Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Holt

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Steve Bailey

Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.

Xia Donaldson

I like the tackle side a little more than the groceries. Fishing tackle doesn't go bad. I get a lot of fishermen coming in here. Some of them are going to Millerton, but most are going to Eastman and Hensley to catch some bass or trout.

Roger Bart

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

Jay Yelas

In bass fishing there are about 10 different lures and hook-set techniques that can be good. Clay is an expert in the techniques that don't require a strong hook set, and some days he gets on a roll and doesn't lose any fish.

Suzi Quatro

I like a 5 string bass - it gives you some interesting options. I played one a few times on stage. There was no problem... I was real natural.

George Cochran

I'm glad I did come. I had a good tournament, and BASS was nice to me. It makes me feel good to be going out on a good note.

Steve Bailey

The first-place prize is nice, but maybe more valuable than that is that all finalists will be featured in Bass Player magazine, which is our industry standard journal. They'll become known throughout the United States and around the world. They'll also get a chance to record with Victor and myself on the next Bass Extremes album.

David Campbell

The truck is still hot from driving so fast and so far. It's pretty unusual to see so many bass that big caught that fast. I picked up three Saturday.

Aaron Johnson

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Buck Showalter

Kevin made good pitches when he had to, but it took a lot out of him. It was a tribute to him that he was able to get through it for five innings and give us a chance there.

Jeff Boogaart

Jacob is a good, young kid. He's got a chance to be real good for us. ...He needs to get a little tougher, and little more physical, but he does a good job with the ball.

Alexander Veshnyakov

I would say that as of today the chance of a second round is fairly high.

Floyd Ciruli

I would say that the 7th right now is clearly the nation's most competitive seat, with the Democrats having a clear chance to win it.

Fred Smith

Katrina provides a chance to give up populism and embrace reform.

Quentin Crisp

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Jeffrey Schloss

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Sloane Crosley

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Tommy Mottola

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Micky Adams

Kevin has been nursing a groin strain so that is why he has not featured in the last two games, but he is ready to come back into the squad for Preston.

George Dagnino

He has an outstanding work ethic. He was a second-team all-league last year and was our leading tackler. He is also going to be one of our featured backs.

Larry Fitzgerald

If the offense is featured around you, you dont have to be a great player, ... Pretty much whoever you want to be featured you can feature.

Scott Graham

This is just totally cool, ... There's 25 Durango kids featured in the book, and most of them were here.

Rich Freeman

That's probably a featured stock of the fund.

David Thorpe

We were ranked (two or three times) in the Top 10 of the USA Today poll and we were featured on High School Sports America. We had gone seven years without a loss at home and they did a special on us,

Lee Warren

That was Mr. Holbrook's suggestion. With the lack of hotels in the area, you have to have a place where a featured performer, or artist-in-residence, can stay.

Michael McGrath

Listeners are treated to more than just Rowland on the hook of the song. She is featured on the bridge, as well.

Stuart Miller

We were able much like a newspaper would to respond immediately. We were one of the featured memorials on Yahoo.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Erin O'Connor

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

Ben Wood

The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Hudson Riehle

The restaurant industry is the most labor-intensive industry in the country.

Marc Andreessen

It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'

Andrew Logan

It's unclear how the insurance industry is going to survive in the sort of world that we're expecting.

Madeleine Quayat

I was known as the person with the 24-hour smile.

Ramsey Clark

has been in total isolation. He hasn't seen a member of his family, talked to a member of his family, met with a lawyer or met with friends he has known before.

Thomas R. Insel

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

Torrey Smith

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.

Bob Henderson

I think it's a very serious matter. In fact, it's known that it's a serious matter when you take some communications that you were supposed to have.

Nicola Sturgeon

It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.

Freddie Shepherd

I didn't want to be known as the man who shot Bambi.

Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Carlos Mencia

Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

What do I do, kill myself? No. I'll just take the positive things out of this and maybe I'll try to learn.

Tim Bowen

We've been waiting for (Guy) to come out of his shell. Maybe that's what he and us needed.

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.

Carlos Emmons

What do you think? Man, I could have played next week.

Joey Stanton

Within the next 10 years, probably all jails will become smoke-free.

Jerry Krause

I wrote, 'He's as smart a young player as I've ever seen,'

Ben Chandler

I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy.

John Madden

He could do it as a player and he could do it as a coach, because they respect him. That's what it's all about.

Charlie Coe

He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.

Justin Fishman

GW has always had talented players because of where it's located.

Chris Morris

He's a very experienced and uncompromising midfielder, and I like having that type of player in my squad.

Kelvin Sampson

He's a unique player and he kind of does what we need.

Dave Tippett

He's a tremendous player who does everything so well. And he's going to be especially important under the new rules.

John Muckler

He's a terrific player who's going to get better. It was just that the time was right for us to make the move.

Rick Kaplan

It's a prize that's waiting to be taken,

David Hockney

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Aristotle

Those who act receive the prizes.

Andre Agassi

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Emily Saliers

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Alfred Bea

The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.

Goran Ivanisevic

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

Walter Molony

We think 2006 will be another record for second-home sales.

David Walker

I think a lot of teams would probably have the same record if you look at who they've played,

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Maggie Lynch

It's pretty standard throughout the country. And we don't give them to families, like they do in New York.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Arlen Specter

The standard is to do it right, not to do it fast,

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Jennifer Duffy

They all talked about it. It was a standard part of their pitch.

George Whitehouse

These are standard technologies and can be done securely.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Mitch Daniels

Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Phil Gramm

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Tom McCarthy

It's become more valuable to every film that we do.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Mary Psenda

Cushing will take it at you. That's what makes her valuable to us.

Rhodri Morgan

Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be a peace without victory

William Wordsworth

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

Samuel Smiles

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

Vladimir Lenin

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Ryan Seacrest

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

William Faulkner

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.