Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Jurich

We've said it from day one, that if this arena was going to cut into anything at the university then we weren't in favor of it. We reluctantly went downtown to be a team player and to be on the river to go in accordance with the task force and to be a full partner.

Dave Barber

We want to know what kinds of uses people think are appropriate around the arena and how they'd like them to look.

Leon LaPorte

Today, the current military demarcation line between North and South Korea is the most heavily armed in the world and it remains an arena for potential confrontation,

Edmund Muskie

You know, I never have been a stagnant kind of individual. I've been in the Senate 22 years. I'm still stimulated by the challenges that it offers, but here's a whole new arena in which to deal, whole new set of challenges, whole new kind of authority, a chance for growth, and how could I say no?

Ben Romans

We can be honest. We weren't necessarily having the greatest time playing some of these places because they weren't having the greatest time watching us play. But we were always thinking way bigger than where we were. We'd be on this tiny stage thinking we were playing an arena rock show.

Kevin Martinez

We have an obligation to our customers and associates to be strong in the building arena when we talk about how we give back to communities.

Kevin Pittsnogle

We have a lot of people come up to us and thank us for just coming to school there and playing basketball after the year they had before we got there. When we started, it was 4,000 (fans per game), and now, our arena is up to 14,000. It's just tremendous to have that kind of fan support.

Celinda Lake

We have ceded the small business arena far, far too much to the Republican Party. This is a tremendous missed opportunity for the Democrats. Small businesses are the ultimate little guy.

Bob Groves

Virtually every bus headed Downtown was affected. Some routes were 45 or more minutes late because of the arena event.

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.

Clara Barton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Alice Cooper

I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.

Alice Cooper

I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

Anne M. Mulcahy

There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Albert Bandura

People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

Albert Brooks

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.

Bob Holthus

I'm very happy with the draw. If Lawyer Ron could win this, he'd be one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby. It's your lifelong dream.

Deepak Chopra

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

Roger Tambellini

Jason is just playing great, ... He has the force on his side right now. It is good to get him off this tour and on the PGA Tour where he belongs.

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Kelly McGillis

but it also made me full of self-doubt and self-loathing because I thought, 'Oh, gosh, I'm not worthy of this kind of attention. I have no talent.'

Arlene Rosenthal

He's energetic, vibrant, and full of zest and love of opera.

Andy Reid

He's the full package. He can play the run and the pass effectively and he can play outside and inside in pass-rush situations, which makes him very valuable.

Joe Thornton

He's just an interesting story, and people need to know about it. I think good players make each other better. People might think he's just a shooter, but he's not. He's the full package.

Eric Schmidt

He sits in a room full of people who don't agree, and he gets them to agree.

Colin Cooper

How do you do that? You have to train full contact. I don't like doing that (at this stage of the season), but that's the only way . . . that's why we are training the way we are training.

Mark Simon

He's probably the only pitcher that I know who really didn't need to warm up. You know most guys start out warming up slow and gradually increase their speed. When I knew Elmer, he went to the mound, he opened up and he was just about full speed on his first warm-up pitch. That struck me as being unusual.

Mike Kitchen

He's probably looking at ... in a full year ... probably getting 20-25 goals.

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.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Ian Holloway

Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don’t think. I think he’s useless you can quote me on that.

Ian Hacking

The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

Hugh Laurie

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

Scott Niedermayer

If I can't go they'll have work to do, another player will need to go and they need to get organized.

Trey Anastasio

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Santana Moss

Big time players make big time plays in big time games.

Vladimir Kramnik

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Robert Kraft

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

Robert Kirkman

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

Robert J. Shiller

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Robert Griffin III

I know I'm the No. 1 quarterback for the Washington Redskins, and that's all that matters in my heart. That's all I wanted. I wanted a team that wanted me, and I found that.

Robert Griffin III

Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there.

Robert Griffin III

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Robert Griffin III

Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.