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.

Arlen Specter

I think there needs to be a collegial, modest approach to try to bring the court together so that we have some idea of continuity and what these decisions mean and their staying power,

John Jay

Jason's approach to things now has been great. He's working as hard on defense as on offense. He's into it. This is a big week for him. He's ready to play right now; that's a great frame of mind to be in here on Tuesday.

Romie Littrell

Japanese and Americans approach research and development in different ways - the Japanese use it to create a new product of higher quality while Americans put innovation first and assume quality will follow. Have them work together and the result is superior, the process dynamic.

Aaron Rowand

Jimmy just seems to have a way of not putting extra pressure on himself. He's having fun, and that's a great way to approach the streak.

Shad Benton

Kyle definitely has a major weakness in terms of his defense on his feet and that is something he is going to have to correct, especially now that he is getting a little higher in weight. He has kind of been used to winning with horsepower and that approach is not working so much any more so he is going to have to get better at that or it could wind up being a long year for him when the post-season tournaments roll around.

Paul Jorgensen

Last year Bozeman hadn't been beaten all year and we knocked them off. That could happen this year. Our approach is anything can happen and don't take any chances.

Jim Robinson

I think everyone agrees there are benefits to trying this approach and making it succeed in certain areas.

Ravi Teja

I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.

Na'Shan Goddard

Sometimes you do bad things, you just don't get caught. He's just got to know that he's got more eyes on him than a normal person.

Joseph Hansen

So people didn't want to destroy themselves, and they didn't; and so only a very few brave hearts, not always the brightest or the sharpest knives in the drawer, stepped forward and did the best they could to bring about change and to make known how bad the situation was - the social situation, the legal situation, the employment situation, and so on - for homosexuals.

John Byrd

So much of 'is it a good sign?, is it a bad sign?' depends on personal taste.

Rebecca Lobo

Sometimes I played because I wanted to get out of a bad mood, sometimes because I was worried about an upcoming test. Sometimes basketball was just a great way to forget myself. When I stepped out into the driveway, I was no longer Rebecca Lobo. I was Larry Bird or I was Dr. J.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I make some money doin' comedy. I made $3000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash, so I had $3000 in my front pocket. That was a bad situation, because then I start to buy ridulous sh**. Like, I bought a snake-bite emergency repair kit. Then I said to my friends, 'Don't even worry about snakes anymore.' Then my friend stepped on a worm, I said, 'Lay down.' Snake bite emergency repair kit... is a body bag.

Jason Calacanis

TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

Marc Blucas

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Jesse Holley

Teams are starting to give us some respect. But we're not there yet. We've just got to keep improving. We know what losing feels like, that it's a bad thing. We know what winning's like, that it's a good thing. The next step is to go from a good bowl game to a BCS bowl. If we win our division, we're going to Jacksonville in December to play for a BCS bowl.

Jesse Holley

Teams are starting to give us some respect, ... But we're not there yet. We've just got to keep improving. We know what losing feels like, that it's a bad thing. We know what winning's like, that it's a good thing. The next step is to go from a good bowl game to a BCS bowl. If we win our division, we're going to Jacksonville in December to play for a BCS bowl.

Bill Bradford

There have been a lot of people behind the scenes working on dinners, staging flowers and flags. They're also having trees come in, they're going to have a tree representing each campus, and then there's going to be a grove somewhere on the campus where the trees will be planted.

Keith Brooking

To get nine sacks and with our crowd behind us like they were, that would fluster any offensive line in the league,

Darrell Brooks

You have to pick up the flag and have another guy behind him and step up and be ready to come out here and make some plays.

Pat Riley

You have to leave the last two games behind us. We didn't like how we played up there. We didn't play very well. We didn't play well enough to win. Probably didn't deserve to win.

Luis Sojo

You have an accomplished hitter like Moises Alou behind him. He's quite capable of delivering a big hit.

Ron Wilson

You have a game plan. Not like a football game, but an idea of how you want to play, you establish it, and that's always the test when you fall behind early, to see if you can sustain what's been successful. That's kind of a test for us, to play as well as we did for 60 minutes.

Susan Bloir

Within his stories there are textual references to blind storytellers, remember Homer (the Homers) may not have existed at all. If this was one man, the fact that he could remember such complex stories and legends and tell them with a single, embedded story line is remarkable. That indicates to some that he may have been blind. When one is blind, the other senses are heightened. That is some of the rationale behind the statement that Homer may have been blind.

D. James

With home theater and media centers, there has been such an electronics boom within the last five years. But we're lacking behind in technology. Statistics show that 22 percent of new, upscale homes built now include a home theater. Yet builders here have no clue about these things or making homes more energy efficient. We're starting to educate builders and residents.

John Schultz

With him behind us, it does make blocking easier because he makes quick cuts and finds the holes.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Michael Dixon

I'm just looking forward to the next challenge.

Robert Jones

I'm very appreciative of Sheriff (Ben) Johnson for the opportunity to serve as major in his administration. I'm looking forward to the new challenges.

Romeo Crennel

I'm sure he's disappointed because I know he wanted to be part of a victory. But he's still part of the team and we're looking forward to a speedy recovery.

Paula Abdul

Im grateful this ordeal is over, and Im so looking forward to getting back to the job I love,

Frank Catalanotto

I'm excited. I don't know what to expect, but it should be fun. I'm looking forward to playing with the different guys -- guys I've never played with before and some of these Italian guys.

Simon Dyson

I just want to keep playing as I have been doing and shooting sub-par rounds. I think if one of us shoots four- or five-under on Sunday, (he) could take it. I am looking forward to it. I have been in a share of the lead every day and feel I have responded well.

Ilian Evtimov

I'm actually looking forward to it. We didn't play over there last year, and really, I kind of missed it.

Don Pierson

The larger corporations have such significant resources, they take their initiative and move forward without significant needs.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!