Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Joe Biddy

The boys came as a shock. It was an absolute shock.

George Gregan

The big thing is they give a big boost of raw energy and enthusiasm and ? you just see the absolute excitement and joy of being part of the national team and it just reinforces to everyone the special sort of place we're in,

Stephen Baker

At some point, absolute price is an issue.

Elizabeth Gaskell

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Bubba Cunningham

Ball State makes it an absolute priority to comply with all NCAA rules, and our student-athletes understand we take this very seriously. Our primary focus right now is ensuring that students going into competition are eligible to play.

Keith Powell

Athol Fugard is one of my all-time favorite playwrights. It is an absolute honor that he would grant us the rights to Exits and Entrances ahead of many other more established theatre companies. In my mind, the best way to return this compliment is to devote our entire season to him. I see The Island as sort of a companion piece.

Steve Courson

Athletes didn't invent this stuff. We opened Pandora's box. We're still trying to figure out how to close it. It's bottomless. It's impossible to eliminate them. Let's accept it's inevitable. But don't put athletes on a moral pedestal when it's an absolute joke. Don't speak of purity and ideals. There's too much money invested in performance.

Jim Scherr

That was absolutely improper and something we have taken great measures to have our athletes not do,

Mark Bruener

As a member of the organization, I have to roll with it, accept the change and know that we have to move on,

Adrienne Clarkson

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

Regina Lewis

A small publishing house is sometimes the way to go. I wanted somebody who would publish my book and care about my book. I wanted somebody to know my book and always remember it, and I found one. They take an interest in what you do. If they are committed to accept your book, then they are committed to you.

Ken Brown

Really, if you had anything where you said this is my permit or this is my project, the city would accept it and give you vested rights.

Erich Korngold

Producers have realized that public taste in music has risen, and we are now conducting a test which will eventually lead to the writing of entire modern operas for the screen. When that day comes, composers will accept the motion picture as a musical form equal to the opera or the symphony.

Marcus Williams

Our team will accept any challenge, and if we get caught in a close game we just make plays at the end.

Ignacio Bunye

Our detractors are so obsessed with unseating President Arroyo that they refuse to accept that we have indeed made significant headway.

Edward Kennedy

Our Democratic priorities clearly prevailed, and I welcome the decision by our Republican colleagues to accept them,

Tony George

Our family is honored to accept this award on behalf of everyone at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Speedway and the Armed Forces have enjoyed a very special relationship since the facility opened in 1909, and we take every opportunity we can to thank America's military for its sacrifice, service and dedication.

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Frederich Cepeda

This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Dave Peterson

We had a very encouraging effort from many of our athletes for the first outdoor meet.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Mark Wheeler

We have a bunch of excellent athletes and I have high hopes for the boys.

Mitch Barnhart

You have to remember where you want to compete. The schools at the lower end have not had that much success. If you want to compete, you must give your coaches and athletes the resources to do it.

Thomas Brooks

We try to do that. We have a number of athletes capable (of contributing). We don't want to be one-dimensional.

Lisa Miller

Like all good high school coaches, you walk around and you pilfer athletes from other programs. I was coaching field hockey and watching her play soccer and thinking, 'This kid would be really, really good at lacrosse.' So basically I chased her around with a stick for a couple of months and talked her into playing lacrosse.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Charles Warren

That was about as close to a perfect round as I could play,

Sol Jones

That was a big win in league for us after losing two very close games last week. I feel anything can happen any night with most of the teams.

Dan Miller

That was a big play. I was pretty pleased with how the guys executed down the stretch tonight. It's good for us to win a game like this, because we're going to play some close games from here on out.

Rona Raphael

Reading it was unbearable, as it reminded me how close we'd been.

Luis Aragones

Raul is a very important player because he is the captain, ... The national team is very close to his heart and he always wants to win. He needs the support of the national coach right now and he's going to get it.

Mark Zandi

Profits as a share of output are close to 10 percent. That's as high as they've ever been.

Don King

Prior to Mike Tyson, we were generating close to $100 million a year. Now, Mike Tyson generates $100 million a fight.

Paul Carvel

Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance.

Pope John

eliminate the specter of hunger from the planet.

Ed Morgan

We want to eliminate the myths about hiring people with disabilities.

Bruce Dick

You eliminate 16 teams; a lot of good ones are going to show up.

Richard Clarke

There's no iron law. But the law enforcement side, the intelligence side, will always want to eliminate the leadership.

Bob Goin

There's no way to eliminate the memories of the fantastic performance of Kenyon Martin. He is a role model as someone who works hard. We're always going to use him as a role model. I have tremendous respect for Kenyon Martin. I am saddened by his reaction.

Jim McCrossin

Is there a chance? Obviously there's a chance. You never want to eliminate the chance. But it's a long shot." ()

Giovanni Bisignani

Unfortunately, there is no mechanism to eliminate existing capacity.

Mike Frazer

I feel like we played a solid game, we just have to eliminate those little mistakes.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Syamsir Siregar

The terrorists want to get money by kidnapping influential figures and this could include businessmen and politicians.

Jim Owens

I've never been able to figure out his motivation. We're just going to let him do what he does.

Randy Couture

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Tom Davies

Now it's our job to figure out why, and to make sure we are better prepared for the future.

Maurice Cheeks

Sometimes, I'm a little soft-spoken, and sometimes I yell a little bit. They have to figure out when I'm going to yell, when I'm not going to yell. I think there's a happy medium. I have to find out the little things about players' personalities, and they have to find out about mine as well.

Wayne Howell

Sometimes, the guys have to figure it out for themselves. They know our offense. They know our defense. They just had to work it out.

John Gibbons

Roy has missed nine starts so far. You figure he's good for at least four wins. Where are we with four more wins?

Jim Mora

Right now, we figure he'll be good to go Sunday night. When you're Mike Vick and your team needs you, the guy shows up - he's a great one.

Jan Hammer

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Brennan Manning

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Bono

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

Aristotle

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Andrea Vogel

You have to know your limits and those of your partners. Otherwise it's impossible to turn such a project into reality.

Georg Simmel

Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.

Ken Keller

There's no reason to think that that's impossible for the United States to get to that point. I think we will get to that point. That doesn't seem to me to be out of the realm of possibility.

Allan Bloom

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

Alberto Giacometti

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

Kevin McCormick

As long as we have '05 inventory on the ground, we're going to keep it going," ()

Marc Freedman

We're about to invent a new stage of life.

Farid Ayar

We didn't invent these figures. It took us a long time to get them.

Anthony Kiedis

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

German Proverb

Whoever invented work must not have had anything to do

Billy Beane

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.

Zach Galligan

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

John Trevena

He told me nobody invested in the movie. It's a high-risk investment, especially with the way movies have been flopping lately.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Jim Norman

Do you know how much money that saves people?

Tim Ghriskey

Delphi is weighing on the whole automotive industry. More people want to move money out of that sector, and the situation is not going to get better any time soon.

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

DeEtta Culbertson

The state doesn't provide any money to private schools. They're deemed private businesses, private entities.

James Bland

The taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for a low-performing job. I would like to see that money go to the teachers.

Raghu Sharma

The taxpayers money is being spent on them.

Bob Hartwig

The third option is the better use of money in the long run.

Linda Jackson

The big questions have to do with moral development because there is not much research,

Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

David Vincent

A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Sue Leibold

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

Emma Morrison

I saw that the were squeezing Brandy at the corners. So I had her do a push-bunt and that kind of opened it up for us.

Tom Peterson

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

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.

Ben Okri

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Barbara Smith

We opened in August, but now we're really ready to get the word out.

Mike Morse

We opened a store in Brunswick in 1959, in Lodi in 1980, in Wads-worth in 1992 and in Wooster in 2000.

Barry Sanders

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Anselm of Canterbury

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Joshua Harris

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Carson McCullers

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Tim Baker

There's no need for me to speak to them.

Clive Barker

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

Adam Sandler

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

Jim Mowen

I've been walking on eggshells and trying not to badmouth any other candidates.

Melissa McCarthy

I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.

Virginia Jackson

I've been trying to get it done for a long time.

Jimmy Rollins

I understood that he was trying to get to third,

Robby Wine

That's what they're trying to do right now, show that it is worldwide.

Steve Sullivan

You're always trying to improve. When you see everyone else around you bettering themselves, you want to do the same thing.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Aziz Ansari

No one's trying to get with jugglers.