Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

As far away as we are, we are still very close to becoming a good team. When we decided to break this team down last year, letting Antoine (Walker) and Gary (Payton) go, we understood what that would mean. We still hoped to make the playoffs and that's disappointing, but I think this team will be better sooner rather than later.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

Anika Noni Rose

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Shashi Tharoor

As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

Chris Woodruff

The bull industry is becoming like the racehorse industry.

Bobbi Henson

A whole new world of applications are becoming mainstream, and people really benefit from a broadband application in conjunction with those applicants.

David Garis

Australia's economy is increasingly showing some soft edges and inflation is tame. The risks of another rate increase are becoming much less pressing.

Jill Lepore

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

Lou Gerstner

That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different industry than just a few years ago.

Darry Sragow

Had he been able to portray the Democrats as a party that's preventing him from solving the problems of California, I think we could have painted ourselves into a very dangerous corner.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

Saul Bellow

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Billie Armstrong

Rock 'n' roll can be dangerous and fun at the same time, so thanks a lot.

Teresa Belew

Repeat offenders are the most dangerous drunks on the road.

Benjamin Tal

Relying solely on real estate-based savings may be dangerous because this type of saving can be illiquid and selling a home can be an inconvenient and expensive transaction,

Joseph Polisi

If you use the standard of 'American Idol' as the standard for a singer I think you might be going down a very dangerous road,

Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Matt Berry

He wrote it exactly how it was. But it was still more dangerous than I ever could've imagined.

Darren Kimball

Automakers' extremely generous incentives in recent weeks have simply drawn forward industry demand.

Robin Lanier

As long as they're extending the contract, I think that's a signal there will be no slowdown. Perhaps there will be a very long drawn out negotiating process that will give us a lot of gray hair.

Preston Beckman

Ratings for an event like the Olympics aren't necessarily drawn from the usual prime-time television audience. For us to suddenly program differently for those two weeks would be a mistake for our network.

S. Hughes

Prices are going nowhere and homebuilders are using a whole range of incentives to try and draw people in -- free carpets, furniture, legal fees, deposits -- you name it.

Keith Wilbur

Our team was fired up from the get go. They wanted to play well for the seniors. We had a good game plan drawn up from the last time we faced them and we executed it pretty well.

Christopher Abbott

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

Jaime Winstone

I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.

Meg Wolitzer

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

John Brantley

I've always been drawn to Texas. I just want to go on the visit, see what they're trying to do. Everything I've heard from people is that they like Austin.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Greg Couch

I have no idea why he would say that. All the players had apartments. ... He said things we don't understand.

Gordon Smith

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all-change now, obviously.

Isiah Thomas

I'm trying to go out and get the players he wants me to go out and get. This is a player he wanted.

Jerry Jones

I'm sure you can take a lot of these players out here and find they need some surgery.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Bruce Arena

All in all, to get 16 players in, and getting a win, that's a positive.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

John Hawe

Everyone of our players got at least one hit, and I really like that.

Michael Brown

Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Shannon Edge

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.

Scott Aker

We haven't set it as a specific goal.

Richard Boucher

I do not have anything specific to Yemen.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

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 Rauschenberg

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.