Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

Randy Halcomb

I usually choose a player, but Robby expressed to me that he wanted to take it. If a player is ready to step up and take the challenge, I will give him that opportunity. He got the job done.

Gary Smith

The music we choose is very diverse. And that's deliberate. That's part of the message of the convention.

Randy Winn

After my senior year in high school, I was playing in some summer league and a scout said, 'If you keep after this, you might be able to make some money doing this.' So I knew I'd choose baseball.

Stephanie Herseth

South Dakota enjoys a wonderful quality of life and a dedicated workforce, and it is easy to see why John Morrell would choose to expand here. I am pleased that this expansion not only will result in new jobs for Sioux Falls, but also because it demonstrates John Morrell's long-term commitment to the region. This expansion also reflects the talent and dedication of the folks who already work at John Morrell.

Ron Dellums

Now I choose to make a personal decision and to empower myself to regain my life, ... It's important for me to now move on.

Chris Bell

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

Greg Allen

Teams will always feel some sort of pressure. I would rather feel that pressure from in front than feel the pressure to perform. We like having a target on our backs. That way you choose to prove if you are good enough.

Nathaniel Bronner

Sometimes there is no easy way out, but there is always an easier way out and a harder way out. Choose wisely.

David Davidson

Offering more humanely produced eggs naturally fits our commitment to foster goodness and decency in our students.

Mark Williams

Despite the fact with the issues we have with supplies, etc, we're standing by our commitment.

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Larry Usher

These seniors knew that we expected two things from them: commitment and team-first (attitude). These underclassmen know from watching the seniors.

Bryant H. McGill

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

Alan Keyes

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

bell hooks

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Joe Krabbenhoft

So what? We just got stomped by North Dakota State, not to take anything away from them. They're a great team.

Mike Power

Learning the speed of the game and the physicality of the game was kind of a shock to our kids initially. South Dakota State was struggling with the outside shot, so we stayed in that zone, and did a really good job of keeping them at one-and-done.

Kate Looby

I think it sends a strange message to the people of South Dakota and people around the country.

Elizabeth Smith

In 1955, the nation was still largely industrialized, and South Dakota was an agricultural state. A high-school education was a good level of attainment. Now, to be a player in an information economy, people need more education.

Derrik Sovak

It's not a Dakota Student thing. We are just using the voice we have.

Dakota Fanning

Dakota took Kurt to see 'Napoleon Dynamite,' because she wouldn't stop talking about 'Napoleon Dynamite,' and she was making Kurt laugh,

Cory Schneider

The North Dakota guys were out there about a minute and they were probably tired. I knew they'd be going for a (line) change.

Mark Johnson

It's dangerous. Because everything you did during the regular season gets thrown out the window, and North Dakota can make the same statement because every team has the same record right now.

Desiree Kiesel

The team may be small, but they are a dedicated group of kids. I love working with each and every one of them.

Spike Manton

The theater is dedicated to producing Midwestern plays.

E. B. White

A dedicated funding stream doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a new tax. It could be from dedication of an existing source.

Jim Denker

The most important thing for us is that we're playing well going into the playoffs. Some teams are satisfied just to get there, but our kids are excited. They've worked very hard this season and dedicated themselves to getting better.

Jim Keyes

These workers dedicated their lives for the national security of our nation and were unknowingly and possibly intentionally exposed to hazards.

Gaylen Freeman

I've been so tied to education and (have so) dedicated myself to it for 43 years that I want to get out and enjoy it now.

Shelly Williams

I've dedicated 22 years to my research and now I won't be able to finish it and that hurts.

Michelle Snow

I've been doing this for 20 years. I've seen hundreds of kids. Monica is dedicated to music. She's got perseverance. She's one of the few that will actually make it.

Bill Veeck

The White Sox had long ago tested the loyalty of their rooters; the weak and faint of heart had fallen by the wayside and only the strong, the dedicated and the masochistic remained. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan freed a man from any other form of penance.

Phil Olson

This is really happening because of her dedication. She would not let it go until it was a done deal.

Buddha

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Ayrton Senna

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Bruce Lee

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Bruce Lee

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process, an ever-renewing process.

Patrick Driessen

Do all things with love, passion and dedication!

Amber Allison

You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.

Abraham Lincoln

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

Dr. Dre

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

Drew Neitzel

Offensively, we never really got anything going. Everything we got, we had to earn. We didn't get any easy baskets.

Dee Lee

Often times we want the easy way out.

Harvey Mackay

Often, firing is a straightforward cost-cutting measure. When you're fired, it's easy to weave fantasies and imagine villains. If you are going to spend an hour feeling miserable, make sure that you are miserable for the right reason.

John Brady

Northeast didn't make it easy for us. We struggled in the first half, started to put together some solid play in the third quarter then opened it up in the fourth.

Charlie Korsmo

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Taurean Green

Defensively, we had to rebound, stop penetration and prevent them from getting easy looks at the basket.

Kevin Williams

Defensively I was worried because I thought we were giving up some easy shots, but I looked up and we've only given up seven points. A lot of times we got greedy defensively and were out of position.

Joe Galli

Della & James offers a powerful, new use of the Internet that makes it fun and easy to find the right wedding gifts for family and friends.

Wilma Askinas

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Jeff Jones

Evan loves it. He enjoys riding the horses, and it has given him so much confidence. It makes him think and use different muscles.

Author unknown

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?

Dick LeBeau

He's similar to those guys in that he has good size and speed and can really run, yet he can blitz, too. I think he enjoys playing in our system, just like they did.

Joe Torre

I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility. Bernie, obviously I think he enjoys being here. It's the only place he's ever been. I think he's ? I don't want to say got used to it but I think he understood this year with his reduced role that maybe this is where he should be concentrating.

Ross Baker

He enjoys very strong support there. His problem is with swing voters.

Geno Auriemma

It's kind of bittersweet, you know? I'm happy for her, and I'm happy she's at a place she enjoys being at, but you hate to see them in that situation.

David Middleton

Once we can expand this program, we'll be looking at a major.

Allison Teeters

The teachers liked the fact there are so many resources at their fingertips because the Web site has links to a lot of other sites that could be used to expand what they're focusing on.

John Clayton

Right now, there aren't enough players to expand from 32 teams. They're having a hard enough time getting a team in Los Angeles. You and I will be long gone by the time they go to Las Vegas.

Stuart Butler

This is not the time to expand the programs that were failing anyway.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Barney Oliver

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Ariel Sharon

Everyone there should move, should run, should grab more hills, expand the territory. Everything that's grabbed, will be in our hands. Everything we don't grab will be in their hands.

Peter Doyle

We had plans in place to expand the management team and he felt he needed to do something on his own,

Andre Parker

We want to expand our strong role in regions where we already have business.

John Stewart

The expansion of airports is guaranteed to increase emissions.

Ian Forrester

However, in the future, IKEA will keep an expansion speed of opening one or two stores each year.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Anita Frazier

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.

Jason Calacanis

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

Rick Mazer

A number of those folks have moved over here.

Tim Sam

South Medford is something else. For them to be up there in the Les Schwab with Lake Oswego and have folks see them and still come away with South ranked No. 1, that says something right there.

George Cox

Texas has a lot of good newspapers and it's always gratifying to receive recognition from this group. I'm very proud of our winners, as well as all the other newsroom folks who work hard every day to put out our newspaper.

Tom Galloway

I see so many older folks get up there on ladders and try to do it themselves. They should keep that ladder in their garage.

Pat Ivey

The workshop is not open to the public, but lots of folks from the public will be taking part.

Nicole Andrews

There will not be a situation where folks in Rhode Island are having to scramble to find a new place to live by March 1.

Larry Hall

We had a waiting list then and we hope to have another one soon. Even though we lost some folks over the years, that group remains our largest.

Kenneth Miller

Curiously, these folks don't do research, they do public relations and lobbying,

Ellery Hanley

They all know their jobs. They have to go out there and play freely.

Adam Levine

The writers needed to, as part of their jobs, take on taboo subject matter.

Shane Rau

This is a practical, pragmatic Steve Jobs decision.

Gary Hines

You're talking over the next 10 to 15 years and beyond. Those 40,000 jobs aren't going to be overnight.

Damon Archibald

You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

John Fahey

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Jeffrey Lichtman

This is not the same John Gotti that he was in '92, or even in '99.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Christopher Meyer

There is a smell about things which reminds me of the last years of John Major,

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Marlon Brando

At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Bible Bible

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

Anne Robinson

They are always so pleased with themselves aren't they? I've never taken to them. What are they for?

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Bob Wynne

We are very pleased with the Commission's decision.

Steve Burd

We are very pleased with our 2005 results.

Dick Parsons

We are very pleased to have reached an understanding with Mr. Icahn.

Gary Muto

We're very pleased. We wouldn't be rolling out if we weren't pleased with our results.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

John Dunning

We feel like there's a lot of things happening. We've been pleased with what we've seen.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Cardinal Richelieu

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Dean Koontz

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Greg Aiello

This is not a result of any specific threat.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

John Thorne

The result was very predictable: Nothing. They went back to the Braves.

Will Herring

What that was a result of, I don't know. But whatever it was, we're going to get it fixed.

Rafael Benitez

We will wait to see the result of the scan.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Orlando Cabrera

There is a lot of talent here, a lot of talent.

Pat Riley

There's not many who have a better or more talented (trio).

Colin Powell

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others.

Albert Einstein

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Aldous Huxley

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Nick Cannon

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

Irving Berlin

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Andy Samberg

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

Anne Frank

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Stanley Hauerwas

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me,

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.