Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

Rick Rubin

He is one of the few people who can get on a stage in an arena in front of any audience anywhere in the world and and play original songs for hours (that) everyone would be familiar with and sing along to. The list of people whose music has this power could be counted on one hand, tops.

Hasim Rahman

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Jason Dean

He jumped right in and helped us. Of course, we were doing everything; traffic patrol and trying to keep a high presence in the area when the power was out, he, along with all the men and women of the department did a real good job and I'm pleased with everybody. Being the new guy I thought he handled himself very well during the hurricane because there was a lot of hours worked and not a lot of sleep.

Bruce Bochy

Greenie's coming along faster than we thought. He's feeling pretty good with it, and he's got the OK to do just about everything.

Thorsten Fischer

Half of the refining industry's capacity is located alongside the Gulf of Mexico.

Bruce Gunter

We are going to miss this senior group. They were a pretty good group. We have some players coming along from a 14-4 junior varsity team, so we're not losing the cupboards so to speak.

Bob DuPuy

There are still some fundamental economic differences. We've said all along our goal is get a lease and we're going to continue to work on it. I don't think it'll be done Friday. We're probably looking at next week.

Jean Miller

He is the comrade around whom the party people can coalesce. He should be chairman for life.

Edward Leamer

I think it's a very good thing. I never understood why (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan was encouraging people to go into short-term mortgages, because of the risk they entailed.

Allen Sinai

I think that Greenspan will rank as one of the most effective and innovative Fed chairman that we have had -- a home-run champion.

Marion Hammer

I think the chairman is telling us where he intends to go, to put it politely.

Carol Foreman

In the first place, the chairman shouldn't be weighing in,

David Davis

Clearly it is an embarrassment that the party rank and file turned down a proposal from the leadership of the rank and file - from the chairman - but that's by the by, we have to deal with that.

Lyle Gramley

Being Fed chairman only increases his value that much more.

Stanley Twardy

I'm surprised. This is probably the first time that the defense of 'I didn't know' denials has worked for a former chairman or CEO. This may be the first time that the Sergeant Schultz defense has worked.

Bobby Rush

I'll be talking with the chairman of the transportation committee when i get back to Washington to see whether or not there's anything that can be done to look at this particular piece of track.

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Robert Rossiter

Our company is fortunate to have in place, one of the strongest financial teams in the industry, including Jim, who previously served as Lear's chief financial officer and has more than 30 years of industry experience.

Petro Poroshenko

Preserving honor and dignity for me remains the chief value, more than any job.

Mary Murphy

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

Lewis Altfest

If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

James Sullivan

I have been very frustrated with what seems to be the overuse of executive session.

Lumkile Mondi

The laws effectively require that white executives replace themselves.

Barbara Stewart

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Howard Dean

That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.

William Crawford

We have executives running this city. We need to wait for a master plan to make a decision? It's part of my frustration.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.

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).

Jim Eastin

Our line has been our strength so far. We get after people and stay after them. Our season is not over. Hopefully the kids understand that.

Kyle Orton

If you stay out of third-and-longs, they can't do a whole lot. So hopefully we can win first down and win second down and keep ourselves to manageable third downs.

B. F. Skinner

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

Hamilton Peterson

I plan on being there as much as possible and hopefully being able to witness history.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

Carmelo Anthony

We've got to roll with it and just move on. Everybody's got to pick up the slack.

Andrew Hanlan

We suspect that will be the only move this year.

David Steel

We think big trends like convergence, and the move to wireless and networking, will play to our strengths.

Scott Peters

I think we need to move past that,

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

Sarah Wilson

In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Sandra Day O'Connor

You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

Karl Albrecht

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.

Dionny Reynolds

In situations like this, it got to be three people.

Jose Vidro

I haven't had an MRI yet, so I don't know what the situation is.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

Rod Smith

This is all you work for, to be in this situation and win. And we didn't get it done.

Dave Twardzik

All it takes is that one team to like you. But for most guys, unless they're a superstar, they really have to go to a situation that's the right fit.

John Tortorella

Sure I am (concerned). We're in a tough situation here. I'm not going to sit here and (lie) to you.

Jeff Gundy

I just spoke to him about him as a player,

Emily Dickinson

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

Matthew Cooper

Before I spoke to Mr. Rove I didn't know about Wilson having a wife. And he was the one who suggested to me that she worked at the agency,

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Horace

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall. [Lat., Delere licebit Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Katherine Jenkins

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

Lesley-Anne Down

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.