Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Marianne Williamson

People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.

Quetel Osterval

People can have the mentality, the mindset and basically you can't change that. But what we can . . . establish some form of relationship so people can see that everybody is able and capable of helping each other. We have to work together to make that happen.

Vanilla Ice

People don't understand it's really a hard thing, because I was here in the early '90s and... basically I was gone from over here. I've been doing my thing over in the States, but it's more underground than pop-ish, mainstream-ish, radio-friendly stuff, it's more underground. People have no clue what the hell Vanilla Ice has been up to.

Bryan Pierce

People basically want to protect their family land for the future. Basically, they love their land and want to see it stay the way it is now.

Steve Giambanco

Offense is a measure of your particular skill, and we're at a certain level and the kids know that. Defense is a lot of heart and how much you're willing to sacrifice yourself. And our kids basically have, and I've been proud of them. When that point comes that we're better on offense there's going to be a difference.

Steven Cohen

Officer Rhodes has basically been flushed down the toilet.

Jonathan Vilma

Oh, big impact. He's pretty much up to speed already. He's going to be great for us. We have a shutdown corner on one side and David Barrett on the other, who's basically a shutdown corner as well. So it's going to be good.

Michael Collier

The Survey doesn't have a clue how to get this out. I've gone out of my way to give out hundreds of copies. But it's haphazard. Unfortunately, there's no economic incentive to make it available.

Carl Feldbaum

a festive, colorful group ... (that) doesn't have a clue about what the biotechnology industry does.

Jack Barnes

Right now, we have no clue exactly what we're going to get from the state and exactly what we're going to get from the local. It's a guessing game on our part.

Jimmie Johnson

Unbelievable, man. Never quit. . . . I don't have a clue what took place this night.

Suze Orman

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

Tony Robbins

Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon.

Tom Morello

Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

John Updike

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Shane Been

Defensively, we didn't help our pitcher out. She made a lot of nice pitches and we either made an error or made a mental error and we just have to work on that. It's early in the season.

Jay Wright

Defensively, they're so big at every position. We tried early with Mike (Nardi) to stick with our four guards, but he got two fouls so we had to come with Shane (Clark). They were just too big. We couldn't rebound and they were shooting over us.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Michael Apted

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

David Eckstein

Anyone, you want to try and put pressure on him as early as possible. He threw very well throughout Spring Training -- his last outing was his toughest.

John Longworth

April's survey could be interpreted as an early sign of a mild revival on the high street but let's not jump the gun.

Steve Martarano

The slot limit will revert to the former 72- to 46-inch framework from early June through Dec. 31. We're only restricting the slot limit during the time when female sturgeon are spawning.

Robert Lane

The special early retirement offer is part of ongoing efforts to run lean and enhance our efficiency, competitiveness and financial strength for future growth opportunities,

Richie Benaud

....and that's gone straight into the confectionary stand and out again!!

Bruce Bochy

Anything that could go wrong for him has gone wrong.

Simon Phipps

The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away,

Jim Ferraro

The team has just grown as the season has gone on. We think we will only get better (the rest of the season), and we should be in good shape for next year.

Benny Hinn

The teaching on prosperity has gone too far.

Gary Arthur

Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?

Alan Ackerman

Techs have gone from terrific to tepid to terrible,

E. Hicks

The search has gone into a new phase.

Clyde Shaw

I've never imagined something like this before. It's just the judicial system gone awry. It's a horrible, horrible thing. Our instruments are our voices, our souls.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Anne Donovan

Awesome. She's been working hard on the sideline, obviously, because her conditioning was good, too.

Scott Thornton

At times we worked hard, we had some individuals working hard, but we also had some passengers. We can't have that at this time of the year.

Jerry Woolsey

As long as we're working hard on defense, we're a tough team to beat.

Judd Gregg

As many members of the Senate as there are, there's that many different views of how you do offsets, ... That's why it will be hard to do.

Bill Rogers

That place was hard to play. But there was so much romance to it.

Nancy Cartwright

Ralph won't "morph" if you squeeze him hard enough

Larry Kersten

Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now

Arthur Miller

A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre

H. Hunt

This is, for us, kind of an opening salvo. We want them to know we are as mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore.

Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Charles Bukowski

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

Peter Hargreaves

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

Albert Einstein

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

Duke Ellington

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

Dr. Seuss

Don't live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.

Derek Sivers

If you're not saying 'Hell Yeah' about something, say 'No'.

Susan Sarandon

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?

Boman Irani

Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

Glenn Thiel

We should have been able to ice them away when we had them. We had the shots we wanted at the end but couldn't get anything out them.

Don Young

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

Don Young

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

Adam Sandler

Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

Andy Goldsworthy

When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another.

Ally Carter

Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.