Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Long

Any grass-roots organization or group of individuals that come together often have an impact with local officials when they're reasonable. If someone's indignant, rude or loud, reasonable people get turned off. It's almost like they click a switch off in my brain when they get belligerent, and I almost don't hear some positives they may have.

George Young

Another rule: I took pictures of what intrigued me, but I didn't alter the pictures on the computer except to crop. And there are almost no people; it's more about scenery.

Venkaiah Naidu

As far as the successor's selection is concerned, we are holding consultations and have almost arrived at a name.

Bill Joy

As far as I know we also almost bought Apple once. We almost merged with Apple two other times.

Mark Schneider

As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.

Wendy Gordon

As hard as it was being away from (my family), I really felt like that's where I needed to be. You almost feel guilty coming home because they have to stay and live it for who knows how long. So, whatever relief we could give was an amazing experience for us.

Gary Barnett

as good of a practice as we've had on a Wednesday. We had good spirit and executed very well. It feels like we're almost there.

Shamir

As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.

John Evans

As everyday road cars, they are not the best, ... They are quite high strung and almost demand that you push them. Although they are easy to drive, my most pervasive thought when driving on the road is 'Am I going to jail today?'--and you have to really like talking to 20 people when you buy gas.

Anita Baker

At home I'm relaxed. I may be in the yard talking to neighbors, or riding my bike, or fishing, making up the bed-and things just come to me. I'll hum a melody, and if it feels real good, I'll play it on the piano and put it on tape, and then develop it later. The music speaks words to me.

Joe Voelker

As pleased as I was in the first game, I was very disappointed in this one. We are not mentally tough, and we must develop that.

Robbie Loomis

Really, here, it's all about hand-eye coordination, and obviously for Jeff Gordon, everything that happens here happens in slow motion for him. For a lot of guys it's happening real fast. For Jeff, he's seeing it develop way out in front of him.

Charles Long

Normally, for timber, you plant in the wintertime because that way you have a lot of natural moisture, six months of, hopefully, rainfall to develop a growth system so it can make it through the summer.

Tony Turina

After the first scrimmage, I realized that they didn't need any extra time to develop on the junior varsity.

Lixion Avila

Then, a strong high-pressure ridge is forecast to develop over the eastern United States. This pattern would force Ophelia westward and west-northwestward toward the US coast.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Dennis Franck

Develop yourself instead of waiting for Mr. or Miss Right to come along. Get out of the pity party. Pour time into yourself and into serving others. That's fulfillment.

Sathya Baba

Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

John Barnes

Another thing would be just leave and go home. You know, pick another day that you can come shopping.

Rep. Zuckerman

The big question is will he leave the seat unfilled.

Jeff Lenard

People price shop. There is no loyalty. They will leave you for a penny a gallon.

Pierre Corneille

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.

Jim Beattie

Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anything out there.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Mark Harris

After a while, it's kind of demoralizing. You train someone in, and then they leave for better pay somewhere else.

Brian Butler

Some people were already trying to leave and others were just sitting there going 'Yeah that's great!' and I remember that statement because I was like, 'This is not great, this is time to leave.'

Mel Tillis

So when I leave here at the first of the year it'll become... well, it's already open on Sundays as a church. But it'll be a full-time church.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Michael Finley

As a player and a man, I really respected him saying that. I took that to heart.

Bob Haffele

(Rayfield) got them going early. He's a tough player to stop.

Randy Carlyle

Our expectations are that we're going to try to play an uptempo game, and our players seem to have responded positively to that.

Dottie Pepper

Other players find out if you're not doing that sort of stuff. You don't want to take the 'I'm special' attitude.

Jaime Moreno

No one wants to see a player that young retire. He's a big weapon we have.

Tomas Vokoun

A player like (Parker) shouldn't be in the NHL anyway.

Bill Belichick

Anything any other player would do, that's what he's going to do

James Grant

The teams they've come up against, individually, you probably say have better players than (the Tigers),

Tim Burgess

The sooner we can come to some resolution of that, the sooner we can come up with a process for the distribution of those dollars.

Long Yongtu

After going through this long negotiation process we know it is still not time for celebration, and there is still a lot of work before us.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Gary Wright

Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.

Source Unknown

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

Gwen Cote

This is a year-long process of self study.

Bob Carlson

This is the first step in a long process of restoration.

Arlen Specter

The whole confirmation process is in her hands. If she does well (in her public testimony) she will be confirmed. It's up to her as to how well she does.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Craig Drury

The teams in our region know he is a shooter, but I don't know if the teams up here do.

Tim Beck

This doesn't take away from us winning the region title.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Lyle Mangum

Region 4 is tough. I think Region 1 is the toughest, but Region 4 is right after. I think our wrestlers have fared well.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

M. Wolfe

Are they going to have Victoria's Secret selling underwear?

Swami Sivananda

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

Juvenal

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Carson McCullers

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Jamie Zawinski

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

Miley Cyrus

I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Daniel Handler

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Brian Clough

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Brandi Chastain

Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

Brandi Chastain

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

Brandi Chastain

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Billy Connolly

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

Eduardo Galeano

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Eduardo Galeano

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

Cristiano Ronaldo

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

Adam Richman

I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain - I've always had a soft spot for this little club.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Tom Shepard

Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,

Robin Sutton

Pretty soon, we had to start turning down donations.

Joe Pinyan

Quarterback is wide open. We don't know who's going to start Friday.

Tom Craft

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Ernie Chatman

He was always kind of a student of the game.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Craig Moore

That part doesn't really worry me ? it's making sure I'm fit.

Craig Hedric

So, we can make sure everyone is protected. The defendant, society, and other patients.

Kevin Mammano

I wanted to be sure we were in.

Chris Harrell

Sometimes, when I go back home, they don't see us as much of a threat. I always take that as an insult. I come back, and I make sure to tell my teammates about that.

Allen Tucker

The weather this year sure has been a challenge.

Holly Roberts

The whistle blew, I sure thought so. We can't take it back now, though.

Les Wright

you're going to have to unwind from that, and that's something we weren't sure we really wanted to do.

William Davies

And though I'm sure I see those eyes, I'm not so sure a body's there!

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Sean Coffey

Now I have a lot more time to talk to them, and they probably won't like me as much,

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Mike Eaves

That's going to be one of the things we talk about. Who's going to turn up the volume?

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brian K. Vaughan

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

Derek Waugh

As a team we don't have it. Whatever it is, we don't have it. If we had it, we could be pretty good. But until we get it, we're not.

Josh McCown

As a team we went out and got a win when we were 0-3 and that's what it's all about," ()

Gerald Henderson

As a team we understand we can get so many buckets at the rim. We've been working on that, trying to get better at it in games.

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.

Casey Todd

Our team trusts Erin with their lives. She?s our general.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Jay Thomas

Northwestern has always been a tough team to play, and we have to play them on the road, which will make it tougher.

Ryan Harden

Northeast, I think is the team to beat.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Billy Graham

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

Andrew Lau

With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.

Susan Anthony

We need to see whether this is a one-off or more serious.

Jackie Williams

We as women are all winners, whether we are daughters, sisters, wives and mothers, and that's who I will be representing.

Caron Butler

Right now we're winning games. That's all that matters.

Jon Sim

That's important. We want to be a winning franchise, and to do that, first you've got to have a winning season.

Joshua Katcher

That's more what we should be about than winning or losing.

Marquand Manuel

You're one of us. We're part of winning here.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Ayn Rand

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

Ayn Rand

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.