vince Carter

Oh, I can care less about scrutiny and all that. If it was a bad game, it was a bad game. Just because of what people say and what people think, they don't dictate my game and how I play. I've been in the playoffs before and I've had bad games in the playoffs before. It's just one of those things, you shake it off.

Robin Smith

Oh God, fresh air, it's so wonderful. It's the first time I've wanted to breathe all day. When you think what we could've gone through, it's not too bad in there. But it's certainly not as wonderful as this.

Ray Liotta

No question. There's shades of the O.J. trial in this one. The difference in our movie is my guy is completely committed and does everything he can to find out who the bad guy is,

David Miller

No such thing as bad publicity in media is the way I look at it.

Tim Hudson

After the first game, listening to the commentators, you would have thought we might as well pack things up and head back to Atlanta. But I think we showed we're not too bad either.

Gary David Goldberg

A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

Jim Davis

We had some chances, I just didn't think we got any breaks tonight.

Joe Sakic

We got a couple of breaks on a couple of goals. None luckier than mine, obviously.

Joe Blanton

We're going out and giving it all we have. It's just a matter of a couple breaks here and there.

Scott Cameron

There's not much to say, really. We gave them four quick goals. You can't give a good team breaks like that. They'll jump all over you. That's why they're in first place.

Chris DiMarco

He's got a few good breaks over his career. So you know what? Darn. It's golf.

Bruce Marthaller

We made some mistakes, obviously, but I thought we competed well the whole time. They had some big breaks go their way.

Dee Dee Myers

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

Jim Davis

They got the breaks in the last part of the game. No question.

Kim Gordon

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.

Mike Schroepfer

Luckily we do not have any known use of this exploit, but it is fairly critical if there were to be (an attack), so this is a recommended download.

Jill Janssen

But the critical thing is to walk in the door, spend some time in the facility, talk to the residents, talk to the staff, eat a meal and just look around.

Ron Paulson

If we are not one of those chosen, then that's when we need people to start to vote. It's critical that if you can't watch, you at least find out how to vote.

Joel Staff

Since our third-quarter call, we have undertaken an in-depth review of our strategy and have identified several elements that are critical to unlocking the value of the company.

John Leighton

She's a great shooter, but she played great defense, too. She played the top of our triangle-and-two defense and was critical in shutting down their guards.

Digby Jones

I have been more constructively critical of this Government than my predecessors.

Dr. Martin

Logistics decisions are so critical to real estate development now, and ports are the critical link in the supply chain.

Steve Farrington

We have a lot of good arms, which is critical in a tournament like this. You need more than one or two good pitchers to make it all the way.

Bob Dylan

I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

Andre Malraux

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Mike Price

(Only), he's such a damn good student, he doesn't have to go into coaching.

John Gibbons

But it's his first year and he has done a pretty damn good job.

Dan Blocker

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

Bob Odom

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do whatever I have to to protect the consumer.

Jim Mattox

He was damn sure tenacious at getting at this thing, ... It's yet to be seen whether he can stand up to the heat of the matter.

George S. Patton

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

Isaac Mizrahi

He's on his high horse. He'll be on his damn high horse again.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Richard Segal

There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.

Marquand Manuel

I've never missed that many tackles in a game. Ever.

Rory Sabbatini

It would be nice to get back. I haven't had as much success there as I would like, but I think my mental game is ready for it now. I'm a lot more mature.

Steve Spurrier

It was there tonight. It was there to be had if we were real sharp and maybe played a little better offensively. It was a game where we had a chance, but we couldn't get it done.

Jason Rich

It was ugly, but I'm just glad we won. That (style of game) really doesn't surprise me, because since I've been here -- when we play Clemson -- that's the way the game is.

Steve Staios

It was two pretty opportunistic goals by them. That's going to happen. They're a great team. You can't walk away with a game when it's these guys.

Jason Terry

It was two heavyweights. The game was there for us, but they took it. Give them credit.

Clayton Randall

It was two contrasting styles. We wanted to play a half-court game and they wanted it up-tempo. White River made us play White River basketball.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Paul Kariya

Defensively we didn't do a very good job. But over all it was just lack of a 60-minute effort.

Mark Francis

Defensively we did a good job. I thought we had a good performance all around.

Kraig Clifton

Defensively we did a good job. But offensively, we just weren't smooth. We had turnovers and didn't execute.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Paul Allen

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

J. J. Johnson

The thing about Mike is he's so explosive. And he's going to make plays because he's got great quickness and great pad level.

Vic Wolffis

The thing about Kyle is that you can't say he hasn't only looked for himself. He's done a great job of getting other people involved. We've done this as a team.

David Whyte

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Margaret Chan

When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

Richard Grasso

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.

Daniel Petrocelli

You said to her, 'You hung up on me last night. You're going to pay for this bitch.

Pam Wilkins

First of all, we have a lot of athletes. You win one year, and they're hungry to win again.

Suzanne Collins

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

Paul Davies

We just couldn't put them away. They just hung around, hung around. We had the lead. We had to put them away.

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Octavia Butler

That which could hunger, could starve.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Stella Goheen

I told him I don't do none of these things on the phone because one thing is it ain't right and I don't know you. The more he talked, I didn't like the way I felt, so I hung up.

Joe Mullen

They're a team that is looking to win some games. They've got to be hungry (in their situation).

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

Bruce Myers

Maybe there were some answers, but they were not in the files.

Frank Sciolla

Maybe there was something today that was different. Maybe it was a momentum thing, but they had us so out of character.

Stephen Merchant

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

Bill Walsh

Maybe there are more weapons, maybe there aren't. I don't know about that. I can tell you that the administrators are much better trained in detecting them.

P. J. O'Rourke

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Ayn Rand

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Ayn Rand

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

Ayn Rand

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Ayn Rand

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Ayn Rand

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Ayn Rand

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Ron Gardenhire

We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Dan Auerbach

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

Bobby Robson

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

Billy Campbell

The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

Billy Campbell

To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time, I'm not gonna complain because it didn't work out. I'm gonna go on a second date.

Brian Shipley

It wasn't pretty, but we did what we had to do to win. We took it one pitch at a time and overcame adversity.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Jodie Sweetin

People still watch 'Full House' all the time. It's on three times a day!

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Frank Rijkaard

This was a big result for the players and the club.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Ryan Love

We have some players with a lot of experience.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Dionny Reynolds

In situations like this, it got to be three people.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

Abraham Lincoln

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

Douglas MacArthur

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

Amy Carmichael

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Stephen Covey

Internal victories precede external victories.

Sophie Swetchine

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

Steve Prefontaine

Nobody likes tainted victories.

Stephen Dunn

All good poems are victories over something.

Stephen Covey

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.