Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rohan Gunaratna

Bangladesh was very much like Nepal or Thailand or like Indonesia before their respective insurgencies broke out ... because all these governments were in denial,

Richard McCann

Any discontent that might be there is part of the report, ... I want to know if taxpayers are getting the biggest bang for buck.

Camila Alves

When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.

Eric Rasmussen

Videoconferencing was gaining ground before September 11 and with tighter budgets, it has become even more popular. Price has gone down and bang for the buck has improved.

Ray Clayton

What scares me is that we have so much to do and we are so far behind. I think we need to make sure to do everything we can now to get as much bang for our buck.

Paul Rubin

You hit a bunch of keys at random to see why the system seems to have hung; you don't realize that the system has turned off echo so that you can type your secret encryption key, ... I've seen people try for hours to bang the keyboard in the exact same way.

Tim Kennedy

We're supposed to go out there and hit and bang and maybe score every now and then but now ever since we're playing better and better, our team looks for us to score a goal at least each night. It's a big step for our line and hopefully we just continue to do that the rest of the year.

Robert Benchley

There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled off a big deal, even if he has only called the telephone company to find out the correct time

Mike Devaney

We got off to a dream start. We bang in three goals in the first 10 minutes or whatever it was and that really settled us down.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Masaki Iso

Profits at steel makers will continue to increase because demand is rising, while supplies remain tight.

Flex Plexico

Prior to returning this detainee to Egypt, the United States received appropriate assurances from the government of Egypt regarding this detainee's treatment upon his return to Egypt. This includes assurances that this individual will continue to be treated humanely, in accordance with Egyptian and international legal obligations, while he remains in Egypt,

Troy Thygerson

Projections are that we will continue to grow, especially quickly once we hit the 2007-08 school year.

Ivan Johnson

Programming costs continue to rise significantly. We're not trying to win a prize for the lowest rates. We are trying to have a price where we can effectively compete.

Steve Yzerman

Personally, I'd prefer to continue playing the overtime after tie games.

Eddie Jones

Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Larry Beets

Your goal every year is to go to the state championship, realistically or not. That's why you play.

Marshall Strickland

You never know what's going to happen on Selection Sunday. But our goal is to win this tournament and worry about the next one when it comes.

Ron Artest

You never know what is going to happen this time of the year. I have a goal to reach the playoffs. I just hope I can do my best.

Rick Barnes

You're always going to be disappointed when you don't win. It's over and done with. Our No. 1 goal now is the NCAA tournament. We're one of 65 teams and we hope to be the last one standing.

Bashar al-Assad

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Andy Dennings

Offensively he's hitting toward his strengths. He's not pulling every pitch. He's doing his job.

Alison Lacey

Norwalk just kept hitting big shots, and we needed to realize that and get out on them and we didn't. It was frustrating to see their shots keep going in. We tried to get on them, and they just kept hitting.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Brian Randle

Dee's a big-time player. He hits big-time shots.

Dan Castellaneta

And there's nothing wrong with hitting someone when his back is turned.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Dan Shoemaker

Anything it hits that's cold, it's going to stick to it.

Steven Smith

The shots they were hitting was like getting hit in the stomach.

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

E. Hicks

It was unfortunate that we didn't play well on a national stage, but hopefully we can turn all that frustration on the Eagles.

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

William Henderson

This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that.

Bill Bunting

That's what we're looking for, hopefully less taxes and less government.

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.

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.

Greg Rubin

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

Richard Briers

I used to make minor alterations and often shorten lines that were rather literary to make them more naturalistic. But my contribution was very small.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Kevin Johnson

Ray really starts with the customer. He looks at things 'outside in,' as he says, not technology-out.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Brian Jacques

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Alain de Botton

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Balthus

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

Pete Madland

A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.

Michael Gambon

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Tim Raines

Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs,

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Ellen Borakove

The work on the roof has only just started, so maybe there will be more discoveries to come as the work progresses.

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Rick Beggs

You might recover some hardware, buttons, maybe the back of a skull.

Golshifteh Farahani

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Stefan Hell

Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Jim Boeheim

Every game's tough, and you have to play well every game. We've got to start playing better or we're going to struggle.

Jarrad Woliver

As soon as we sat down and started playing, we immediately started playing really well together.

Briana Matthews

As the season wore on, you could see our development. We got used to playing with each other. I thought we would be practicing today.

Sam Brandon

To me, I think you're always playing for your future,

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.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

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.

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.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Jeff Hanna

Since it's in litigation, it just wouldn't be appropriate to talk about it.

John Foster

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Janet Gamet

He's worked since he was 14 years old and he's 52.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Brenda Jones

Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,

Eugene Wilson

We all were where we were supposed to be,

John Pike

We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.

Jeff Garcia

I don't know if I was supposed to,

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Roy Hall

I think for us it would be more satisfaction than any other year if we won the title. We are not supposed to win and that is what makes it more exciting.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,