Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Young

I'm honored to join TNT's coverage of the All-Star events. As an ambassador for Houston, I look forward to interacting with players, celebrities and fans visiting our city.

Sirio Maccioni

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

Nick Nicholson

I'm sure you've heard the word ambassador a lot today. That's the way he represented the sport in public; he was a great sportsman and handled victory and defeat with equal style and class. But I also had the privilege of seeing the leadership he gave to our industry in private, when the cameras were not on.

Greg Walker

The Drive for Diversity program has proven very beneficial for Kodak, which has a strong corporate commitment to diversity and inclusion. Joe Henderson III has been an excellent competitor and a fine ambassador of our brand. Our participation in this program helps us connect with regional racing fans, and dovetails with our participation in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup racing. We look forward to continuing our participation in Drive for Diversity.

Navtej Sarna

The foreign secretary informed the US ambassador that India's vote on any possible resolution on the Iranian issue at the IAEA would be determined by India's own judgment of the merits of the case.

Aaron Peirsol

This has been the opportunity of a lifetime, ... I have always wanted swimming to have an ambassador to travel throughout the United States in places like Hawaii to excite swimmers, parents and the community in general about the great sports that involve water. I have dedicated my life to promoting this, and I now have that opportunity. I have been blessed and I want to share my experiences with as many swimmers as possible.

John Petersen

Not only is Coach Pearl one of the very best coaches in the nation, but more importantly, he has become a great ambassador for our university during his tenure at Tennessee.

Trudi Lacey

Dawn Staley has been a great ambassador for women's basketball and the Charlotte Sting in every possible aspect. She has meant the world to our franchise, and we wish her nothing but the best. This gives her an opportunity to compete for a WNBA championship.

Porter Goss

The nominations of Ambassador Negroponte and Gen. Hayden are welcome news and a critical step in continuing to strengthen our intelligence community and to create even better coordinated working relationships and communications between the agencies,

Liz Boyd

We're pleased that the Senate and House have responded to the governor's call for an increase, and we're looking forward to that bill arriving on the governor's desk.

Waisale Serevi

I'm trying to get in touch with him but he should be arriving by Friday.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back!

James Mason

It's not so much a case of people falling off the bandwagon, I think it just feels strange joining in the OBO when so much of the day's play has been and gone. It's a bit like arriving at a party sober to find everyone else swigging from their fifth can of special brew.

Nathaniel Brown

The year 2006 will be one of negotiation between satellite radio and the music industry. Music is an important partner for XM, and we look forward to continuing our discussions with them in hopes of arriving at a business solution that fits everyone.

George Washington

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Ann Veneman

With wintry conditions arriving in the higher elevations, children are facing a potentially deadly combination of cold, malnutrition, and disease,

Ifzal Ali

Asia needs to make sure its demographic dividend doesn't turn out to be its biggest problem. All those people arriving at urban train stations could be a big plus or a big minus.

Leslie Allen

Sausalito is the gateway to Marin, with people arriving by car, by ferry and they hang out in parks where trash cans are ugly, weather-beaten with peeling paint. If we make them look like works of art, people will treat them as such. People would be encouraged to observe them as art that is also utilitarian.

Chris Paul

I was in the process of having a house built in English Turn,

Jack Quinn

Knowing the conditions in place today, ... I would think the community would want to examine any and all sports facilities built in recent years to see what arrangements were made.

Pat Perez

I would think that once two or three of them get built it's going to be tough for the others to come in.

Carl Anthony

Jacqueline Kennedy rented and then built homes in the horse country of Virginia where she would take these Thursday to Tuesday weekends and just come back to the White House two or three days during the week.

Mike Griffin

is very optimistic that the replacement for the shuttle will be built at Kennedy Space Center.

Mark House

I think it might be the only option. Compensate people fairly for what they have and make sure it's never built on again.

Lawrence Cohn

has built a good junk-bond business, but they have no equity capacity whatsoever -- and they've got to get it. They know they have to get it, the question is, 'When and how?'

Graham Hawkes

If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Martin Pedroza

He's a gutsy horse for as little as he is. He's built like a quarter horse, and he keeps getting better and better.

Bernadette Castro

Partnership is the key word here. This is not about the Castro family selling out and moving along. This is about completing our vision of taking Golden Hills to the next level.

Sergio Bendixen

The community has changed, but the hate for Castro hasn't. The Cuban-American community has evolved from what it was even five years ago, but in the interests of justice and so the decision of the jury isn't questioned, it would be better to have the retrial somewhere else.

Richard Boucher

The situation in Cuba is of our primary concern. The situation of Mr. Castro is of little concern to us, but, unfortunately, of enormous importance to the people of Cuba, who have suffered very long under his rule. And we think that the kind of rule that Cuba has had should be ended.

Spencer Eig

We all feel very strongly that Elian's life will be destroyed if he is sent to the custody of Fidel Castro in Cuba. That's what this is about, protecting this child from harm.

Edwidge Danticat

You have also at the same time Castro and the revolution being the glue that held the United States together with a lot of these dictators.

James Rubin

We are committed to fight terrorism here and in every country in the world, and unfortunately again, Fidel Castro is wrong.

Donald Trump

Make sure that this embargo stays in effect and drives Castro into oblivion.

Luis Carriles

Castro will never change, never. Our job is to provide inspiration and explosives to the Cuban people.

Ron Gardenhire

Castro is very good at short. He's very quick up the middle. We've known that forever about him. He's going to prevent some runs. That's what he does best.

Tony Oliva

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

Jeff Pustina

I guess that stuff is for you guys. We just keep playing down at Cuba and keep working hard.

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.

Stephen Coonts

It's just people from various walks of life in Cuba and what might happen to them

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.

Sam Worthington

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Michael Keaton

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Joe Newman

We looked at the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, CBA and NBDL and there were little or no minority ownerships. Unless you were a famous star, all of those leagues were excluding minorities.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Mel Stottlemyre

I would tell him what it's like and I wouldn't leave anything out, ... You've got to satisfy two sets of people here and it shouldn't be that way.

Leslie Moonves

Katie's someone we like a lot. But you know what? Katie's been at NBC a long, long time. We'll leave it at that.

Paul Sanders

I think I subconsciously do (try to leave people out). I don't want to be intruding in people's lives.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Stephen Hunter

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Kenny Rogers

He's a dead-pull hitter. Leave it to me to get him to go the other way with what I throw.

Gordon Roberts

He's a worker. He never misses a day. He's (in the weight room) first and leaves last.

Jose Guillen

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Ray Nagin

Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.

Steve Nash

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Richard C. Armitage

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Kadiatou Diallo

I don't know what went wrong that night. I just know that he (Amadou) was in the right place because he lived here, ... He was going in the place where he lived.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Brett Hall

Just this morning is when it first emerged.

Ashley Donnell

I watched the news this morning and I was shocked. I saw the picture and was like no, it can't be.. you must be talking about somebody else.

Carl Jung

I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end.

Two Chainz

I am so far ahead I'll see you niggas in the morning Two chains on, my first chain started cloning

Alain Vigneault

He will practice with us (this) morning and we'll probably take him on the road. I'm not sure if he's going to play yet.

Richard Petty

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

Tyler Perry

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

Truman Capote

And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

Truman Capote

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Tony Paterno

We're probably going to ski 600 next week.

Tony George

We think he can take our team to the next level.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Ron Hop

In the third quarter, we opened up a lead. That was pretty much the game.

Jeff Hironaka

In the first half, we (hit the 3), and that opened things up. We had better opportunities to go to the basket. That's how we have to play.

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

David Koresh

These people remain here because I have thoroughly opened to them the seven seals.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Larry Bloom

An oyster shell opened up after the 2002 Olympics.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.