Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Roberta Zelleke

As parents, we're not ready for this. We don't see it coming. We can't stop it, but we can change how we react to it.

Courteney Cox

That part wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, ... We could have been having to change outside or something.

Laurence Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes yourdestiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in yourlife. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as wellas your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought isgoing.

John Edgar Wideman

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Debbie Ford

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Doug Adkins

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

Kim Rupert

Productivity still remains really solid, and one of the hallmarks of this whole expansion. If we can hang on to that I think the perception of where we're going in the market could change dramatically.

Lamar Alexander

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

Jay Reiss

During rehearsals, to keep things lively, I'd sometimes make up something a little dirty - or very dirty. A lot of us have improv backgrounds, and everyone would crack up. People would say, 'I wish we had taped this.' I think the sentences are the kind of thing that lends itself to the dark side of humor.

Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World

Tony Smith

It was tough day with a lot of delays and the gymnasts were losing some momentum. On the last rotation only five hit their routines. I know Nathan can do much better and hopefully he can show what he's been doing in training. He's got the potential to crack the top-five here.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Charlotte Observer

Cracks would have been a (warning) flag for us,

Kobe Bryant

You guys can go in there anytime. Crack open a book. Expand your imagination and read and learn because that is truly the key to success. The more you know, the more power you gain.

Steve Schwartz

The result of the cracking is to relax the interior and exterior field to a less twisted state. This has very little impact on the star itself, other than the fact that it will take time to twist up the field again.

Andrew Flintoff

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

T. S. Eliot

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Sheryl Swoopes

Somebody said to me, 'Well, you went in at halftime and you had nine assists, and you only finished with 10,'

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Steve Squyres

Once we've finished the rest of the list, we'll start the descent.

Mark Mazzoleni

Sometimes they go in, and sometimes they don't. The thing is, we finished our scoring opportunities.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

David Nabarro

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

Andrea Gaston

The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that we peak at the right time.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

David Moorcroft

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Greg O'Connor

You might wonder about the wisdom of that policy.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Brandon Sanderson

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Baruch Spinoza

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Baruch Spinoza

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Baruch Spinoza

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Baruch Spinoza

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

Barbara Pym

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

Tom Clancy

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating.

Bill Cosby

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

Lee Strobel

The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

Carl Crawford

It was the most painful triple I've ever got.

Devon Werkheiser

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

Chita Rivera

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

David Brenner

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Benjamin Watson

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Jane Green

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Cesar Chavez

Together, all things are possible

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Greg Beck

To see it come together is very pleasing, very refreshing.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.