Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Kornblau

King Kong is one of those rare cinematic achievements that reminds us of the truly magical power of movies. From the first frame, Peter Jackson and his team take us on an unforgettable adventure that not only thrills, but also touches us on a deep, emotional level. We are extremely proud to be able to bring this one-of-a-kind film to home entertainment audiences.

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Charlie Coles

This was a great accomplishment for the seniors, to go out with a win. They're second to Kent, and it's a close second.

Bob Ford

I think Will has done a superb job and the team has too, obviously. It's a step in this process for a school that went from (Division) III to II and I, and this is not a culmination by a long shot, but to get into the dance is a tremendous accomplishment, when you look at where the basketball team was four years ago.

Robert Clarke

It has been another great year for Honda in the IRL. We've faced increased competition from both Toyota and Chevrolet this season, along with the challenges of opening of our new facility in Santa Clarita, California. This achievement is a tribute to the tremendous hard work and dedication of all our associates at HPD, our teams and drivers, and our technical partners.

Vijayraj Bhatt

I do not understand why people ask for Leaving CERTIFICATE while leaving.... is leaving an achievement?

Rowan Alexander

I could sense signs of confidence in training on Friday. We did a professional job and we've continued our winning mentality. I'm very proud with what is an exceptional achievement for everyone at the club.

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Bill Parcells

Kick would be a term of endearment, really. It wouldn't be kick with the idea of hurting them, just kind of move them along a little faster. ... Some are happy to be here, you know?

Mitch Layne

Kelsey had been further along on her quilt than anyone else.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

John C. McGinley

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

Charles Schumer

Just when you think our campaign system couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes the discovery of this new loophole, ... Section 527 is the largest, most disturbing, pernicious loophole in a system rife with backdoor ways to influence government.

Rick Rubin

He is one of the few people who can get on a stage in an arena in front of any audience anywhere in the world and and play original songs for hours (that) everyone would be familiar with and sing along to. The list of people whose music has this power could be counted on one hand, tops.

Hasim Rahman

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Jason Dean

He jumped right in and helped us. Of course, we were doing everything; traffic patrol and trying to keep a high presence in the area when the power was out, he, along with all the men and women of the department did a real good job and I'm pleased with everybody. Being the new guy I thought he handled himself very well during the hurricane because there was a lot of hours worked and not a lot of sleep.

Bill Ball

I was in the ambulance when he went to the hospital. What I remember is the firemen - and one fireman in particular - trying to save him. I've never seen an effort like that in any athletic event.

Katie Mitchell

I was always a little more talented than them. A little more athletic anyway.

Matt Powell

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw some better athletic and designer brands in the stores.

Tony Skinn

Jai is an unusual athlete. You look at his size and you think that he?s slow, but Jai is the total opposite. He is quick with his hands and feet and he can do a lot of things that big guys his size can?t do. He shoots the ball well, he can dribble the ball and also he can use his body down low.

John Andreoli

I would say our skill positions have some depth. We have some good, athletic kids.

Angie Ketchum

Kelly did not lose a match until sectionals. She's a great athlete, a very consistent baseline hitter.

Hal Mumme

Joey did some good things Saturday and he's a good athlete.

Jay Blaylock

Josh is just a great athlete. He has a couple of colleges looking at him. Both Dan and Pat are both talented, so they'll take the defense's attention away from Josh.

Bobby April

J.P. has a great upside. He's got three things going for him, his athleticism, his work ethic, and his thirst for competition. Some of our fans are disappointed in our record. But, even if we were 0-3, our mind-set would still be the same. We've got a plan and we're sticking to it.

Justin Brouse

I was in the backfield and I came out on the wheel. And Corey Martin just lobbed it up to me.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Anna Maxwell Martin

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

Robin Ross

Kevin is one of those success stories. Things hadn't worked out other places, he came here and now he's doing well academically and he's on track football wise. Those kinds of things are why you coach.

Melissa Arms

Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.

Natalie Peters

Kling has a good arm. She just came up and did what she does every day in practice.

Don Thornton

Just mentioning that cameras are up there deters people.

Jay Lapidus

Joey did a good job of fighting. He did a good job of being aggressive. We have a lot of confidence in him and he came through for us today.

Robert Hammonds

Joel played with a lot of heart, tonight. He didn't score when we came over here last time. He really got after it and we have to have that out of our seniors.

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

David Skorton

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Ron Artest

I talked to Stu Jackson, which was encouraging. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my career which (were) unfair. I support my teammates, and hopefully they'll win the game, and I'll be back Friday (for Game 3).

Jim Fuglie

He dedicated his professional career to kids, and his retirement years to volunteer work, especially work with the credit unions.

Lindsey Graham

has been in the legal trenches throughout her career and has a tremendous understanding of how the law works in people's everyday lives. Her legal experience combined with her life experience makes her a solid choice.

Andrew Larson

For me, personally, it just made my career more meaningful, ... It never gets old. Any time, anywhere, I love talking about it.

Brian Martz

I wouldn't say exceeded (expectations) yet. We're still getting there. I would say we've had some young kids, ninth and 10th graders, on our team that have really increased our quality depth.

Phil Goldstein

What you really have is a rogue agency. So many people give the SEC such wide latitude, but they have exceeded (their) legal authority.

Michael Trombetta

He exceeded our wishes. It got him here.

Georg Hackl

I'm too old to race further. I have exceeded the expiration date.

Scott Kessler

It was just a matter of time before the expectations exceeded the results.

Nandan Nilekani

A big part of Bangalore's problem is that growth has exceeded everybody's wildest expectations.

Sarah Mesuch

They exceeded our expectations. They were killing us inside in the first half. We were able to adjust.

Agnus Berenato

There were probably a lot of people who thought we might not have made it this far, but we did. I feel like, even though we aren't in the championship game, that we exceeded expectations.

Brad Nisbet

This is the third consecutive quarter that disk storage systems revenue growth has outpaced that of the server market. However, internal storage growth has exceeded external growth in three of the last four quarters as organizations explore new technologies that increase the flexibility of storage configurations.

Geno Zamora

I am grateful to have had Tom Udall as my mentor in the practice of law.

Tom Donahue

I am grateful that I know. I now know I have the tools I need to keep me healthy for years to come.

Saint Patrick

I am just so grateful. I am grateful to be here. I am grateful to be alive. I am grateful to the jury. I am so grateful for the jury. They worked supper hard there was a lot that they had to take in,

Travis Barker

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

William Zinsser

Be grateful for every word you can cut.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sara Bareilles

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

Valerie June

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

Sarah Waters

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Joseph Beaulieu

Having that backlog helped IBM through the worst part of the recession.

Chris McConnon

Having three lines has helped us out a lot." ()

Marco Coleman

I thought we'd get at least 12 wins, so I'm not too surprised. It's more of a surprise about other teams that have lost that I thought would be better, which helped us out.

Bernie Bickerstaff

I think we played well. Our small lineup really helped us.

Paul Wagner

It helped that I knew Gail's story. If her Web page had just said, 'I need a kidney,' it wouldn't have pulled me in.

Willy Taveras

It helped my body, ... My wrist is not sore anymore, and I'm not tired.

Bobby Holik

Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful.

Stephanie Coontz

The only thing that can replace (the emptiness) is a new sense of community. It's more than the sum of the individual losses.

James Blake

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

Michel Lu

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.

Danial Shapiro

We look at different facets, different relationships, the same relationship at different points in time. We look sometimes at the whole town and sometimes at individual relationships, and by the time we're done you have a sense of having met the people of this town.

Ross Carlson

We look after each other like any other team would, I believe. But there's like a point where there's no individual on this team.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Woody Harrelson

The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.

Rodney Mullen

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Richard Louv

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Richard Louv

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

Werner Erhard

You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work.

Virgil Goode

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

Chad Johnson

I will get an opportunity to play again. Why? Because this is the NFL and there's always second chances.

Roger Goodell

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

Walter Payton

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

Johnny Unitas

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

Eric Berry

I am so thankful and appreciative of being a part of this franchise and playing in front of the best fans in the NFL. I will be back.

Emmitt Smith

I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?

Emmitt Smith

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

Andy Reid

The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.

Philip Rivers

It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Delta Goodrem

I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.

Gary Moore

We've been wanting to get that for a long time.

Rose Byrne

I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

William Shakespeare

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all

William Shakespeare

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all

Lindy Ruff

He thought he could finish. But when I watched the first one with him not wanting to go down, I could tell he was favoring it.

Dean Nakagawa

Him not wanting to be in the spotlight, that's his nature, and that's why he's well-liked by his teammates.

Jamie Bermel

He's still in the mix. He's still wanting to play. We'll have another qualifying when we get back from New Mexico, and we'll see what happens.

Mitch Mitchell

It is a big one. We have to win it to be in the playoffs.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Trent Strickland

We've got to play with a hunger. We've got to want a win and we've got to get a win.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this again, and as long as I can keep going I have a chance.

Richard Petty

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.