Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Weiland

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Chris Huffman

As far as the radio stuff ... it still blows me away that this would happen to us. We'll all say without hesitating that we aren't rock stars, we aren't anybody special. We are just normal goofy ordinary people that get to do this for a living.

Tom Izzo

As far as my confidence in the team, as crazy as it sounds, I still think we have a chance to win our last two games. If we do that, I think we go into the Big Ten Tournament on a high and have every bit a chance to win as anybody else.

Richard Maloney

As anybody in the United States is aware, the skyrocketing costs of health care are at crisis proportions. The union has been very reluctant to pay any of that.

Charles Adams

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that the ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch. I threw a ball in and jammed him the pitch before. I threw in a couple of times during his first at-bat. That's just the way it goes. I'm not trying to hit anybody in the head. Everybody I have been on the field with knows I play the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Jeremy Affeldt

The bottom line is I blew it. It was a routine double play. I can't look anybody in the eye right now. It was an embarrassment.

Gary Sheffield

The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?

Dale Mays

The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quieter when they saw us. Then James said something and gave them a look, and that's all it took. Everybody got quiet. I never knew anybody who was as respected by his peers. He didn't demand respect. He commanded it. The great ones have that. They have a presence.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Jenny Condon

Sarah's probably our most confident player. She doesn't get rattled in any situation. She's the kind of player who thrives in a pressure situation. She's been great for us in that leadership role.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Robert McCann

This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.

Ken Schrader

You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Daniel Gibson

We're a confident group of guys. We definitely think that we can go all the way.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Rene Mirandilla

We wanted to see how confident we are and how we measure up in the state playoffs. We're quite tested, and I think we're ready.

Helen Zille

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

Darren McCarty

That's what prime-time players do. They want the ball, they want the puck. It's what separates the elite from the great.

Todd Jones

The problem is, when you think about it, saves are the only stat where 100 percent is the benchmark. And the elite make it look so easy. There is so much to it.

Hud Venerable

I thought he was at least the co-MVP in the league last year. It looks like he's stronger and he's running harder than he did a year ago. He's an elite player, and he's got a nice group of blockers in front of him. He's powerful, fast and he can cut. He's got the whole package.

Kathy Lanter

I don't think there's any favorite. You're in the Elite Eight. Being the favorite really doesn't matter. You have to go up there and execute. It's that simple.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Bobby Burton

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country. I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn't have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

Chris Bosh

To be a part of the world's elite instead of the just league's elite is a little more special.

Ben Carson

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Margo Muhlbauer

We tried to stay focused after they surprised us with their out-side shooting in the first quarter.

Lisa Battaglino

As a result, a lot of girls go that path.

Mark Boggs

As a team, we have a lot of work to do. This was several of the girls' first varsity race. We were also missing two runners to illness.

John Given

The big thing is they have seniors and a good point guard. Those girls have been playing together for three years. They're an older team in our league.

Ryan Tritch

At some campuses, I know girls who can't go out a lot, or go out late, and feel safe. It think it's completely unfair and we hold women to a different set of standards.

Willie Thomas

That was a big change! It was a wonderful win. It was great to see the girls get out and be able to run some.

Mackenzie Steger

Personally I am very proud of each and every one of the girls. I knew we could do it if we each did our own part, big or small, and we were able to pull it off sooner than we expected.

Mike Simpson

Other girls on the team play a part in it. She is a great teammate. They love her and support her. They love it that she made it.

Ronda Rousey

People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.

Dan Smith

After you get hammered like we got hammered last week, it's encouraging to have the girls come back and play pretty solid.

Larry Sabato

The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Michael Gartenberg

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Adam Ereli

The United States ... reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Adalius Thomas

Brian, this message is for you: Go work out. Stop playing racquetball and run some half-gassers.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Tim Collins

completely full. There were no more parking spaces.

Greg Smith

Victory Park has been a sore spot for a long time, and we have made that one of our priorities,

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Tom Waits

using parking meters as walking sticks.

Peter Rohde

But it was really only a walk in the park for him.

Eric Myers

Now, we take RVs and park right on the ranch.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Stephany Smith

As a team, we just stay strong and focused. Usually, we get it done. We trust each other.

Ann Fisher

As long as we stay together, we will be alright,

Brian Clarke

As long as I stay in town I will be fine,

Kurt Kutay

Some only have a dung hut to stay in.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

Calvin Williams

I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Ahmed Plummer

I would like to start. That's what I've been doing here, but that's totally up to the coaches.

Max von Sydow

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Cindy Christensen

I think we'll get a lot of people. I could be totally wrong, but I think we'll get a lot of people.