Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reed Hundt

As a result of this order and the WTO agreement, we predict that the average price of an international call will drop from 88 cents today to 20 cents five years from now,

Brad Soderberg

The bottom line is, we didn't make shots. It's just disappointing that we played as well as we did defensively, and yet it's a 10-point loss. And we missed free throws. It's just not good enough if you want to beat good teams. You've got to play complete basketball, not just defend, not just rebound, it's got to be complete. We're either going to get it or we're going to continue to be a .500 team. We're either going to figure it out or remain an average program.

Tom Potiowsky

Average wages are now growing at about the same level of inflation. And as the economy continues to expand, we expect this trend to continue to improve.

Duane Campbell

Average is probably about 10 hours of effort to be able to ride around the block.

Scott Pattee

Average is a matter of perspective, and this year, average is looking pretty good.

James Knightley

Average earnings growth was far softer than anticipated. It remained at 3.5% ... and is well below the 4.5% rate that the Bank of England has in the past considered compatible with its inflation forecast.

Mike Pence

Average Americans in all 50 states are reaching into their pocketbooks and investing in relief and recovery efforts. The power and symbol of members of Congress doing that, regardless of the size of the contribution, could be very important.

James A. Moore

Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.

John Hooper

As long as the results are there, it probably won't change. If there's an impact in buying from my customers, I'll act accordingly. For the average person out there, they're probably starting to feel it.

Erin Campbell

The bottom line is this should translate into a savings of several million dollars for the people of Vermont.

Peter Beck

The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine.

Clint Hurdle

The bottom line is, they are in the playoffs. They won the (National League West).

Andrew Roskill

The bottom line is, the way things are laid out on the table right now, they just aren't going to work. The government doesn't really understand how technology works.

Phil Anderton

The bottom line is the team is selected by the manager and that is the way it should be.

Robert McKinley

The bottom line is these offers are a marketing gimmick. If you get an offer in the mail, it's important to read the disclosure box very carefully.

Mike Claffey

The bottom line is there will be only three lanes.

David George

The bottom line is there's nothing very new here. It's not going to change our forecasts.

Ronald Brown

The bottom line is there's more use of psychotropic medication with children than there is research data on it.

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Eric Brown

Do you wish to challenge the legality of the extradition warrant issued for you by the governor?

Mickey Andrews

Coach Bowden gave a statement on that. The only thing I'll say is that we're disappointed. What it presents now is a challenge for someone else to step in and take over.

Louis Kincannon

Companies will need to face the challenge of having to mobilize and retain older workers.

Steve Campbell

Co-Lin has a great coaching staff with a lot of great athletes. It will be a challenge for us.

David Fox

Coleman was unbelievable. Coming into the season, he was going to be our defensive stopper on the perimeter. He has worked so hard and he wants that role. That's a challenge he likes, each and every day.

Ryan Gregorio

Coke is playing differently. That team is more cohesive, and they have strong post-up players. That will be a big challenge for us.

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Ian McGeechan

Saracens are my 'dark horse' team of this season, and I think they will do very well over the year. We are anticipating a very tough contest, and know they will challenge us in every department,

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,

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Lori Anderson

People are willing to look for difference and pay more when they find it. Jazz it up and offer something different and people will pay for it.

Tim Ross

Defensively, they're a hard team to keep in front of you. We gave up penetration and we gave up second chances. And I think that proved to be the difference in the game.

Kelly Clarkson

And that's true for most of the people from the show. You don't hear a lot about them afterwards. But I think the difference is that I'd already done stuff. . . . I really know what I want, I know what I want to do and I'm working with great people.

Bill Cowher

The second year makes a dramatic difference to any player. He's more comfortable with the offense, and it makes him a better quarterback.

Richard Johnson

The tangible difference is that we can tell our story without a filter.

Buddy Trask

The third quarter was the difference in the game. Because of foul trouble we weren't able to use our man-to-man press, but did in the third quarter which got us off and running. Raymond had a great game with nine assists and seven steals to go with his 18 points.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

John Bunting

The speed of this game that we play, it's so much (faster) than practice. You've heard me talk about playing fast in practice and speeding things up. That's the reason. That's a big advantage, and there's nothing we can do about it.

John Bunting

The speed of this game that we play is so much more fast than practice,

Randy Scyoc

The third was the transition quarter. We stole a lot of passes and got out on the fast break.

Kevin McCarty

I wanted everyone to see what my financial solvency people saw in evaluating the financial statements of these companies. Another hurricane season is fast approaching and the Office of Insurance takes its responsibility for solvency review seriously.

Nadia Petrova

I wanted to finish the match as fast as I could, ... Sometimes, I dehydrated and lost energy.

Jimmy Johnson

The old track was so abrasive, it wore the tires out within a few laps, and you'd have multiple grooves. The way it is now, it's like a new paving job. It's so fast and there's no drop-off.

Tom Trill

A CPU from 2003 is probably fast enough to run Vista but the PC might not have enough memory.

Lily Chatterjee

Stress vaccine? Fast relief? Slow down. Flush your stress down to lavatory.

Steven Adler

Everyone's relying on the modelers because there's no firm data,

Peter Fenton

We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.

Avery Johnson

We just wanted to make sure we were on the same page. We're still firm that they're not going to come back until they're ready. And they're not ready. We probably won't have them back in the next game or two.

Andrew Heyward

Leslie has not set a firm timetable. But we're making good progress.

Liz Phair

No firm plans, ... But we're all talking about it.

Joe McGrath

From a strategic perspective, it's one of the important disciplines that the firm wants to have in its fixed-income offering.

Nick Price

If we get firm conditions, it's going to open the tournament up to a lot more guys.

Jim Collins

I feel sorry for Microsoft. If you want to hire a firm that is going to do a job better than any law firm in the country, you go to Keker & Van Nest.

Hillary Clinton

We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Danielle Clark

The way our team plays, it opens up possibilities for me to score. We play so five people can score. We?re not just looking for one person.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Greg Cohen

New projects will generally have more support (for tolls). There's such a shortage of regular tax funds.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Mike Hayes

The most important role is they send golfers out at the right time so there's the appropriate spacing on the golf course.

Louis Oosthuizen

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

Jane Seymour

Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.

Brian Weiss

I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.

Billy Bush

Professional golfer... what a life.

Bruce Forsyth

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Dennis Quaid

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Brian Weiss

Golf is like smoking, I have been trying to quit for years.

Brian Weiss

I was on in two.... then again on four...

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Richard Martin

The worker shortage is more severe this year than last and will be more severe next year.

Charles Ward

This is as much snow as we've seen in the last 15 years, and we got it all in one whack.

Richard Yamarone

This is Greenspan?s last hurrah. The swan song for the big guy.

Mike Griffin

This is going to be the last hurrah.

Patty Murray

This is not the last word on this issue,

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Billy Donovan

The thing that's so shocking of his 37, he only took 14 shots. He got to the free-throw line tonight. That was the difference.

Masayuki Ito

Sony's results look pretty much in line with market expectations, in that they didn't disappoint. The problem is that you can't see any pillar of growth.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Klaus Rinnen

The Samsung announcement is still in line with our estimate.

Larry Bailey

It would take $30,000 to $40,000 to make repairs to get this residence in line with codes.

John Samuelsen

These women put their necks on the line every night.

Sergei Kiriyenko

These deliveries are made in line with the main principles of the nuclear suppliers' group.

Greg Rubin

I set the line and he just took off about 150 yards straight out to the middle of the lake.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

Christopher Hill

The sense is we should be able to wrap this up in a matter of days, not weeks,

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Alicia Figgs

Some people usually don't come awake, no matter how long they live.

David Morse

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

Nigerian Proverb

No matter how long the night may be, the day is sure to come

Tony McCoy

No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

John Fox

Sometimes players don't like to be reminded of their mistakes, at least not right away.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Jim Calhoun

Brandon Roy, in my opinion, is one of the top two or three players in the country.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Fred Couples

The way it looks, a winning score of two or three-under is not out of the question.

Dale Scott

To stay with Harlan you have to score points.

Will Blackmon

To me it doesn't really matter, I don't have a favorite. I like to score touchdowns. I like to stop the offense.

Michael Owen

It bothers me when I don't score.

Olli Jokinen

If it was a win and I didn't score any goals, I would be happy.

Tim Pearce

If they score more than a 6 on this screening form, then they are not going out,

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Jack Kerouac

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Marcus Giles

The most important thing is to be able to put up a big inning when you' re down by five. As long as we're scoring runs, I feel like I'm doing my job.

Greg Williams

We've had (slow) spells like that, and that SMU team, you didn't want to do that with. Val cranked it. She got us going, scoring and rebounding.

Mike Ryn

We've been spreading out the scoring pretty well, and that's what you need at this time of the year.

Mike Ward

She did things for us that will not show up in the scoring column.

Billy Donovan

He hasn't had big scoring nights. But he's also done other things.

Gerry McNamara

I'm not worried about scoring points. I just want to win. We have to be a team that's around the top or at the top (of the conference).

Rick Anthony

We are scoring in bunches and getting them from everywhere.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Ronald Reagan

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

John Wayne

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

Helen Darling

He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Aimee Mullins

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Brandi Chastain

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Frank Beamer

We had a streak . . . it's not all Florida. We had a lot of soft commitments going on. I thought they were just making a reservation with us and going to look at some other schools. I didn't think that was the way to do it.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Mark Philippoussis

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

Mariano Rivera

I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I've let it go even before I've left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it's over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you're still in the game. After that you can do nothing.

Nolan Ryan

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Miles Teller

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Boitano

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.