Famous Quotes & Sayings

Artur Davis

As long as there are places in the state where poverty falls unevenly, we are still trying to build a perfect union, ... One day, there will not be a curtain between the Black Belt and the non-Black Belt.

Lindsay Davenport

That was a big test for my back. It was really important just to play some matches and hopefully get the rust out of my game. Obviously, to win the tournament and going into New York with that under my belt is a great feeling.

Steve Trachsel

A fastball down to Chipper and that was it. It wasn't belt high or anything like that.

Freddie Leathers

After all that's happened recently, I just let it go this week. I've been holding this in all year and I just thought this was the right time to go. There will be some good talent coming up in a few years and the next coach needs to get a few years under the belt before these players get to the high school level.

Paul Kalas

These are the oldest debris disks seen in reflected light, and are important because they show what the Kuiper Belt might look like from the outside. These are the types of stars around which you would expect to find habitable zones and planets that could develop life.

Jim Watson

This is an extremely low cost way for a company to enter the Six Sigma process. It would not be unusual for a company to pay upwards of $6000 to $8000 for a single Black Belt certification, over four to six months. A certified Green Belt will be able to identify and implement solutions for about 80% of the problems that a Black Belt would be engaged in. This means that for about 35% to 40% of the cost, and about 50% of the time, a company will have a certified Six Sigma Green Belt productively improving processes and significantly contributing to the company's bottom line in 12 weeks!

Bruce Jackson

You yelled at us, cursed at us, hit us with brooms, rulers, sticks, shoes and belt buckles. I still have the marks to prove it.

Bobby Cox

You've got to remember you've got to pitch in the first inning, not just throw. It's not a throwing contest. You've got to pitch. I looked at every single replay, and every one of them was right down the middle, belt high.

Scott Bailey

You're finally getting some job growth after a crippling nasty recession ... and more jobs mean people have more to spend. If you had to tighten your belt for a couple of years and it's Christmas, then maybe it's time to say maybe the job will be around next year and let's go spend some money.

Kevin Collins

Our defense has made some big plays and scored some this year. We have a couple of interception returns for touchdowns.

Glenn Griffin

Our defense did a pretty good job, especially considering that we were missing a couple of defenders. (Jordan) Webb was sweeping for me, and she did a good job for us.

Jim Boeheim

Our defense at the end was tremendous by all our guys. They couldn't get a shot the last couple of chances.

Debbie Brown

Our drive-offs the first part of the month were very severe. And then we made a couple more pumps prepaid and that seemed to help, but then they started hitting the other ones that were not.

Lindy Ruff

Our entries weren't very good. Our passing wasn't very good. Shot selection was bad. We missed the net on good opportunities. We didn't get traffic. We had a couple guys on a couple shifts with the power play that couldn't handle the puck, and it disrupted the whole power play.

Johnnie Burton

Our experience tells us we could expect wells to be drilled within a couple of years after the lease sale occurs. Production is something else. Production could occur within three to four years.

Ron James

Our execution in the second half was suspect in a couple areas.

Lindy Ruff

Our execution and passing wasn't very good. We had a couple of guys on a couple of shifts who couldn't handle the puck, and it disrupted the whole power play.

Jon Choboy

People don't know it, but these guys come out and work hard every day. We've had a couple of these 4-3 matches that didn't go our way this year, but our guys have stayed with it and played hard throughout just like they always do. Today was our day and I can't say enough about this team. I'm really proud of them.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Dynelle Tadlock

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

Khaled Suleiman

There are a lot of difficulties, but finally we will succeed.

Jason Blum

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.

Tim Taylor

Bradley is finally starting to get healthy after that injury he had last Monday. I told him it had been a long time since we've seen that stroke come back.

Craig Benson

Benson said in an interview after the vote. ''I think this law finally puts all parental notification on the same footing.

Apolo Ohno

I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

Naeem Wahid

People are unwinding growth expectations and interest rate expectations,

Ray Rund

People are taking this as a signal. In this case, it's kind of pro-growth stock. The Nasdaq has the most growth stocks, and when interest rates stabilize, or go down, people start to think of growth as being worth more.

Terrence Gabriel

People feel the growth is there whether you push rates up to 6.50 percent or 6.80 percent.

David Manning

Of the various alternatives, this one was the growth story more than any others.

Jesper Koll

The moment American growth slows down below, say, 2 percent, trade pressures are not just something that we talk about but are something that are really going to hit policy makers.

Harold S. Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Alan Greenspan

a process that has undoubtedly improved national productivity growth and standards of living.

David Martin

The seniors have their own settings, which shows the growth and improvement they've made over the last three years.

John Campbell

People come as visitors and it's our job to send them away as pilgrims.

Michael Boyd

Northwest can survive if they have to go into bankruptcy, ... These labor unions have to take it upside the head. Their next job will be at the Wal-Mart.

Nate Whitford

Once the job is done, then it will be time to look back and reminisce. But right now, there is still a job to do.

Scott Ellis

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

Martin Freeman

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

William Kristol

The more one learns about him, ... one is surprised that he's in that job in the first place.

Dan Castellaneta

Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?

Rob Gray

Defensively we played better in the second half. We did a nice job of taking away what they had in the first half.

Clay Jordan

DeAndre did a nice job tonight. I knew we might lay it down some, so we had to make up for it with big plays. And we have the players to make those.

Ellery Hanley

They all know their jobs. They have to go out there and play freely.

Adam Levine

The writers needed to, as part of their jobs, take on taboo subject matter.

Shane Rau

This is a practical, pragmatic Steve Jobs decision.

Gary Hines

You're talking over the next 10 to 15 years and beyond. Those 40,000 jobs aren't going to be overnight.

Damon Archibald

You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Pete Madland

A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.

Michael Gambon

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Tim Raines

Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs,

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Ellen Borakove

The work on the roof has only just started, so maybe there will be more discoveries to come as the work progresses.

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Rick Beggs

You might recover some hardware, buttons, maybe the back of a skull.

Golshifteh Farahani

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Joe Wilcox

Anything is possible, but just because it's possible, doesn't mean that it's feasible. It's not that they can't do it, but can they make it successful.

Greg Gorbatenko

The telecom slowdown is probably over but that doesn't mean everyone can come out from hiding,

Ryan Anderson

The switchover means you need a digital-ready TV, not a high-definition TV.

Ross Mathews

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too... I have an idea or two.

Michael McDaniel

The most money doesn't mean you're out in front.

Jane Mills

Stories can take you anywhere. And The Wild can mean anything it's any kind of adventure.

Steve Mullins

Streaks don't mean anything. We have snapped some pretty long streaks this year. What we did in the past doesn't mean a whole lot. It's what we do this weekend and how we prepare that is going to matter.

Mahmoud Othman

Someone should have said something. The other side is talking, and the American side is silent. To be silent here means you are on the weak side.

Mike Healy

Every time there is an accident, there is a fatal. It's just a nasty, nasty road.

Stanley Schmidt

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

Anthony Lake

It is nasty and brutish without being short,

David Shulman

The ingredients are in place for a nasty correction,

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Steve Prentice

More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

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.

Todd Fischer

You've had all year to do it and, hopefully, it doesn't come down to one tournament.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.