Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Beth McGraw

What we do is we step in and we help them get a leg up, because an average refund is about $1,300.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Chris DiMarco

Courses are not getting any shorter. I could not hit the ball an average of 279, 280 (yards) and compete out here still. I needed to get eight to 10 more yards somehow. It makes a big difference.

Anthony Byett

Evaluating the data available, the average house price is still increasing at a rate similar to most of 2004 and 2005.

Gloria Estefan

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

Brian Reilly

I've managed to save so much because I live below my means.

T. S. Eliot

At the first turning of the second stair / I turned and saw below / The same shape twisted on the banister.

Greg Perry

What the FAA says is that within a 500-foot radius of that wind sensor, the maximum object height has to be 15 feet below that wind sensor.

Sylvia Earle

We might set up house on Mars but ... we do very little exploring the blue part of the planet. We have done so much skyward, I would like to see us spend more money and effort to explore below us.

Hans Eichel

We have to draw up new estimates but I think we will reach three-quarter percent. Next year we will clearly come in below the two to two-and-a-quarter percent we had assumed, it will be somewhere between one and one-and-a-half.

Leroy Shafer

We had this feeling going into the show that the lower-middle class and below have less discretionary money this year.

Jeff Black

Well, that's a very good question. We know that our pay is below the market rate and the private sector rate.

Richard Suttmeier

What I don't want to see is the Dow fall below that October low, because then you're in danger of seeing a Dow 5,000 scenario.

Matthew Paull

We have not yet determine exactly how far below 50% we will get or how long it might take us to get there.

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.

Ben Kingsley

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

William Golding

Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

John Roth

The hunting land really is at a premium right now.

Laura Campbell

This hunting preserve would jeopardize our family's and our employees' security.

Clint Walker

Also, I think more and more people are yearning to get out of the big cities, have a garden, and maybe go hunting or fishing.

Wayne Minnaar

There have been no reported incidents so far, but we are monitoring the situation as usual.

Harvey Rosenthal

There's no question we can find random incidents that are really terrible and tragic. But, for the most part, these are the exceptions.

O. J. Simpson

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Ron Allen

We were a little worried at first, but there hasn't been any service problems. I remembered yesterday that (the national protest) was happening. But there doesn't seem like anything is going on here or back home.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Saina Nehwal

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Christopher Paolini

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Raquel Zimmermann

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Robert A. Heinlein

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Steven Hatfill

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Melissa Bank

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

Kian Egan

But we have to stay in shape and we work out most days, even when we really don't feel like it.

George Orwell

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.