Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyrus Vance

In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal in US-Iran relations. Lack of diplomatic relations, often between countries at conflict, even at war, is the abnormality, not the norm.

Michel Jarraud

In 2005 abnormal temperatures were registered in many areas of the globe.

Jeffrey Buttle

I just realized how we all are really quite similar. We're just normal people going for abnormal things.

Gary Player

I'm using exactly the same clubs, other than No. 4. I was brainwashed into believing it would be abnormal with all the changes. But we're hitting the same club Jack Nicklaus did. I remember Jack hitting 5-iron on No. 11. The greens weren't as fast, but the fairways were lousy.

Carlos Parreira

In all of my career this is maybe one of the most abnormal results I have witnessed. It was just one of football's accidents.

Hugh Taylor

The findings from this current study may be reassuring because even with the reported increased number of abnormal mammograms and biopsies, there was no reported increase in breast cancer incidence, and there was a significant decrease in the most common type of breast cancer.

Marcel Proust

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Marcel Proust

Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.

Marcel Proust

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

Dave Rubio

I think it really speaks well of the program, when you're preparing your assistants and they're put in a position to become head coaches.

Colin Roy

I also think he won't be a dictator but that he'll be an open coach. He wants his assistants to do their jobs. He also has good insight as to what is the purpose of high school athletics and what his kids will have learned when the season is over.

Cy Alexander

He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. Who's he?' Everybody has their day in the sun, and he had his today.

Bob Shrader

I think the players wear really in the game because of that (loss) in their preparation. My assistant coach ran practice Friday and he said they were just primed. They had a real enthusiasm for the game.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan. It was my first trip to America. During that winter, Austria was swallowed up by the Nazis.

Ryan Bishop

I think they have one of the best offensive lines I've seen. I'm telling one of my assistants in the second quarter, you take those guys to University of Utah or BYU and they're as good as some of those guys. They move their feet, they block. They're very good.

Sam Jr

I have great assistant coaches, and I rely on them. I don't have to do everything myself.

Butch Davis

I don't have enough credentials to be the full-time guy, but I am the assistant offensive line coach for my son's seventh-grade football team,

Brad Shaw

I didn't get much sleep last night. It was tough knowing you had a part in getting out of here a guy who gave you a chance to be an assistant coach at this level.

Scott Erickson

Kirby was one of the best guys and best teammates I've ever been associated with. I never saw the guy unhappy one time and he tried to make everybody else feel the same way.

Allen Wright

It became so classic. That's the name that gets associated with the legend.

Tony Greig

He was a bloke with such an incredible sense of fun and there was that charisma whenever you were associated with him. We'll all miss him greatly.

Frank Collingwood

He wanted to negotiate a selling price not just for the car but also for all of the trophies and the memorabilia associated with the car and we came up with a deal.

John Rentoul

He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.

Len Lichtenfeld

There are still risks associated with hormone replacement therapy.

Karen Cooper

We are extremely focused on being the employer of choice in our markets and our new, on-site pharmacy fits in well with our company philosophy, ... The three primary goals of our on-site pharmacy are to lower the company's rising healthcare costs, pass some savings on to our associates and provide our associates with the convenience of handling their pharmaceutical needs during their work day. We view CHD Meridian Healthcare as a valuable partner in this new venture to not only provide high quality pharmacy services for our associates but to also provide us with direction to help alleviate the healthcare expenditure pains that both we as a company and our associates have been facing.

Dale Layer

I want to thank Sean for his contributions to our program the past two seasons. Everyone associated with our program wishes him the best of luck in the future.

Daniel Hall

Hummingbird Enterprise T workflow helps streamline the management process associated with winning and significantly reduces the deal closing time by ensuring projects are on track and the proper approvals have been obtained.

Tony Skinn

Jai is an unusual athlete. You look at his size and you think that he?s slow, but Jai is the total opposite. He is quick with his hands and feet and he can do a lot of things that big guys his size can?t do. He shoots the ball well, he can dribble the ball and also he can use his body down low.

Angie Ketchum

Kelly did not lose a match until sectionals. She's a great athlete, a very consistent baseline hitter.

Hal Mumme

Joey did some good things Saturday and he's a good athlete.

Jay Blaylock

Josh is just a great athlete. He has a couple of colleges looking at him. Both Dan and Pat are both talented, so they'll take the defense's attention away from Josh.

Bobby April

J.P. has a great upside. He's got three things going for him, his athleticism, his work ethic, and his thirst for competition. Some of our fans are disappointed in our record. But, even if we were 0-3, our mind-set would still be the same. We've got a plan and we're sticking to it.

Steve Price

He is well-conditioned and a great athlete. We want him to get into the third period and let his conditioning take over.

Deb Bennett

Haley in the open court is the best player in the state. She's just a tremendous athlete.

Shawn Maguire

Hart is one of the best around. He's a tremendously strong, tough, fast athlete, who has all the tools and the makeup of a great back, so we're going to have our hands full trying to contain him.

Paul Hewitt

He's a great athlete, and I always remind him that he can make plays off the ball. I don't think he understands how much ground he covers. I think you're starting to see that. He had three steals today. He's starting to see the floor better.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Jim Heacock

We've faced a lot of good offenses, so I don't know that that's going to be any different.

Rahul Dravid

We've faced a few (fast) bowlers, so it's nice to have someone who can give it back.

Jim Stagnitta

We threw a kid out there who hasn't faced off all year, and he battled.

Sheraz Mian

We are faced with perhaps the worst possible situation that planners and policy makers could image.

Jeff Suppan

Last year I faced them a lot, so I think that prepares me for this year,

Grant Fairley

You will never know true happiness until you have faced the true sadness in your life.

Ratu Bokini

The GCC will not intervene with the situation that is being faced by the Government and the military. The only thing we will do now is to observe what happens before we can plan what to do.

Roger Waters

It is with the utmost respect to Pink Floyd that we took the challenge.

David Gilmour

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

Shane Mosley

Floyd Mayweather is a talent. Pound-for-pound, we're two guys with great skills. It should be a great fight.

Joe Moore

Floyd has received widely varied opinions on this issue and they're all being taken into account.

Jessica Hart

My little yorkie Floyd is the ultimate buddy, and his passport has as many stamps as mine.

Buddy Allen

I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.

Howard Rubin

I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Willie Williams

I'm hoping that we will have a process pretty soon (for hiring a new chief). It shouldn't be more than two weeks for the process to be in place.

James McElroy

This is like hiring the Ku Klux Klan to represent you in a desegregation case,

Chip Conley

Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?

Casey Daigle

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

Gary Johnson

We are in major hiring mode. We're interviewing people every day.

Mark Johnson

We'll get a better cross-section of the community, ... We want them involved in the hiring process. Hopefully, we can get a better idea of what the public is looking for.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dick Miller

I think it's going to go very well. She's an outstanding talent and a lot of interest has been shown.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Jayson Swain

I think the problem last year was people were taking the pressure the wrong way. We were pressing to make the big plays.

Jim Grobe

I thought a win last week was pretty important and we didn't get it. Any win for us right now is important. Every team we play here down the stretch, if we're going to have any kind of season at all, is important. Our players understand that.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Sally Ride

I don't have any nicknames.

Kenan Thompson

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

Ellen Page

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Scott Pelley

It's not the nicknames, it's how they got the nicknames that matters.

Charles Spurgeon

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Alan Alda

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Christopher Poole

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

Laetitia Casta

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

Herbie Hancock

Even the things that are on the Plugged Nickel set. I don't know how we did some of that.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Wordsworth

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Robert Plant

I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Mark Roberts

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.