Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Zille

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

Darren McCarty

That's what prime-time players do. They want the ball, they want the puck. It's what separates the elite from the great.

Todd Jones

The problem is, when you think about it, saves are the only stat where 100 percent is the benchmark. And the elite make it look so easy. There is so much to it.

Hud Venerable

I thought he was at least the co-MVP in the league last year. It looks like he's stronger and he's running harder than he did a year ago. He's an elite player, and he's got a nice group of blockers in front of him. He's powerful, fast and he can cut. He's got the whole package.

Kathy Lanter

I don't think there's any favorite. You're in the Elite Eight. Being the favorite really doesn't matter. You have to go up there and execute. It's that simple.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Bobby Burton

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country. I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn't have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

Gilbert Arenas

You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so if I don't get picked, in my mind I'm still one of them. If I don't go, then I get to work out.

Shawn Johnson

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Tiffany Davis

We weren't really focused for that game. I'm just trying to come out strong because I don't think I did in that game.

Liu Peng

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

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Gregory Olsen

We did antigravity training in weightless chambers, tested for space suit leaks. We spent nearly six hours a day at a time inside the shuttle, training.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Ted Dever

The union was notified of the company's intent to relocate 130,000 hours of machining work to Singapore.

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Tom Cruise

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Lee Humphrey

That's not a lineup that we've played with a whole lot during the year. But we kept the lead. That's what we wanted.

Steve Clapp

Zach struggled with his control, but he competed and kept us in the game.

Daniel Briere

You see all those players moving around and, for the most part, we've kept the same team. It's going to be very different when we start playing all these other teams.

Chris Samuels

This is big-time for Coach. He just kept saying, 'Stay after 'em! Stay after 'em!' Even when we were doing well.

Nick Collison

Down the stretch, we kept getting second shots. That's a backbreaker for a team when they're playing so well and after a tough possession we can pull it back out.

Nick Collison

Down the stretch, we kept getting second shots, ... That's a backbreaker for a team when they're playing so well and after a tough possession we can pull it back out.

Bob Fisher

Even though he had lost his eyesight, he kept on top of things by listening to public radio and CNN.

Marquand Manuel

Everything you think could go wrong went wrong. But we just kept playing.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

John Newcombe

Things will get pretty serious if he (Philippoussis) doesn't get something going by the end of the year.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Sam Hill

There are some pretty serious felonies on the list,

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Donald Wuerl

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Don Herold

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Dalai Lama

If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

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.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all