Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Allen

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

Paul Johnson

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

Scott Long

The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law.

Edward Brooke

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Andrew Kohut

The overall finding of public opinion since the September 11 attacks is that the American public is willing to see the rules bent a little bit in the war on terrorism.

Noah Feldman

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

John Banville

The 9/11 attack was a huge and terrible thing but it was not unique. I come from a country where, if you put it in scale, some say 350,000 people would have died from the violence.

LaVonda Wagner

That was huge. We talked about being focused (at halftime), we talked about having an attack mind-set, it was a five-point game at that point.

Carey Green

That was how the game was called. We want to be physical. We want to attack the basket and we want to get to the free-throw line. We've got a goal to get to the free-throw line 30 times, and we didn't. ? There were fewer calls than we expected.

Vince Vaughn

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Rebel Wilson

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.

Dave Grohl

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Carl Paladino

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

Arsenio Hall

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

Bill Vaughan

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Bill Bradley

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Bill Bradley

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

Bill Bradley

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

William E. Conway, Jr.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Ann Falsey

We've known for more than 100 years that hand washing prevents infection, but we still can't get people to wash their hands. Hand washing is the simplest, most effective way to keep from getting sick and making others sick.

Robert Zoellick

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

Jan Egeland

I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,

Ralph Norris

We haven't been as effective as we could have been in handling our IT operations.

Ethan Moreau

It feels the same way as the last game. I thought I was effective in that last game.

Cindy Sheehan

I think I'm more effective on the outside than on the inside.

Eric Swensen

(The outlook) is fantastic. After this, we know that placing at states is a goal that's within reach.

Cecil Taylor

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

Carl Sagan

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

Bette Davis

Success only breeds a new goal

Ashton Kutcher

The goal is not to get into a relationship; the goal is to be in a relationship.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

Scott Jones

That was huge. We had 23 shots (on goal) tonight, some on target and some not, but hopefully (the goals) will just keep on coming.

Martina Hingis

That would be the goal at the moment, to be able to participate at that level.

Bob Emery

That was a huge goal for us. Their goalie made a nice save, but there was so much on the shot that it left a rebound.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Mike Conrad

Timely hitting has been our nemesis in this tournament.

Bill Doba

We've had enough hitting. The kids are tired of hitting each other.

Johnny Smith

We just went back to the fundamentals of hitting this year. It's just making contact. We're not trying to hit home runs.

John Neal

I thought he was going to make it, because I was late and he'd been hitting everything. He kicked his legs out and kinda jumped into me.

Lt. Sanders

Just keep hitting them, that's how we make a dent.

Bernhard Langer

I'm still in shock. I started hitting double-crosses out here and you can't do that. I didn't hit another fairway the rest of the round.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

William Lashner

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.

Eric Schmidt

We just didn't really have that jump in our step tonight, we were very passive.

Joann Erenhouse

We have to jump on this as soon as possible.

Sasha Cohen

I think I was probably not nervous but just a little apprehensive. Ultimately, the jumps just weren't there.

Mike Wilton

Jump serves are good, but only if you keep them in play. No. 1 is a serving error. There's nothing worse.

Michelle Lamb

Jump ropes, come here to the skipping stones.

Christina Hendricks

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Noelle Quinn

I think she has one of the purest jump shots in the NCAA right now.

Justin Dentmon

I think people underestimate his jump shot, and he can drive. He?s a nightmare for any team.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Scott Skiles

We had our chances. We just couldn't make enough shots at the end.

Christy Porter

We were sluggish. We couldn't make the shots fall.

Darren Jackson

We just couldn't make our shots under the basket.

Joey Mullen

I thought he was solid all night. He didn't have a lot of shots for two periods, but when they did, he was there.

LaMarcus Aldridge

Those are shots I can make. They just didn't fall.

John Ontjes

Friesen's a tough player. She made some unbelievable shots in the first half.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He's had to do a lot of things because we haven't been making shots from the perimeter.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.