Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Nichols

We are unable to set a target at this point. UK Sport's ultimate goal is to finish fourth in the 2012 Olympic medal table, finishing as top European nation, and retain our second place in the Paralympics, whilst aiming for the top spot.

Os Guinness

The aim is to truly reach the gatekeepers, those who are astride the doorways of influence and power,

Lord Coe

Jim Sloman and his team can help us deliver those goals and I am delighted that they will be working with our excellent in-house team to search for improvements wherever they can be found. Our aim is to put sport and the athletes right at the heart of the bid.

Josef Albers

I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.

Paul Moriarty

I remember not wanting to be rude, but I would aim to miss.

Sadaharu Oh

I have no intention of resigning. I wouldn't mind dying at a ballpark. I would like to aim high for the team next year.

Thomas Fuller

A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim

Ernie Els

It's really unbelievable. It's the only course we play that you have to aim away from the holes.

Michael O'Hanlon

It sort of takes aim at the heart of his presidency. The idea of firing Rumsfeld for poor performance over the last three years is pretty close to saying the Bush presidency has failed.

William Stairs

As far as the timing of the budget is concerned, he hasn't made up his mind.

Gary Goddard

The budget is pretty self-explanatory, ... This is a very readable document.

Carolyn McLaughlin

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

Jim Horney

We had a very serious budget problem before Katrina hit.

Martha Holler

When students graduate from college, the first rule of thumb is to create a budget and stick to it. Be sure to make your student loan payments on time, every time.

David Kern

It has become clear that Gordon Brown's budget forecasts are no longer in the realms of possibility.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

William Stewart

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

Michael Clara

The very thing we're teaching our young men, the council is not doing to us.

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Kip Pulliam

We'd get up six or seven, and they would come right back and cut it to three. They hit three-pointers. They hit free throws. They're just tough to stop.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Scott Simmons

Don't try to be cute. Maintain your focus--you're hunting for a job, not reliving your past.

Stuart Cohen

E-mail is the primary source of viruses. So cutting off e-mail before midnight seems prudent.

Jim Goins

Elkins did make a run. They hit a few buckets that they hadn't been making and when you get inside the fourth quarter, it's going to favor the home team. When they did cut the lead to 4, that's when we stuck five fresh legs in and that really made a difference that last five minutes.

Robin Brown

Even before I got there, every year we wondered if the show was going to get cancelled. With every cut you wondered if it was going to be The Inside Track this time.

Deyon Pitter

You are the pilot of your life, therefore you determine your destination, and which direction will take you there.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jarome Iginla

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

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Louis MacNeice

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We finished this one. We made it hard though. I told the guys that they are kind of hard on their coaches.

John Shepard

If Andrew's the guy that finishes it, Andrew's the guy that finishes it.

David Carrier

I have a new home here in El Paso, I'm by myself, so I am going to try to get finished with school and open up my own shops.

Alan Trammel

Obviously, you always like to win. I'm not sure if a good finish can make up for that month.

Bill Tierney

I think they're the best-shooting team in the country. They spread their scoring out, and they have guys who can just finish their shots unlike a lot of teams.

Joe Rodeghero

Last week we were happy to finish second in the tournament. Now today we're disappointed that we didn't win. They're a great team and I think we're still a little behind, but not too far. We're a pretty good 6-5 team.

Lance Briggs

Last week I was talking about wanting to finish big plays. Those are the big plays that I'm talking about. Those are the things I have to tune up. It's a good sign when you see linebackers around the quarterback. But I have to finish that play.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Simon Pegg

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it.

Russ Grimm

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

Miranda Hart

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

Zafar Khan

Right in line with expectations, ... It looks broadly in line with what the market should have been anticipating.

Andy Johnson

But we have a program that we feel is in line with our overall objective.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Andy Andrews

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

Andrea Bocelli

When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

Abraham Maslow

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

Adam Ereli

Westerners are in their sights, but I think Saudis understand that they, too, as a system, are in the sights of terrorists who want to overthrow the order there.

Alex Rodriguez

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Robert Frost

Ants are a curious race

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Chris Wooding

We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

Gerald Brenan

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Italo Calvino

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Dan Hampton

Who wants to play in the band? I wanted to play football.

Chris Pine

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

Gareth Gates

I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.