Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

S. Walker

Playing a top-15 football team in the country, not a small achievement. But we do have a way of making it interesting. 'Why can't we do this easy?' I kept saying in the fourth quarter.

Alexandra Robbins

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

Stuart Clark

Interactive Data posted excellent 2005 financial results. In 2005, we surpassed the $500 million milestone in annual service revenue, an achievement that reflects the organic expansion of each core business as well as the contributions from our acquisitions.

Bonnie Hammer

In Sir Sean, AFI has found a perfect honoree for its Life Achievement Award. A celebration of his outstanding work guarantees a tribute as entertaining as it is deserved.

Didier Deschamps

I'm happy to have reached the knockout stages, which is an achievement in itself.

E. B. White

If we beat the All Blacks on Saturday it must come close to the achievement of winning a World Cup.

Makoto Yamashita

Investors cannot justify buying bonds and they want to avoid 10-year yields going lower than 1.3 percent. There is a five-year note auction next week and investors don't want to have a low coupon on it.

Jack Reynolds

In 166,000 auctions and $25 million worth of property we've sold on eBay we've never had a stolen item because any crook with brains in his head isn't going to take stuff to someone who photographs them and puts them on public display.

Michael Baroni

I have voluntarily canceled the eBay auction upon receiving word from one of Jennifer's representatives that she didn't want me conducting the auction. I have nothing but fond memories of Jennifer as a friend and only wish her well.

Mark Hyman

In all fairness to the auction companies most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

William Sullivan

The two-year note auction went far, far better than expected, prompting a wave of short-covering.

Charles Reinhard

The two-year auction didn't go well. People are using that as a reason to sell. ... We're in a bear market.

Humpy Wheeler

This is a great bike and a great cause, ... I'm proud to be the first bidder and get this auction started. Hopefully I can get other race fans excited about the custom chopper and raise funding for the important relief efforts being provided by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Tony Crescenzi

The horrid results of today's 30-year auction clearly show that investors have encountered sticker shock,

Soichiro Kimura

The auction went smoothly. Government notes have been sold excessively recently and yields have probably factored in the impact of a policy shift.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Brian Jensen

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Curtis Painter

I think it's actually helped me relax a little bit. I'm not so worried about making every throw perfect. It gives me a little more of a chance to settle down and read things.

Robert Carter

I think it's a chance that people can get some closure to a situation that's been devastating to a lot of families.

Lee Humphrey

I think it may be just coincidence, I don't know. I put up a lot of shots, and I think that I have a good chance to make every one. It just happened that I made the ones (that were huge). I just hope I've got a few of those left.

Joe Dumars

I think it has been a great experience for Darko to get a chance to play and be around his national team. He really needed this summer.

Michael Haynes

I think it gives us a chance as a team and, really for Orton, to kind of sit back and learn from the mistakes,

Ed McClanahan

I think it is a good idea. I come to Maysville every chance I get. It's a good town. I plan to read something about Maysville.

Jerry Costello

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

Amar'e Stoudemire

It hit me personally because I've been in that type of situation when I was a kid (living in a number of different homes in Florida), when I really didn't have a household to go to. When I see those families and kids down there, I see myself.

Jose Bono

Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.

Davitt McAteer

The families ought to be involved. If we have families that are involved in mine safety, the mines will be safer.

A.G. Lafley

It's incredible. We've got to get some of these families back on track.

Rosemary Fox

It's very painful physically ... away from families and familiarity.

Ronnie Brown

It takes time. Carnell and myself, we were together for four years, so we had the opportunity to hang out a lot. On this level, it's a little different. People have lives as far as families and stuff away from here, so you don't find yourself hanging out as much.

Jan Balkenende

It's terrible if you hear about a fire of such size, 11 people dead, ... Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and the wounded.

James Riley

It's going to be the heart, the pulse of the relief effort, ... We've got a vested interest in getting back there and getting things running. That's where our homes are, that's where our families are.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

Bobby Robson

I didn't take the Hearts job for personal reasons.

Dennis Hastert

Our hearts and prayers go out to him,

Garrett Williamson

We left our hearts on the court, and locked them up on defense.

Ernesto Zedillo

I will not permit these homes to be rebuilt in the same places,

Freida Pinto

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Dave Kelly

You don't get homesick here, ... It's like living at home.

Robert Reich

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Maryann Courson

We'll do what we have to do to protect homes and roads. But, we would feel a lot better knowing we have the legal right to pump water when we have to in an emergency.

Michael Burgess

Nursing homes should be a last resort, and that's what a lot of this is moving toward.

Gary Gambardella

They traded their houses for the big house.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Lynn Forres

We have appropriated about $90 billion. And I don't see that the homeowners are getting it to be able to prepare to put their houses back.

Chris Proulx

What are they getting for houses in Portland? $250,000? Why?

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Roger Altman

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Phyllis Davis

I'm going to miss it terribly. I know that. It's been a major part of my life. So, it's going to be a new adjustment.

Eliot Spitzer

A lot of major songs have been implicated in this.

Steve Friswell

The major companies, and we represent about 80 percent of them, do. It's the other 20 percent who have been underpaid.

Walter Bradley

The major question is the nature of nature.

Ann Brown

These products can really hurt. We're talking a major recall,

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.