Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonny Moroni

There are still the classic four-part harmony barbershop songs, but it's really evolved into adaptable music for today. When we perform, we do contemporary arrangements of popular songs, some doo-wop, some Sinatra tunes and, yes, some classic barbershop, too.

Dana Brunetti

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

Brian Bannister

I think you add 40,000 fans and it changes things a little bit. All of a sudden, you're in a situation where there are tons of people, it's on TV, and people are analyzing everything you're doing. Now it's for real. Everything counts. For any young guy, it's something you have to adapt to.

Clint Dempsey

It is challenging but the more positions you start to play and develop in as a player, the better you get and the more adaptable a player you can be to more teams. It always different when you play with your back to goal, as opposed to running at defenders. It is a challenge because for a long time you might not get the ball, but when you do, if you can put it in the back of the net, then you did your job.

Douglas Kirkland

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

Leslie Messina

We're probably going to move Kim to the outfield. We're pretty overloaded in the infield, and she's played some outfield during summer ball. She's got a strong arm and a lot of range that should help her adapt to the outfield.

Chris Heim

We're pleased that JVC is able to meet compliance requirements on time and with the knowledge that the software will adapt as their supply chain and customers dictate. JVC has demonstrated its customer commitment by making RFID tagging an integrated step in its order operations.

Matt Poskay

We're playing Virginia lacrosse right now and are not worried too much about what the other teams are going to do. If we play our game, I think a lot of teams will struggle to adapt to the way we play.

Peter Jackson

We are fortunate a number of players can play well in many positions, like Tom Clarke who has adapted well to midfield.

Tyler Colvin

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

Lou Holtz

Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Ben Saylor

I take the same approach every time. Early in the count I'm hoping they throw me a mistake and that's what I feel like happened in the first couple of at-bats. It's really important when another team makes a mistake, you've really got to bury them. You have to go right after them and make those mistakes hurt. I think our team did a good job of that.

Katrina Kaif

You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.

John Denham

What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.

Steve Dale

He reminded us how great the game was and all that we would get out of it. The friendships, the camaraderie and how everyone was responsible for each other. He had a real family approach to the game.

Steve Gardner

He's a good hitter. You put it where a guy like him likes it you're going to pay the price. We didn't pitch him very well. Our approach was to work him away, work him off-speed and elevate the ball. We just didn't elevate it enough.

Jim LaBelle

He said he had the runway in sight ... and was going to circle to land. He thought he had enough visibility to make a visible approach to the runway.

Ian Mckellen

'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.

M. Thompson

Knowing our girls we will grow from this. The seniors will challenge the entire squad to refocus and improve their concentration on shooting at our practices.

Ken Trump

Kids are much more tech savvy than many adults anyway. The challenge is how do we narrow the gap between the two.

Chip Gramke

I would think he would want to spend the time to get to know the largest district, the most challenged district and the most successful district. I'm not sure if he's on tour to tour schools or to promote an agenda.

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Rick Prinz

I think it is always a challenge when you face PV. It's a challenge because they are always athletic. Once again, they have really good team speed.

Hugh Muscat

He wanted to prove to everybody that he could do what he wanted to do. It was a challenge for him.

Tony Banks

He'd be challenged when he was out. I would let it roll off. Lawrence would respond differently. He would say something back.

Wade Henderson

He listened carefully, he listened thoughtfully. He did not respond to challenges or views that were presented. I do think he felt this should be a vote of conscience and I think in the end he voted his conscience, and I think at the end of the day that speaks volumes about his leadership.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Amy Jones

Kevin wants to change the course of his life and just get out of the industry. It was his decision. It's a life choice.

Richard Applegate

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as well try if the choices stink or the offerings are really expensive.

Jeff Murray

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Robert Boswell

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Al Bowman

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Bruce Bochy

Just seeing his name in the lineup changes the flow of the game.

Gabriella Goddard

Just one step could change your life forever.

Steve Robinson

It could be that there's a climate there that creates the stigma which prevents people from coming forward,

Geno Auriemma

I think because of Diana (Taurasi playing for the Mercury), circumstances are different in this one, ... Maybe people sense that the climate is different at Connecticut than it was in the past.

Ken Buck

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Samuel Johnson

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Stavros Dimas

The EU is committed to international efforts to combat climate change, which requires that we meet all our reporting obligations.

Jessica Robinson

the implication that Missouri is not fit for scientific research and that companies are having to move because of a perceived climate in Missouri.

Malcolm Turnbull

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

James Hansen

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

James Hansen

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

Peggy Jones

I think its a good example of how the community and the developer can work together.

Mary Bach

I think it's a direct reflection on the kind of community that we are.

Tom Daschle

I think it is essential we put as much pressure through the international community on North Korea to do the right thing and do it quickly,

Rep. Heaton

I think in Mount Pleasant we have a really great cross section of the community attending.

Susan Tucker

He was a visionary in the fact that he knew this community needed a place to gather. He saw this as the southwest hub, and it has really become that. His vision really has come to life.

Mark Curtis

Hamden is a great community. We look forward to a long relationship with the city.

Gail Reese

What we have found is, and what we're hearing from the public is, it's a marvelous facility for community events. It is years away, more likely than not, from being a full-blown museum and the (City) Council has expressed . . . concerns about the costs of operating it as a museum.

Brian Concannon

What we expect to get out of this is the declaration that the coup was wrong and that the rights of the petitioners were violated. No matter what happens on Tuesday, the election is going to be an empty exercise, unless the international community respects the Haitian voters' decision.

Richard Burkert

Here's a community that faced the worst that man or nature could throw at it, but they were able to put their lives back to normal.

Peter Schultz

Jaco signed a three-year deal with NEC and it's unlikely they'll release him.

Dave Musgrove

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Richard D. James

I would say the Borg presented us with a great deal of imagination.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

George Mason

It can be difficult, ... If you had it since you were a kid, then you have had to deal with the pressure or stigma of being labeled slow or not committed, or simply having had your head up your (behind) or in the clouds.

E. Hurley

It can be complicated, but if you want to get the benefits, you have to deal with all the details. I encourage a combination of options when that makes sense. It doesn't have to be one of the other.

Bryan Nissen

I take it one day at a time. I deal with life day by day. I wasn't living before, I was just existing.

Kevin Simpson

The driver is the expected near-term weakness of oil prices, following the disastrous (for those holding oil and oil-related equities) OPEC meeting.

Julia Sawalha

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

Lee Brown

This is the most disastrous effect on transportation I've seen, even more than the hurricane (Alicia) in the '80s, ... I-10 looks like a swimming pool for four-wheelers.

Ben Holmes

It's a very tough environment for drug approvals right now. It might have been as disastrous without the changes.

Geoffrey Dennis

We have seen a contemporaneous slowdown of the Mexican economy with that of the U.S., but it has not been disastrous for Mexico,

Clare Short

Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died.

Mark DiCamillo

The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own initiatives. It's got to be disastrous from the governor's standpoint.

Calvin Ayre

It would be disastrous for the international online industry. It would be the worst thing that could happen. I think it's 20 years out.

Andrew Coburn

Unfortunately, we've seen this over and over. We have these disastrous storms and people say, 'Oh my God this is terrible,' and then within a few years those memories fade.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Carroll Robinson

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Alan Skrainka

I think the performance gap between the new-economy and old-economy stocks is like a rubber band; it seems to be snapping the other way. The new economy sounds very exciting, but you're still going to need food, medicine and electricity to survive.

Donald Selkin

I think the Fed meant to say something reassuring about the economy, but the result was very confusing.

Christoph Bianchet

I think the economy will be surprisingly strong in the first half. The real question is: What comes after that?

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Jim Heacock

We've faced a lot of good offenses, so I don't know that that's going to be any different.

Rahul Dravid

We've faced a few (fast) bowlers, so it's nice to have someone who can give it back.

Jim Stagnitta

We threw a kid out there who hasn't faced off all year, and he battled.

Sheraz Mian

We are faced with perhaps the worst possible situation that planners and policy makers could image.

Jeff Suppan

Last year I faced them a lot, so I think that prepares me for this year,

Erik Thomson

He is a man who is ready for redemption. He has lived a selfish, hedonistic life for the last 20 years and is now faced with looking at himself in the mirror,

Jim Fiore

He faced the reality of not being at Stony Brook. Not being part of the future, transferring out to an NAIA school or just disappearing.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Don Budinger

He's been our consultant, that's public knowledge. People are speculating that he's our prime candidate. Obviously we need a globally competent, experienced leader to navigate the road map. Somebody of his talent obviously would come on to our radar.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Guenter Verheugen

In the new global situation, our strategy is more justified than ever,

Ken Ford

In terms of global warming, in terms of price spikes, this would make us really leading the planet.

Raghuram Rajan

In a globally competitive economy, it is very important you insure the individual, you have a safety net for the individual, because they're at serious risk of losing their job and so on.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Richard Bach

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Bob Peck

I think it is the right time for me to move on,

Emeka Okafor

I think I stepped on somebody's foot. I'm not in too much pain, but I really can't move (the ankle).

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Charles Elson

I think it's a smarter move on his part.

Mark Dobson

I think the process needs to move forward.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Kamisese Mara

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Mahatma Gandhi

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

Dan Zimmerman

This is the prime time right now. They're there.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

George Williams

He's got serious speed. He still has a lot of development to work on. I think he can get down in the 46's.

Robert Hall

He's a threat to society, he's a menace. We have a very serious situation here.

Char Seward

I think it should have been taken seriously then.

Tone Loc

I was actually very into all of that seriously and I didn't really want to be carryin' all of that over, the street life, into the studio.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Rose Byrne

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.