Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike DeForest

After he won the lottery, he basically paid off one of the sisters to divorce him and she got a $5 million settlement to basically go away.

Daniel Wilkinson

The most notorious problem is the use of torture. It's basically beating confessions out of people.

Raine Maida

'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

Ron Wilson

A cynic might say he's profiting from playing with Joe Thornton, and there's some truth to that, but he did score 28 goals without a pass from Joe Thornton two years ago. And he basically was playing on a grind line, a third line, doing a lot of the work himself.

Conor Oberst

So we decided we'd basically go on tour twice and play the same places.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Brett Somers

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Aziz Ansari

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

Ayelet Waldman

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Wes Walz

Randy complements our line. He sees the ice really well. When the puck comes around the wall, he's got a good set of hands. He can get a lot of loose pucks out to Gabby.

Matt Miller

Ralph is a good and honorable man and we recognize all the good he has done. But we also recognize that it is time to move forward.

Ted McIntyre

Rawlings threw really well. That was really good to see. She pitched strong and really looked comfortable out there.

Robert Friedland

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.

Tetsu Emori

Production in the Gulf has risen dramatically and refinery input has also risen, these are good selling factors.

David Hemmings

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

Guillaume Duchesne

Profits have been good and are lifting stocks.

Damon Allen

Is London a place where 5,000-10,000 people would come out to the stadium and watch it? Then, it's a candidate.

Jane Austen

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Debra Messing

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

Britney Spears

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England.

Tobe Hooper

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Steve Cram

Paula Radcliffe needs to be gutsy to win the London Marathon.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

Edgar Wright

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

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

Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Scott Miller

People say they want the round, but then they say it's dry.

Lamar Butler

People say they feel like they go to a real university now.

Stan Kasten

People say they can't see the puck, but I don't think that's it. I know I have trouble telling who is on the ice.

Tom Poti

People say the regular season is meaningless, but every point will count.

Corey Stoll

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Tom Crean

We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.

Duncan Sheik

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Rick Ross

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

Jeffrey Gitomer

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.

Chris Paul

I've been a winner my whole life.

William Arthur Ward

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.