Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Foote

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.

Rick Garcia

Illinois is not a trendsetter, but it's not a right-winger. We're not Massachusetts or California, but we're certainly not Alabama or Tennessee.... Illinoisans are reasonable people. We are cautious, but we want to do the right thing.

Brandon Cox

I know we're playing Washington State first and Alabama last, but other than that, I can't really tell you who's in the middle. We've got so much going on, we're not really worried about the schedule.

Jeff Thompson

I'm really proud of the team's performance as a whole in a tough environment on Senior Night in front 10,800. ... Whatever the reason, we weren't as sharp as we needed to be to give Alabama a challenge.

Reginald Delk

I loved watching that. They haven't beaten Alabama in a good while. Then to go out there and beat them on the home court - it was special.

Don Maestri

Their confidence factor is at a high level because they've won so many games as of late. They beat South Alabama and knocked both Arkansas teams out of byes. Not to mention they've got seven players and three starters back from an NCAA Tournament team.

Tom King

The exact storm track is still in question. Right now there is an area of low pressure in Alabama that is forecast to move northeast toward the Ohio Valley.

Jason Bohn

The check is in my mailbox right now, Alabama is up 24-3 on Florida and I just shot 65, ... It's a good day to be Jason Bohn.

Jeb Hensarling

You can't tell me there aren't places to save a penny or two on the dollar and ship it to relief in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, ... I just don't believe it as I look around.

Dontrelle Willis

Keep winning and get to the postseason, ... I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

Chris Knight

Joshi is one of the best brewers in the United States, ... His beer tastes like one of our fancy $15-a-bottle beers.

Gil Brandt

He was a fun-loving Austrian. ...He was well liked by the players because he went out and drank beer with them.

Mark Johnson

I think some people might have the perception that I jumped straight off the beer truck to qualifying school. In actuality, it wasn't like that at all.

Kelli O'Hara

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

Wally Szczerbiak

I don't have a beef with him at all. I've never had a problem with him. I just set a screen, and I didn't even try to put anything into it. I just tried to brace myself. He's a strong guy.

Mark Johnson

I don't get tired of telling my story, because I am so happy to be here, but I wonder if the other guys on the Tour are getting tired of hearing about the Beer Man.

Richard Dean Anderson

I hope you like Guiness, Sir. I find it a refreshing alternative to food.

Trevor O'Hoy

Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells.

Frank Black

Kim reminded (guitarist) Joey (Santiago) she liked my song and maybe she'd do a lyric on top of it, which is fine, because I've written lyrics for it like three times and have never really been satisfied with it. 'Gigantic' part two is in the works! And it's going to be bigger and better than the first one!

Brian Murphy

Kilgore had some ideas on transportation, but they weren't exactly great ones, ... He certainly never brought them home as part of a bigger message.

Chris Clarke

I would say this game is much, much bigger than the first one. It will give us a chance to see how far we've come and where we stand.

Brad Wick

Kenny is one of the toughest guys I have ever met, people just cant see how he can go in with these bigger guys like he does. Its the shock he gives that bigger guy when he hits them that makes them know they are in for a fight.

Paul Walsh

Katrina was a hurricane on steroids. For the rest of the year, the pre-hurricane effect -- now renamed the ?Katrina effect? -- will have a bigger impact on consumers that usual.

Bryan Hopkins

I think in the past we've had bigger names on the team. But we still have talent here.

Mark Chalupa

It always seems to be one of our bigger races. There will be a lot of cars from out of town. This will be our first points race. We're hoping to have 125 cars. A lot of people are ready to race.

Denny Fedigan

He knows the offense and just has matured and physically gotten bigger and stronger this year.

Steve McPherson

has a bigger family element. This is the East Wing side of it.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Laura Miller

It also would help, of course, if we had the movie shot here, so we could change some of the old ?Dallas? TV show stereotypes that have lasted all these years.

Chris McConnon

Having three lines has helped us out a lot." ()

Willy Taveras

It helped my body, ... My wrist is not sore anymore, and I'm not tired.

Jessica Smith

I learned a lot from them and it has helped my offense and mainly my passing. I have made all-around improvement.

Franklin Johnson

Their historic performances at this tournament have helped make the U.S. Open one of the world's premier sporting events.

Ben Howland

I'm indebted to them forever. They have helped start something we think is very special.

Frank Thomas

You know, I went through a very public divorce. He helped me out in a spot there, of course. But it was nothing loaned. It was more of my contract.

Jay Frank

The Mariah record had similar parallels and the Internet really helped to make her an A-list star again.

Linda Jay

These GDP numbers helped us out a lot.

Tony Raffetto

This helped our playoff chance. We put ourselves in the position at least to get in the playoffs.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Zach Thomas

He's doing what we need. A big percentage of the team needs that mental toughness, and that's what we have always needed here. That will hopefully pan out and make us a tougher, nasty team. We want it where teams don't want to play us.

Rob Hummel

Hopefully we can keep getting these kind of crowds. I'm not sure what it was like in 1994, but I hope they'll keep coming.

Gary Green

Hopefully we can get him on track as we go on. We're not worried about doing everything at once. Let's just do one thing at a time.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

B. F. Skinner

I just filed unemployment today. Hopefully the store will reopen, otherwise I'm going to have to find a new job.

Sebastian Telfair

I really don't know what's going on between them, but hopefully they can come to an understanding.

Steve Toltz

I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.

Avery Johnson

I'm going to think that I won't have him, then hopefully we will.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

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.

Kim Yuna

In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

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

Rick Carlisle

It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that.

Daron Rahlves

It's bad, it stinks, a poor performance by the team. It's really a poor showing. Big stage, little performance. I don't know why.

Casey Wilson

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Robert Reich

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

William Strunk, Jr.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

William Strunk, Jr.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Naomi Shihab Nye

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

Shimon Peres

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

Josh Lucas

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

Elvis Stojko

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

Jonathan Franzen

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.