Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Heath

We have to get ready to play on Saturday and fight for a win. We have to create our own breaks and get to the point where we're greedy with a lead.

Derek Jeter

We have no excuses. We got all the breaks to get to this point. We had our chance.

Clay Harris

Until tonight we have been in every game. I think we just need some breaks to go our way. When we find ourselves we're going to be a good team.

Alexa Von Tobel

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

Brian Rolston

We're making our breaks now. When we are all on the same page, we can play with anybody.

Christine Mockert

When we got there we were given the TV treatment. They put the shine-proof makeup on us, and during the breaks we would joke around and pretend we were news anchors.

Don Anderson

When we get a big rain, the water comes up and spreads over the orchard. Sometimes we can be 50-75 percent under water. When this happens we can't get our work done, but we can put up with it until the end of February. Then we have to get back to work. When there are breaks in the storm, that allows the water to drain and we can work around that. But when it is just continuous, then we get in trouble.

Charles Cotton

Workers are legally entitled to breaks and employers have to acknowledge that. They should try and be fair to all staff and consult with them before they change any rules.

Robert Swift

We've got more options on defense and a faster, more up-tempo type of game. Before it was more, look for breaks and then come down and pick-and-roll. Now it's fast break, but if you don't have it, get in a play, run the play, know the options and everything.

Scott Henderson

Watching the coverage yesterday, all of the places the reporters were looked real familiar,

Ray Kelly

We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6,

Maria Sharapova

Women's tennis players are getting as many sponsors and media coverage as men, and our TV ratings at the Grand Slams are pretty much equal to and often better than the men, so I don't understand the rationale for paying the men more than us.

John Harbaugh

We're going to have to start doing a better job with our coverage teams. It's not so much that we aren't tackling. We're not staying in our lanes. All our guys are moving inside, and they're jumping to the outside.

Bruce Shearer

We're going to have to play good pass coverage and play honest. If we can stop the pass, we'll be fine.

Lalit Modi

With Nimbus Sport's excellent track record and very competitive cost, BCCI has secured for itself and its fans a fantastic level of TV coverage never before seen in India.

Larry McLothlin

We're really going to have good coverage in Durham -- all of our major arteries.

John McDonough

The more realistic and genuinely financed plan is the one offered by the House. It's got real coverage and real financing.

Tricia Neuman

It seems virtually all the 21 million have drug coverage now. It's unclear if the enrollment number represents a major improvement in coverage.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

Robert Hauser

There is no question that (post-mortem studies would reveal) a higher failure rate.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Mark Powell

With this level of failure, it makes little sense to weaken protections for fish,

Deepak Chopra

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

Edwin Land

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Kevin Matthews

We struggled with their press in the second quarter and then we gave up way too many baskets in the third. I need to figure out how to teach the girls to handle the press better. But overall, I was encouraged.

Richy Brooks

We are a team that is still trying to find its identity. We are trying to find the right people to put in the right places with the right combination of people that will help us the most, but we are starting to figure that out I believe.

Martina McBride

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

Lesli Linka Glatter

I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.

Lee Bermejo

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

John Baldwin

We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level.

Derek Hall

We have security in the building. No alarms were sounded. We're trying to figure out what happened there. There was no forced entry, no vandalism.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Steve Ludlow

We're still focusing on who's going to emerge.

Haley Barbour

We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.

Jodi Hermanek

We'll be focusing on holding them to three runs or less, and our pitching has been strong enough to do that.

Sen Hooser

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

Matt Smith

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

Scott Sandelin

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

Mark Groesbeck

We're focusing on preservation of capital. I'm telling them to be happy with modest returns.

Emily Cochran

We're focusing on ourselves -- our plays, not their plays.

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Brian Moehler

We're going to make mistakes. That's just the way it is. Hopefully you learn from those mistakes and don't make them as frequently as the year goes on.

Charles Dickens

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Robert Burke

They're shopping like women -- more frequently and impulsively.

Harry Blackmun

Controversy over the meaning of our nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent,

George Gershwin

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

Robert Waters

I guess I'll just have to stop more frequently to get fuel little by little.

Gary Sheffield

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Seth Shostak

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

David Briggs

The S&P lost 50 points last week and today we gained back four. This is not great.

Stephen Heath

The server always gains more. We individuals gained so much more than we were giving as a group.

Cheryl Smith

The whole thing with the power of prayer in our minds is true. And a lot of what has happened, and the strength he has gained back and progress he's made, without sounding corny, I think a lot is attributed to prayers.

Josh Brown

This is the first year I haven't lost weight, and I've gained strength.

Eric Benhamou

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

Masaki Iso

Yesterday I think Softbank gained as investors saw this as part of its new growth strategy. But I think the price of the purchase is very much at a premium.

Terri Sullivan

Essentially, what is the price of a life-year gained that we're prepared to pay for and what is it for this drug?

Bokeem Woodbine

I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Ted Cruz

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

Wyclef Jean

There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.

Bill Murray

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Bill Murray

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.

Travis Plunkett

We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.

John Hughs

We're going to have to go in and rebuild it from the ground up because it went to seed before we got it. There are literally trees and shrubs growing up in the greens, and it's going to take a lot of work and money to get it back into shape.

James P. Hoffa

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

Kyra Sedgwick

Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we're trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.

Christopher Borick

As someone now that is trying to please a number of constituents, it's rather tricky ground for Senator Santorum to navigate,

Proverb

As solid as the ground we stand on

Brian Roehrkasse

This is an inaccurate and misinformed interpretation of the administration's legal analysis.

Scott Ritter

There is a lot of inaccurate information and irresponsible speculation today, particularly from the U.S. government.

Stan Rosenstein

In some cases, Medicare has incomplete or inaccurate data.

Laurence Fishburne

It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on the little screen doesn't mean he shouldn't be telling stories on the big screen.

Satinath Sarangi

They tried to do it cheaply, without masks and gloves. It was a mess. That's why we want assurances that the work will be done properly.

Jewish Proverb

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Toon Hermans

A red nose is the smallest mask in the world

Shane McFadyen

Sometimes you take things for granted. Winning masks some of the mistakes we're still making.

James Nesbitt

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

Alexander Herzen

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Stephen Dunn

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

Steven Millhauser

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Nick Carter

Everyone wears a mask.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Frank Moss

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Matt Mullenweg

A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.

Richard Moyroud

They have been on the planet for millions of years. Why doesn't it have the right to continue?

Al Gillen

They do 150 million PCs per year it's like a rounding error.

Abe Naparstek

This is about property tax relief. We're going to raise over $100 million more per year.

Michael Pachter

The number of units is a manufacturing constraint. You can't start production from zero and ramp to a million a week.

Manfred Guellner

There were 21 million viewers and their verdict was that Schroeder had won the duel. It was clear.

Vin Scully

There's 29.000 people in the ballpark, and a million butterflies.

M. Thompson

They are deliberately misleading the public to put the teachers in an unprofessional light.

Richard Butler

He is now misleading the world's public, and I find that sad, wrong and frankly, a touch dangerous,

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Ritchson

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

John Roberts

Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.

Bill Moyers

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

Alan Lakein

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Cheryl Richardson

I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

Benjamin Franklin

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Bill Gates

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Blanche Lincoln

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Tim Stanley

It was on the top of my priority list.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Morris Peterson

When we were off to our 1-15 start I think that's when they did the poll.

Becky Hammon

We're starting to come together a little more. We're starting to put it together.

Keith Guttin

When we get that done, we'll start turning it up as a team.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Tim O'Brien

It's a souvenir. You never know, it may be worth something on eBay.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.

Robyn Mooney

It wasn't worth getting into a gunfight over it.

Corey Pavin

I've never done anything like it, ... It's more than worth it.

Marissa Nowakowski

It was well worth the wait. (Being a senior) made it all the better.

E. B. White

This is excellent, ... This is worth a whole lot to me.

Mark Kantrowitz

This is a no-brainer. It's worth your while to consolidate now.

J. Taylor

There and back is $10 worth of gasoline.