Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sven Eriksson

I talked to the Swedish coach before the draw and we agreed we did not want to meet at this World Cup. But overall we are happy with the draw, its not easy but it could have been worse.

Taye Diggs

When I agreed to do the show, I thought it was a brilliant premise, ... but it turned out to be a fixer-upper. By the end, I was beat down. It takes a lot of energy fixing and upping.

Javier Solana

I think we can say that the parties have agreed on the document on police.

Tim Clark

I think we've agreed that anyone who shoots 80 has to shave his head. There might be a couple of withdrawals from Augusta this year.

Chrissy Lamun

I think both of us have agreed that we probably wouldn't have made it as far in our careers without knowing each other. She'll help me in the gym whenever I need help and she knows how I work and I know how she works, so we've kind of gotten to that point in our careers together.

Bob DuPuy

It is our contractual right to seek mediation as a tool to convince the parties to fulfill their obligations as set forth in the contract that was agreed to more than a year ago.

Richard Curreri

It is on this basis that we have requested the leadership of the TWU direct its membership to immediately return to work, and they have agreed to take such actions.

Condoleezza Rice

I think that we will not get hung up on this statement (by Pyongyang), ... We will stick to the text of the Beijing (agreement) and I believe we can make progress if everybody sticks to what we agreed to.

Ernie Bertrand

I was worried about the amount of rain we might get. Mr. Cooley (EBHS Principal) and I got in touch with Pickering and they agreed to play Thursday.

Ron Hubbard

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individuals freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

Elliott Abrams

The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.

Edmundo Espindola

They are no longer agreeing to the 16 percentage points, but only up to 16 percentage points.

David Poile

It was just a case of agreeing to disagree. We felt it was in the best interest of both the Capitals and Bobby Carpenter to make a move. He was not totally happy with his treatment by the organization over the last several years.

Stanley Elkin

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

Steve Spurrier

We are satisfied with the results. We appreciate the NCAA basically agreeing with our proposal. For the next couple of years, we will only have 83 players on scholarship.

Ruth Ann Minner

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.

Ann Macbeth

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

Deng Xiaoping

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile, ... Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Tiger Woods

I did not play well at all, ... I had a two-way miss this week. You can't aim a two-way miss even if those fairways are 300 yards wide. If you get it hitting both ways, it's tough to play.

Ric Sperling

He did what great players do. He put the team on his back, and carried us. We've been aiming for this all season long. We thought we'd have a good chance to win if we were able to score a couple of runs.

Waylon Jennings

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Yehudi Menuhin

Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.

Tameko Smith

PAWS is a ministry with one aim in mind, to minister to the hearing impaired and to those who can hear. Our destiny is heaven.

Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.

Edwards Deming

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Individuality seems to be Nature's whole aim -- and she cares nothing for individuals.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Joe Thornton

I talked to Nick and Rayzor (Sunday) and they want to be here. They both want to play here. I think it's just a matter of time.

Laurence Maroney

I talked to my mom a lot about it and she felt like it was the right time and I felt like it is the right time, so we both came to the decision together that this is the right time.

Jeff Gundy

I talked to him about (that) we need to pick up a point guard, and also he had an opportunity out there to go and I think play for Denver. We talked about it. I think he decided it was not something he was interested in doing. We told him we were going to waive him. He decided I think to retire. I hope something works out to where he can stay in the Rockets organization. He's a great guy. Even though we were only together for a little more than a year, I was as fond of him and (Bob) Sura as any two guys I've ever coached. Personally, it hurts a lot that both had injuries that impacted them and us.

Dominic Moore

I take pride in the way our line's been playing, making plays at both ends of the rink, ... We got away from our game plan in the second period and fortunately, we were able to come back to it in the third.

Rachel Bicego

I think it's a great idea. It's been very popular, and everybody that has taken it has had fun. It's an opportunity for both (child and adult) to participate together.

Joanne Lewis

There is a stigma in consulting Mental Health, ... Students don't like it.

Jake Siewert

We don't want to pre-judge how the next administration will proceed. We've been consulting with them all along.

Eric Woerth

We have to take the path of dialogue. We can't have reforms without consulting the social partners.

Edward Weston

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Mike Rucker

In the framework of their schemes and the way the rules are, it's legal. You just have to roll with the punches, there are a lot of things people don't like. You've just got to play it better, put your hands down (on the blocker) and try not to get cut.

Mike Rucker

In the framework of their schemes and the way the rules are, it's legal. I just kind of got caught. I'll roll with it.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Jeff Hanna

He loved it over there, and they loved him. When we went onstage in Japan, there were people holding up 'Vassar Clements' placards.

Brian Hill

I'm sure it's discouraging for him. He looked to me that he was having some pain and I didn't want to take any chances. I saw him wincing out there and holding his midsection. It didn't make sense for him to continue. I know he's down.

Lisa Parker

You can see where there's no bark. That's where we were holding onto it.

Jeremy Lewis

It's like holding a wolf by the ears, ... You don't want to hold it, but you don't want to let it go.

Mike Holmgren

I've had the privilege of holding it (the Lombardi Trophy) before and I hope to touch it again.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Austin Croshere

So much of what we do offensively revolves around Jermaine. Without him, you're holding it together with spit and glue.

Marty Heires

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

Angus Campbell

The first week of January is historically a positive week for equities.

Andi Mallarangeng

When the session resumes on January 25th, we only have three days...that is too short a time to resolve all the issues.

Steve Stirling

Certainly, if you look at it, the month of January is critical.

Jeff Reed

If this was January or February, I would already have 3 to 400 people out here. It's winding down.

Rachel Steer

January just sucked, you know? I was just sapped.

Phil Gardner

We haven't seen a labor market this strong since prior to January 2001. This is a significant gain.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Rich Miller

This is really like our first round of the playoffs.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

John Callahan

It has three sides missing, but it has a roof,

Morgan Freeman

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

John Buchan

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

Neil Strauss

God is on the side of the winner.

Milton Friedman

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

Julia Sweeney

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Wesley Morris

If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.

Wesley Morris

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

Wesley Morris

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Richard Rohr

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Trevor Nunn

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

Van Wyck Brooks

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Umberto Eco

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

Robert Pozen

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.