Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russian Proverb

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place.

Katie Nordhaus

People tend to forget around the New Year. I think it's just because it's winter-time, and it's cold out, and people are sedentary. Who wants to be outside in the cold walking a dog?

Scott Smith

So much of natural gas prices is weather related. If it's colder people tend to use more energy. And because it's a nationwide market, if it's cooler in New England it's going to drive up the price for us as well.

Steve Huling

It was very cold and windy and I thought the girls ran exceptionally well considering the weather. Ft. Dodge St. Edmond has an excellent team and this was a great preview of what to expect for the conference meet in two weeks.

Ian Forrester

It was way too cold to be playing soccer. It was a very complete performance defensively and offensively, but it's only the first game so we don't want to get too excited.

Peter Scott

It was very, very cold and there were a number of injuries, self-inflicted injuries, because people just couldn't take the cold.

Nelson McCullough

It was a little slow getting started ... It was a little cold out there and so forth (but) we managed to get back on track a little bit." ()

Barry Bonds

I've been in L.A. for the most part in 90-degree weather, ... Coming up here to San Francisco and the cold ... I just want to see how I come out of it.

Jeff Wilhite

Things are going well, and it's encouraging. We didn't expect a lot (this year), after opening so late -- with cold weather and the holidays.

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

Kevin Stallings

As I told them right after the game last night, we won our first two conference games last year, then we proceeded to lose four of six. Our response to that game is more important than the game itself.

Joe Sakic

Our conference is so tight, and the play is tight, we are watching the scoreboard every night. Tonight is just one game, and we are in first for a day. We just will hope to continue it.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Bill Fennelly

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

Avery Johnson

We hope we're back, as like any Western Conference team that's going to playoffs. But we've got too much work to do.

Joe Torre

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

O. Henry

When it launched, it really got out of Dodge in a hurry.

Kyle Busch

This is a great way to start with a new group of guys. Our Dodge was fast today and hopefully it was still be fast on Sunday.

Dontrelle Willis

I tried to dodge it, but it was on me so quick, and I have a big backside.

Ann Widdecombe

As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.

Karen Peterson

People think prices are going to go down and the statistics keep telling us they're not. They need to buy. We have an excellent inventory, excellent interest rates. What are they waiting for?

Brian Leonard

People that really know the game know we have an excellent team.

Michael DeBakey

After reviewing all facts, I am pleased to say that the operation is needed, that it shall provide excellent results,

Jerome Meyer

After five years of excellent financial performance, we are extremely disappointed with these results,

Diane Feinstein

strength, experience, leadership and judgment to be an excellent president.

Gary Larkins

Teams can come in and play two or three games at excellent sites.

Rhys Ifans

I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky.

Travis Paquet

It was an excellent game. It was 8-8 at the end of the first and 18-14 at the half.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Mark Potok

People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.

Christine Benz

People had come to expect the world of them. (They're) a little disappointed.

Roger Johnson

Normally, you don't expect the snow to leave in January, but this year is hard to tell. From everything I've been hearing, it's not one of the warmest winters - it is the warmest winter we have had in January.

Adam Rankin

Normal investigations take three to six months to complete, so I expect at that time, once the report is final on this accident, we'll make the announcement of our findings and it will be public at that point.

Prakash Karat

After what he has said about the Left parties he should be recalled. We expect a response from the government.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Steve Altman

Once these licenses get issued (in China), then we expect there will be rapid deployment there.

Rachael Short

It was tough losing Maggie but I am proud of the way our girls competed.

Darrel Hoffman

It was wonderful. We've been looking for a break-through round and all of the girls played pretty well. I'm tickled with the performance today.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Hugh Godsey

It was a little ugly there at the end, but the girls pulled through with the win.

Charlie Reppel

(It was) another thrilling victory for us. My girls are resilient. They refuse to lose.

Ty Votaw

These young girls have grown up in a celebrity-driven culture,

Steve Knight

I've been impressed with the way she handles players. She does a good job of relating to them. She's disciplined in a way that girls respond to, but she doesn't back down. She's a stern taskmaster, but she has a way that can relate to players.

Scott Cromwell

I use her name a lot with the girls I have playing for me now. Some of them get tired of hearing me talk about her, probably. But she's a unique young lady that I was lucky enough to coach.

Jessica Laws

They all stepped it up. It was a team goal to win every event, but the other swimmers did very well, too. The girls swam hard to get second and third place finishes, and those points are just as important.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Scoville Jenkins

Rafael is a great player. This was a learning experience. He was what I expected, and a little more than I expected.

Ernie Harwell

Radio will always be with us because of its great portability. TV can't give you that.

Amity Gaige

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Jarrod Cooper

Randy shows up to work every single day. I don't know what misconceptions people had (going into the season), probably the same ones I had, but he's a great leader, no nonsense, he shows up and plays.

Steve Rushing

Ramon is a great rider, but an even greater person,

Mark Recchi

Ray is a very smart player. Obviously he's got great talent, and we're hoping he's able to come back and make a difference.

Fred Couples

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Mark Twain

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Samuel Johnson

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Curtis Crews

Originally we started with only meeting once a month but we realized that it was taking too long, so we went to meeting twice a month. Once we get the new members on the committee, we should be able to get moving on it.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Kansas City

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations.

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Dick Cheney

prefer not to meet with all members of the commission.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Brad Fairchild

Roy ran real well. Running that time with a 20-minute rest after the 400 is pretty impressive.

Dr. Seuss

Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam,

Chris Davis

I showed him how to do it, how to work in TV. There's a formula. Richard ran with it.

Andrew Benson

We ran water through it once to see if it worked and then shut it off. It hasn't run since. We're actually going to go about trying to put it on eBay.

Carmelo Anthony

We ran pretty well (Monday night). I don't think we ran as well as we wanted to. But we ran pretty well.

Roger Allen

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday). I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

Roger Allen

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday), ... I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

Ricky Ledee

Everything was different, and the way they ran the team was totally different.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,