Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Lisk

The boys are probably slightly better, but the girls could go to state, too. There's only three or four teams ahead of us in the sectional.

Tim Riley

As I ponder this particular change order, I think in terms of other things that stand before us in (the way of) improvements, such as safety features and enhancing our schools with technology. I just don't feel like the price has come down far enough for us to go ahead with it,

Martin Brodeur

Definitely, it would be nice. That's what I'm planning to do. ... It's not something I'm going to regret all of my life. But it's going to be nice if we're able to do it. We know there's a lot of work ahead of us to get it done.

Heather Ferguson

Coach Coyne has told up to keep our heads up, because there is still the season ahead of us, and we need to get ready to make an impact on the tournament. We need to buckle down and concentrate on the next three games.

Terrence Royal

The sky's the limit for the young guys. I know there's nothing but greater things ahead for those guys.

Art Hogan

The second quarter is lining up to be another good quarter but people are looking ahead to the third and fourth quarters. Barring any major upsets on the earnings calendar I'd say the market is pretty range bound.

Rob Parish

The teams ahead of them in the poll were not there, so they know they have their work cut out of them. They have two months of hard work ahead of them. They can't relax, and they aren't going to be content with their performance (Thursday).

Aaron Brooks

The team camaraderie we built, guys knowing their roles and not expecting too much from themselves, has helped. Guys are not getting ahead of themselves and they're understanding what's expected of them at every position. It's made everybody's job easier. That's what's made us a better football team.

Al Naomi

The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement. The problem is the federal funds have dried up.

Israel Idonije

As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.

Jerry Graybeal

Reaching 500 games is a great accomplishment. That's a lot of games for any coach. She's a great example of stability in our women's basketball program and it has translated to success on the floor. Carla has been a great representative of Weber State as a player and coach for more than 25 years.

Jim Calhoun

People had the misconception that if you have three 6-10 kids, all of a sudden you have a good basketball team. The game takes instinct.

Jerry Buescher

Offensively, we did too much dribbling and too much one-on-one stuff, and we're not good enough one-on-one to beat people.

Al Visconti

Offensive basketball is like the stock market it goes up and down. He had to reach that level of consistency on defense.

Rich Glas

North Dakota is not an easy place to win basketball games. I was proud to carry on from Dave Gunther and proud that we did it the right way.

Jeff Cohen

No one was given an offer, from my understanding. We wanted a big-time college coach. A proven winner that has a big-time track record, and I believe Kelvin Sampson is one of five guys who I would have been happy with as the basketball coach here.

Tim Pease

After the effort we gave, it makes it hard (after a game like this). It's hard to walk away with a loss when you give it your all, but we knew who we were playing. We respect them and we know they're a great offensive basketball team. We've got to get better.

Jim Calhoun

The name has magic to it. There's nobody in basketball that when I say the name Gavitt they don't respond.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Amar'e Stoudemire

As a player, you should look at the teams you might want to play for. The city you may want to live in. The system you may want to play in. The economy. The cost of living. Everything. It's about what's best for you.

Shawn Springs

As a player, you're about the team. You do the best you can do to help out the team.

Chris Latham

As a player who finished last season starting with the Wallabies I'm under no illusions that I'll walk back in. But it's that sort of thing that brings out the best in any player.

Diane Keaton

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Toni Sacconaghi

This is the fourth straight year where your priority is to make money. It's the third where your priority is to grow . You haven't fulfilled those priorities.

Samuel Gruber

This is the fourth home of America's oldest Jewish congregation,

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Astro Teller

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

John Hudson

realize the great things that are happening in Jefferson County, and specifically at Atherton High School.

Darren Shan

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

AnnaSophia Robb

Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.

Dan Kallaugher

Princeton did a great job capitalizing on the mistakes we made and that was a big reason why they were able to win.

Howie Hewitt

(Proctor) is 100 percent every pitch, every at bat. He's a great guy to have at the plate in that situation.

Chris Ullman

Privacy issues are of great importance to the president.

David McCandless

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Robert Gallery

That's what we're shooting for. We weren't satisfied with what he had last week either. That's on us ? we want to get him over 100, way over 100, in every game.

Gary Larkins

That unit has really played well the last 4-5 games.

Rob Bohlmann

That took off right where things left off last spring.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

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.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Boris Spassky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Cameron Sinclair

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Jamie Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Joe Gibbs

There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today,

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Jeff Larson

This was very important to us. We've talked about this since we were little kids.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Jill Lepore

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

James Marsh

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

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all