Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Schade

The thing that got me interested was helping the people who need help -- the athletic achievement is kind of secondary to the actual fundraising.

Dave Barrett

I wanted to do something, along with some other guys, because it is the 20th anniversary. It is a great accomplishment and we were proud to be a part of it.

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Chris Phillips

It would be a good achievement for us. If we won (the trophy), it would just be something else that we could take into the playoffs with us, but the more important thing for us is to be playing well.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Ayn Rand

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Powell Clayton

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Dave Hager

This truly is a remarkable achievement by our employees and contractors whose execution of this project was second to none. This team not only expanded the capacity of the spar, but kept the project in line with budget and persevered through two massive hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico to safely install the Constitution spar on schedule.

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Al Donner

The Service is determined to take the actions necessary to save and restore the smelt, and that is where we are focusing our energies.

Sara Teasdale

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

Michelle Rodriguez

I've been doing lots of hard-core chick, kick-ass things. The action is appealing because I haven't found the mental challenge in the dramatic roles that I've been shown. I don't want to be the girl who just falls in love.

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Clyde Powless

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Mark Savoia

Barberton and Wadsworth are the two strongest teams in the league. It should be a fun battle. It should also be a battle for third place among Revere, Green and Highland.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Steve Jobs

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

Gerald Andersen

The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers.

Stephen Criswell

The tide of mega-gatherings among African-American families is high and rising.

Bubba Davis

The big thing about the win is that we fell behind 12-2 early and came back. Especially with these kids, it was very, very big that we hung in and did what we had to do to win.

David Sanborn

The music is going to change anyway, whether or not the record companies get behind it or not. The music is there, and it's happening, and it's going on out there.

Mohammad Khatami

Something that pains me, and for which I pity the American people, is that their leaders have fallen behind the times. They are not living in their times,

Bob Mattison

Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone. When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none, or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Tobias Levkovich

Tech has been the biggest factor behind the latest bull run, so the fact that stocks are down seems fairly reasonable. I hesitate to sit back and say this a great buying opportunity.

Roy H. Williams

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

Lee Ferridge

It was a knee-jerk reaction after the reports of an earthquake. The logic behind the move is that a natural disaster in California could damage the U.S. economy.

Dave Vestal

It was a huge play. Playmakers make plays and he got a chance to come back and make one. That's the sign of a very good player, someone who is able to come right back off a disappointment and put it behind him.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Scott McNealy

The team really delivered. Not only did we successfully bring on line our new ERP systems, but we also introduced new products and partnerships during the quarter.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

Robert Long

I wanted something for this boutique that would reflect Manhattan, New York, which is my favorite place on the planet, ... Allure's boutique is really something different. It is fashion-forward. It brings things up to date, because the New York fashions are traditionally years ahead.

John Sulston

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

Margaret Johnston

Personally I am haunted by the irony that someone like Sheila, whose message to the world was all about nurturing, could have a child who would shoot her.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Jonathan Jackson

You're probably saving money if you factor in the grief . . . of dealing with children in the supermarket. I think it will take off in the suburbs, particularly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Ben Marcus

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Barbara Jordan

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

Gerris Wilkinson

When I left, we got closer. It was kind of... we got much closer after I left. I'm not sure why that was.

Patricia Baker

The fact that drivers don't get paid if they don't race, consumers relate to that. Race fans are much closer to drivers than they are to stick-and-ball players making $50 million sitting on the bench.

Merlin Lahm

She's been in OK condition, and she's getting closer to race form. She was running great times last year.

Joan Baker

She's closer to me than my sisters, ... We've been through a lot together.

Jim Aumann

She got us started. Without that start, it would have been a closer game.

Kim Clijsters

She kept hitting the lines and going for her shots, but the closer it gets, she misses a smash. They'll go for more risks and you get them out of their comfort zone. That's what sometimes makes a difference.

Jimmy Howard

I have been dreaming of playing in the National Hockey League all of my life, and to get one step closer to that goal is special.

Pam Robinson

I have a very difficult time moving west of Metcalf when you have families driving past one, two or three elementary schools that are closer than 21.

Tom Harkin

so that my constituents and others will know how and why I reached my decision. I have nothing but disdain for and objection to the closing of the Senate doors on this vital matter of impeachment of the president.

Richard Kimball

Say you sold someone a round of drinks for $17.50, ... You'd ring in $7.50, put the $17.50 in (the register), and put a swizzle stick in the drawer as a reminder that the drawer is up by $10. At the end of the night, if you had eight swizzle sticks in there, you'd pocket $80 before closing out your register.

Khloe Kardashian

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

Jane Smiley

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

John Jones

Brent Sullivan did a great job on DeWitt. The rest of our team did a great job of closing out on shooters.

Geoffrey Russell

There's really not much to say. We're just closing out the sale. There are 94 outs Monday so we should be done early.

Joe Franco

We understand that cost is going to be an issue with this, but we're just going to need to come to some type of compromise, ... This is too large of a University at this point to be closing as early as it is.

Amy McConnell

She said that the state of Michigan would pay for all of our closing costs and five percent down." ()

Douglas Duncan

Some companies were just assigning people a closing date.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Nabil Sha'ath

and to start together to implement this road map -- each of us implementing his share of these obligations and responsibilities.

Howard Simon

She was part of a team that did not implement policies that were protective of the right to vote. They made the right to vote more perilous.

David Wray

We took a poll of our members. Seventeen percent of our members said they intended to implement the Roth 401(k) in 2006. Eighty-three percent were going to wait and see or were not going to do it at all.

Richard Costigan

We can go to the PUC and implement the policy of SB 1, and that is where we will be going.

Victoria Strauss

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

Dan Roberts

We're evaluating how quickly we can implement that. It's likely something that we will do but I can't say when.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Judd Gregg

She was a very pleasant young woman. She might have kept it and for all I know it might have been the winning ticket,

Mike Ramsey

She's got no case. Never has and never will. If Ms. Pirro had kept her mouth shut, none of this would have happened.

Chamberlain Oguchi

Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was going to fall.

Jose Cortez

I didn't think I was going to get released. I thought I was going to get another week over there and if I kept having those same problems, then I was going to have a problem.

Mark Clarke

(Kroll) is a terrific shooter. She knows how to play and score. I would like to play her more time but I am edging her in. She kept us in at times.

Mike Richards

I saw it coming, I just tried to get my stick on it. I looked over my shoulder and I saw it just slowly going in. I just kept waiting and waiting.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joel Silver

(The) four-volume set is the largest project of its kind done up until its time.

Kevin Nelson

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Robbie Loomis

We've got a lot of work left to do. We just keep trying every day to get better.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Hugh Johnson

The problem is there are exceptions. You're still left with the question: Is this the time when it won't work?

Brendan Taman

We've never been in this situation before where there's a month left in the season and you're living on a mathematical wing and a prayer.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Bruce Lee

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

Eckhart Tolle

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Bruce Brown

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Troy Erickson

We try to teach them how to respond to situations.

Doug Russell

The credibility of the university is tied with how we respond on this.

Howard Schultz

There's tension here, and I'm just trying to respond in a responsible way,

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Jack Nicholson

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Charles Mueller

How much more can you do at this point? The word is out there,

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.