Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Chuck D.

It was a huge step forward for our program and our school for the type of competition we're in.

Todd Bertuzzi

I sincerely hope Steve Moore continues to progress and is back in competition soon,

Julie Withington

They also have year-round swimmers, and they give us some good competition. We expect to have another good meet.

Steve Olson

We have a pretty good shot at doing well at the regional on Saturday. We've wrestled strong competition all season, and that helps this time of the season. Realistically, I would like to think we can get eight or nine guys through, maybe even one or two more.

Paul Buck

We have pretty good competition between about 10 guys,

Alan Greenspan

Competition is the necessary driving force toward delivering a superior product or service, ... We should not shy away from it.

Herman Edwards

Curtis understands that he's going to be back here, (but) there's going to be open competition (for the starting position). Obviously, Curtis Martin will have a role on this team.

James Ware

eliminates the probability that excluding competition was a reason for the modification.

Arthur C. Clarke

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents...

Leon Panetta

My conclusion is that at this late date, it's just not realistic to expect that I could put together an effective campaign,

Charles Stross

I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.

Warren Riley

It's still ongoing, but we hope to have a conclusion within a few weeks.

Charles Ramsey

We don't know if it's gang-related. I know that is a conclusion that a lot of folks want to jump to because you got two groups of young people, ... But, not all young people are members of gang.

Kacey Musgraves

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our buildup for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Wasim Bari

We have included two new spinners as part of our build-up for next year's World Cup in the West Indies.

Jesse Owens

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

Rick Riordan

That's it, cupcake. You're going down.

Sri Aurobindo

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

No! I don’t want to Ouija, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see one tarot card or rune stone I’ll yack cupcake all over you. (Grace)

Mo Johnston

Magnificent. He's been magnificent all season. There is a door open now for the World Cup and I hope he's on it because of his performance here, not only tonight, but throughout his time here has been tremendous.

Sven Eriksson

I am thrilled by this hotel. We have a training pitch five minutes from the hotel and it is not too far for our World Cup matches.

Mark Lewis

The tickets are a way to get creative, get some extra money in fall and winter.

Paul Clarke

A family has a car, a motor home and a boat. They want to take everything with them, so you have extra vehicles on the road, which contributes to the delay.

John Hoag

We had some extra gear lying around and we just thought it would be good for him.

Jon Gruden

We gave him one extra day, and he'll be ready to go today, ... He's going to be ready to go today and he's going to play in the game, so he's all right.

Tom Johnson

We just do extra patrol of the buildings. We do not go into any of the rooms unless there is a specific problem or a special request.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Lindy Ruff

We made a lot of things happen real slow. We always took the extra second to shoot.

JayDee Luster

I'm always needing to prove myself. Being a small point guard, we have to work harder than most and we've got more to prove. You've got to work extra hard to get to the next level no matter what.

Flip Saunders

For whatever reason, we just weren't as mentally alert. We had a lot of mental breakdowns on defense, and offensively we didn't make the extra pass as often as we normally do. You hate to say it, but we just didn't have it tonight.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

William Bell

The T1 line went down at work the other day and I felt like I was working with half a brain,

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Lorenzo Meyer

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

Stephen McPherson

Once we saw it was not launching, we felt like unfortunately it was not going to get better and we had to make a change.

Todd Engle

It was very big to get that win and something we kind of played off. I felt no matter what happened that we had a successful run, but it was of major importance to the kids to get that win. I could really tell in the fourth quarter and there was a lot of excitement.

Baron Davis

The whole game was frustrating for me, ... It was an ugly game, but it was a 'W.' Guys stepped up and hit big shots. ... I tried to be a nuisance on defense. I felt like it was an opportunity to go after it (against Crawford), especially down the stretch. I knew he wasn't passing, so I took a gamble.

Bartolo Colon

This doesn't take away the pain that I felt and the sour taste in my mouth about the way the season ended, ... This is a great accomplishment, but we wanted to go a little further.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Irish Proverb

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,

Russell Simmons

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

John Mortimer

should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive.

Donna Shalala

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

Joanne Harris

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Pat Frazer

What Fauquier does is nothing we weren't prepared for. But you got to do it, though.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Wolfgang Schauble

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

Mark Johnston

We understand they have a lot going on. If they're ready, we'll be prepared to talk to them.

BeBe Winans

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

E. O. Wilson

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

Vernon Jordan

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Hugh Shelton

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Matt Allen

In September 2004, I had 2,000 tons of inventory; by the first week of September 2005 there was no inventory. We were wiped out.

Wayne Carl

If September works and we can switch it, we'll switch.

John F. Kerry

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Ruben Blades

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Yani Tseng

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Jeff Lynne

I don't actually like touring.

George Carlin

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

Narendra Modi

Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.

Mary Pierce

It's amazing, I'm 30 and this is my 17th year on the tour and there are still firsts for me,

Raul Hernandez

Tourism is all we have. Nobody's coming. Things are sad.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Mark Rydell

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Erma Bombeck

I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.