Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Johnson

Many have never received praise, have never achieved top grades or are not the top athletes, but who come to school with burdens each day and still do well. They may be physically challenged or have suffered abandonment or abuse by their parents, they face all sorts of real obstacles.

Ned Yost

I think that pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. These guys are making so much money nowadays that you're trying to protect your investment and you don't want to abuse anybody out there, especially if you've got a good arm.

Jay Stanley

I think that when you have a system that is based on such a subjective criteria, and it remains subjective no matter what the training is about, that you will inevitably have abuse and racial profiling.

Ned Yost

Pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. Guys make so much money now. You want to protect your investment. You don't want to abuse your pitchers.

Bertie Ahern

President Bush is very much aware of the abhorrence that the people of Ireland and of Europe felt at the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by coalition forces,

Scott Turow

I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.

Marianne Wolk

I find it illogical to make a case that it's better to be diversified when search is growing so much faster online.

Jo Maso

The case of Martin is less serious. He has a fever, but he is under treatment and was feeling better today and we hope he will resume training tomorrow.

Christine Callies

The markets have got a case of valuation acrophobia,

Andrew Fox

The more someone persists in their innocence, the larger the wound gets in the community. You can't heal in a case like this when the finger is in the wound at the heart of the community ? the way the knife was in the victim.

Robert Malley

a case study of pinning too much hope on an electoral process without doing so much of the other work.

John Flint

A lot of people oppose using tax dollars to finance a stadium because they live too far or have no interest in the sport. But if it can be demonstrated that the public has a potential use of a facility, then elected officials at every level would have a much better case for justifying public participation.

Councilman Zine

It's unfortunate, but we don't have any choice. We had a case here where an experienced detective made a mistake and the city and its taxpayers have to pay for it.

Chris Mortensen

It's not like you can pay him $5 or $6 million (at Iowa). It's a case of, either he wants to do it - or he doesn't want to do it.

Usman Hamid

There was no transparency at all in the legal process. We were unable to follow the Supreme Court's review of the case because the justices did not let us know about its progress.

Derrick Max

Obviously, it is not a clear path for reform. That being said, I do think we've got some momentum.

Paul Steiger

Only extreme circumstances such as clear and present danger to innocent people could justify the threat of jail to gain the name of a confidential informant.

Charley Pride

One thing I've noticed about him is he doesn't get into the social-political discussion of race. I steer clear of it myself. If I put out good music, it doesn't matter what I look like.

Brian Walsh

Ney would welcome the opportunity to clear his name. He is confident that has done nothing wrong and that he will ultimately cleared.

Harold Lewis

Nobody knows what to do. It's just a cloud of smoke right now, and we don't know when it's going to clear so we can see what's going on.

Terry Prachett

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Jack Myers

One of the big landowners is Clear Springs and they are developers of land. There would be talks of right-of-way donation from them.

Jim Talent

One of the lessons of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is the clear need for local, state and federal responders to train together so they can be better prepared in the event of a disaster that requires widespread relief efforts,

Janica Kostelic

I am taking each race one at a time but it is clear that my goal is to win the overall World Cup title.

Christopher Bell

We're in here for the long haul. We've got a successful and strong company ... and we intend to keep make it even stronger.

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

James Beattie

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.

Marvin Emerson

I told the guys at halftime that's why everybody practices. We just needed to be patient, get into our offense, and not let them get a run.

Marilyn Monroe

Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else?

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Sigmund Freud

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Shirley Jackson

All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.

Shirley Manson

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

Shelley Long

I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.

Shepard Fairey

What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.

Shawn Achor

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

Shawn Achor

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

Shawn Achor

Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.

Shawn Johnson

I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Tammy Blanchard

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Sarah Hall

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

Taissa Farmiga

It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

Angie Harmon

I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.

Bob Newhart

I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'

Alejandro Urrego

We still work as a team. We're always bonding.