Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clyde Drexler

I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 1/2 years, which was a nice. But when you can spend your hold career with one team, that's a blessing.

Scott White

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

Robby Ginepri

I was almost there, so I feel that anyone on any given day could take out anybody.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Brian Dawkins

I was almost in tears when I walked in there and saw that I was going to be a part of that, answering the phones and hearing the joy in peoples' hearts as they were giving.

Giuliana Sgrena

kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart is in a condition of repair right now, ... It is almost surprising they are down only 2 percent. They have a huge amount of over-age inventory they have to unload.

Kelvin Sampson

I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to what they say. If I were putting together a 64-team (field), I think it's almost impossible to say Colorado does not deserve it.

Jack Rio

I would think it would be out of character for a guy who has been a successful coach for as long as he has. It almost sounds desperate.

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Maajid Nawaz

I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

John Henry Carver

Knowing I needed to build some counters, I began by putting together a good vacuum system and a pumping system to build ion chambers of some sort.

Bill Freeman

Kendra was a trooper. Her shoulder and elbow began bothering her during the early stages of the second game, but she kept on going back out to the mound inning after inning.

Jalal Farzaneh

It certainly doesn't feel like we've been in the business 25 years. When we began building homes we were working on our master's degrees in architecture. Between 1981 and 1983, four of our children were born at Norman Regional Hospital. They're all now students at OU.

Ann Jaroski

It began to complement the ski hill and the (Badger State) winter games. It was focused then mostly on winter sports. It has since evolved to a winter theme.

Tim Griffin

It began in the back room in the ceiling of the poultry shop, but the cause and the origin of the fire is still under investigation. The owner was on the premises when the fire began.

Kermit Lynch

It began in the '70s, when (French winemaking) parents started sending their son or daughter to enology school to learn about wine,

Joe Zanghi

It began because, at that time, in the early '70s, we had a lot of negative occurrences in Cherry Hill.

Jim Collins

He confined her to residences and hotels within Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.

Risa Stewart

Gyms deal in sweat. It's OK to be stinky. But in a confined space, like a spinning room, it can be unbearable. You do need to monitor yourself.

Jim Jenkins

He's a crippled man. He has one leg. He's had his spleen removed. He's been confined to his house this entire time.

Ricardo Semler

I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

Shonda Schilling

I know one lady who was a marathon runner and she's in her 50s and she's confined to a wheelchair and the excitement she gets out of e-mailing me and talking. I'll be thinking about her a lot.

Stu Pollard

The film can't be confined to just one genre; it starts light, moves to dramatic and has a suspenseful ending.

Doug Conaway

It's been difficult and it did flare up. We thought we had it pretty well contained. You've got fire in an extremely enclosed, confined space, and the heat has no place to dissipate.

Charles Inglis

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

Tracey Schmitt

John Kerry deserves credit for continuing to take himself so seriously, despite the fact that no one else does.

John Challenger

Job opportunities are described on the front pages daily as new emphasis is put on several industries, including security, communications, defense, medical equipment and supplies, as well as continuing significant opportunities in health care,

John Stevens

It can get frustrating at times, but we're really excited for the 14 guys who have played for the Flyers, not to mention those who went elsewhere. You always want your players to get a chance. It's great when guys like Eager and Meyer get rewarded for continuing to work hard. And when guys go up, somebody else has to step up.

Alan Duncan

There are signs that the long-term drivers of prosperity are weakening. The loss of our competitive edge is a continuing corrosive process, which threatens our economic well-being in the long term.

Bill Schwartz

He shot the front of the house, through the windows, through the walls, walking back and forth in front of the house more than one time, continuing to shoot multiple rounds.

Alastair Campbell

It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage of a new round of intensive negotiations.

James Reynolds

There is a large search operation that started yesterday, that is continuing today.

Mike Sanford

We're in the process of continuing to set our standards high.

Tom Casey

We are extremely pleased with our strong first quarter results, which reflect our continuing transformation from a carrier's carrier to a value-added telecommunication services provider.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Gwyn Hacche

It can't be entirely ruled out, but it looks unlikely to me.

Michael Hurst

Hannah is playing a lead role in this piece. The story is told entirely through her. That's a huge journey for her.

George Pierce Baker

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Antonio Tarver

His words to me were: 'I wrote the script with you in mind.' I am truly excited about the possibility of playing Mason Dixon, and we're getting ready to work an entirely different stage, baby.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Carol Raulston

I think it's entirely appropriate that they take stock of where we are right now.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Jim Silver

There is no comparison. 'Star Wars' is on an entirely different level.

Billy Joel

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,

George Kell

Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.

Doug Moe

I think you have a good idea there, which is really strange. I think we should go hunting for it, but I've never been a hunter. I've got to see if George (Karl) has ever hunted before.

Leonard Nimoy

I think what really made (the film) happen was that in 1977 George Lucas released 'Star Wars,'

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Linda Jones

He's confronting a real problem that most of the people here in St. George aren't willing to confront.

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Eddie Jones

If you remember back in 2000, Sam had an outstanding season with Queensland and was really pressuring George for the Wallabies spot.

Dan Jenkins

If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

John McGrath

I think in terms of income for Thunder Ridge and taxes for the county, it would be good.

Larry Bloom

I don't know that they want me to get into specific numbers, but he has a yearly income that's substantial.

Rex Stout

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Warren Buffett

Never depend on a single source of income.

Ronald Reagan

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Walter Russell

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

Robert G. Allen

In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.

John Mitchell

I suspect it's a pattern you will see here.

Jonathan Day

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,

Raymond Chandler

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

William J. Clinton

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Roddy Woomble

I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning.

Robert M. Pirsig

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Willem Dafoe

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

Brian Gibson

patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue.