Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Jason Richardson

As long as I was on the floor, I was going to play like I was healthy. If you think you're hurt, you'll play hurt. I didn't have the same jumping ability so I had to smarten up on how to get my shots to fall. I think the ankle will be a little sore tomorrow.

Arthur Andersen

raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

Geno Auriemma

Our defense bails us out a lot of times. Say what you will about both Rutgers games and how bad we were offensively, we had a chance to win. I used to have teams that made every play, every time. Now we're looking at a team that maybe doesn't have the ability to make every play, every time. But what we have to do is make certain plays at key times. If we can do that, we'll be all right.

Dennis Murphy

Offensively he is shooting the ball better, and that has helped us tremendously. He is bigger and stronger and smarter and faster, and what we have seen this year is his ability to handle the ball and pass the ball. It's remarkable. He is a very good player and he is becoming better.

Travis Bradberry

Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.

Sanjay Kumar

Often, the client will have unrealistic goals that the vendor will feel the need to agree to, even though the vendor has no ability to deliver.

Ron Hays

Northwest's strength is its ability to garner volunteers and use volunteers.

John Husk

After you have the ability to shoot a 10, it all comes down to emotions. I look for kids with certain qualities. It's all about staying calm and following instructions.

Brad Blew

Our seniors have made it to this game every year, if not farther. This has been a successful group and I'm certainly disappointed for them that we didn't win, because we played so hard, but I could never be disappointed in this group. They've achieved so much this year and have done so much as a group, they'll always be special.

Yuriko Koike

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

Zach Schade

The thing that got me interested was helping the people who need help -- the athletic achievement is kind of secondary to the actual fundraising.

Troy Aikman

I've made no bones about it, that if this would happen, it would be the greatest individual athletic achievement of my life. When I think of all the great players who have played, to be considered one of the players that helped define the game itself, it is a humbling experience.

Dave Barrett

I wanted to do something, along with some other guys, because it is the 20th anniversary. It is a great accomplishment and we were proud to be a part of it.

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

President Chirac has shown real leadership in efforts to find innovative sources of financing to help the world achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Carl Edwards

I've teamed up with Jack Roush, and I couldn't be with a more dominant team than I am right now, ... Other than that, as a competitor I try not to settle for anything less than perfection even though we don't achieve it most of the time. I'm just very lucky to be a part of the team I'm part of.

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Michael Hurst

Bad guys are always going to be the ones the kids are going to get one up on at some point. So there was quite a lot of falling over. And even though I could run super-fast and had the strength of 20 men, there was still quite a bit of falling on me bum.

Adam Munro

Bad goals to give up, the first and third. I've got to be better than that. Trent did the right thing in pulling me.

Edward Markey

bad for consumers, bad for competition, and bad for innovation.

Casey Dacus

Bad execution. We got even and then we went down on three straight possessions and turned it over three straight times. They scored on two of them and got it back up to a five-point lead, and that was the major turning point.

Steven Wood

Bad economic times don't last forever and the U.S. economy is very vibrant. But at this point that is just pure forecast.

Carroll Baker

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

Andre Miller

Bad defense. Easy baskets. I got some wide-open looks.

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

John Gerzema

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Chuck D.

Companies are willing to pay a higher price to be in those locations.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Rick Campagna

Companies are doing well, but what's keeping a lid on the market is the Fed. We expected the Fed to be done, so we started off the year really strong, and now reality has set in.

Jim Lanzalotto

Companies are being realistic now. They know they have to lock up great talent. It's very difficult to find the right people at the right price.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jon Oringer

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

Barclay Tagg

Probably good judgment and good sense would say not to run, but there is only one Kentucky Derby.

Chris Long

Personally, I can't wait until we start playing those quote-unquote 'good teams' that everyone says we haven't played yet. I think we'll do well. People are going to find out we have some very good players on our team.

Doug Liman

People used to want to see the same old thing, but nothing in the marketing of 'Stealth' made it seem truly original. All I remember from the trailer is the airplane, not the characters. And all I remember from the trailer of 'The Island' is the concept, not the characters. 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' 'Batman,' 'War of the Worlds': Those trailers were about characters. That's good for the movie business.

Herbert Greene

People turn it up on us and instead of going (forward), we start going backwards. That hurts us. And then we get where we can't get good shots.

Pam Richardson

People think things are working. So why not support the people who do a good job?

Gene Stamm

Our test scores are going up significantly. Teachers and principals are doing a good job.

Jan Hammer

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Brennan Manning

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Bono

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

Aristotle

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

Theodore Roosevelt

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Meg Cabot

Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.

Plato

It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

Plato

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Geoffrey Zakarian

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Daniel Schorr

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Clay Shirky

There is no news industry.

Andy Rooney

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Jim Brown

We are trying to see who can perform under those conditions.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Aaron Nida

I was real pleased with his (Larson) performance.

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Marc Jacobs

But tonight, she is going to perform one of my all-time favorites, called 'How Many Licks.'

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Jeff Kelly

be prepared with what you want to say.

Rep. Arza

Be prepared to fight. They're going to come after you personally. They're going to come after you every which way.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Ron Reier

This type of thing doesn't really surprise us, and it's not something we're not already prepared for.

Pat Frazer

What Fauquier does is nothing we weren't prepared for. But you got to do it, though.

Vin Scully

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Aaron Gelobter

I got the call, and I immediately prepared myself for what I had been seeing on TV.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

David Colton

There's really a lot of unanswered questions regarding this plan.

Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Johan Botha

The tests went all right, but I was very disappointed in the results.

Brigham Young

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

Stephen Jay Gould

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.

Mark Rosenker

We terminated the test because it was unsafe at that point.

Daniel Tosh

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Alfred Bester

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.