Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Shawn Trent

Kids don't want to come off the field, but we try not to start them on both sides because they get too tired. and we aren't getting as much out of them (in the late stages of a game).

Greg Moore

I wouldn't say all the pressure is on them - we're both going into the game with the same goal. If they feel like they have more pressure because they are the home team and they are in front of their home crowd, then so be it.

Mike Davis

James came to Indiana to do both sports, so ultimately the decision is his. He had a great football season, and I am really proud of him. He has a bright future ahead, and we want to do whatever is necessary to help him reach his goals.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

David Leibowitz

I would suggest that both Nintendo and Microsoft are going to be very formidable opponents. In the case of Microsoft, given the size of the corporate treasure chest, whatever it takes will be spent to move the product.

Pat Callahan

Katie collided with a gate at the top of the course on Sunday morning, losing both her glove and her pole. It didn't matter to her at all - she still won.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Brian Brennan

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investors.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Group Inc

Goldman Sachs has called Lower Manhattan its home for 136 years and we are proud to reaffirm our commitment to this neighborhood and to the city of New York,

Joe Suboticki

Going undefeated in the City League, that doesn't happen very often. I've got to tip my hat to my kids. That's an outstanding feat.

Donna Johnson

Goodbye, city life; Dream Acres, we are here!

Mark Rodgers

He's been polite but persistent. He's enjoyed the Mets, the city and the people, but he can do the math. He knows right now there's no room for him.

Calvin Andrews

Kareem loved playing for the Bobcats and made returning to the team his top priority. There were some talks with Denver and New Jersey, however all our real focus was on resigning with the Bobcats.

Lynn Brown

In its first year of operation, the Denver project has seen an 18 percent increase in recycling.

Devin Brown

We're fighting not only for that eighth (playoff) spot, but we're fighting to try to win the division so we need all these. Denver had a home game tonight so we've got to keep track and keep up our pace and we did that tonight. We were able to fight back and we ended up pulling out a great win.

Norv Turner

Denver is an outstanding football team, they are a very good offensive team and outstanding on defense, they deserved to win this division. Our guys fought and competed, but we just weren't able to match what they were able to do.

Richard Lamm

I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado.

Neal Levine

What Denver shows is that this is a mainstream issue.

Mitch Browning

I think Denver has got a steal, too. He's more than big enough.

Michael Bennet

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

Bill Belichick

That was a game of big plays tonight. Denver made more than we did.

Johnny Rivers

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Frankie Harris

It was surprising to see how many ghost stories downtown Nashville had. Kim tried to pick places that were fun to go to. You don't want to go to the haunted McDonald's.

Joann Erenhouse

It was intended to keep the heavy truck traffic out of downtown but we don't want people to stay away as well.

Tim Conway

I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?

Michael Bergin

We were a loud, extended family. My grandparents had a store in downtown Waterbury called International Foods, and my grandmother runs it to this day.

Bob Hopkins

We're expecting some winds gusting up to around 50 miles an hour in the downtown and West Anchorage later today and this evening.

Blake Shelton

AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

Jeff McKay

People pick up on the vibrancy of your downtown area. Communities that take pride in their downtowns, and have a lot to offer, it instills a good feeling. They want to know that there's life outside of the walls of the place where they work.

Rick Ortiz

People find us by chance; we want downtown Belleville to be a destination.

Paul Wall

We take pride in the unique craftsmanship - it's elegant and it's flashy.

Ted Schadler

It's a jewel. It's beautiful, ... It's just a very elegant device. You want to hold it.

I. Stone

Everyone who has seen it agrees, ... You have to see the Gyre's elegant motion in action. A description just won't do it.

Jochen Zeitz

The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.

Chris Hadfield

I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

Mikael Silvestre

He is proud of his roots. We talked together a lot about his misadventure in the 2002 World Cup, ... Roy is an incredible player.

Andy O'Brien

He's got incredible flexibility, the flexibility of a gymnast.

Beckie Scott

We've been together since we were 15 years old. We've come through so much. It's an incredible feeling.

David Mackay

I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.

Liam Payne

The U.S., out of all places, is just absolutely incredible.

Mary Schmich

All this situation does is remind people of the incredible power and potency of the Internet,

Geno Auriemma

That's probably the most incredible stat you ever want to see in your life.

Thomas O'Brien

Target has just been incredible to work with,

Rob Miller

The world lost an incredible man on one night -- one night we all wish we could change.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Adam Cole

I think the market has got too pessimistic on interest rates,

Charles Davis

I think the perception is out there that FOI is a special interest of the press.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sufjan Stevens

I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Saul Bellow

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

Buddy Bell

It wasn't one of his better starts. The location wasn't as good, but (the Yankees) have a tough lineup.

Andrew Barker

Telecoms support for this kind of operation was traditionally a problem. In the new world, people just take their phone to the new location and plug it in.

Brian Byrd

We wanted a better location and a better facility. But now we're out of room.

Mike Scott

We just make sure we have enough locations designated for the waste types.

Roy Halladay

The biggest thing I've learned is location.

Sandy Jones

Frankly, we look for a new location each time this happens.

Shingo Takatsu

I got it to the location where I wanted it to be,

Brian Glass

She was awesome. She had location on all of her pitches and was just outstanding.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Steve Frank

Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.

Maribeth Smith

If you want to park on the west side of downtown, come down on the west side. If you want to park east, park east, don't rely on Meridian.

Jim Lowe

In the Wal-Mart parking lot, they had a regular city.

Tony Marino

I just wish people would go with the flow. I mean, a parking meter is like a restaurant table: We have to turn these things over.

Mark Higgins

It's our responsibility to put the park back the way it was when we arrived, if not better.

Kathy Fackler

It sounds like a reasonable step for a self-regulated park to take.

Dave Hollingsworth

Tailgating can be challenging if you don't have a parking pass (scalped for as much as $200),

Ted Forrest

It's better than parking in the parking lot. This way, you just pull right up to the curb, pick up your people and go.

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Peter Mayle

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Kami Garcia

...south of Somewhere and north of Nowhere...

John Oliver

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Roz Savage

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

William Jennings Bryan

In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

Virginia Woolf

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Viola Spolin

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.