Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hendrick

There's no question about Tremaine being the catalyst for our offense. He's going to have to be the steadying force on the field. We have guys who will have to be factors who haven't played a whole bunch. Tremaine is going to have to be the guy that, when things aren't going right, will steady the boat and exhibit the leadership qualities he possesses.

Bobby Carter

I hate that we ended up with 71 boats, but we did the right thing. I can understand why a lot of guys didn't want to go. We've got a lot of custom-built boats that cost several million dollars (and fishermen) who just didn't want to risk it in 11- to 14-foot seas forecast for later in the weekend.

Tony Floor

I think there are fish there. With the conditions and what boats got out, I think fishing is a notch better than it has been up there for the last couple of years.

Gilda Radner

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

Kirk Kaul

We couldn't wait to get back on the floor after our loss on Tuesday and we were focused. When we saw that Gaspar was out we had to change our plan. With him out we decided we could press them.

Drayton McLane

(Boras) updated me. He's still negotiating. We're still in it, but the time is getting short. They've given us no indication (Beltran is close to signing with the Mets). We're patiently waiting for some positive developments. We have three days to go, and in baseball, that's a long way to go. We did not change our offer in any way.

Marsha Blackburn

Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.

Bing Gordon

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

James Forni

You can't create a majority with this election. You can increase the regular minority vote on the council, but you're not going to change the outcome.

Paul Godfrey

You can't change the direction of a battleship overnight.

Seth Palansky

You can't change it. So love it, embrace it and enjoy it.

David Carr

You can't change an offense in a week, ... But I think it will help.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!