Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Bledsoe

Anytime somebody picks somebody else over you, it's motivating. The Bills went and picked this young kid to play ahead of me. I don't think it was the right decision. I still don't. I want to go out and prove I can still get it done. The ability to throw the ball effectively, accurately and all over the field is still there. When that goes away, I think you'll see me tip my cap and hand it off to somebody else.

Bryan Whitman

Any sovereign government needs the ability to control their borders. So the role of the (Iraqi) border-control security forces is one that is vital to the overall security of the country.

Kris Hagerman

Any sizable data center has got to have the ability to understand what is going on with its servers. We feel very strongly that every one of the Global 5,000 should have this capability.

Mike Bradford

Ashley brought her all-around game to the gym every night. There really isn't any part of the game that she can't do, and her ability to shoot the three really helped us open up our offense. On the defensive side, she is just a very, very hard worker and that work ethic rubs off on the other players.

Brendan Taman

As he has shown throughout his career, Ron has the ability to get to the quarterback and disrupt what opposing offences are trying to do. Adding Ron will make the defensive line a very interesting group to watch in training camp.

Eric Holland

As far as regenerating parts of the brain that have degenerated, such as in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and others of that nature, the ability to regenerate the needed cell type and placing it in the correct spot would have major impact.

Andrew Feinberg

A service provider's business is only as strong as its ability to manage its network and services delivery. In today's competitive environment, proper resource and service management is an absolute must. By partnering with NetCracker, Covad has taken an innovative and essential approach that allows it to realize the true value of its network, prevent revenue leakage, and increase customer satisfaction and retention rates. We are thrilled to be a part of Covad's market-leading strategy.

Jerry York

As good as Elliott, Parise and Cory are in their games, none of them have the ability that Bishop has to almost be a third defender back there.

F. Stone

As fuel prices go up, airlines have ratcheted back down in terms of their ability to make a profit.

Sebastian Seung

The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

Rob Whiteley

The board will develop specific policies and initiative in the future based on input from all of its 120-plus members.

Ben Horowitz

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

Paul Marinelli

Ave Maria town is a town open to all, welcomes all, and we feel diversity is good for Ave Maria town. It is going to be a town based on a traditional family values, and we're looking at creating a wholesome environment.

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

John Battelle

As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.

Brad White

Real Estate Partners has been instrumental in Yellow Ribbon America's success, with generous support in the form of funds, resources and personnel. Our organization is currently based in office space donated by Real Estate Partners. But more significant are the donations of time and expertise by Real Estate Partners' wonderful staff. Yellow Ribbon America's goal is to reach out and make a difference on personal and local levels for our nation's military and their families. Real Estate Partners embodies that spirit and very much deserves our 2006 Outstanding Support award.

Jusuf Kalla

Prices of gold and nickel are currently high, (and) based on this, profit sharing should be increased by two to three times from the previous figures.

David H. Murdock

Personally, I like to juice up several different kinds of fruit and vegetables - which may include various combinations of bananas, red bell peppers, apples, carrots, celery, broccoli, spinach, parsley, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.

Jonathan Swift

Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart

Charise Bain

Coach Bell has been pushing us to develop a swagger and we felt we had that today when we got here. We wanted to come out and show everyone why we were the No. 1 (seed).

John Donne

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

James Johnson

The software version is an improved version that provide other kinds of bells and whistles.

Michael Koryta

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

Michael Slattery

A direction was given to remove the fore-aft bell crank ... and this was done,

Joe Sabia

One day in March, in between watching how obsessed this campus was with The OC and visiting the Taco Bell at BU, I said to myself, 'What if instead of a rough kid from Chino, it was a rough kid from BU? And instead of a pro-bono lawyer taking him into the glamour of The OC, it was a good-hearted Jesuit who took him into the haven of The BC,'

Carlos Mendez

Sometimes you can hear the bell ring or someone is laughing when you are recording. I once plugged in my headphones and there was no audio.

Larry Garrison

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial. All I can say is that he is a character. If there is a suit, it sounds like he's flip-flopping again.

Larry Garrison

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.

Joaquin Castro

As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.

Demian Bichir

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Dave Morris

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Rudy Rucker

At San Jose State I got very interested in the work of Stephen Wolfram, who wrote a pretty famous book called A New Kind of Science.

Thomas Dekker

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, - To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead

Alan Titchmarsh

At least you will know how useful the book has been.

Clyde Edgerton

Raney ... Describes more people I know than any book I've read.

Phil Nuytten

We should be there and diving . . . Saturday morning.

Ed Schroeder

In the long haul, you are looking at the rebirth of one of the historically successful industries of Pensacola . . . the fishing and diving industry.

Aaron Paul

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

Bill Baker

We're pumped. Max didn't make the top 20 his sophomore year, and last year he was 17th by one point. The state diving judges are pretty tough to impress.

Rig Veda

Only 'knowledge' can help us to know the universe, which is vast like an ocean. It enlightens everyone's minds.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Moira Kelly

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

William Goldman

Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world -- except for a nice MLT -- mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is lean and the tomato is ripe.

Dennis McAlpine

Tell me where the good news was. I haven't seen anything that's good except video game sales.

George Bernard Shaw

The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.

Tom Flores

It was the way of life. We didn't think about it much, except that it got lonely sometimes in the hotel room. The one thing we had was a home base, and we had great players who knew how to win. We didn't let it become a distraction of being nomads.

Gil Morgan

I started fast. I played well all the way around, except for the last three holes.

Gil Morgan

I started fast and played well all the way around, except for the last three holes,

Chris Martin

I send my love to Liam. We're not in a fight with everyone - except George Bush.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Harry Lapow

a freak in my neighborhood. My father wasn't interested in sports.

Charles Flynn

a friend, counselor, father figure, and a true gentleman.

Salim Ahmed

After I got news of the stampede, my wife and I could not sleep throughout of the night. We tried till 1 a.m. to talk to my father but could not get through.

Robert Thompson

Thank God that somebody did find it. I grew up with her father -- we all kind of grew up together -- so I've known them forever.

Atharva Veda

Save me, O My Father God. I am worthless and without virtue; all virtues are Yours.

Quincy Jones

I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ... putting my mother in a straitjacket, my father holding her down, screaming.

Bill Snyder

I've not been the kind of father that I should have been, and the kind of husband,

Andrew Solt

It was the true father of all the variety shows.

Thomas Carlyle

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.

Clint Hurdle

Every year you show up here, you at least have a fraction of hope. This year there's a lot more substance to go with that hope. They know (the division) is open. It's time to make a statement on the field.

Jeremy Duxbury

A sponsorship is on line and we will not let it down.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Dawn Olivieri

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Paul Taibi

People say we are a one-line team because that one line is so dominant. We have some high-profile players, but we have more than just those people. It's a total team effort.

Carolyn Wright

People have actually stood in line at the supermarkets to vote and sign to vote. We now know we are not alone.

Barry Trotz

The moons didn't line up that way ... That's neither here nor there.

Steve Johnson

Defensively, (Penn) took us out of our game. They didn't give us anything free, and when you go to the line only (three) times and them 17, that's a difference, too. But it was their defense. They just took us out of our rhythm.

Mike Tannenbaum

Anthony is an experienced veteran who provides our offensive line with flexibility and depth.

Sam Nunn

a production line of nuclear weapons ... will not be permitted.

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Mats Sundin

I've told Tomas already if you see me coming, move over.

Darius Hargrove

It was tough. But we've got to move on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Maurice Cheeks

I've been over there before. We have to move on. You can't always live in the past of what we did or what we were. The Blazers moved on and I moved on.

Stuart Bailey

Things are set up here to move really fast.

Frank Cook

Things often don't seem strange until after you move in.

Ronald Walters

This is a wise move on her part. This race was framed from the beginning.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.