Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rickey Paulding

My experience in Jerusalem will help me in Sacramento. I experienced basketball on a professional level from guys who were playing the game as their job. That's my approach now. Basketball is my job.

Tim Wakefield

My approach is going to be the same as it was with any other team during the years. I have to be able to throw strikes and try to get outs, as many outs as I can get. We'll see what happens ...

David Thorpe

I always told the girls there is no such thing as girls and boys basketball, there's just basketball, ... I told them to be physical and block out. There is only one way to play the game. One of the reasons is hopefully I was non-sexist. I taught them to play the game the same way I taught the boys. We were one of the first teams to play up-and-down, in-your-face defense. I used the same approach with the girls as I did with the boys' team.

Joy Smith

She's just a very classy lady, always knows what to say and how to approach someone; she is very caring.

Shane Oliver

It is a significant psychological milestone, the approach of which has triggered some profit-taking over the past six weeks.

Mike Hall

It is a positive psychological approach rather than negative. It's an educational tool rather than an enforcement device. It does work. We get a lot of positive feedback from the estates where we put them. People slow down to get him to smile - it gives them a bit of a buzz in the morning.

Wayne Jones

It is a populist approach to government that I see taking place here.

Hans Zimmer

It is a more honorable approach than the Red Sea parting shower curtain.

Neil MacDonald

It is a mistake to assume that the same approach for protecting endpoints using host-based antivirus protection is the same approach that is needed for mobile devices.

Morris Gleitzman

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

David Bowie

...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through...

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

William Bennett

Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely so we were aware of the potential for a strike for many months. As a result we had been having informal conversations with Penn transportation personnel for well over two months in preparation for how we would respond.

Penelope Cruz

Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Pete Carroll

It has never been a focus of our program to look at the end of the rainbow kind of thing.

Rod Barnes

I think our kids are working hard. My focus is to make sure we move forward and get better.

Mike Commodore

I think our focus is very good on the road. We don't have any distractions. We stick to our systems, we keep it simple. I think that's why. Maybe it's something else, I don't know, but when it comes right down to it, it's our focus.

David Ortiz

I just try to shut everything down and just focus on what I want to do at the plate in those situations. Most of the time I try to not do too much because I get in trouble when I try to do too much. It happens to everybody.

Lindsay McCargar

I just don't think our focus was there (on the game).

Cindy Sheehan

I put myself out there, and I'm willing to take it. But I think the focus has been on the messenger and not the message.

Charlie Bell

By keeping our focus on our customers, McDonald's competitive position is strengthening, ... McDonald's U.S. performance for the month and quarter was particularly impressive considering the hurricanes and heavy rains.

Larry Silverstein

Clearly, there are some issues that need to be resolved. But for today, my focus, like that of all New Yorkers, is on getting the Freedom Tower underway.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Drew Goddard

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

Donald Trump

Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and you want to resonate with your audience. It's always a great compliment to have people appreciate and speak of the characters. I can go anywhere in the world, to places where people don't actually speak English, and people can say, verbatim, what I said on the show as Mr. Eko, which is great. That's fun!

Adam Schlesinger

I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

Adam Savage

The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.

Adam Sandler

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

Adam Cole

Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun.

Adam Brody

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

Natalie du Toit

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Hugh Prather

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Harry S Truman

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

J. K. Rowling

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Ivan Pavlov

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

H. L. Mencken

I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

Tim Castille

It's not too bad. I talk to him two or three times a day. It's like I went on a little vacation and he's not here.

Rick Carlisle

There is no trade right now and there may not be a trade. There's nothing to talk about because there is no trade.

Pete Carroll

It's an introduction, and we'll talk about how important it is to play there.

Al Embry

I tried to talk to him and his wife and his two kids. I wanted them to get out of there.

Jeff Bower

I tried to talk him out of it, but he just wants to play.

Christi Wade

They're like every other mother-daughter relationship. They have their moments, but don't talk about the other one.

Ann Gard

They're so crispy. You're talking a long time ago here.

Rudi Koertzen

There was a lot of talk that went on ... it was repartee.

Howard Ward

There was a lot of talk about China.