Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Brad Clark

The building has been vacant for so long that it's almost like starting from scratch.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

David Hendler

The brokers have been almost like the old Internet stocks. The stocks have been on a huge ride and they're starting to cool off and come back to reality.

Rocky Smith

The business is doing really well. Each semester my customer base almost doubles.

Peter Capaldi

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

Scott Elarton

The big thing is, there is no tension on this team. I've been with some (Houston) clubs going down the stretch in a playoff race, and teams get on edge. On this club, everyone is so relaxed it's almost like they don't care. But the results say otherwise.

Carrie Barker

The Big Ten is almost like restarting the season again. Once the Big Ten starts, it's like starting from scratch. The Big Ten is like a different life.

Tom Orlich

At this time of the year everybody is ready for almost anything.

Mats Sundin

As a team, we are scoring some goals but we still have a lot of work to do. If we want to compete with Ottawa and the other top teams in our conference, we have to do better in our own end.

Todd Helton

Any win is a good win, especially on Opening Day, but this is a game where we found a way to win. If we are going to compete this year, that's the kind of game we have to win.

Larry Lewis

The one thing I've realized is our kids will compete in a big venue, ... When you go into these games, you take away all the positives. Did they play hard? Did they get better?

Craig Stevens

The most important thing at the moment is Ian's health and I'm just hoping he can get over his bronchitis and get fit and healthy and go on to compete later this year.

Andy Roddick

Now I feel I can be a contender and when I'm looking into the grand slams it feels like I can compete all the way into the second Sunday.

Dave Beeler

Sometimes you've got to step up and compete and that's what we did today. A lot of freshmen stepped up.

Howard Stringer

Sony and its peers all face tremendous pressure in the marketplace, but we have a sense of urgency and we have a sense of purpose. We can and will compete vigorously.

Lee Brown

Teams can register to compete on our Web site. We're also still taking applications from craft and vendors.

Chuck Layman

Right now we're starting to compete and play the way we should.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Frank Anderson

Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Mark Durante

Of the duo, I?m definitely more nervous and uptight. He?s normally relaxed. In fact, he sometimes tells me to go away so he can stay focused.

Charlie Adams

Offense, defense, special teams, he doesn't care. If he sees something he doesn't like, he's going to definitely let you know about it. You've got to have guys like that on your team.

David Barrett

Oh, he's definitely gotten better, he's making more and more plays,

Nell Carter

No question about it: I just didn't want the disease - but I definitely needed to hear about it.

Chris Griffin

After the first round, everybody's won a game, so we'll definitely play a high-quality team -- no matter who it is.

Josh Logan

After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada.

David Jones

Once the security cordon is lifted, people will be ready to go back. This is definitely not the end of our protest.

Ian Kinsler

Actually, it's pretty enjoyable. Playing in a new place every year you get to experience something new, and in this game you definitely don't want to go back to where you were the year before.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Chad Oberholtzer

We tried a new lineup tonight, and it looked like that might have been too soon. We switched out and we still couldn't seem to get it together.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Emilia Clarke

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

Andie MacDowell

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Bre Pettis

When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.

Billy Burke

I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.

Joanna Lumley

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

Donald Rumsfeld

Every day there are numerous threat warnings, ... They are looked at, sorted and sifted.

Terry Bradshaw

At Matthew's age, I looked just like him. It's a perfect fit.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Bessie Smith

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters. So that is my top priority,

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters, ... So that is my top priority.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

Jules Shear

Erskine Caldwell was a Southern writer, Tobacco Road is really good, but it can get you a little depressed. It's about poor folks.

Jay Wright

We'll just toss it out as a poor shooting night.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Pete Catenacci

She hasn't pitched a lot, and I think she's just rusty right now. She could come around any day now.

Johnny DuRocher

I did all right. I was rusty in some things.

Bob Holmes

You've got a pre-June 20th Rusty and a post-June 20th Rusty.

Mickey Blake

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

Wang Yongzhi

This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology since the successful spaceflight of manned spacecraft Shenzhou-5.

Jim Melcher

This is probably the most unusual week we've had in the stock market, at least since 1929.

Shannon Sharpe

You've talked about it since 2001, and here it is 2010 and you're still talking about it.

Joe Jamail

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

Jim Carrey

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

James Nesbitt

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

Gloria Naylor

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

Anne Hathaway

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

Tom Glavine

He and I were pretty well in sync today, and I think he's pretty comfortable with what I'm trying to do.

Nick Saban

It took us out of sync a little bit,

Jeff Biggers

We need to try to live in sync with our geography.