Famous Quotes & Sayings

John George Nicolay

Kentucky was yet a wild, new country. As compared with later periods of emigration, settlement was slow and pioneer life a hard struggle.

Thomas Power

I think it is important to emphasize that Montana's economy has been growing at an above-average rate compared to the rest of the nation for most of the last decade, so people's perception of the Montana economy as failing is distorted.

Tony McCoy

Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.

Margarita Carrillo

What we have here is paradise compared to what we have in Mexico. We have everything we need.

Malcolm Edey

Having said that, however, I should note that the current downturn in this sector is an unusually mild one compared with previous cycles.

Derek Hall

Historically, in the recruitment area, we have done very little. We are new to the game compared to other institutions.

Heath Cowan

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.

John Keegan

I think the people saw the difference between someone who said he would do things, compared to someone who comes in with new ideas.

Ricky Giles

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

Max Mosley

What we will do is publish the 2008 regulations and there will be a Formula One World Championship in 2008,

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Tim Ruskell

There is a formula and there is a way to get to that point. You don't know how quickly it's going to happen.

Danica Patrick

I think it's very flattering. I feel very lucky to have people talking about Formula One and to potentially have that as an opportunity.

King Krule

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

Todd Hollandsworth

I don't have a formula for it. You just prepare every day and try to be ready. We had lost three in a row, and I wanted to help out. I'm just glad the day went well for us.

Robert Barnett

He has been involved in all of the key issues, met with all of the important players and helped formulate the most important policies.

Asif Kapadia

I'm a sport fan. So, I have always watched everything, and I used to watch racing. Formula One was always on. The genius about it is that it's on at lunchtime on a Sunday.

Bruce MacDonald

If the public wants to know what the formula is we should be able to give it to them.

Ron Iwami

I talked to A&B and HCDA, the two parties involved and they told me 'Ron, we will not move on this signing until the Legislature decides'.

Jim Bell

I think it is our role to get involved and not just sit back and wait for someone else to help.

Mark Francis

He wants to be involved in a lot of things this term so that he can become more acclimated with the position.

Thurston Moore

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

Charles Mason

There are simply too many players involved for a (conspiracy) to be plausible.

Maureen Murphy

He said he was involved with the Lions. I said 'What's a Lion?'

Bill Cowher

He's a tough guy, and I have a lot of respect for Ben. He knew the risks involved with going back out there.

Shanna Carpenter

I think that (the policy) makes the student organizations be involved and share responsibility.

Sandy Goldstein

We're probably involved in 10 of the 30 most prominent investigations in the country.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Dominic Modise

As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to remember where you come from.

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Harry Davis

He's a student of racing. And there's no place better to be a student of racing than Hickory.

Tim Ritchey

I don't know when and where, but he will return to racing somewhere this year.

Richard Petty

Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.

Richard Petty

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Robert Duvall

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

Valentino Rossi

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

Zig Ziglar

If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.

Jeff Gordon

I like Matt. I like racing with him. I didn't like racing him today.

Kyle Petty

Why did I take up racing? I was too lazy to work and too chicken to steal

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Asif Kapadia

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

Carl Jung

Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?" Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!

Anton LaVey

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

Rob Sheffield

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

Richard Petty

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

Richard Dawkins

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

Richard Dawkins

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the author of the earlier chapters, is that, for an understanding of the evolution of modern man, we must begin by throwing out the gene as the sole basis of our ideas on evolution. If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports? ... Is he manuvering to maximize David Attenborough's television ratings?

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

Woody Allen

I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.

William Wordsworth

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.