Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Stefan Molyneux

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Angus Campbell

Despite the U.S. earnings commencing in earnest this week, the recent inability of indexes to sustain their highs has led many to believe that there is impending weakness. For new highs to be set U.S. companies will have to report superb results, far outstripping expectations and things did not get off to a great start last week.

Jay Thomas

The team's focus after this past week's tragedy has been exceptional, considering the circumstances. We believe that we are ready to strap it on.

Tom Mitchell

The team is starting to believe in what we're trying to do,

Terri Sullivan

The team is really pleased. We knew coming into the weekend these wins were critical in the conference race. Every game at this time of year in the Big Ten is a dog fight. I believe the team is in the right frame of mind at the most important part of the season.

Robert Thompson

The tape was the key. Without it, no one would believe you. The video is not perfect, a little grainy, but that's what makes it so quaint, so appealing.

Sam Salih

The talent level was there when I got here. It's been a matter of getting the girls to buy into my system and getting them to believe they we can get this program back to where it was four years ago.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

Jason Simmons

The sack, it fell on me. Dunta (Robinson) had the sack. (Buffalo quarterback J.P.) Losman stepped up in the pocket, and he didn't see me coming from the back. I wish I could tell you it was a Reggie White move, but it wasn't.

J. M. Roberts

The scores were going so low all week. You just have to keep your foot to the floor on this golf course. Fortunately, I made a lot of good putts coming into the house.

Susan Hazen

The science on PFOA is still coming in, but the concern is there.

Susan Hazen

The science on PFOA is still coming in.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Robert Poole

Every conference I went to in 2005, this was the topic.

Rob Smith

This team needed a win. It's been a tough start for us and this is a good way to start conference play.

Brian Fanelli

I am just hoping to get to conference play on a positive note. A win tomorrow (Wednesday) will hopefully set us on the right path.

Katie Montgomery

You can't spot those teams 10 points like that and expect to be able to win. I don't know what it is about us. For some reason, since conference started, we start off slow, and it's one of the things we need to work on. We got to make sure we come out confident in our shooting.

Perry Watson

We're learning, and as we recognize things, we'll get better. Our goal is always to be better by the end of the season and come conference tournament time.

Ashley Underwood

We're not getting the job done and hopefully we can turn it around now that we are in the second half of our conference schedule.

Jim Brownlee

We still have a good shot at getting into the conference tournament and that's the most important thing.

Ron Paulson

If we are not one of those chosen, then that's when we need people to start to vote. It's critical that if you can't watch, you at least find out how to vote.

Cesar Millan

The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it's not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.

Cesar Millan

When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.

Janice Dickinson

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

Ricky Gervais

It's a privilege to be in such a great category of people and... I don't believe in God, so I'd like to thank dogs. Dogs have given me everything.

Doris Roberts

In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

Doris Lessing

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

Doris Lessing

Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The trouble is that, with all popular movements, the lunatic fringe so quickly ceases to be a fringe; the tail begins to wag the dog. For every woman or man who is quietly and sensibly using the idea to examine our assumptions, there are 20 rabble-rousers whose real motive is desire for power over others, no less rabble-rousers because they see themselves as anti-racists or feminists or whatever.

Donna Shalala

The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

Don Rickles

I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.

Bill Cowher

At this point, we don't know any kind of diagnosis. I'm not going to speculate or give you any kind of time frame until we get some kind of information.

John Wardle

But I must stress that at this point there are no names in the frame as it is too early.

Richard Segal

There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Carlos Beltran

I've been playing the game like that since I got to the big leagues. Some people like it, some people don't. But the thing is for me to help the team, and there's nothing better than that.

Zach Puchtel

(The Wolverines) jumped on in the second game 36-5, so we knew we had to sustain that first blow. We knew we could come out and play with them.

Jeetil Patel

The video game industry is a sizeable market that could grow by 6 to 7 percent this year.

Mike Stewart

The season is not over. It would be a silly time to quit now. We have one more game to play and they know what can happen.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Royce Chadwick

This is as good of a game as you'll see in January.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Jazz Covington

She was still joking. I knew it was serious then, but she was still laughing and making light of things.

Scott Gomez

Obviously, it's a shock right now to hear. You knew that day would come. We all thought Scotty would be back.

Jim Bowden

Obviously, if we knew his position would be what it was, we wouldn't have made the deal. We took a risk and we knew we were taking a risk, and that's part of life.

Gene Nudo

Nobody took them lightly; we knew they were 3-2 at home.

Sterling Nesbitt

Right away I knew it was something spectacular.

Chuck Leavell

Phil always knew how to recognize trends and he knew how to recognize talent within those trends.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Alan Hovhaness

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Robert Kiyosaki

When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on.

Robert Kiyosaki

Your mind, more than your actions, determines your net worth.

Robert Kiyosaki

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Mike Getkin

We did a lot of the little things to get the win. It was a total team effort.

Dwyane Wade

We have enough on this team to win games. We just have to go out and do it.

Mats Sundin

We got an experienced team this time around.

Ken Hitchcock

When you play a team like this, it's the first team to crack, and it was us tonight.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Anna Kournikova

It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs

Rafael Nadal

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

Monica Seles

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Monica Seles

I'm about the present.

Jerry Lawler

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Ivan Lendl

He's a haircut and a forehand.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

B.J. Upton

We haven't had a lot of time yet,

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.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Pat Riley

You've got to have some wins like that.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.