Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Moody

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

Dave Telep

The system was the most important thing to him when making his decision. I think he is the one guy who is watching this maybe closer than the others.

Ernie Grunfeld

The special ones, you keep a closer eye on. He was a very highly rated player and very unselfish. I used to tell him that one of the negatives people say about you is that you're too unselfish. That's a negative you'd like to have. He's very tough, very competitive.

Bobby Jenks

The thing I've learned quickly as a closer is to have a short memory and keep looking forward.

Michael Bird

I've never felt such exhilarating highs and dispiriting lows than those experienced when we first detected the signal from the GBT, indicating 'all's well' and then discovering that we had no signal at the operations center, indicating 'all's lost, ... The truth, as we have now determined, lies somewhat closer to the former than the latter.

Joe Girardi

The one-run losses are getting closer in a sense. We got over the big hump tonight by tying it in the ninth, but the we couldn't get over the smaller hump to win it.

John Paul

Some people have less disposable income and want to stay closer to home.

Carolyn Porco

So, water closer to the surface and more time spent conducting scientific investigations....sounds like a winner to me.

Mark Graham

Spanish Fork is a solid team. They're good, they're fast and they play hard. I think we were very fortunate to win 4-0 and I expect it to be much closer the next time we play.

Gary Williams

Coaching was easy tonight because the game was so hard. It sounds funny, but when you have to coach a game like that, you do whatever it takes to win.

John Chernick

Coaching them is a pleasure. That's why when they come out and have a half like that, it's like you don't know what to do because you don't see it very often.

Natalie Taylor

Coaching keeps me very busy, but I love it. When I went into teaching, I knew I wanted to coach, too.

Peter Miller

Coaching is very very satisfying... watching players put in place in games what you have taught them at training can be rewarding.

Bob Zuppke

Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.

Jody Conradt

Coaching is a roller-coaster ride sometimes for all of us. Yes, this has been a difficult year, but this team knows what it needs to do.

Jeff Morrow

Coaching is an emotional thing, but I don't think I've ever been around guys that are any tougher than these guys.

Jennifer Reyes

Coaching in college was fun because you travel so much, but my family and friends are here and it's good to move back.

Mark Pavlik

Coaching at my alma mater has been a dream come true.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Tom Brady

As a team you're always trying to improve and there's a different identity this year than there has been in the past. We have to find that identity and continue to improve on our weaknesses while maintaining our strengths.

Bob Rosner

The bottom-line definition for me is that a leader is someone with followers, ... and given how tight talent is today, if you don't work to keep your followers, you will not continue to be a leader.

Frank Chumbley

(At several positions) no one has stepped up and said I'm the guy. We are inexperienced. But I like this team if they continue to get better. A lot haven't played in a varsity game.

Anthony Cannon

A win is a win, but we can't be that happy with this one. We just have to continue to get better and better. We can't take anything away from SLU.

Anthony Cannon

A win is a win, but we can't be that happy with this one, ... We just have to continue to get better and better. We can't take anything away from SLU.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Banks' earnings reaffirmed that Japan's economic fundamentals are strong. Selling by overseas investors may continue for another month or so and that is limiting the gains.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Rick Carlisle

Our decision making and turnovers were our undoing in the fourth quarter. We were forcing them to take tough shots, and then we just made terrible errors down the stretch.

Rosevelt Colvin

People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do.

James Cobb

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

Frank Robinson

On Tuesday, I'll make a decision on that,

Larry Coker

Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

John Walsh

As far as tourist season, we plan our projects to minimize impact ... because you're driving 40,000 to 50,000 vehicles a day through our office,

Jim Raper

Our driving force is to do an extremely high-quality job for the lowest possible price. Ultimately, that saves our taxpayers money.

Terry Piazza

People don't realize it because he's small, but Cory has really been driving the ball. People may underestimate his ability. He's a strong kid.

Larry Starkey

People fail to slow down and pay attention. People keep driving like it is a sunshiny day, and it isn't.

Richard Friend

And that won't be easy on this tight driving track.

Georg Hackl

The small driving mistakes were annoying, but it's important today that I wrapped up a place in the seeded group at the Olympics.

Richard Grasso

A day doesn't go by when the market isn't on the most skittish and volatile path that I've seen in my 35 years at the Big Board. What's driving that is the simple insecurity, or if you will uncertainty of outcome.

John Cochrane

Sometimes you feel silly telling these things to people. Even your wife. But I loved it. I've always had model trains, took photos of trains, and then, finally, there I was, driving one. It was a hoot. And I'll never forget it.

Margaret Beckett

Technology is essential to make the transition to a low-carbon economy and targets ... have a vital role to play in driving forward that progress.

Barbara Boxer

Now, in an unbelievable rewriting of history, you talk about this bolder mission we undertook in response to 9/11 to transform the Middle East with Iraq as an anchor,

Jessica Laws

That (100 backstroke) was a really big event for us. East had their big swims in the 100 free, and we knew we had to come back and score well.

Brett Binkley

It was a little of both. We were all really excited for our first Big East trip, but focusing on every match got really tiring.

Clayton Muhammad

These young people represent the heart and soul of the legacy of the East Aurora Tomcats. This weekend, they made history by taking that legacy to new heights and setting new standards in our school, city, state and country.

Julie Kavner

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

Jeremy Corbyn

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

Jessi Klein

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.

Ernie Murray

These are really kind of isolated pieces of forest. Most of our forests in East Texas are public land surrounded by private land.

Maajid Nawaz

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Kathy Miller

Originally we were going to find a home for him, but people would look at him and go, 'Ooh.' He looked so terrible.

Jim McGowan

Of course, we're retired, so we're usually home -- if we're not volunteering.

Horace Horace

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Andrew Baird

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Dan Parker

No sir, we don't have a home left.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

John McPherson

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

Sam Harris

Como's probably never going to stay the same. This is home though. And I can never say that I'm going to a better place. We'll survive.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

William Howells

Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month

Rob Hayward

Predictions that pubs will be open for 24 hours were wide of the mark.

Greg Oden

It was two hours of that, ... Pizza and Nickelodeon.

Nancy Sudduth

These were people working hours each day, who'd never done anything like this before, and then hurrying back to do their jobs.

John Gokongwei

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

H. Judd

I spend 15 minutes to an hour reading by myself.

Jeffrey Archer

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Roland Herwig

Things are back to normal after about two hours of special security activity.

David Dwyer

The monitors are sort of windows into the way kids are thinking. You don't want to sit down and lecture them, you want to give them time in this wonderful interactive environment.

Eric Dubin

Do you realize these kids lost their mother? ... Are you having fun?

LouAnn Hopson

Defensively, we didn't get to do a whole lot. I saw the kids warming up and I knew that they were ready to go today.

Chris Kaman

Any kids out there, I'd tell them try and do what you can. If you need the medication, you need the medication. I didn't want to take a pill for the rest of my life.

Stephen Bennett

Are kids going to suffer because of all of this unorganized mess?

Richard Seto

And the kids come out and some of them perform at an assembly.

Gina Miller

(The students) were all saying the same things. You just don't know what kids will do these days.

David Robbins

The staff will be lost; the kids will be lost, but they will be lost together,

Sandy Wood

The team we played, unfortunately was very weak. But it was an opportunity to get matches played for kids who don't usually play.

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.

Bai Ling

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

Monte Kwinter

There are usually two sides to every story, ... Now you have one.

Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Alan Furst

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Bruce Jenner

I'm kind of more on the conservative side.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Greg Hudnall

First thing we wanted to do is get all the residents on the west side registered. There are so many new residents out there.

George Tillman, Jr.

Even looking at my last film, 'Notorious,' you got a perception about B.I.G. and who he was, but there was a different side to him.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Robinson Cano

It was tough to see. I didn't see it.

Willie Randolph

They are all tough, man, ... and this is tough as it gets.

Jimmy Johnson

The wind was really swirling. It was tough at times.

Li Na

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

John Skalko

These are tough times and we're in a fight. It's a tough fight.

Ron Thomas

This is not done without any real thought. There are tough standards.