Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Dixon

First of all, I want to apologize to my coach, teammates and the organization. That was way out of my character and I was wrong. I was frustrated, thought I had been fouled a number of times trying to get the ball up the court and I just really wanted to win this game.

Leo Hindery

I apologize for the screw-up. We broke a lot of hearts in the process,

Ron Zarrella

I apologize for the confusion of the past few days and will try to clear up what I can.

Mike Blagdon

I apologize for the accommodations. The tax revolt wasn't on tonight's agenda.

Shoichi Nakagawa

I apologize for not fully explaining that there had been a change in the plan.

Robert Novak

I apologize for my conduct and I'm sorry I did it, I'll follow their guidance.

Marcus Vick

I apologize for letting my emotions get the best of me Saturday, ... What I did was wrong and I am sorry.

Hwang Suk

I apologize for creating this uproar both in and out of Korea. The fact remains that our research team was successful in creating stem cells from patients' skin cells. Still, there were mistakes made, human errors, in taking photographs and in the preservation of the stem cells.

Robert Byrd

I apologize for any wrongdoing I or my players did. I thought I was defending my players, but I'm sure that's what Coach Fred Hickman was trying to do too. I'm sorry about all of that.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Kevin Towers

After what I went through with Arizona, the last four or five days, they were crazy with all the speculation out there. I don't think it was fair to this organization. One thing I want to make clear is that I wasn't throwing my name out there. It got to the point where it didn't stop.

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Michael Moran

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Steven Kernkraut

The secret to survive is you have to have a clear identity and clear brand.

Richard Boucher

The secretary made quite clear that the relationship with the Taliban was a matter of great importance to the United States.

Richard Boucher

The secretary made clear we would keep pressure on (Yugoslavia).

Richard Boucher

The secretary made clear ... we would be going forward with a system, and we felt it was feasible.

Zeev Boim

These conditions are clear and these are their obligations from the first stage of the road map.

Dalai Lama

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

David Lynch

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Richard E. Byrd

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

Steven Erikson

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

Thomas Jefferson

The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us.

Mike Watt

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

Miranda Hart

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

Mason Cooley

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

Martin Chalfie

I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Jalal Rumi

Days of wanting.Let them go by without worrying that they do.Stay where you areinside such a pure, hollow note.

Brendan Shanahan

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You're just going to have to keep on playing.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Plaxico Burress

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

Michelle Monaghan

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Patricia Lockhart

Soon we'll be working overnight and on weekends. It's not about the three days or 10 minutes, it's about giving up the rights our past teachers worked for.

Jim Tressel

There will be some days where we are prolific or, whatever, and then there are other days where we do just what we have to do to win and feel good about that, ... And there's going to be days where, you know what, we didn't do our part. I know that's the way Troy feels.

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Gary Numan

'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

Rupert Lowe

The situation is under control. Antti has a few personal problems, but will be back in training soon.

Derrick Brooks

The style in which we won says a lot. The previous two games were blowouts, so the question was, 'Could we win a tough one?' Yeah, we can get in a fight, walk away with a few bruises and come away with a win.

John Fithian

The structure of the industry is sound, ... We just need a few more good movies.

Mark Drew

The species list gets pretty long but by and large there are very few large outbreaks in terms of thousands and thousands of birds.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Charles R. Swindoll

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.