Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Terri Jones

John has a good sense of fairness, which is what we try to instill in everybody up here. I trust him to almost always arrive at the right decisions. That?s all you can really ask of anybody up here.

Jeanie Mamo

Judge Boyle was nominated almost five years ago, and the 4th Circuit vacancy has been declared a judicial emergency. Judge Boyle has a distinguished record of judicial service and should be confirmed immediately.

Shirley Pomponi

I talked with him for about 25 minutes through an interpreter. First of all, I was scared to death. I grew up during the Cold War and the Cuban missile crisis, and here's the dictator who almost led us to World War III.

Marty Manfredo

I talked to him all week about keeping his composure and not playing out of control and I almost didn't start him because I knew how fired up he would be and I didn't want him in foul trouble. But he promised me he wouldn't get in foul trouble and he played really well.

Richard Branson

I talked to her about it. She said that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. When it broke in the press is was almost a release for her.

Rene Preval

I talked to a lot of people during my campaign, and almost everyone told me they don't have work. It is the private sector that must invest, but it is the state that has to create a stable environment.

Paul Bubb

It can tend to get cold inside Holt Arena. That can be remedied. I am working with the facilities people to better control the temperature. We are looking at a number of different things.

Markus Persson

The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird.

Glenn Kroll

He said he was sick of the cold and the snow and wanted to get down to Florida where it was warm.

Martha Hunt

I think a scarf is the most versatile item. On a plane, it's good to wrap around when you're cold or rest your head on it. I love scarves.

Luke Donald

It got considerably colder and it was just hard to keep your hands warm, hard to keep your rhythm.

Valerie Petersen

It got cold in December and stayed cold. Temperatures have been relatively warm since January, with not a lot of fluctuation. We've had a negligible number of potholes to this point. But remember, we've made a lot of improvements to our roads.

Kelly Middleton

It is not just ticket sales. It is parking nightmares, rest rooms, emergency personnel, safety and security plans and any number of jobs that create the regional tournament. Just making sure there is cold pop for 5,000 people is a huge endeavor.

Chinese Proverbs

It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens

Felipe Alou

He's fine. I took him out in hope that he'll be OK tomorrow. It was cold out here.

Miguel Tejada

The Cubans all could be major leaguers, they all could be good major leaguers.

Michael Parmly

The Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives. Rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation.

Pedro Cabrera

No, there is no defection. The Cuban team is in very high spirits. The aspirations from when we left Havana have been multiplied.

Andy Garcia

A lot of people don't know about Cuban history, and I don't expect them to.

Yadel Marti

This is a Cuban sport being played at its best. We thought Venezuela (and the DR) were ... strong teams and they could have made it to the final. But they didn't; Cuba did. It seems to us that we deserve to be here.

John Sherman Cooper

There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.

Higinio Velez

I told you to be patient. This is Cuban baseball.

Yadel Marti

It was a wonderful show, what you saw in the field today. This is a Cuban sport being played at its best.

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Kevin McCarthy

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We can call it Isratine.

Margaret Thatcher

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed-but they can never be appeased.

Paul Wolfowitz

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

Karl Popper

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Lou Reed

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

Joe Klein

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Jimmy Carter

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Bob Wietharn

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Bill Sullivan

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Steven Reinprecht

He led the way, that's for sure. I think he showed what a special player is.

Seth Vining

He's been so solid. He's come in and led the team from the start.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

Winona Ryder

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

Mamie Gummer

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

Pat McHugh

The market can go higher, led by commodities stocks. Metals price should stay strong as most have low inventories and the trend is up for gold.

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.

Bob Denver

I think it's all been fantastic. It has only been 45 minutes and we've already done really well.

Rob Judson

I thought we played well on offense for the first 4 minutes of the second half. The next four, however, we didn't have it. And that's where they made their run.

Craig Rasmuson

I think we did what we needed to do for 40 minutes of basketball.

Jackie Barto

I thought our team played hard. I thought over the weekend we played 125 minutes of pretty solid hockey, so I'm pleased with what we did this weekend.

Lance Armstrong

I actually spoke to him for about 30 minutes and he didn't say any of that stuff to me personally,

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

Joe Lafko

He's battled through this injury. He'd be averaging more points and minutes if not for this injury.

Richelle Mead

I'm always at least ten minutes early.

Caspar Weinberger

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

Richard Myers

This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,

Richard Shelby

There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away.

Tasnim Aslam

There is no response from the US on our protest lodged after the missile attack.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Larry Petersen

I'd be scared to think of the number.

Larry Rogers

He had to be scared for his life.

Sara Shepard

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

Ursula Andress

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

Vince Staples

I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.

Vijender Singh

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

Estelle

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

Mara Wilson

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Kevin Garnett

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.

Chris Stoneberg

We talked about what if the Seahawks and Steelers play. We never thought it would happen.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Perle

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard P. Feynman

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.