Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Benson

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

Tyler Perry

Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

William Wordsworth

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Richard Kiel

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

Richard L. Evans

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

Tupac Shakur

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

Uma Thurman

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Robert Redford

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

Chip Sodemann

Just making the conference tournament is huge for us. The MIAA has a lot of pride, history and tradition in its programs.

Dale Brown

It can't be taken for granted. No other Louisiana school has gone to it. Only six Southeastern Conference schools have made it.

Jim Thompson

It always feels good to win a conference match away from home. The girls played well on a golf course that we had not played well on before.

Mel Blasi

Golf is a funny game; anything can happen. Our conference is strong and well-balanced. There are no guarantees.

Michael White

He said I might be tied for the Big West Conference record for injuries.

Scott Maddox

I thought we responded well to our first conference loss. We knew a fast start was important and the guys did exactly what we needed by jumping them early.

Barry Hinson

I think the conference race is already done. I think Wichita State is going to win the race. I think what everybody else is trying to do is to get the highest seed they can get for the tournament, or finish as the runner-up.

Mike Loyd

Whatever happens this year, we won't be able to use inexperience as an excuse. Most of our guys have been there and done it before. It may take us a little while to hit our stride, but I fully expect us to contend for the conference championship.

Brent Erickson

The purpose of the conference is to highlight the emerging field of industrial biotechnology, which is being used to convert agricultural wastes to renewable energy and to make many types of manufacturing processes more environmentally sustainable.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Ozzie Guillen

I talked to him as a friend, talked to him like his father, ... I said: 'You continue to do this, you're going to ruin your life. Whatever happened in the past is over. You are strong enough to turn this page on the past.'

Bob Davies

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning. Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

Bob Davis

I think it's a home run as it relates to a new beginning, ... Lycos is on extremely firm ground with this transaction. We can continue to look at strong growth around a number of different fronts with some exceptionally strong partners.

James Steinberg

I think it is very important that we all remain involved, ... It is a high priority for the president and all the parties and we are going to continue to work very hard at it.

John Surma

I think it is in our interest to continue that process.

Gerald Steinberg

He wants to do things, he wants to continue with the disengagement process,

Fred Eckhard

He ... urged the leaders to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide them.

Eric Metz

He decided he likes it where he is. He's obviously having a lot of success, and he wants to continue with the Steelers. He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity.

Alexei Miller

Today in fact we have determined the time frame and the scale. We are talking about large scale deliveries (of gas).

George Foreman

I have determined that the severity and magnitude of this event necessitates the need for supplementary federal assistance,

Nick Lidstrom

He has been talking about the playoffs since training camp. He has been real determined to get back playing playoff hockey.

Tyler Christopher

He is determined to win the gold at the Commonwealth Games, but he knows it won't be easy.

Sasha Grey

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Jarome Iginla

In the third, we were a lot more determined hockey club.

Richard Butler

In those presidential sites, we determined there were 1,100 buildings, some of them as large as Giants or Yankee stadium, really big warehouses,

Joe Taylor

In the Quad-Cities its seems like there are five or six ways to get to a destination. What needs to be determined is the primary way to get to your destination.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Teresa Kerry

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Todd Taylor

Guys know that if they want to play, they have to earn it in practice. It doesn't matter so much who starts for me but who's playing well.

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Paul Krebs

I think the MAC has to earn respect. I don't think we've been very strategic. The league has recognized we have to do better.

Steve Makein

I think that really increased his confidence. He realizes to be successful in this sport you have to earn it. He's put the time in to earn it.

Gary Kubiak

I think you have to earn that right in this league. You get showcased in this league for those reasons. We want to get this football team playing that well where we're getting opportunities to play on Monday Night Football and those type of things. We want to earn our keep and we hope to be in those games soon.

Martina Hingis

I think winning the first game showed her that I am here and I am prepared, and that she has to earn her points. It was really important to have won that first game.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Zach Thomas

He's doing what we need. A big percentage of the team needs that mental toughness, and that's what we have always needed here. That will hopefully pan out and make us a tougher, nasty team. We want it where teams don't want to play us.

Rob Hummel

Hopefully we can keep getting these kind of crowds. I'm not sure what it was like in 1994, but I hope they'll keep coming.

Gary Green

Hopefully we can get him on track as we go on. We're not worried about doing everything at once. Let's just do one thing at a time.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

Jim Eastin

Our line has been our strength so far. We get after people and stay after them. Our season is not over. Hopefully the kids understand that.

Kyle Orton

If you stay out of third-and-longs, they can't do a whole lot. So hopefully we can win first down and win second down and keep ourselves to manageable third downs.

B. F. Skinner

I just filed unemployment today. Hopefully the store will reopen, otherwise I'm going to have to find a new job.

Hamilton Peterson

I plan on being there as much as possible and hopefully being able to witness history.

Leo Mazzone

He's a solid guy, a solid pitcher. Just because he's soft-spoken doesn't mean there's not a lot of intensity there.

Ed Rappaport

There aren't too many hurricanes that make landfall with this intensity in the Pacific,

Jonathan Cheechoo

We matched them better physically and we matched their intensity through the whole game. Every win is big for us. We are trying to get back into the playoff race.

Catherine Young

It seems like we get a little lead and then we relax and let them back in it. We just don't have a lot of intensity right now. We need to pick that up if we want to play at a state championship level.

Larry Coyer

They were just so much quicker than we were. And that's the intensity level.

Donna Cowing

They're a tough team. They play with a lot of intensity and they're very fundamentally sound.

Ricky Davis

They really took the intensity to another level.

Rod Wilmont

There was a lot of intensity out there.

Jason Spezza

We probably didn't match their intensity early. And Ray kept us in it early.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Michael Holland

I think we are down to levels were people have said enough is enough.

Taizo Nishimuro

It is necessary to raise the level of screening for start-up firms when they are to be listed.

Henry Mason

He's done some things that get your attention. Just like any young guy, you're looking for a level of consistency. That's what we're trying to get out of these 15 (spring practices). We're going to keep him in there and we're going to see what he can do.

Russ Knocke

There are no plans to raise the threat level at this time. These are rumors.

Peter Lai

Hutchison has risen more than HK$10 this week so at this level it will see some profit taking.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tom Grzymala

You want to maintain a balanced, diversified portfolio.

Grant Thrall

It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.

Cheryl Cook

It's a lot of work for the owner ? maintain it, keep it in pristine condition.

Bill Cline

It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

David Liston

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth,

Chris Moller

In the meantime, we have important competitions to run so there is no point shooting ourselves in the foot.

Randy Carlyle

It wasn't pretty, but we'll take the outcome. We put ourselves in position to win it.

Bob Spencer

We pride ourselves in being a well-rounded, blue-collar group.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Carla Gugino

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

Tom Coburn

We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Jason Richardson

If you want to be in a position to be a playoff team, you can't play that type of ball,

Rob Phillips

To me, this had all the ingredients of a playoff game.

Lou Piniella

It's down to a playoff situation. The first round of the playoffs start tonight for every team -- first round of the playoffs.

Jose Lima

This win is like winning a playoff game. We're a young team, we stuck together and took it like a man. It's tough to stay tough, but we did it.

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Tom Kehoe

Pottstown is a playoff contender, and they proved it, but we have to play better.

Alain Vigneault

If this was a playoff game, he could play. It's not serious.

Brian Idalski

We know that we have to go out and try to win the playoff championship. The rest of it is out of our control.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Barbara Bush

in a position to make good, crisp decisions.

Mark Whitaker

in a position to know the things he was telling us.

Joe Lockhart

I'm not in a position to predict the two sides will reach an agreement.

Roderick Scott

Their position is not a Wal-Mart when, it's a Wal-Mart never. We're trying to be responsive to their issues, but they will always have a problem with the location.

Tim King

The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Glenn Richardson

I think it's time we start talking about it,

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Roger Gerlach

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.

Jim Hood

In doing so, they have defrauded the state of Mississippi,

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Estelle

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Mike Martz

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

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Katherine Jenkins

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

Lesley-Anne Down

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.