Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Mike Hammond

I think it's a great opportunity for people to come out and have fun. They're not running a marathon. It's great for people who want to come out and test themselves.

Steve Sanchez

I think it's a great idea for the city.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Mike Babcock

I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Shaun White

I didn't understand how big a thing the Olympics are until I showed up here.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

W. S. Gilbert

I saw rowing in the Olympics and I said, 'I want to do that. That's my sport,' ... I had always been a swimmer, but when I saw rowing, I said, 'That's it.'

Michelle Kwan

I respect the Olympics too much to compete.

Dave Hamilton

If it all leaks, then you're right back where you started, plus you've wasted all that money.

Pierre Charron

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

Garry South

The timing was not accidental. There's more to come.

Bill Swain

The timing of this weather is a little unfortunate.

Stuart Sternberg

The timing is not as important as getting the right people.

Michael Parkinson

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Chauncey Billups

I wish the timing was a little different.

Erin Morgenstern

Timing is a sensitive thing.

Warren Buffett

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

Joyce Meyer

The right timing is not always our timing.

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Joel McHale

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.

Terrence Roberts

It really wasn't a surprise. He's been doing it all week long.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.