Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Roach

Katrina and oil prices are simply the straw that broke the camel's back. Delta was going to file anyway. And Northwest was playing chicken with its unions. It seems to me they didn't do nearly enough and waited much too long. They thought they could just ride it out. But the rise in oil prices upset everyone's plans.

Estee Martin

It broke my heart. I literally went home and cried.

Diane Perlov

It broke all records at the science center, and I think the Tutankhamen exhibit was the only exhibit in L.A. that had more people - we've never seen anything like it.

Danny Ferry

He wanted to play the rest of this season with a broken finger. The doctors said no, that they wanted this taken care of.

Dustin Villepigue

He just took it totally the wrong way and threw a cheap shot. I'm surprised he did it. Luckily, I saw him throw the punch, or I would have had some broken bones.

Wendelin Wiedeking

Guaranteed -- we broke up a possible deal for some investment bankers,

Tony McCoy

Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there's ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.

John Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Chase Page

He's a good running back; he's fast. He broke a couple of my tackles. So yeah, he's a good running back.

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.

Jerry Miller

I think we were a little flat today,

Don Williams

I think what it's saying is that '04 was an outstanding year, which leaves us flat with '05.

Jeff Hironaka

We looked flat at times and I thought pressure on us forced us into some hasty decisions. And they capitalized.

William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer

Rep. Caruso

He flatters me, I'll tell you. It's as if the neighbors don't have problems with his proposal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

W. S. Gilbert

Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Rick Foster

I'd like to thank Mr. Gordon Burgess for helping us out and getting us the money to get this done, ... I'd also like to thank the Sheriff's Office for taking us in and the Health Unit for donating the land.

Jimmie Johnson

I personally think it has a lot to do with Jeff Gordon and what he's done here over the years.

Michael Storm

The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.

Jim Greene

She will be seen as Gordon Campbell's right-hand woman,

Julian Ovenden

Looking back at those great singers like Gordon MacRae and Howard Keel - they have such a specific kind of style that it seems like we don't really appreciate anymore.

Gordon B. Hinckley

All the BEAUTY in the earth bears the FINGERPRINT of the master creator” Gordon B. Hinckley

Jeffrey Tambor

Gordon and I run our scene every night prior to the performance, just to get the cadences. I don't think Gordon would mind my telling you that.

Lisa McMann

I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.

Bill Buford

Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.

Steve Asmussen

We're probably looking at a similar scenario, pace-wise, as the Kentucky Jockey Club.

Leon Uris

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

Chantal Sutherland

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

Ewen McKenzie

Just play on and see who jumps up. We don't use them.

Alan Knipe

He jumps really high, and he's tough to block.

Brick Haley

He jumps out and scares the (explicative) out of them,

Krystal McKenzie

If she jumps as well as she did this weekend she may pull it off.

Mike King

I have not seen tremendous change, but I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see one or more jumps here real soon.

Leonard Sonnenschein

See that parrot fish? He likes to swim up and see people. So if he doesn't see any, he jumps up (from the water) to take a look.

Michael Jones

Right now, we're just making sure nothing else jumps that line.

David Hallberg

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

Steve Wright

There's just not one team that jumps out off the page. It sure does make it more interesting for everybody.

Walter Molony

We think 2006 will be another record for second-home sales.

David Walker

I think a lot of teams would probably have the same record if you look at who they've played,

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Jose Guillen

I'm pretty sure if we lost, the season was done.

Flip Saunders

I'm sure they will want to get a win and split the season series. We'll want to be competitive, and stay sharp.

John Abraham

I'm in shape, I've been working since the season was over with,

Mario Cipollini

I have signed for one more season because then I'll be 38 and that is not young.

Steven Ross

The congressional season tends to be more back-loaded than front-loaded in terms of intensity,

Linda Howard

Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more

Edward Kennedy

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

Allan Bloom

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

William Congreve

Well, Sir Joseph, you have such a winning way with you.

Frances Mayes

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

Fernando Pessoa

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Jaron Lanier

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

Terry Pratchett

Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' I don't know. I like being a writer.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Russell Baker

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Trip Hawkins

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

Rick Derringer

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

Richard D. Zanuck

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.