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.

Ernie Els

I've always done it, and I will keep doing it. A couple of putts here and there could have been better two years ago, and that's basically that. If I could just make a couple more putts, there wouldn't be this argument.

Debbie Ryan

I wanted her to basically take a look at things from the floor to see defensively how she could improve upon her game and help our team. I thought she did a tremendous job tonight coming off the bench. I doubt it will be permanent. She did exactly what I needed her to do tonight.

Earl Campbell

I wanted to get out of my father's shadow and get the chance to be Tyler Campbell and blend in without people saying, 'You're Earl Campbell's son right away.' That's basically the reason for coming all the way out here.

Daz Dillinger

I wanted to create something that the streets identifies with without making it like packaged cheap Spam. So I created the music, and it's basically a story and an epic like R Kelly's RB Opera. This is only the beginning.

Lynsey Addario

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

Rick Fried

The three of them rented boards at the concession at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Seeing no signs, they went into the water.

Joan Bonvicini

The thing that really hurt us was turnovers and shooting percentage. We didn't get much from our posts. We were out-rebounding them at halftime, and they just dominated the boards in the second half. This was a very disappointing game for us.

Hayley Hasselhoff

Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.

Carolyn Boyle

School boards have to work together, so they're used to bringing all opinions to the table and trying to reach consensus.

Brian Curran

It was another turnover. Then, both teams play with it, but we tried to go around the glass twice and it stayed in the zone, and then we tried to go around the boards and it stayed in.

Alan Turner

I've been working with boards for over 20 years and they make decisions for many reasons,

Richie Adubato

That's where it all starts for us because they will pound the boards and create second shots for themselves, ... That has killed us at times this season. Our bigs have to box out and match up with them for us to have a chance.

Patrick Cunningham

That's how we were earlier in the season ? we would just get plenty of boards but not a lot of baskets. We were persistent and in the second half, we got better opportunities.

Charles Peck

There is a push to make boards more diverse but people without large corporate salaries, such as academics, would be reluctant to become directors without guaranteed payment.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

Michael Hegarty

Our fall results w ere outstanding. But it seems that we finished stronger than we had played all semester, which gives us confidence that our spring will be another step forward for us.

A. Johnson

Once we didn't hit a couple of shots, for some reason our girls' confidence went down. There were shots we should have made that just rolled out tonight. East played great defense, but I thought we had some good looks.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Lenny Smith

The second quarter was when we started to get some confidence. We realized that we could play with this team.

Jackie Barto

The split was important for momentum, for confidence and for place in the standings. So that was a huge win for us on Saturday night.

Leigh Winchell

The significance of this one I can say with confidence is an entire organization was shut down.

Brian Durocher

The shutout was good for her confidence. She has had a wonderful season so far and it got her back into game rhythm after a long break.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Stephen Murphy

So we found out what else they were interested in, ... sound tracks for people's lifestyles.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Omar Abdullah

This is the first time the prime minister has tried to seek the opinion of all leaders from Kashmir. The solution may not be found here, but this is a start.

Bob Macey

This is the culmination of everything we said we would be doing. The foundation and the supporters of the foundation made this happen.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Gary Smith

That's how I found out about the school.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Luke Reilly

Northwest is the measuring stick in our league and no one does it better than them. It was a great night for us and a great win.

Ray Allen

After the first half, I thought we were in great shape. We were only down two, and we should have actually been up. We were in the game. I just think everyone was one step behind.

Brian Curran

Again, we have to worry about ourselves, and we did what we had to do in this one. We have a great opportunity there for us (tonight).

Peter Cardillo

Oil is having a great impact on stocks.

B. F. Skinner

Oh yes, yes, yes, it's great to just get away from the regular schedule you have all season.

Jeff Jensen

I wanted to be the Public Information Guy (PIG) but they wouldn't go for that.

Miguel Rodriguez

Sometimes, you know, he could be reckless, but he was a happy guy who loved his family.

Drew Brees

Sometimes you get in those situations, you try to do too much, try to say, 'I'm the guy who has to make every play and it's my responsibility to do everything,' which it's not,

Rocky Bernard

Sometimes, when rookies come in, the vets don't want to take you under their wings because you could be the guy who takes their job. But one thing about Johnny, he's a big Texas guy, and I'm from Texas. So he liked me, and he wanted to help me and he just showed me the way.

Clint Hurdle

Sometimes I play a guy just because I want to play him.

Larry Beightol

Teddy Cottrell is one of the original 3-4 guys in the league. He's a legitimate 3-4 guy. I don't know if that's the route he wants to go, but they played well.

Jay Gibbons

Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do without a guy for 10 days, but 20, you're kind of hurting your ballclub, too.

Brint Russell

Team before me. That's the philosophy I've put into this team. With the guys back from last year, I feel that will rub off on the other players and will make us successful.

James Frain

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Ruben Patterson

(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.

Ben Caspit

One day, the prime minister might find himself in one contretemps too many, too late. It could be, incidentally, that that is where he is today.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Ron Gardenhire

He's staying within himself right now. He's been working very hard. Hopefully it's going to pay off for him.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Brett Hull

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

Brian Boitano

Its an honor to be chosen to represent the best hockey game in the world,... Hockey fans are looking for the most authentic experience and NHL 2K6 delivers it.

Carol Alt

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

Brendan Morrison

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

Bobby Clarke

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Hull

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

Bobby Hull

My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

Doug Larson

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

Don Maloney

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Carroll O'Connor

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Jane Campion

I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.

Wade Redden

I don't think of anything too flashy, just get the puck at the net.

Perry Florio

We make it 4-3, then we turn the puck over. It's frustrating. We've got to execute.

Ted Fabian

The feel of the Easton stick, when the puck is on your blade, is like nothing else.

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Eric Beder

the whole urban style has been co-opted by preppies.

Brian Henson

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

Diana Vreeland

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

Demi Lovato

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

Bridgit Mendler

My personal style is really different from 'Lemonade Mouth.'

Artie Lange

Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.

Eddie Van Halen

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

Sandra Ford

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

John Adams

There's just a real style to these boats.