Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Russa

I actually think the wins in the minor leagues are more meaningful. You're developing prospects.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Jorma Ollila

Half of the mobile phones sold this year will be sold in developing countries.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Ross Mathews

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

Najib Razak

In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

Peter Reynolds

Here we're trying to preserve and nurture our own historic New England downtown, and instead we're going to have a Disney version of a town square just a stone's throw away from the real one. We should be developing what we already have.

John Worsfold

He's a very good footballer and he's still a developing footballer so there's no doubt he'll keep improving throughout this year, and I would expect over the next year as well.

Ted Owen

I think it's a perfect idea because one of the university's missions is similar to one of ours -- developing a quality workforce, ... Them reaching out to us instead of us reaching out to them is a novel approach, and a great one.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

Milan Kundera

I have no mission. No one has.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

John Belushi

We are on a mission for God.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Donald Rumsfeld

The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is.

Stephen Covey

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Jeff Bezos

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Mark Pellegrino

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

John Updike

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

Charles Pierce

I would say we have probably transformed ourselves from a small to a medium-sized institution.

Stephen Colbert

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

Jim Morris

I thought we should have won two out of three. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Pete Lewinski

We try to pride ourselves on defense. I'd like to think that had something to do with their turnovers.

Bill Cowher

We've been underdogs pretty much every week since we got into this thing. We don't take ourselves too seriously.

J. Taylor

We've got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot.

Jason Varitek

I think we just tried to do too much. We got ourselves out.

Jennifer Nettles

We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.

Yuri Andropov

peace for ourselves and for all the people of the planet.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Craig Carpenter

We took our CEO, who is not a technologist, through the new setup wizard with no problem. It was the perfect test case.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

David Steiner

The idea is similar to that of a consignment shop.

Chris Sisko

It's going to be a similar track to Dennis, potentially.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

Steve Ron

We all have to wait. We're in a similar situation.

Michael Zenker

There's a geopolitical overlay that's going to look similar to oil.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.