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.

Fred Miller

A win is a win. You try to keep the game in perspective and let the kids play. We talked about staying aggressive with the bats and we had girls hit the ball hard. You just try to play your game and play good softball.

Jason Teh

Babcock & Brown is certainly trying to be as aggressive as Macquarie Bank.

Eric Ballantine

Ratings on Horizon Lines reflect its aggressive financial profile, modest financial flexibility, participation in the capital-intensive and competitive shipping industry, and an aging fleet.

Ryan Queensland

Racing is the No. 1 growing sport in the country, and it's largely an untapped market. We need to let people know we're around. We've probably got our most aggressive schedule this year.

Patrick Boyle

Realize there are several million people on the same roads you are, and they're not there to annoy you. They're doing the same thing you are. So try to take it easy, and not be so aggressive towards other drivers,

Tom Corbett

Profit was the motive, with sales goals as high as $20,000 a day. The dealers took aggressive steps to protect their lucrative enterprise.

Dan Donegan

Probably. When we got together and started throwing around the ideas, I just started bringing out some old riffs I used to play. 'Guarded' and 'Decadence' are pretty much straight-up, aggressive tracks on the album. Those were the first two ideas I had come up with. That set the tone right off the bat of it being a little bit more aggressive at times. Out of 19 songs that we tracked 14 going on the album that's a lot of material. We try to give every song its own identity. We don't want to fall in the rut of being a repetitious-sounding band. We don't want every song to sound like 'Down with the Sickness' or 'Prayer' . It's got to be a creative mood. It's got to be its own thing.

Tom Donahoe

Our team was good, and they had good years and cashed in on it. I don't think it was a case of the Steelers being cheap. We had a lot of good players on those teams at the time and just couldn't keep them all. We also weren't as aggressive back then as they are now.

Ben Wallace

Our defense got lost in the shuffle. When that happens, that's when we get away from playing the way we're capable of playing. We have to be more aggressive on the defensive end.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

Matt Hasselbeck

The thing that I've learned through the course of this week is that it means a lot to a lot of people.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Tiger Woods

I've played well here. But this golf course didn't really handle the weather too well, and this time of year, you get rain. We've been lucky to finish this tournament on time.

Jessica Bird

The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.

Jim Brown

They all know that they have to play better. Most of it is course management and short game. We have really been trying to concentrate on that the whole year.

Kevin Eggan

The work that has been reported there is extremely important, so we are of course troubled by the allegations that have been made and are hopeful that they are not true.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

Boris Yeltsin

I think these qualities will be decisive during presidential elections in 2000, ... decent, honest and thorough.

Michael Stipe

I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.

Thomas Hubbard

that a lot of the language he was using about Kim and North Korea would be counterproductive to getting them back to six-party talks.

Kanye West

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

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.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Maria Sharapova

It was tough. I couldn't put two points together. I was tired from my previous match, and now I need some time off.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

David Blitzer

there's nothing here that really points to any near-term inflationary dangers.

John Tortorella

We just wanted to get two points (for the win). But we wanted to win it in regulation.

Bruce Thomas

We just got on a roll. Twenty-five points is sometimes as much as we score in three quarters.

Mark Smith

We'll take it any time. We haven't had a big win in terms of points like this all year.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

John Jones

We're going to try to use solid technique.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.