Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Adamo

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

Martin Jacques

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy - above all, the war in Iraq. During the Cold War, the Wilson government resisted the suggestion that it should send troops to Vietnam.

Paul Ballew

I would describe it as a pretty solid year for the industry and one that is above our expectations that we had at the beginning part of the year.

Jeremy Bonderman

If we don't play some games that matter late in the season and finish above .500, it'll be a really disappointing year.

David Scott

If we get interest rates above 7 percent, we'll see a significant pullback on housing valuations.

Jason Fuchs

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

Harry Redknapp

If we can pick up six points from two games then we can close up on the teams above us and make a real fight of it.

Mike Hofland

She's shooting above 35 percent from the three-point line. Our other girls are starting to look for her more often. She does a nice job of coming off screens.

Kathy Thomas

She's gone above and beyond. She works hard.

Trent Yawney

The teams that skate the best are not going to necessarily win all the time, but it makes it a lot easier.

Neil Schwartz

The teams that are doing the best are the ones that are winning -- the Steelers, the Giants, the Colts. But Eagles sales are still good because of their tremendous following.

Graeme Smith

The teams are matched up pretty well. If anything, we need to pick it up a step in our ruthlessness on the field. We need to finish things off. We may just get a bit tense, and that comes down to inexperience, playing the best team in the world. I think 1-0 down is disappointing, but it hasn't hurt us and in a lot of ways, I'm very positive about us. As captain, I feel we're very close to hitting the mark ...and we're going to come back hard in Sydney.

Kim Brown

The team performed great. It's probably one of our best showings ever at the district meet. They really shined in their moment.

Paul Hewitt

The talent is definitely stretched a little thinner. In terms of the concentration of top 100, top 200 players -- it is spread out a little more. You think about going all the way back to Princeton, N.J., where you had the best 200 players in the country. Then, you went to two camps and now we're at three camps. I guess it's not all bad, because now you give more kids an opportunity to be seen. And we tend to lose sight that the game is supposed to be about opportunities for kids to get an education or be seen and do something better with their lives, as opposed to making it sane for college coaches.

Scott Baird

The system has been drilled into our heads. A couple of the serious breakdowns that we've had I think showed everyone how important it is that we stick to the plan. It's going to be the teams that stick to their systems and play the best defensive hockey that are going to come home with banners in the post-season.

Alan Gould

The third quarter was Paramount's best quarter in years.

Matt Roush

The Sopranos' will finally win the best drama Emmy it has deserved for so long. This year nothing comes close.

Sherri Coale

The thing that's truly been remarkable is that there hasn't been a swoon. She's been consistent with her scoring, consistent with her rebounding, she's taken care of the basketball, and she's played at her best when the lights are the brightest.

Bobby Carter

They (Terre Haute North) execute so well. To be able to win 14 games in the conference they play in (Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) shows how good they are.

Matt Watson

You don't want to lose any conference games. We're just trying to get some wins in the conference. We're going to try to turn it around.

Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up.

Dick Enberg

The ecstatic leap of two years ago ? smiling and subtle today. Phil Mickelson, at 35, connecting his personal legacy with the legends and tradition of The Masters.

Bobby Clark

It was a 0-0 tie, it was one of these games. We had some good moments; we had some moments where we didn't connect as well as we would have liked.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.