Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Jenkins

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

Susan Harris

We Three Apples, we try to cater to a range of people in the storytelling community - from the listener to the amateur to the professional.

Jacob Ruppert

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Scott Simon

I am a product of technology. We now have cameras available to the consumer that were of the same caliber in observatories only 10 years ago, ... Now amateurs can have a camera aperture unheard of 10, 20 years ago. An amateur can now do what scientists were doing five years ago.

Andre Seymour

Our boxers need technical support and we need the technical coaches who work them to travel with the national teams. They will be of great assistance to our national teams. Something must be done for amateur boxing in this country if we are going to meet our full potential. We need international help. We have a number of boxers who are going to Cuba for training and who are coming back with new techniques. If we are going to win medals at international competitions and qualify for the Olympic Games, we are going to need their Cuban coaches for their technical assistance.

Ted Sim

Because it's a national-bound tournament, some of the vice presidents of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association are going to be here.

Robert Littell

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Daniel Solove

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

Dan Stone

I'll probably revert to amateur status, about a three-year process, so I can play in member-guest and other amateur events.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Fernando Alonso

I was lucky that I was not fighting with anyone so I took the race quite easy. But for us, second place is good. The target for the last six or seven races was to be on the podium.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's statements to Dubuque voters make it clear that he will say anything to anyone at any time if he thinks it will help him score political points,

Robert LeBlanc

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Rick Riordan

Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

Garrett Gomez

I wouldn't say I thought I had the race won. It was all in the way he was going to respond to me when we turned for home. Once we headed to about the three-eighths pole, he seemed to start to come back to me a little bit more than I liked. And I said, 'I'm going to go now.' I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going I wouldn't give anyone a chance to even get close to him.

Mark Shapiro

I wouldn't say I'm surprised by Cliff's development, but I am a little surprised by the pace of it. He's an extremely competitive guy. He's made a ton of adjustments since last season, but I don't think anyone could have anticipated (that he'd get this good, this fast).

Shauna Dunlap

I would urge anyone who has information about this individual or about the robbery to contact us and prevent this individual from striking again.

Debbie Rowe

It breaks my heart that anyone could truly believe that Michael would do anything to harm or endanger our children: they are the most important thing in his life.

Joe Lockhart

I would suggest that if you want to report the story, you start by talking to Mr. Woodward and Mr. Bennett and establish the facts, ... Why don't you start with Mr. Bennett, who, if you have all read The Washington Post this morning, will see that he says that he did not violate attorney-client privilege.

Michael Toups

Having Sean Bennett shoot free throws at the end of a game for us is a real weapon.

Ray Giacoletti

I think it's a really good game for us. Other than the fact Dick Bennett can really coach. I'm very impressed.

Steve Schultze

They put a real physical front up there with backers stacked in the box and we were still able to establish our fullback for the whole game, ... When our O-line does their job and Paul (Rios) does his, that really opens up our play-action pass for big plays. And Bennett on the outside -- he does a special job out there.

Matt Elledge

Coach Bennett always focused on defense and a lot of man-to-man defense. It's what I grew up playing and what I like to teach to my teams. If the truth be known, we probably don't work hard enough on offense.

Andy Gibbons

We're happy with our quarterback play and Paul Bennett emerging at tight end. Our defense had a good day. We gave up 217 yards but I think 130 of those were on two plays.

Kathy Baker

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

Jared Esala

Bennett is wrestling really well. I think he's going to wrestle better and better for sectionals and state. By the time state rolls around, he'll really be on a roll.

Brent Faurote

Bennett is a solid kid whose losses were all to some of the top kids in the weight class. It's no easy first round match.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Mark Richardson

He wants to play at a really high level.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Charna Halpern

He was here two nights in a row.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Jeff Perreault

I kind of thought the third was going to be our period, it was just one of those nights where things didn't go our way.

Roy Williams

It was one of those nights that kind of snowballed on Dave's team.

Demond Garth

It was just one of those nights when nothing would fall.

Peter Maher

Even on nights you didn't notice him, Kent would end up with three assists.

Maurice Cheeks

You are not going to have too many nights where he shoots like that. We were very fortunate.

Andy Roddick

Tonight was one of those nights where you feel like you're on the verge of playing well,

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated, ... We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Samuel Beckett

All has not been said and never will be.

William Ralph Inge

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I really do not aim at any originality.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Joe Roth

In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original 'Rocky,'

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Woodrow Wilson

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Vinnie Vincent

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Robert Pattinson

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

Jeff Gordon

I'll take part of the blame. I think Tony should take part of it as well.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Rasheed Wallace

I don't know what they were trying to do. But whatever it was, it didn't work.

Tyrus Thomas

It kind of woke us up. It could have been any of us.

Keith Richards

And also, she's just woke up and we're going to sleep,