Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Savage

Prices are off after a big rise during Christmas and New Year. With uncertainty over the Venezuelan strike and OPEC's response, I would expect volatile trade over the next few days.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Robin Burgard

Defense and rebounding were the keys. We did a great job of rebounding in the second half. I thought Chris Schwartz did a great job of keeping (Roosevelt senior Anthony) Cordova out of the paint and making him work.

Steve Fleming

Coach L is a teacher who teaches life to these guys. There's definite respect. He knows what he is talking about. He has more confidence in Chris than Chris has in himself. That means a lot to me.

John Grace

Cochlear has world-class technology and with the new management in there they are delivering on that potential. The turnaround under Chris Roberts has been very strong.

Lamar Hurd

Coaches are just making a conscious effort to get him the ball. It's just Chris being Chris. Chris has always been a scorer. And any time a guy has it going on, we are going to get him the ball. And he's been hot, so we are going to ride him out.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

David Blaine

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.

Reid Scott

I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are just incredible.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

Troy Hudson

Any situation you can put me in, I've been there. You just leave it up to the coaching staff and be ready when called.

Skip Bertman

As far as I'm concerned, John is going to be our coach for a long time.

Mike Ryan

As far as leadership, I have never coached a better kid, who comes to practice and games ready to play. Her desire to win is unmatched.

Wayne Morgan

As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

Frank Hadden

As far as captaincy is concerned I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night,

Charles Wang

As everyone in this room knows, Steve is one of the finest gentlemen you will ever meet in any walk of life. Steve gave us everything he had -- first as a coach of our prospects in Bridgeport and later leading the Islanders. He has been very instrumental in the development of so many of our youngest players. It is my hope that Steve will stay in the organization.

Justin Griffith

As fullbacks, we're coached to make our reads like we're the runner, so we make our cuts where we see the hole forming. We just don't have the ball.

John Shaw

As a result of his condition, he will be unable to perform his head coaching responsibilities for an indefinite period of time.

Bob Graham

a serious question as to the credibility of the United States in the world and undercutting of confidence of the American people in the veracity of their government.

Jose Theodore

As a goalie, it's fun to see you're always in the game. Right now, our confidence is good, but next game we are going to have to come ready because they are going to come out strong.

Chris Samuels

As a confidence builder, we've got to get out there and get a win.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Kristy McClain

The big Saturday meets are good for us. But the smaller meets can really provide us with a confidence booster.

Don Hale

A vote of no confidence shows that you've become aggravated to the point of no return.

Jeff Hawkins

A win like this helps the freshmen. We haven't won as many games as we have in the past, and a lot of them are probably thinking like, 'Man.' But the more we win and the more we play good, it gets their confidence up.

Marc Walters

A win at No. 1 doubles may have helped stem their confidence some, but we won't know if that would have made a difference in the match. They are very talented at the top three spots and that was tough to overcome when they can play comfortably with a 3-0 cushion.

Farooq Kathwari

As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued consumer spending.

Larry Izzo

As far as the impact that game had on us the rest of the year, it definitely helped us in the long run get where we needed to be. We just weren't good enough. It identified a lot of issues and we're better for it.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Maria Mutola

A seventh title is something special. But it was tough, definitely not as I wanted&it was a lot harder than I expected.

John McDonald

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Deron Williams

As a team we feel pretty good. (Next year) we should definitely make the playoffs. I won't guarantee it like some people do, but we feel that we should. We feel we should have made it this year.

Justin Williams

As competitors, we're definitely disappointed about the outcome but we're pleased with how we played. We played hard to the finish, all 45 minutes. We played as hard as we ever played.

Koichi Ogawa

A weaker yen is definitely positive for Mazda and other automakers. Mazda's earnings are also helped by the rising popularity of its vehicles.

Joel Quenneville

A whole year without hockey, without work . . . it definitely was something different. Now I know what retirement's going to be like, not that I'm in any hurry to get there.

Dennis Davis

Aw, man, it was a horrible feeling leaving the stadium like that. It's definitely not something you ever want to let happen again.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Paul Davis

Arsene will be looking for the right type of player, one who is established in their position and knows what it is about,

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Dave Collins

As long as there are rules at the start, everyone knows what they need to follow.

Source Unknown

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

Graham Kennedy

Ray Martin and I had worked together before, and he well knows that if I have the questions in advance, he'll get a better interview.

Eric Stuckey

Our discussions (with ODOT) have been very positive. This would be larger than the typical loan from ODOT, but everyone knows that going in.

Mike Greene

People are thinking about signing up at gyms, and everyone knows people make commitments and don't stay to them.

Sarah Williams

People don't always know what open space pieces have been preserved by the trust. A lot of things are just there, and no one knows how to find them.

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam

As long as the book's vision is about something that's making life better for all people. That's our criteria.

Francis Mathew

As long as life exist, Overtaking is allowed.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Asif Kapadia

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Rich Coleman

Reading and writing are life skills that everyone should have the opportunity to learn,

Anthony Head

People said, 'That's going to be around your neck for the rest of your life. I didn't have a problem with it.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

James St. James

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Louis Armstrong

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Dana Perino

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.