Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Cheeks

Somehow we've got to turn it. We've got to turn it immediately for us to get back in this thing. We're still there, but we've got to turn it immediately. We've got to turn attitudes and turn to believe in yourself as well as your team. We've got to turn it around and make guys understand the importance of it, number one, the urgency of it, number two, and leave it out on the floor.

Carl Hollis

Our attitudes are not what they need to be to get us where we need to go.

D. James

I guess we just have one of those attitudes where we know we're going into an unfamiliar territory and we have no one but us and we have to stick together.

Hector Ruiz

We have to change the attitudes of companies.

Dan Woods

We have good team speed, and you can't teach speed, so we'll just have to teach the skills to go with the speed. The first thing to do is to get the kids to believe in themselves. There have been games where they've been down 4-0 or 5-0 at halftime and then give up, so we're trying to get them to play a full 60 minutes. They've had great attitudes so far, so hopefully we'll steal a game here and there. We'll do the best we can.

Jeremy Cox

That was a concern of mine (playing zone) because I thought they were great shooters as well. They shot less than 25 percent (from 3-point range), so it worked for us.

Maureen Dunn

Our concern is primarily that it's a safe environment.

Bob Doyle

Our concern is Nicholas' safety and where he is at this time,

Kurt Faust

Our concern is making ourselves a better team. We've had some cracks in the wall, and we want to eliminate those cracks.

Stephanie Green

Our concern is it's already a flood zone, so why would FEMA want to pay the owner of the trailer park so much money a month to house people in a zone that could be flooded again?

Ron Gardenhire

Our concern is, how many guys are we going to have to throw our games? We've got two split-squad games early, and now we're losing another pitcher.

Wendy Gibson

Our concern is for the safety of boaters in New York.

Joe Cayer

Of main concern is our deficit. The other thing that he recognized was the cost of hospitalization, everywhere.

Thomas Streicher

of great concern to us as an agency.

Jim Calhoun

I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.

T. D. Jakes

If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

Max Beerbohm

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Matthew Hayden

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

Plato

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Philip Larkin

Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity....

Paul Weller

I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.

Lech Walesa

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

John Piper

I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.

Alexander Lukashenko

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

Tom Hanks

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!

Mason Cooley

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

Marc Short

No one is guaranteed to be on the list one year to the next.

Howard Stern

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

Iyanla Vanzant

There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.

R. Robinson

I would say that it (the visit) is not guaranteed yet,

Keith Adams

I guarantee you, ... the special teams units will be better.

Pahl Shipley

I guarantee you the next person will be put through the vetting wringer.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Freddie Shepherd

That's going to happen sooner rather than later.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Tracy McCormick

We had called for a widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain this weekend. This week, we're watching what happens to the remnants of Hurricane Wilma." ()

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Joe Borowski

Everything happens in threes. It might happen again.

James Raia

This race has the potential to be around for a while. Right out of the chute, it's prestigious.

Cody Wright

If we have a week of temperatures in the 50s when it's rainy and overcast that turns right around and it's 75 and sunny for a week - that's a situation when the potential can be pretty great.

Keith Hennig

Jess has the potential to be something really special.

Craig Fugate

This storm has some potential to it. The time to go is now.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Philip Vannatter

Are you saying you didn't make that statement?

Toby Hall

Electric. His stuff was electric. That was unbelievable. Even some of their lefties were saying they had no chance.

Peter Ashkenaz

Pharmacists are saying there are still some bumps, but things are getting better.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He's saying that she couldn't see the evidence, couldn't see he was guilty.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

John McLaughlin

The voters are saying they want to like him, they want him to do well, and they want him to succeed.

Craig Stevens

There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

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.

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Ernesto Hernandez

We stepped on American soil, we shouldn't be here.

Brian Rolston

We stepped it up tonight, and if we do that we can be in it. We can make the playoffs.

Ron Kaufman

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

Stephen Sommers

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Rio Ferdinand

Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Colleen Haskell

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Richard Lovelace

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.

Ray Kroc

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Thomas Jefferson

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.

Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.