Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Anne McLellan

is fair and just and will bring an end to this complex set of litigation that we have seen for many years.

Antonio Tarver

I should be commended. I bring families back together, ... I think it's good because his father is the only one with the compassion to throw in the towel when he sees his son in over his head.

Shirley Franklin

I've been talking to evacuees over the course of the past week, and what I've said to them, each and every time, is, 'If they will meet us 10 percent of the way, then we'll bring 90 percent to the table,' ... We'll bring jobs, we'll bring opportunities for housing, we'll bring opportunities for education and all of the support that they need to establish themselves.

Martina Hingis

I've been trying to work on my whole game, baseline and serve. You have to have a serve to be able to survive today and we'll see if I can bring it on.

Derek Johnson

I've been tossing around the idea of a kids game. It would bring in the aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

Howard Stern

I've decided what my future is. It's not this kind of radio anymore, ... bring my fans my show, my way.

Tony Pulis

I've been chasing Leon for about a month and a half. He is an example of the sort of younger player I want to bring to the club.

Ryan Freel

I've been a utility guy for three years, and when I'm healthy, I'm out there pretty much all the time. I'll get my fair share of at-bats and playing time. I took trading for Tony as a good thing. He'll bring a lot to the table.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Noah Lowry

Any time you go out there and you've got a shutout going, of course you want to finish it. It was the right move. I still have seven starts left and I want to be ready in five days. ... It's a tough situation for him, but he made the right choice.

David Toms

It's hard to make a golf course that will please everybody. What you try to do is make one that everybody can play and then it doesn't necessarily play into one person's type of game. That's what we tried to do here.

David Brown

It's a very popular invitational. They like the course around the lake, and it's a pretty good setting for the teams to set up. It's good for the fans, because you can see the runners for a lot of the time.

David Brown

It's a very popular invitational, ... They like the course around the lake, and it's a pretty good setting for the teams to set up. It's good for the fans, because you can see the runners for a lot of the time.

Duffy Waldorf

It's been a long time since I've been on top. It's nice. But on a course like this, you've got to keep your focus. If you've got the opportunities to keep shooting for birdies, you've got to do it.

Nick Vitucci

It's par for the course with these two teams.

Joe Cooper

It's par for the course in terms of warnings. There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

Joe Cooper

It's par for the course in terms of warnings, ... There have been 301 pre-announcements so far, and 56 percent of those have been negative.

Alexander Hamilton

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

Alexander Hamilton

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind.

Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Albert Shanker

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

George Orwell

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Bobby Douglas

Trent will be OK. There is no reason to risk anything when the Big 12 meet is two weeks away.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Alexander Cockburn

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Aldous Huxley

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Alexander Pope

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Alexander Pope

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

E. P. Thompson

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

Doug Stanhope

The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

Doug Stanhope

I don't like being in the UK for every other reason aside from the show. It's aesthetically uncomfortable to me on almost every level for reasons that might sound petty but I can't get past. The audiences are far more challenging and while I wouldn't say I prefer it, I certainly need it to ward off my inherent laziness.

Lori Anderson

We still get 100 percent of what we were owed.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

P. J. O'Rourke

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

Paul Jacob

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Margaret Atwood

Support your libraries... or else!

Kevin Madden

We did a lot right with the voters with whom we've enjoyed traditional support. But we haven't done enough to build a larger coalition of voters. We have to modernize our message to reach a larger audience of voters beyond our base.

Kenny Marchant

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

Carl Homer

That's another way we can support the program.

Quentin Bryce

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

Sean Hannity

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

John Travolta

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

Mark Spitz

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it — and everybody was talking about it — that I decided to keep it.

Megan McCafferty

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

Michael Caine

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Mason Cooley

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Jesse Jackson

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.