Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Fred Brooks

Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.

Franz Kafka

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

Elton Gallegly

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

Jason Statham

I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.

Tim Ryan

But I really think that this administration, very similar to the first President Bush's administration, has really gotten out of touch with average American families.

John Amelsberg

Beginning and average players are in great demand.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

John Warren

Sarah pitched a pretty good game for her first outing. I'm happy with her. We had one bad inning and that cost us the game. Losing never changes. It still hurts as much as it did 12 years ago (when he started coaching).

Bill Maris

Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.

Jack Pitney

Public opinion has a short list of bad guys, and the drug companies are on it. That can be hurtful to Proposition 78.

John M. Smith

Public consensus is clear that the sewage deal with the City of Sumas is a bad deal for Abbotsford and needs to be terminated as soon as possible,

Robert Mintz

Prosecutors have to show this was not simply bad management and bad judgment, but outright fraud. The only way to do that is with insiders.

Michael Sandler

Quite honestly, it's a good news, bad news situation. The bad news is our portfolio is not as cheap as it was at the beginning of the year.

Billy Donovan

Quite honestly, I'm not concerned about that. I'm more worried about making sure that this team understands what's a good shot, what's a bad shot, going into the season.

Scott Robinson

Quite frankly I was shocked at our performance on Wednesday. To play like we did Saturday then turn around and play that bad Wednesday was very surprising.

Vicki Crompton

One night we caught him hiding in the bushes at 10:30, watching our house,

Jamie Rappaport

Americans have made a significant commitment to recovering the wolf over the past 30 years. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is planning to turn back the clock on wolf recovery by prematurely passing management responsibility to states such as Idaho that has expressed a clear intention of immediately exterminating all of the wolves in the state.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Thierry Breton

We are trying to use them to change the country,

Daniel Katzive

We think it's really too soon to see a definitive change from the BOJ. It's more of a second quarter story.

Lynne Sipiora

We see an influx whether the weather is hot or cold, we see a change in the number of people in our facility.

Alain Vigneault

We score three goals a game and we've got to find a way to win it 3-2 and 2-1. That's been our identity all year long and it doesn't seem like it's going to change down the line here.

Linda Chandler

Values-based organizations are the most enduring, the most sustainable and consistent. Yet they remain flexible. Individuals or organizations that twist and turn with every new idea , every change in the direction of the wind, are like ships without rudders. They end up going round in circles, never quite reaching their goals.

Ed Gillespie

Vice President Gore needed to change the dynamics of the debate.

Kevin Payne

Very little will change in the way we do things.

Jim Dempsey

VOIP will even further change the equation here. The phone conversation, which used to be ephemeral, can now be like e-mail.

Charles Dalfen

We don't yet see the need to change the rules for services delivered on the Internet. That isn't something we have to worry about at the moment.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Eric Fehrnstrom

If Congress and the President impose new requirements on the project, we'll follow the procedures and guidelines set out in the law.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Jim Furyk

Winning two years in a row, pretty much being in control of this tournament most of the way, he's the guy to beat.

Koon Chow

Inflation is going up and they have to do something to control it. The economy has been doing extremely well and the koruna will probably keep strengthening.

Camille Moute

I knew I had to come to the States. My dad told me that a man has to do what a man has to do, and I have to be in control of my life.

Jane Badler

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

Willie Nelson

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Kathy Sheehan

The Internet has given people a control over prices, options, information and deals. It's given the traveler leverage. People feel it's worth dedicating the time to hunting for better hotel rates or flight times. They want not just to save money but to control their travel. People are being ever-more self-reliant.

Bennie Osburn

The federal government needs to see this (shortage) as being important for safe food, disease control and the economic viability of the food industry in this country.

Eunice Barber

The first day is always delicate for me. Tomorrow, I have to jump well, throw well and run well. My nerves are under control and I'm going to stay focused.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Don Pierson

The larger corporations have such significant resources, they take their initiative and move forward without significant needs.

Reggie Miller

When were on Lifetime working together, Cheryl gave me a lot of insight. It was then that I starting thinking that this was something I could do sometime down the line ... This is an opportunity I'm really looking forward to.

Paul Lancaster

When you're starting one senior and the rest underclassmen, it's something to look forward to. This year was a pleasant surprise.

Mike Hooks

Sky Hicks was the man for them tonight. He was moving forward the whole game. The kickoff return hurt us. We planned on kicking it near the sideline to pin them in, but he found a seam.

Chad Hitchen

Every time you lose seniors it's always hard to replace them but the nice side of this is that we had many players in the top four... now we have to look forward to our underclassmen.

Jeff Laing

The kids look forward to it. It's nice to go away as a group and get away from school.

Daniel Maly

The kids have really been getting after it in practice. They are really looking forward to Friday.

Kevin McDaniel

The kids have been working hard and we've been looking forward to it for a year." ()

John Abizaid

The people who were low-level Baathists need to know they have a part in the future of their country,

Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Jennette McCurdy

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?

Tori Amos

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

Eric Braeden

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Thom Yorke

Cigarrettes make you look cool

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy

Otto von Bismarck

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

Paolo Bacigalupi

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

Erica McLean

When you're sick, you think that money doesn't matter. I wanted him to get well.

Keith Williams

When you're on a bike, you want to have your money ready before you get to a toll.

John Breaux

where do you get the money to pay for it?

N. R. Narayana Murthy

If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

LZ Granderson

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

Mike Nichols

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

Mickey Rooney

If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'

Nandan Nilekani

I am not in politics to make more money.

Ludovic Halevy

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Joe Biden

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

John F. Kennedy

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

James Madison

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Jimi Hendrix

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

John Mellencamp

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

Loren Eiseley

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

Gabrielle Zevin

Speak up,' says Myrna who has a fuzzy white caterpillar of a moustache. 'My hearing's not so good.' 'I WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD.' Liz turns to Thandi. 'I thought you said you didn't remember how you got the hole in your head.' Thandi apologizes. 'I just remembered.' 'Shot in the head!' Florence-scratchy-voice says. 'Oy, that's rough.' 'Aw, it's nothing special. Happens pretty regularly where I'm from,' Thandi says. 'WHAT?' asks Myrna with the moustache. 'Say it toward my left ear, that's the good one.' 'I SAID, "IT'S NOTHING SPECIAL,"' Thandi yells/

Claudia Black

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Peter O'Toole

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Cary Fukunaga

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.