Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald E. Graham

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Dwane Casey

Kevin did a masterful job of rebounding. We have to have somebody to help out on the boards in the paint.

Dave Newton

Kenneth didn't have a lot of numbers offensively, but his presence on the boards was felt out there and I think defensively he made some contributions as well. So did Will before he fouled out. He was playing some pretty good defense and scrambling around out there, causing some havoc.

Bruce Nelson

Just walking on board brings up a lot of wonderful memories.

Tyson Cottet

Joey had 14 boards for us, and didn't have any fouls, which was nice. Brandon was 7-for-11 from the field. He did a great job for us.

Gary Johnson

Joe met in here for many, many years with the Optimist Club, and he was on the board a long time. We mentioned this to him before he passed away, and he said he was very, very honored.

Joe Ricketts

Joe is a perfect fit for Ameritrade. The board and I are so enthused by the wealth of experience he brings, and the common vision he shares. From his experience at Merrill, Joe commands a unique insight on the brokerage industry, and an energizing management style.

John Rossi

John inspired me to 'take a run' at the board in North Merrick. 'I think you could do it,' he said, ... John was in my life a short time, but he was like the older brother I always wanted.

David Healy

I suspect that Wagoner is under a lot of pressure from the board to turn things around. To me it seems the company is in crisis mode.

John Stevens

It can get frustrating at times, but we're really excited for the 14 guys who have played for the Flyers, not to mention those who went elsewhere. You always want your players to get a chance. It's great when guys like Eager and Meyer get rewarded for continuing to work hard. And when guys go up, somebody else has to step up.

Bill Schwartz

He shot the front of the house, through the windows, through the walls, walking back and forth in front of the house more than one time, continuing to shoot multiple rounds.

Brian Brokaw

He's going to be continuing to do what he's been doing, which is campaigning up an down the state.

Dwane Casey

He's done a good job of going in there and keeping it together and continuing to train - which is hard to do sometimes. Especially when you have a veteran team like that . . . that's used to doing things their way.

David Smith

There are no new programs, ... There are some refinements to existing programs. We're continuing to hone our schools to meet the needs of all of our kids.

Rod Graves

There is a mutual interest in continuing our relationship. We'd like to have him back.

Adam Ereli

We look forward to continuing to deepen our cooperation on important issues, including counterterrorism, regional cooperation and security, defense reform, strengthening democracy and economic development.

Morgan Burke

He was kind of reassuring to me in that some of the things we have done and are continuing to do are on the right track.

Doug Cauthen

He was having continuing neurological problems that were making it difficult for him to perform the functions that he needed to in order to live a quality life.

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

John Young

I'm not trying to be insensitive to other parishes, but I was elected to represent the residents of Jefferson Parish, ... And as long as hurricane season is still open, we have to protect this parish.

Kim Smith

If the people want this and we elected our school board, sooner or later they're going to have to listen to us.

Judie Niskala

If our elected officials in Texas want to impose harsh penalties for the use of marijuana, that is their decision, but the university does not have to pile on.

Bill Young

I personally feel that I got elected to do a job. I am not one to succumb to political pressure or what's politically correct. I have to go out and do what I think is the right thing.

Greg Sorbara

I love my job, ... And I hope that some day, one of you in this group will be elected to government somewhere.

Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Bob Taft

I'm not focused on next year's election, ... Obviously, I'm not a candidate. I'm term-limited. I'm focused on doing the job I was elected to do as governor.

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Henry Fuseli

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Louise Brooks

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

Eric Hoffer

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

Orison Swett Marden

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Orison Swett Marden

Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Epictetus

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

James Jones

It's hard to come into this stadium and win. You have to sustain a level of excellence for 40 minutes, and we didn't do it for 40. We probably did it for about 15.

Janne Darata

His mother said it would be wonderful to know we were honoring Mike and thinking of him.

Patti Brooks

I think it's just an honor, but I don't know what Herbie would think of it. He didn't like all that. Like having a street named for him in St. Cloud, that wasn't his way.

Curtis Strange

I think it's a wonderful honor and privilege to be called that. But you do it to his face. I ain't doing it.

Danny Costello

I think it's an honor to win this.

Meredith Vieira

I thought about this long and hard, and I am so, so honored to join this family.

Jack Schrader

I think it was a well-deserved honor. He was a two-time player of the week and the only underclassman on the first team.

Patrik Elias

I think that's the ultimate individual honor. If you're lucky enough to stay with one team, that's awesome.

Scott Ross

It is my understanding that the parents did not want the police to become involved so we honored their wishes.

Woody Johnson

I am honored to serve on this committee.

Nancy Pelosi

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

Heather Mills

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

Aja Naomi King

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Joe Zanghi

The newspapers were brutal. They were really criticizing us.

Patrick Kavanagh

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Joshua Lederberg

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

Karl Barth

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

John Bercow

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Conroy Hines

He is probably our go-to receiver right now. He's making plays. He doesn't do it right all the time, but when he has an opportunity to make a catch, he'll do it.

Greg Brenneman

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders. This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

John Campbell

I think it's an opportunity to have some new blood,

John Galliano

What you're paying for is technique. And the opportunity to look truly wicked. Isn't it worth it as long as you look wicked and feel good?

Scott White

I think they were pleased to have the opportunity to tell their story to a jury. That's really all you can do.

Vanna Bonta

Life's turns are somehow an opportunity to get better at something.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Wink Adams

They were pioneers all the way around. UTEP was the one that got the tradition going.

Mark Twain

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Mark Kennedy

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Nadia Boulanger

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

Plutarch

Custom is almost a second nature.

Josh McDowell

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.