Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Carmichael

As far as the five wins at Daytona, it really feels great. It's pretty amazing. I love this race. It's close to home, and I've always done well here. I really enjoy it. It's fun for me. It's special.

Hans Schwab

As far as quality is concerned, we are very close to the feeling you experience on a private aircraft, with the difference that we are a scheduled service.

Steve Lyons

As expected, we experienced payback in September following a strong performance to start the quarter. We're optimistic we can close the year on a positive note with the introduction of our new mid-size cars.

George Scalise

As expected, the semiconductor industry should close out 2002 with modest but sustained overall growth,

Hank McKinnell

as close to zero as you can get.

Sathya Baba

As close as you are to GOD, so close is GOD to you.

Brian Sabean

as close as two can be without being brothers.

Steve Capps

As close as it is to us, it's not in a very good spot. It's in terrible shape.

Bill Owens

As a big fan, I told him something needed to be done, ... He said they were close to reaching an agreement.

Rene Gayo

I've been following that kid since he was 14. He wanted to stay with us.

Jake Delhomme

I've been following him since he was at Southern Miss,

Zina Garrison

I've been following her since she was 11 or 12, I knew she could play well.

Dave Holloway

I understand they got approximately 60 tips. And maybe this is one of them they're following up on.

Ian Shepherdson

This is a strong report: Manufacturing output has strengthened markedly in the past two months, following a lackluster showing in February.

Ed Burke

Even after we told them they sometimes had trouble following it.

Greg Brown

Following in my father's footsteps is tough, but he's my mentor and he prepared me well for this.

Bette Midler

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

Morgan Freeman

We want to give people what they want, when they want it. We are following the wave.

Matt Elliott

It was very touching to get the note from the group.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

Daniel Handler

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Bruce Chatwin

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Abdullah Ocalan

Everyone should take note of the way I live, what I do and what I don't do,

Ludwig von Mises

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Chuck D.

I always remain optimistic.

Christopher Reeve

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Daniel Kahneman

People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

Daniel Kahneman

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Steve Adams

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Scott Winfrey

We played pretty well tonight. I was proud of our performance, and we were threatening.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Christopher Paolini

Even positive reviews would make me feel self-conscious while I'm writing.

Vernon Jordan

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

George W. Bush

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

Christopher Dodd

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Hugh Shelton

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Matt Allen

In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.

Wayne Carl

If September works and we can switch it, we'll switch.

John F. Kerry

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Tom Craft

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.

Celso Amorim

The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,

Kelvin Sampson

I see this as something like a snowball. Get it rolling, and it's got to start somewhere.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

is going to wear for a while and then I think we're going to get back to a real campaign. ... We're going to have to start talking about issues.

O. Henry

The old rivalry, which may not have been so strong two, three years ago, is back, and it's marvelous.

Mike Farrell

Telecom is also strong today (Tuesday) and those have been the most oversold stocks.

Gerard Bisceglia

Preposterous is a strong word, but it is warranted in this case.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Dave Mitchell

It was typical, good, tough wrestling. We have a pretty strong region.

Howard Gantman

It was very strong in terms of Californians contacting us in support of the filibuster.

Josh Reed

The wind was really strong all day. It was very make-able.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

John Fitzgibbons

This is not a strong time to take someone public.

William Reinsch

A year from now we're all going to be embarrassed by this.

Wade Taylor

A year ago I thought it was a done deal. I thought we weren't going to have a pool. I'm encouraged.

Trey Blue

I've always been able to score; this year I'm more of a playmaker who can score.

Ted Sim

The motels this year have been really accommodating for us.

Tim Franklin

The most important thing we've been this year is a symbol.

Matt Light

I've said that every year I've been here.

Kim Clijsters

It would make the year even more special,

David Richards

The way I went about it this year has been much better. The conversations we have had have been very good.

Tommy Tuberville

This is not going to be our most experienced year at quarterback,