Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Savin

I think with some of the new trainers and some of the other guys who have been coming here, it's going to be a fun meet with plenty of betting opportunities.

Marc Touati

We can expect a jobless rate of 9 percent by the summer, and that can have a positive impact on consumers confidence and on spending. The government's betting it will have a psychological impact.

Neil Jones

People have done very well betting on the dollar in the past year and they're not going to give up just yet, but there is some nervousness. People are cutting their positions.

Craig Parry

I played with Tiger and Vijay in the Mercedes. I said to my brother and my wife, 'Tiger's playing unbelievable. Vijay is putting unbelievable.' A betting man would back Tiger, the way he's playing.

Sung Sohn

Clearly, as a betting man, I would have to say the probability of a recession has gone up significantly,

Tom O'Neil

Everyone in the world is picking Reese Witherspoon but me. I'm betting on the last-movie-seen theory. When there are upsets at the Oscars, they tend to be obscure movies that were probably the last DVD screener on the Academy's stack.

Micah Roberts

The betting trends have been public and sharp money coming in on the favorites all week.

Ray Murrihy

There was an application from Waterhouse's solicitors to have the matter heard in camera on the grounds some of the information was sensitive in respect to betting transactions between parties.

Howard Schwartz

It's probably outstripped sports betting as the most popular area,

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

John Faso

I think someone gave it to him out of a briefing book, and he's just not as familiar with New York as I am.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Terry Eagleton

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Brewster Kahle

Other projects talk about snippets. We don't talk about snippets. We talk about books.

Daniel Handler

People can expect poisonous mushrooms, ... And then only if they open the book.

Maria Cantwell

open their books, so we can evaluate whether supply has been manipulated.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Carlos Martinez

This is how I passed my time was reading his book.

Adrian Moss

I wouldn't say Anthony whipped him, but he taught him. You're defending Anthony Roberson every day, and there's probably no better scorer that's come through this program than Peep. When you're defending him every day, you have no choice but to get better.

Marty Nemko

I suspect that it's going to be tempting to throw out this resume because I don't have a bachelor's degree. I made a conscious choice to do my learning in the real world. I've done things that I never could have done if I had been sitting in a class. I'm a go-getter, but now we've reached the moment of truth. Will you interview me?

Michael W. Smith

Greenberg is saying take my $46 or their $41. Seems to me there is not much choice there.

Ani Difranco

Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

Joe Torre

He's a draw, and that's what this is about. I can understand his reluctance to make a choice between the two teams, because he doesn't want to upset anybody.

LaVerne Knox

I think that's a good choice. He didn't want to go far from home.

Bill Cowher

Whatever happens, and you kind of deal with the circumstances that you are dealt with. I think, at this point, that is the mindset that we have to have and we will deal with whatever decisions or other choices we have at that time. I am not going to waste any time thinking about that or talking about that.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Kurt Campbell

We (the U.S.) face a fundamental choice between a fundamentally flawed deal and no deal.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Caroline DeWaal

The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercury species to those with much lower levels. That should be easy to do for most consumers if they had the right information.

Jeff Arnold

The merger will give us technology to enable consumers to interact with their physician and health plan.

Laura Powell

The Internet has really revolutionized travel and travel booking. Consumers are now able to find great deals at the last minute a lot easier.

John Bunting

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

J. Hoover

Kids have a tendency to rest on what they do well and it's human nature to continue to work on the things that you do well. But this summer, I saw him working on the things that he needs to work on to be effective at the next level. I have no doubt that he'll contribute as a freshman. He's highly competitive and he knows what he'll have to do to compete.

Patterson Hood

I write a lot of songs (about the South) and will continue to, but we wanted to do a record that wasn't so specific in the geography. We're from the South, but that's not all we can do.

Tom Davis

Keeping our staff intact enables us to continue to recruit as well as teach.

Charlotte Ronson

Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

Lofa Tatupu

Just that success only comes one way -- that's through hard work. Just continue to try to improve on getting better and it'll happen.

Dave Wannstedt

Joe's a good player for us and Joe will continue to be a good player for us, but we need to threaten people,

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Daniel Chan

Job prospects will continue to improve. Job security has increased and this will lead people to spend more.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Kim Williams

He could score out in probably four events. He's going to help us in quite a few running events as well.

Shyam Selvadurai

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Bob Nicholson

He's already missed two major events because of the suspension and now he's back. He's off suspension and now he is eligible.

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.

Jim Jones

He'll go back and forth between the two events. Basically, we're just using this indoor season to get him ready for the spring.

Walter Benjamin

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Troye Sivan

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that’s a good thing I don’t know,

Richard Curtis

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

Vinton Cerf

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

Zachary Quinto

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

Bernard Golden

Photo sharing, by its nature, is a high-bandwidth offering -- just the sort of Internet service that could be impacted by a lack of net neutrality.

Terry Mackin

Internet Broadcasting has been a very successful partner, not just for TV stations' local Web sites but also on a national scale.

Gary Dunn

The Internet has made it so much simpler for people who want a house-sitter or people who are looking to live rent-free.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Rahshon Clark

To feel like we're set for the NCAA Tournament, we have to win every single game. If we don't, we're going to feel like we're on the bubble, and we don't want to be in that position.

Mike Schulze

I don't know that we've seen it. But the NCAA surveys everybody. I'm not surprised they surveyed the officials about us.

Adam Haluska

We can go into the (Big Ten) tournament without any worry about the NCAA tournament. There's no pressure on us.

Chuck Warner

I just thought it was a tremendous NCAA championship for the women's program and Rutgers University.

Randy Foye

I know where we were at two years ago, three years ago. We were in the NIT. To come from the NIT and be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament shows tremendous respect.

Mike Nardi

We're ready to go and we're prepared for the NCAA Tournament.

Derek Damon

That's not how you want to be going to the NCAA Tournament.

Deonte Tatum

This was huge. We needed this just to keep rolling into the WAC Tournament. Our whole outlook is to win the WAC Tournament and get to the NCAA (Tournament), so it's important for us to win the rest of our games.

Agnus Berenato

We feel like we should go to the NCAA tournament. We're excited.

Kristy Sobel

I went online because I wanted to see if there was something I could use if I was going out.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Marc Rotenberg

This is a very important development in terms of online privacy.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Kara Swisher

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Kacey Musgraves

I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

Justin Upton

I think we're so competitive, ... he wouldn't even realize I'm his brother.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

Zack Greinke

I don't even realize how long it's been,

Richard Jefferson

I really didn't even realize it was that crazy.

Scott Lewis

I never thought there would be so many. I didn't realize the state has as much technology as it has.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Troy Polamalu

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Will Smith

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Robert Maxwell

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Wil Wheaton

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

Wil Wheaton

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

Retief Goosen

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Rube Goldberg

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Ruben Studdard

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Rose Leslie

I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

William Sanderson

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

William Safire

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

William Safire

The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.