Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Just because a person didn't admit that something had changed didn't mean it hadn't happened.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm still excited to be here. The bottom line is, I'm just not playing good baseball. I'm a man and can admit it. ... I'm hoping we advance so I'll get another start.

Pankaj Mishra

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

Charlie Glavin

That would be an old dog learning new tricks. This is not a company or a management team that has been willing to admit they are making mistakes.

Louis Gerstner

I would admit to you that we could take some credit, but there's a fair amount of luck in that too,

Michael J. Saylor

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

and City

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.-Carrie (Sex & the City)

David Delainey

Having to admit we were a very large trader, and frankly a good one, would put significant pressure on Enron's stock because the investment community does not put a significant multiple on trading revenues.

Joe Biden

I think we have a six-month window here to get it right. But I have to admit that I think the chances are not a lot better than 50-50.

Dino Ebel

That was a bad one. Like I've said since day one, this team never gives up. We gave up seven runs in an inning, but battled back. It's exciting. We still have a lot of games left.

Harry Smith

People cannot give up on the city as bad as this looks, ... It's devastating and it's catastrophic, but I have also been around the city and there are pockets of the city that can come back quickly, and I want people to come back.

Heather Stephens

Oh! I feel really bad about that now that I think about that. She's just so good and she's a senior. She's amazing. I've always looked up to her.

Vince Carter

Oh, I can care less about scrutiny and all that. If it was a bad game, it was a bad game. Just because of what people say and what people think, they don't dictate my game and how I play. I've been in the playoffs before and I've had bad games in the playoffs before. It's just one of those things, you shake it off.

Robin Smith

Oh God, fresh air, it's so wonderful. It's the first time I've wanted to breathe all day. When you think what we could've gone through, it's not too bad in there. But it's certainly not as wonderful as this.

Ben Bernanke

Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.

Rick Taylor

Defense has been our strong suit, but today we had a bit of a setback. It was too bad because McKenzie pitched a great game.

Jim Edmonds

Day to day with me is so real. One day is good, and one day is bad. I'm not too excited about one catch or one home run because I know tomorrow could be a bad day. I just want to stay on a level plane.

Roy Horn

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Bill Shine

Bill's the type of guy you look at and say, 'He knows what he's doing. He's a solid journalist,' ... Could he be even stronger? We think he can be.

Jerry Gray

Because if you trust that guy and he has the capabilities and puts in the work, he's going to trust you more and more. I always feel like the more suggestions I take from the players, the more film they'll watch. If they know it's an open-door policy, they'll use it.

William Stafford

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

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." ()

Joan Didion

This one is really fantastic, ... It's not about grieving. It's about what happens when people die.

Anne Carson

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Steve Spurrier

We have not done some stupid things that occasionally happens to teams,

Ben Bernanke

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

Xavier Erck

We were just not surprised. Because, sadly the number one profession that hits on our underage profiles happens to be teachers.

Herman Edwards

You know when you stub your toe, you do everything that day to stay away from it, and you hit it three more times, right? That's what happens in the game. It's sore.

Tim Hansel

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Bill Gray

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

John Gibbons

He wasn't real sharp. But they have a good-hitting club. They make you pay if you make mistakes and that's what it was.

Tyler Palko

All of the mistakes we've made are very correctable,

Julie Johnson

They do as well as they can. Everybody's human, they make mistakes,

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

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.

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.

Richard Branson

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

Ron Livingston

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

Thomas Carlyle

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.