Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Rex Walters

You can't build a program in one year or in four years. I want to be here for the long term.

Dan Pifer

We wanted to come in and run the football and establish the run and build off that, and we did that early, and I think that set the tone. We're pretty happy offensively. We knew we would be pretty good. We just had to get caught up, get reps for another week, and we thought we'd be OK.

Chris Fox

We wanted to build up momentum throughout the season. For a lot of people on the team, probably half the team, this is their last meet. This is what we shoot for, to do well in this meet.

Fernando Pisani

We wanted to build some momentum going into the playoffs. We did that tonight.

Don Bugbee

We wanted to build on whatever we could get this year and we kind of exceeded our early expectations. Now that we're here we'll continue to compete and play hard.

Bruce Bochy

We wanted to build on that win. We didn't want to get shut out 1-0 after that big win Saturday.

Jamie Iannone

We wanted to build a shopping experience toward convenience-oriented buyers who wanted to buy new items and make the purchases really quickly.

Alex Schott

We wanted to be able to build an infrastructure; we wanted to be able to make this a permanent industry here. So, when the hurricane did hit, it was important to realize that this is a very mobile industry.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

Robyn Anderson

All of the kids worked so hard to create this engineering feat. We are equally honored when they decided to paint a mermaid on the sub.

S. Hughes

At first I looked to create and get everybody involved in the game, then I looked for myself. I don't think it's too hard for me. I know when it's the time to score and it kind of comes easy for me.

Jill Soloway

At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.

Toshifumi Suzuki

As we value what each one of us have, we want to create a new model through our merger.

Ellen Hansen

As we move into the realm of electronic medical records, we're trying to look at the way we do work, and determine how we can create good workflows and a good setting for the patient in an electronic environment.

Tom Hines

About 50 percent of heat gain in homes is because of the sun hitting the windows. Anything you can do to create shade on the outside is seven times more effective than shading from the inside.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Uli Hoeness

I hope the manager and the team can overcome all of this. It is not easy to go into a game after spending so much time with legal prosecutors.

Mo Mowlam

the exact impact on the peace process is not easy to ascertain.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

R. Robinson

They got a lot of easy baskets in the first half shooting (near) 50 percent to our 20 percent. We just didn't play at the same intensity as we do when we play state schools.

Paul Chryst

They've got a good defense. It's not going to be an easy game at all.

Glenn Frey

It's the lure of easy money, It's got a very strong appeal.

Rich Conover

They didn't give us any easy looks. They got to the line, they got to the basket. Maybe fatigue and the combination of Hartford executing a game plan kind of stopped us in our tracks.

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.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Max Azria

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.

Giorgio Armani

All my work at Armani is based primarily on my personal vision of style, and while I differentiate between the look and mood of my various labels, I am never overly concerned with being 'on trend.'

Martin Freeman

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Portia de Rossi

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

Lillian Hellman

Styles in wit change so.

LeRoy Neiman

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

Lilly Pulitzer

Style isn’t just about what you wear, it’s about how you live.

Lillian Gish

I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

Kourtney Kardashian

My daily style is easy and effortless - I don't like to take too much time getting ready.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Toni Morrison

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.