Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Young

It boils down to they?re taking our freedom away. I don?t ever think it can be wide open again, but this is ridiculous.

Robert Gerhardt

It boils down to primary use. That was the essential factor (the county attorney) told me and the board.

Bob Schmidt

It boils down to education, and what better place to start than young adults? They have more of a virgin mind-set to the process and no preconceived notions.

Donald Trott

I think the major issue that it always boils down to is ongoing earnings opportunities. The cellular business has been the primary driver in more recent years, but we think cellular will become increasingly competitive.

James Annable

If the world gets the idea that this is the end of Fed tightening, the stock market will probably like that and you will have higher stock averages. What it boils down to, in terms of the economy, is the standard of living for wage earners is significantly higher. For (George W.) Bush, he has to neutralize that and for (Al) Gore, he has to figure out how to capitalize on that.

Steven Sinofsky

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

Conor Oberst

And it all boils down to one quotable phrase... "If you love something, give it away.

Matt Braeuer

Everybody knows what it takes to win and everybody would sacrifice scoring 20 points a game to be on a winning team, to be on a championship team. I think that's what it all boils down to.

Dan Bonner

The big issue facing any school is very simple. It boils down to one word - excellence.

Martin Jol

It is a cliche in England, but that is what we were shouting about before the game - getting back to winning ways. This is exactly what we need - a win.

Megan Duffy

I think we understood at the end of the season that we were controlling our destiny. As cliche as that is, we knew we had to win games to get in.

Ken Jeong

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

M. J. Rose

Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.

Michael Cudlitz

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

Chris Avellone

If there's anything I can't stand, it's the cliche of the female handler who's always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It's such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It's like, is this all she's ever going to be?

Meghan Markle

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.

David Walton

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

Nathan Lane

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Totie Fields

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

James Chu

Jon is a very strong kid. I really feel that he's the one that's been victimized. But for the sake of Jonathan, I'm going to forget about what Mr. Wooden has told me.

Luis Sojo

He just said, 'I'm sorry, guys,' that's all, ... We said, 'It's not your fault. Get out of here, go home and forget about it.'

Juan Rincon

He's a really nice guy. I'm never going to forget (the home run), but I don't take it personal.

Alessandro Nesta

I think a thing like this you won't forget for a lifetime. Thirty seconds from the end and it all goes up in the air.

Niklas Lidstrom

I think sometimes at home we forget to pass. On the road we are more relaxed than at home and we give ourselves a chance. We are more patient on the road.

Mark Melancon

I will probably not forget this game for the rest of my life. That game is my fault. I take that on my shoulders.

Jim Caldwell

He's a very unusual person that has physical gifts and he also has great intellectual gifts. He has a memory that, without question, is sharp as one could have. He rarely forgets anything and he can recall things from eons back. But that helps him, I think, just in terms of being the detail-oriented person that he is. He's able to maximize his study and preparation for our opponents.

Bob Barr

He has worked for each member to get elected, to be re-elected, and that is something members don't forget -- or forget at their own peril.

Jim Berry

He doesn't forget anything. You can show him a move and the next thing you know he's using it (in a match).

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Mark Edwards

I would think they will have some pretty good success at leasing the building, especially with the amenity of on-site parking.

Denny Green

I would think he's going to be out at least two preseason games. We're just happy that it's not real serious -- there's a lot of pain, obviously. And he should be as good as new.

Shakira

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Mary Gordon

It's like walking into a cathedral.. It reminds me that what I do in the world is a valuable and important thing.

Ginger Mullins

For everything you find, it reminds you of something you lost.

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Pauline Frommer

Even now we look at it and it reminds us of our trip there.

Hugh Johnson

Merck reminds us that this is about earnings.