Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Steve Ralston

Italy is a very defensive team, very well organized, they look to counter-attack. Their defense is rock solid.

R. Inge

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

Kris Kleeman

I thought the first half defense was very good. I wish we could have scored some points there to get a lead. We missed our first 10 shots to start the game, we had good shots that we have to be able to make. We didn't make them and kept them in the game.

Les Miles

I thought that our defense stymied them all day, and really played extremely well,

Allan Ray

I think we fed off our defense a little more in the second half, and we got into a flow offensively as a result.

Cappie Pondexter

I think we rebounded and played great defense (during the run). Once we got away from that, they started getting comfortable, started hitting shots.

Mike Klembara

I think we had the proper game plan. We wanted to slow the tempo and play our 3 defense (a 3-2 zone). They were just a little more mature down the stretch than we were.

Kawika Mitchell

I think we did that. But we still have some room to improve. Our style of defense is getting after the offense. However, you want to do that. Whether it's a zone defense or blitzes, we're going to do that.

Dave Pettit

I think we did it to ourselves. We were kind of sleepwalking and took quick shots. We didn't make them play much defense tonight.

David Boyer

Our medical staff has designed stretches for each of the jobs our people do.

Mike Goodman

Internet2 was designed to make large file transfers happen quickly.

Derek Wallbank

In a meeting designed for public comment, to have one person - who's not even a student - that's crap.

Andrea Newman

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Mark Richt

I know that quarterback can run like a deer, that's for sure. Shockley's not quite the runner that he is. Shockley's athletic, but we won't have as many designed quarterback runs for him. A lot of that is because it's really not his nature and the other part is that we wanted to try to keep him healthy this year.

David Wagner

The federal certification process for voting machines is broken, sadly, when it comes to security. It was designed for the era of mechanical machines, and it hasn't kept up.

Gary Griffiths

The high schools that we have, and it's not just locally but nationally, are designed for a different purpose, a different time and a different place -- and it doesn't meet the educational needs of kids today.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Patrick Swayze

You couldn't have designed a more perfect training ground for young actors, with a sort of sensei (mentor) like with Francis. He just knew how to play each of us like a violin.

William Irwin Thompson

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.

Annika Sorenstam

I had a lot of putts on the edges again, ... It wasn't until that last putt, that I really had one go in.

Steve Kleynhans

Microsoft will smooth over the rough edges there with lots of little offers like this.

Rick Kelly

We must move commuter parking to the edges of campus.

Ori Gersht

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

Martin Evans

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

Alison Moyet

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

Greg MacGillivray

Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place, one frame totally different from the next. So your edges are coolly sharp and have a different feeling, an organic feeling rather than this mechanic feeling you get with digital.

Al Borges

We were rough around the edges there, not where we need to be.

Kathy McKiernan

This is a long planned transition and it will be a seamless one.

J. M. Roberts

someone who can't be trusted to take Planned Parenthood's position on abortion.

Patsy Christie

This is not an open-ended rezoning. It's like a planned unit development for commercial. What's shown on the site plan is all that can go there.

Liaquat Baluch

The results are totally managed, planned and rigged.

Linda Blair

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Derrick Burgess

I'd say it unfolded like we planned it.

Melaney Arnold

We want to make sure that everything we have planned is in place. This is something we've been working on for a very long time.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Jerry Slocum

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Jeff Beeman

He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.

Jerry Sloan

I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.

Luke Poore

I thought we played well. They just wore us down.

Susie Gardner

I thought Whitney played very well, especially considering who she was playing against.

Jim Ferraro

I think you?re going to see us (in the tournament). We have a lot of young girls, but they have played well together.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

O.J. Mayo

I think we pulled together as a team.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Shatha Atiya

He has a lot of confidence, but I never thought he would be able to pull this together.

Sheray Thomas

I never thought that (this would happen). I thought we'd be on top of the conference, just like every one predicted, but that's the way it turns out sometimes and we've just got to pull through it.

Doug Thomas

In this arena, we're doing phenomenal. We're going on the road now, and we've got to be able to pull off some road wins.

Shay Espinoza

I just pulled the stroller and pushed her up on the curb.

Jim Shaw

I pulled myself out. The timing was too tight.

Haywood Boston

I'm going to have to pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Robert Cormier

Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

Richard Paul Evans

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

Richard P. Feynman

The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.

Richard Dawkins

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science

Richard Dawkins

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

Richard Dawkins

On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

Jodi Picoult

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Bob Dylan

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Anna Nicole Smith

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

Victor Hugo

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

Matt Smith

I am a terrible sleeper.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

William O'Neill

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.