Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Huntsman

It was tough to keep the tears back, quite frankly. As you pin the award on, you salute them shake their hands.

Anil Kapoor

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Bruce Parker

It is humbling and I am very proud to have earned this honor. It may sound trite, but there is no question that this is an award that is in large part due to the great staff and outstanding student-athletes that I am fortunate to work with here at Carroll College.

Gene Chizik

I just know what an awesome feeling it is for him. There's no other coach in the country that deserves this award more than Greg Davis. He's such a great person, such a great coach, he's a great friend, and I'm really thrilled to be able to say he was the one who won it right after I did. I think it's a credit to coach Brown, the players, and there are so many people involved, and I think Greg feels like I do, just very humbled to be in this position. It couldn't happen to a better guy.

Richie Sexson

It's not an award you want to win more than once.

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Dave Robbins

We're not at all embarrassed to be the second-best team in the country. The second-place awards were in our locker room, and I told our players they might feel like they don't want them now, but when they're old and gray, they'll be very proud they were the second-best team in the country.

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.

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Steve Silverthorn

The whole idea is to basically beat the pass to where it's going. You have to have an idea, you wanna know at all times where everybody on the ice is.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Jesse Hathaway

The whole basis for Odyssey Interactive was basically a product of brainstorming at Donkey coffee. We literally sat around a coffee table shooting ideas off of one another.

Daniel Horowitz

You scream, you cry. But I just basically sat with her, and I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful,'

John Koppin

Customers simply look around, if we raise a rate, we are basically chasing our customer to the cable company, we are chasing our customer to take out their wire line phone and go totally wireless. So it doesn't make a lot of sense from a marketing standpoint for us to do that.

George Davis

Up until now, many of these folks, these past couple weeks, have had no choices. What we want to do is return that sense of control over their lives back to them. Many of them have expressed that they don't know what they want to do.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Ray LaMontagne

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Melissa Marr

to not act is a choice too

Michael Josephson

The choices you make in your life will make your life. Choose wisely.

Michael J. Fox

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

Michael J. Fox

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

Madonna Ciccone

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Chuck D.

It was a huge step forward for our program and our school for the type of competition we're in.

Alan Greenspan

Competition is the necessary driving force toward delivering a superior product or service, ... We should not shy away from it.

Dave Kasper

During his short time with us last season, we got a good taste of his professionalism and competitiveness. He is a young, exciting player, and we look forward to his contributions to our team.

Jon Hogenson

Eagan went out of our section, and then won state. So it's a tough section and the competition will be strong all year.

Steve Smyers

We've got a big golf course here, but what we've got are 16, 17 and 18, that if you come out and play a friendly match or if we have a competition here, there can be a huge spread of scores.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

Greg Marshall

He will be in competition with Troy Davis and right now, Troy Davis is our starting tailback,

Bob Roberts

He emigrated in the late 1800s. There is some competition about it, but he is generally viewed as the first.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

David Rose

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Peter Chernin

From our perspective it created a unique and wonderful opportunity.

Jose Andres Puerta

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

Tracey Hammel

We picked it up defensively, created a lot of good things for ourselves and you could see their eyes widening with a few deflections here and there. They just got hungrier and hungrier.

Mitchell Pally

The problem is that the railroad was created way before modern Long Island was created.

Mark Vaile

This research demonstrates that during the decade in which APEC economies lowered trade and investment barriers, 195 million jobs were created and around 165 million people in the region have been lifted out of poverty,

Jabar Gaffney

When 'Dre went down, it created an opportunity for everybody. I think 'Dre was starting to get a lot of pressure on third downs to always be the guy who made the play. With him gone, David has to go to other people.

Bill Brady

We knew that the job results were not what he was saying. We knew that he was talking about jobs being created that really weren't there.

Kurt Russell

Sometimes they did end up in fights, ... At one point there were four fights going on, and Ryan Walter just threw his hands up and said 'I can't stop them.'

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Cloris Leachman

I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Jeff Rawls

When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Taylor Moore

Everyone's telling me to watch out (when I fight him). It's just heavy on my mind and I've been planning for it. When it comes, it comes and hopefully it works out for me. If I win, well I'm the hero. If not, at least I showed up.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Irish Proverb

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

E. Hicks

It means a little stability, a little security.

Michael Drake

Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose or, in the creationist point of view, with immediacy.

Dwight Yorke

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,

Brendan Gaughan

We don't need to talk about what Vegas means to our family,

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Sparky Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Slash

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Miley Cyrus

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

Miley Cyrus

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Bob Dylan

I was never a topical songwriter.

Bruce Dickinson

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.

Bridgit Mendler

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would have to be a part of the writing process.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Kevin Hart

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Jason Williams

We feel like we can not just get there to the finals. We feel like we can get there and win it.

Reggie White

(Favre) did what he had to do to win the game. He made the play, and he won one for us. Him and Sterling, today, they won it for us.