Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Stephens

While we applaud the difficult decision to reduce the workforce in order to enhance shareholder value, yesterday's restructuring announcement leads us to suspect headwinds may be stronger than previously indicated.

Giovanni Bisignani

I applaud Malaysia's leadership in ratifying this important convention, which creates an international legal framework that will help attract finance to the aviation industry.

Gregory Geoffroy

I applaud Director (Robert) Mueller for reaching out to Iowa State and other universities.

David Collins

I saw Beckham go over and applaud the Welsh fans at the end of the match which was a magnificent gesture on his behalf. He appreciated the fantastic support they had given the Welsh team.

George McGovern

My role tonight is to sit there and enjoy it and applaud at the appropriate places in case he says something wise,

William Crow

We believe the Street should view the 41 cents per share number as the truest operating metric and therefore applaud this morning's report card.

Jodi Picoult

I think libraries are an important part of the community. If it wasn't for librarians recommending our books to people coming into the library unsure of what to read, where would authors be? I really applaud this community for being so serious about giving to their libraries.

Brent Martin

I applaud you for taking the initiative of starting the acquisition process, and I encourage you to finish it.

Andy Troszok

I applaud the system. I know the system works.

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.

Beth McGraw

What we do is we step in and we help them get a leg up, because an average refund is about $1,300.

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.

Chris DiMarco

Courses are not getting any shorter. I could not hit the ball an average of 279, 280 (yards) and compete out here still. I needed to get eight to 10 more yards somehow. It makes a big difference.

Anthony Byett

Evaluating the data available, the average house price is still increasing at a rate similar to most of 2004 and 2005.

Gloria Estefan

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

Dave Starling

Nos. 1-9 in the batting order will move the baseball. Defensively we'll be as solid as we've ever been. Matt can overpower people and keep us in the game with anyone.

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.

Russ Adams

I don't know how that's going to work out. That may be one of the things we fight about. I guess it will depend on which batting practice group we're hitting in.

Richie Sexson

I didn't have to drive a half hour to get to a batting cage. It wasn't such a chore to leave the family and go hit. I could go down there at 9:30 at night if I wanted. I just hit a lot more.

Jacque Jones

I haven't felt good about my batting average. I'm sick about it. I can't stand it. I know I'm much better than a .250 hitter.

Josh Paul

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

Chase Utley

I'm more excited than anything just to be around those guys, guys who are winners and are very successful. It will only help. They're winners, they've won batting titles.

Julian Robertson

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.

Jason Bay

I'm not a batting practice home-run hitter. I think I'm done with it.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

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.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

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.

Mark Rubin

That's where the oil is. It's the best place to look for oil in the United States, and there's predicted to be more oil there than any other place that we can look for oil in the U.S..

Henry David Thoreau

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all

Jane Yolen

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Jorge Posada

Randy is Randy and his power is incredible. But Wang has the best stuff in our clubhouse, no doubt. He'll be our No. 1 pitcher eventually.

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.

Anthony Pratt

We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

Brad Faxon

Well, how cool is that? You're sitting here with two guys playing in a playoff, one guy has just stoned it. He's nervous. I know he's nervous -- he's never won a Tour event -- and he hits a shot and it hits the pin. The crowd went bananas. I mean, how could you not like that.

Vincent Lecavalier

Everyone wants to go see that Oct. 5 game (against Carolina) to raise the banner. It's pretty cool to see how (excited) the city's been, even though we had a year off last year, people are just as excited or even more.

J. Horton

Every minute, I am learning something new. It's cool to learn about the process and how it actually works.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Every Comic-Con, they have some sort of 'Dr. Horrible' panel. It's very 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.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Stephen Barnes

You would have stayed out of them the last five years,

Jamie Dixon

You see teams go on runs and win 20 games one or two years in a row. You really separate yourself if you do it three, four and now five years. It puts you on a whole other level. It's something a lot of people didn't think could be done here.

Jamie Dixon

You see teams go one or two years and get into a run of winning 20 games. You start to separate yourself with three, four or five years winning those many games. It's a sign of where you're at. Now you want to go to another level.

William Frey

You see many more demonstrations and rallies where you might not have seen them 15 years ago or even five years ago.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

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.

Steve Spurrier

It was there tonight. It was there to be had if we were real sharp and maybe played a little better offensively. It was a game where we had a chance, but we couldn't get it done.

Jason Rich

It was ugly, but I'm just glad we won. That (style of game) really doesn't surprise me, because since I've been here -- when we play Clemson -- that's the way the game is.

Steve Staios

It was two pretty opportunistic goals by them. That's going to happen. They're a great team. You can't walk away with a game when it's these guys.

Jason Terry

It was two heavyweights. The game was there for us, but they took it. Give them credit.

Clayton Randall

It was two contrasting styles. We wanted to play a half-court game and they wanted it up-tempo. White River made us play White River basketball.

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.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

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.

Richard Grasso

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.

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,

Jonathon Shockey

This (win) is a huge confidence-builder for us.

Curtis Strange

When it first was played in 1987, it was a huge deal.

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.

Darnell Lazare

That was huge in the game. We got in a hurry and panicked a little bit. We should have been more patient because we had enough time.

Daylon McCutcheon

That was huge for him to do that at that stage of the game. Dennis knows how to make big plays." ()

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

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,

Nate Robinson

He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

Johnny Oates

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

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.

Joe DiMaggio

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

Mike Quade

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Josh Beckett

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

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.

Thelma Underberg

I don't know how many we'll get, but the ones that sign the pledge are the ones who will have the support from the majority of the people in South Dakota, I'm quite sure.

Joe Jenkins

That day, there was nothing major going on,

John Gotti

My wife was a major obstacle. She said, 'If you do it, we're through. We need you in this house.

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.

Sunny Kim

Most of my career, I've been a starting pitcher, but not in the Major Leagues. Major Leagues, sometimes I start and sometimes I relieve. But I like to start.

Richard Ptak

Microsoft is really making a major play for the enterprise.

John Hotard

Miami is a major point, and this is a major disruption.

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.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

Ron Ziegler

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

Tobin Bell

There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I found my happy place the minute I saw you

Margaret Mead

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

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.