Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Rod Barnes

The thing that has helped him, our guys are so close. This is a close-knit group. I think that's one of the reasons why he came back. Most kids in that situation wouldn't have played today. But he made the commitment to come back, and I think the guys were excited to see him and really welcome him.

Stan Heath

The thing that got them over the top was Rondo's penetration. Time after time, where the shot clock was winding down with five or six seconds to go, he came up with the play. That's what great players do.

Mark Williams

I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.

Michael Heisley

I've made it clear for some time if somebody came up with the right offer, I'd consider selling the team. It wasn't a secret in Memphis or, really, around the country.

Eddie Thompson

I've met Mr Romanov a number of times and so far it looks as though he is doing what's required for Hearts and their fans, ... No-one can knock that in any way whatsoever. We're all different in our own way. Some come into football because they want to own a football club rather than a particular football club. Others come in because they want to prove a point. I came in because I was emotionally involved with the club. There was only one club for me.

Jay McKee

I've been around the game long enough to be pretty relaxed in the locker room before the game. But, when I came out on the ice for the anthems, I got chills hearing how loud the crowd was. It was hard not to smile.

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Kelly Ryan

She wasn't stiff. She was very heavy. Very heavy. Very, very. And I remember that she, she was (a) mess, and so heavy I think I probably ended up dropping her.

John Brockington

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

Bob Barr

Mortgage interest rates aren't dropping because of the interest rate cuts, but because of the anticipated economic slowdown and the lack of inflation,

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Al Northington

We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.

Fred Hassan

We have now registered our fourth consecutive quarter of strong sales growth and our third consecutive quarter of higher earnings, excluding special items,

Jimmy Johnson

I know in the back of my mind that we can be leading or in fourth or in sixth and it bounces around,

Larry Brown

They were great. I thought we played pretty good the first half. In the fourth quarter, we just went to the young kids. They were phenomenal.

Matt Harpring

This is a big loss. This is a winnable game ? and we start off the game kind of poorly, and we didn't get it done in the fourth quarter.

Doug Flutie

It was fun to watch Tom work. He took it to another level the whole fourth quarter.

Michael Teller

We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Richard Daynard

At this point, it's really open season on the industry,

Svetlana Kuznetsova

This year, I've wanted to go out and play like (the) U.S. Open champion. I put too much pressure on myself and tried to be too good.

Peter Graf

We're very opportunistic when it comes to open source.

Kerry Tharp

From our standpoint, the process is still very much open and active.

S. Walker

I don't want personnel bashed in open session.

Thomas Monaghan

I would say I just misspoke. The town will be open to anybody.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Jeff Carter

That was one of the big things when they talked about playing me there at the start of the season.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days, ... When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Jack London

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Barry Gibb

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Ron Ziegler

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Mia Kirshner

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

Roger King

She was on 'A.M. Chicago,' so I went in and I saw the show. And I saw her, and I saw this tremendous talent. I mean, she jumped right through that set and talked to people.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Connie Mack

I always saw this as a 2006 issue.

Nathalie Dechy

I was really upset when I saw that this morning. I think it's really bad.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Helen Darling

He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Dennis Hastert

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Hassan Adams

We were well-prepared. It took us a week to get ready.