Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Peter Gould

We are very excited to partner with HMC to launch Great Hotels Rewards. Hotels that operate loyalty and frequency programs, which create value, recognition and rewards for consumers, enjoy not only a rise in their repeat business but also an increase in their average daily rate. Our research indicates that guests who participate in frequency programs tend not to be as price sensitive because of the value and recognition they receive. HMC has developed a product that will benefit many hotels and hotel groups like ours.

Jimmie Lee

We did see a drop in our DRAM average selling prices during the December quarter. This hurt the revenue line.

Jeremy Gray

What is most fascinating to me is the suggestion that meditation practice can change anyone's gray matter. The study participants were people with jobs and families. They just meditated on average 40 minutes each day, you don't have to be a monk.

Johnny Damon

To me, he looks like the player he was in Oakland. He's hitting for average and power. It's great to see because he can carry a team when he's on like that.

Adam Miller

We are hiding him a little bit. It's really not by design. We switched a few things with him in batting practice about a week ago. We moved him up in the box a little. It wasn't that he was struggling. He just couldn't get anything on the barrel.

Josh Paul

I put it all to music and put it on the scoreboard during batting practice.

Kevin Zachek

We have made some changes in our defense without sacrificing for offense. It's been kind of blessing for us, because now we have some competition with the bottom half of our batting order. Our kids know that we intend on putting our best nine players on the diamond.

Rick White

The players never really had a beef with anything. When that whole thing happened behind the batting cage, the players were just standing there talking to each other.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Elaine Youngs

Rachel was first on my list. I'm so happy it's happened this way. I'm having so much fun and I'm probably playing the best volleyball of my career. Rachel has a lot to do with that.

Don Waddell

Probably our oldest guy in the tournament was one of our best players.

Jen Zimmerman

Probably our best swim was the medley team re-qualifying. Vanessa has jumped in there in the butterfly for us, and it has gone well.

Orlando Pace

probably one of the best games that I was a part of since I've been in the league. Up until then, everybody was talking about their streak and how they were winning. No one was really giving us a chance.

Lance Berkman

Probably one of the best double plays I've seen in my life, ... I thought, 'There's no way we're going to be able to turn this.' I actually thought he might try to throw it home. He pivoted and threw it to second, and I thought, 'Oh, man, I better cover first just in case.' Sure enough, it was a perfect relay.

Sergio Garcia

Probably not the best thing to do for the players.

Ivory Latta

Off the court, we're cool. We're still cool on the court, but it's all about competing.

Peter Jennings

The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure.

Tessa Thompson

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

Bonnie McKee

If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.

Rob Zombie

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

Jai Courtney

To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.

Nick Cave

This one's got a story rather than being a series of cool vignettes.

Whitney Spence

We went to a zone defense that helped. Also, we just kept our cool and didn't push the ball.

Daniel Adair

What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

Buddy Bell

Five in a row, ... The problem with that is you see it better.

Keith Hanson

Five Americans in the top 10, I think that says something about where we're at. We know where we stand now.

Jalal Talabani

We do not oppose the presence of Turkish troops if they are around five or six thousand soldiers.

Frank White

Big hit, big hit, real big hit. ... We floated after that. Having a three-run lead after five is big. And to hold on and win like we did is pretty awesome.

Akshay Kumar

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

Richard Segal

There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.

Marquand Manuel

I've never missed that many tackles in a game. Ever.

Rory Sabbatini

It would be nice to get back. I haven't had as much success there as I would like, but I think my mental game is ready for it now. I'm a lot more mature.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Dusty Baker

It was a perfect scenario, too -- day game after night game.

Jill Meiring

It was an up-and-down game. Down 19 at halftime, it's hard to come back.

Mike Rader

It was an ugly game from start to finish, but we won. It was one of those games that just seemed to grind out.

Dwyane Wade

It was an ugly and painful game to watch.

Ray Tanner

It was another great game in a great rivalry. It's always a great game when we get together.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Margaret Chan

When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

Walter Raleigh

Let valour end my life!

Alan Stern

The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets.

Russell Tovey

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

Todd Mitchell

I don't think there are any huge opportunities going forward. At this stage of the game, there's too much uncertainty.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

P. G. Wodehouse

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Jimmy Fallon

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Joe Garagiola

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

Joe Torre

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

Joe Maddon

I have not seen the National League enough to know.

John C. McGinley

Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Karl Frieden

They reached such a stalemate that they couldn't reach a supermajority on any of the major issues,

Gillian Zucker

It wasn't our decision. To say we're disappointed is a major understatement.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Harley Dale

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

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.

Felipe Alou

No brawl. No fight. Kind of a strange. I never saw anything like that before.

Liv Ullmann

Only when he saw this face, and this actress, could he make the movie.

Cam Neely

On Sunday, when Tiger saw me he said, 'Hi, Hambone, how are you doing?

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Tim Robbins

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

Stevie Nicks

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.