Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Mads Mikkelsen

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Teemu Selanne

Bad passes. Absolutely bad passes. We panicked at times.

Jesse Greener

Back-to-work legislation is not an option that will work in the interests of students. If imposed, there will be absolutely no trust in the process since back-to-work legislation could impose not only an arbitrator, but even a contract. In this case, students will likely not see improvements in the faculty student ratio - this would be serious set-back in the quality of college education.

Burt Aaronson

a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.

Mike Tracy

That was absolutely the pinnacle of my basketball career.

Rocco Mediate

That was absolutely the coolest thing. The fans here are knowledgeable, and they knew I was in trouble and appreciated the effort, I guess.

Spanish Proverb

A pig bought on credit is forever grunting

Dave Checketts

Any notion that we bought this to go elsewhere is silly at this point.

Dan Dakich

The thing about being here, is if kids fight you, and they all fight you to start with, but if kids fight you, then it's difficult. I can always tell when a kid has really bought into what we're all doing, and when they do that, they become special.

Joe Coleman

I've never called for an emergency but I bought one for myself. It's not something that's physical condition related.

Jeff Capel

I've never bought into the theory of you have to have a ton of experience to get it done.

Margaret Atwood

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

Casper Dien

I've already bought a script - a love story - that I plan to produce.

Colby Rasmus

I wanted to get something that was a little nicer, but he brought me back down to earth. But with the money, I bought him a truck.

John Adams

The old boys are really looking forward to this. Some of them have gone out and bought new berets or blazers just for the occasion, so they'll look their best.

Jon Bolin

Randy puts more effort into his game than any player I've worked with. Sometimes he even goes a little overboard with (weightlifting).

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Larry Eustachy

Our effort has been tremendous all year long. They've fought hard all year, and I would think we'll fight hard (today).

Vince Carter

Our effort and our execution were the keys to our victory. If we play like that, we're tough to beat.

Rick Ruffin

Our energy and effort were back tonight, we just had to have a stop to finish the game.

Matt Rabjohn

Our effort was there. You can't fault our effort.

Frank Haith

Our effort was there, and that's all you can hope for is if our guys will have that kind of energy, that kind of effort the rest of the year. You give yourself a chance, and that's what you want.

Brian Lowery

Our effort was pretty good in humid conditions, which makes the legs a little dead. So our times weren't necessarily where we wanted them to be at, but at the same time, we competed and finished hard.

Jason Lawson

Our effort wasn't as good as it could have been. I expect more out of our guys.

Joan Maloney

I wanted to emphasize the glamour and prestige of the event.

Harvey Staver

First of all, this is a very smart group. For example, we're not real fast on the bases, but we're smart in our running, and that's good because we emphasize running so much.

Mario Perez

We want to emphasize safety, so no one gets hurt.

John Graler

We emphasize service and mission. They're getting it.

Nicolle Wallace

When you're giving a tour of the Oval Office, you're trying to point to things that emphasize what you're trying to do. For him, the optimism is very symbolic of what he wants his presidency to be about.

Michael Seymour

I can not emphasize enough it is an American buyer.

Sonny Rollins

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Abe Badmus

He?d see us tense, like he used to be. He just emphasized us to go have fun and enjoy the moment.

Michael Ramsey

I want to emphasize that there has been no interference with the trial and there won't be whatsoever.

Bob Stoops

I don't think so, ... He remembers those other 12 games. They didn't fade from his memory.

Tom Lee

We threw a fade route to No. 5. He made a great play.

Susan Grayson

They start out following an experienced inspector and then gradually that experienced inspector fades back and lets this person take the lead.

Andre Woolfolk

They put us in a whole lot more man-to-man situations. I would have liked to come out on top on that fade that they threw.

Allen Johnson

This is where new stars are made, old stars fade away.

John Fitzgibbon

We only hope, in the next few weeks, Debbie will fade to a footnote.

Maurice Cheeks

You are not going to have too many nights where he shoots like that. We were very fortunate.

Antawn Jamison

Tonight was one of those nights when we were short-handed.

Bob Motzko

We weren't sharp tonight, but we did a lot of things well enough to find a way to win. You're not going to be sharp every night, and tonight was one of those nights that we weren't.

Rubin Salter

That was the maids' and butlers' nights off.

Jack Hunter

Collin has had plenty of nights like that.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Jeff Perreault

I kind of thought the third was going to be our period, it was just one of those nights where things didn't go our way.

Roy Williams

It was one of those nights that kind of snowballed on Dave's team.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

John Fox

Sometimes players don't like to be reminded of their mistakes, at least not right away.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Jim Calhoun

Brandon Roy, in my opinion, is one of the top two or three players in the country.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Willie Randolph

The team's been playing well and we'll just start another streak tomorrow.

Paul Marsh

Something has got to give. They are playing too much and there's too much travel.

Shawn Lewinski

Once we scored that first goal, I thought we were going to get going. Unfortunately they actually settled in, they started playing their game. I think we relaxed, and that was a big mistake.

Larry Stevens

So much of what we're doing is playing catch-up.

Marc Crawford

Right now Todd is playing so well, we could probably play him in net.

Ed Coyle

Quincy's getting better and better with every game. Right now, he's playing well. He's playing like a senior.

Dereck Whittenburg

Psychologically for us, we're the underdog every game. So Xavier (today) will be like playing on the road. We're used to that.

Doug Gottlieb

I've never sensed in all the three years I was playing for him and the six years since I never once suspected that (Sutton) was back drinking.

John Higgins

It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.

James Madison

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.