Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Brian Brennan

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investors.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Dusty Baker

He's earned it. It couldn't happen to a finer young man. The whole city of Sacramento is probably proud of him.

J. J. Johnson

I think it's going to take a city staff determination on that sign.

John Keegan

I think it says a lot about the people in the city of Peoria and their commitment to making this a great community well into the future,

John Barrett

I think it's an excellent deal for the city of North Adams,

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Chad Latch

He's handled himself well. He's had some big matches this year, and I think the competition he's had throughout the year has set him up and prepared him for the state tournament.

Dennis Piron

What you love about her is her competitiveness, her fire and her spirit. More importantly is her unselfishness. She wants to be part of the team and do her thing.

Stacey Clausing

I think that the competition this year is the strongest it has been since I have been here. There are a lot of strong teams that have a lot of depth.

Brian Urquhart

It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates.

Jessica Anderson

I was kind of nervous, because so much was at stake. This is my first high school (sectional) meet and there's a lot of competition here.

Kim Yuna

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

Scott Kouchi

I don't know what his definition of 'a monopoly' is. There is other competition.

Joe Anoai

I don't know the competition level that they were playing against, but obviously if you're scoring that many points, you have weapons.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Sherri Coale

Iowa State played fantastic. When we were up by 10 points (with 6 1/2 minutes to play), Iowa State could have said 'we're done,' but they kept fighting.

Jim Nussle

Iowa needs to be not only a renewable (energy) leader from a production standpoint but also a leader from a consumption standpoint.

Al Sharpton

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

Chuck Grassley

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Michael Kinsley

Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

David Letterman

Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

City High

He didn't have to run. A lot of kids wouldn't have,

Steve Collins

He just plays the game. You've got to love kids like that.

Thurston Moore

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

John Grahame

I don't know Robert at all. Actually, this will be the first time I meet him. He called me a month ago and said some type of quote appeared. I never read it. He said whatever it was, it was taken out of context.

Dan Ross

If you told me a week before the meet that we were going to be 16th, we wouldn't have even went.

Greg Marsden

I never would have predicted at this point in the season we would go 197. I try not to worry about (the judging) this year, because I know from meet to meet there are going to be some real differences.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Rich Mullins

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

Zig Ziglar

You can't climb a smooth mountain

Pat Boyd

I really didn't they were going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Quinn Spitzer

I'm going to set the strategy, we're the consultant, we're going to walk down from the mountain and we're going to give it to people.

Friedrich Schiller

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Joichi Ito

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Mike Gold

I've been pleasantly surprised by the credibility, seriousness, and capabilities shown by these entities.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Cassandra Clare

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

Al Groh

He's probably come on a little fast, ... That probably was the pleasant surprise of it.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Ron Chernow

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Umberto Eco

But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

Umberto Eco

When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Ramakrishna

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Jung Chang

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Dennis Prager

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.