Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Sklar

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Ron Shelton

Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.

Undersheriff Hudson

He wanted some sort of deal from the district attorney's office for his cooperation, and he wanted an attorney to assist him in working through this negotiation. The sheriff and I unsuccessfully tried to get him a public defender assigned as soon as possible because of the urgency of the situation.

Eddie Jordan

He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain.

Dick Cheney

He legally and irrevocably assigned them and he receives no tax benefit from them,

Paul Freeman

We take the solution providers from opportunity to identification of the right service, assign a solutions architect, help with customer questions and pricing, and help all the way through closing and delivery.

Bill Belichick

What you need to think about it is, 'How do I defeat the guy who is assigned to block me?' That's what defensive football really is about,

Howell Raines

I was assigned to write the color story in the stands and on the sidelines in the Alabama-Auburn game at Legion Field in 1964, ... My first byline was in the Post-Herald and it was about Bear Bryant. So that's about as good as gets in Alabama.

Bob Stoops

I thought the secondary played solid and good the entire day. The one deep wheel route we gave up on our boundary was somebody else outside of the secondary busting an assignment and not covering their guy. They tackled well for the most part, their positions on the ball and challenging in many coverage, I thought, were really pretty good.

Mike Cully

Just nine months ago we were living in this three-bedroom converted house, and look at us today.

Tod Ruhstaller

He was able to convert a great idea into a commercially viable machine.

Ron Moore

The purpose of zoning land for agricultural preservation is so that prime and unique farmland may be converted to urban use last,

Alan Zemaitis

When he threw the rock, I just converted on it.

Alan Goldman

We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products.

Jeff Hironaka

I thought we got some good looks down the stretch and we just didn't convert them. We need to do that to be competitive. Give them credit. They have been here before. They hit big free throws and got the rebounds they needed.

Tyler Hansbrough

I think we just stayed within ourselves and didn't let any of the fans get to us. We got some turnovers and converted ... It is great.

D. James

I think those two turnovers which they converted into points down the stretch made the difference.

Ben Glasgow

I think that was the big difference because they just dominated on the boards. We had trouble scoring. We didn't get very many good shots and when we did, we didn't convert them.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Patrick Fleming

I think it is really time for this to be a national issue.

Ted Dexter

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

Doug Bibby

He really wanted to win a national championship. He really did.

Brian Voyles

Going away from here for a while will be real important for his development. It will really be his first taste of national competition.

Lance Watson

We're on a page now where we want to be the top team in the nation. We want to win a national championship.

Jack Schuessler

We feel it's poised to become a national chain. It will stay under the Wendy's umbrella,

Rick Byrd

I think we have better national anthems than most schools.

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Scott Hinkel

I wrestled here; I wore the singlet. I have a passion for the sport. This is where I like to be.

William Saroyan

He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.

Henry Blanco

He just has a passion for the game.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

Joshua Johnson

He said he had one big pass left.

Avery Johnson

He's a scoring point guard. I want him to make the right pass at the right time and lead. But we need 18 points, too. No pressure. We just need him to be what he was in the playoffs.

Jack Roeser

He's got passion. So many of the ones we've got now don't have that.

Doug Ellis

He shot an unarmed 15-year-old in a passenger seat. You don't shoot somebody for trying to steal your car.

Dan Furmansky

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Spencer Tillman

I know, ... I'm the hurricane. I'm going to be more popular than my husband.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

William Whipple

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Richard Powers

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Samuel Johnson

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Vladimir Lenin

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Tony Wilson

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.

Richard Rossi

To make up this many votes is probably very difficult. I'll see how I feel in a week.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.