Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Jess Bosque

He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in shape. We gave him rest and it basically went away.

Mike James

He couldn't be stopped tonight. He basically beat us by himself.

Ray Lewis

He didn't mean any disrespect. He was just basically saying he wasn't happy. Some people aren't happy with their job or their wife, they say it. That's all it was, him voicing his opinion. He has a right to do that.

H. Hart

He denied fighting birds here or being involved in fighting birds, ... but he basically stopped talking about it once we showed him what we had found.

Marcus Trufant

He just said basically that he expects a lot out of me and he wants me to play like it.

Nick Fazekas

He just ran into me and that was basically it. The ref saw something that wasn't right and threw him out.

Michael Greene

He knew when to put the pedal to the metal if some defendant needed a harsh penalty but his first inclination was always to make someone better. He was basically a wonderful, kind man whose chambers were always open. In the 18 years that I've been here, I think the system is a better place because of judges like him.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

DeMario Williams

I would say this was my best game. I've had better games playing 'D' than I did tonight. This was one of my best shooting games. But as a team I don't think we played defense as hard as we should have.

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.

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.

Colin Lee

He scored two vital goals for us but was unlucky that we had to play him out of position and he should be able to further his career elsewhere.

Lance Armstrong

I think it's better that way. I'm happy with the way my career went and ended and I'm not coming back.

Jason Hammel

It could have changed my career right there. I was worried. I definitely regretted it as soon as it happened. I probably won't ever touch one (a basketball) again. I learned from it.

Roger Clemens

It comes with a lot of responsibility, ... I know that so many people are counting on me, and I enjoy that. I expect it, but it's the career I've led. So here we go again.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Stephen Hess

It certainly has some effect on his immediate domestic agenda. He has no money for anything but Katrina.

Aaron Boone

It certainly doesn't impact me much this year. You never know what's going to happen down the road, but I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on me this year. If it does, then I'm not doing my job, anyway.

Dennis Ruedinger

It certainly doesn't get old. As you progress through a season, you grow closer and closer to the guys on the team. Each season is its own entity. Watching your team grow and get better, that never gets old.

Stephen Black

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

Lee Mercer

It certainly dispels stereotypes about who needs food, like the conventional stereotype being homeless people. It is actually a lot of working families.

Ed Renwick

It certainly didn't look like there was any mass movement out of Houston to Lake Charles to vote.

Mark Clarke

It certainly didn't look good. We've done well with the full-court press this season. I didn't think it would work with their good ball-handlers and guard play.

Robert Jordan

I was like 'We're going to need you, keep your head up.' It was more him getting comfortable. Everybody knows he can play ball.

Ronnie Anderson

Kitchens are forevermore an integral part of the home. Everybody wants larger kitchens and they are willing to spend more money on better appliances.

Dave Meade

Jaclyn had a good game for us. Everybody played well and got a lot of playing time.

James Devlin

I would see everybody outside playing one-on-one, so I went out and started playing. I've been playing ever since.

Judy Rose

I would say to them like everybody else that loses their jobs, look for better employment.

Eric Meister

He is really a good passing big man. Whenever he gets doubled on his drives, he knows where everybody is and he's good at dishing off.

Larry Brown

He is one of the few people that I don't have to worry about his workmanship. If everybody did the quality of work that Earl did, we would have a different society than we have. And he's not going to retire before he does my screen closure.

Tony MacAulay

Guys wanted it to be the game-winner. I?m just real happy for Seamus, and so is everybody else. That?s what makes our team come together.

Stephen Colbert

I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'

Linda Wallace

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

P. James

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Frank Warren

Joe Will be ready to fight in 2006 and hopefully Lacy will be in the opposite corner.

Jimmy Teague

He's a freshman that's got a lot of potential. We were hoping he could use this year and Erik as a tutor to get him ready, but he's going to get right into the fight (today). We'll find out how he's going to react.

Suzi Babos

Her opponent was just playing really smart. To (Stephanie's) credit, she is a fighter and is working hard during practice.

Vince Young

He's been through a lot. Just to see him keep fighting ... I'm proud of him, proud of all the hard work he's done to get to this point.

Dana Altman

I thought we showed a lot of resiliency and toughness in fighting back. We were in trouble, obviously.

Mike Morris

It is hard. A lot of guys are fighting for the same spots and it might be from the same teams, so it is kind of hard.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Champ Bailey

John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.

Mo Rocca

It addresses a life-long concern, the risk of someone ruining your game. I just don't want you, 50 years down the road, to have your game killed by some guy with a shinier walker.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Bob King

God's on the sign He made it happen, so He gets top billing.

Bill Foy

Going through that type of tournament at the regional really gets you prepared for the national tournament,

Tim Casey

He's a key player for us. He gives us that second perimeter threat. ... When he gets an open look, he's very confident. He wants to take the shot.

Calvin Brock

He's got big traps and a short neck, ... I've seen him take a good shot in sparring. I've seen him walk through some big punches by Jeremy Williams and Taurus Sykes. His stamina in the mid to late rounds is a big question. You also don't know how he's going to respond if he gets knocked down.

Ryan Shannon

He's a true professional at his power-center game. It doesn't matter where you put him, who you put him with, he always delivers the same thing, and he's a true presence in the locker room. He really gets the guys going.

Andy Coulombe

He's a tough kid. He gets after it and wrestles smart. He's always in good position, never tries to do things that don't need to be done at the time.

Todd Miller

He should have known something was wrong then. Nobody gets a pound of marijuana for $200.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Romeo Crennel

I'm not going to measure a season by one game. When you get knocked down, how do you get back up and respond the next time out?

Dave Ketterman

They just really needed a win more than we did. They played with a sense of urgency and knocked some shots down.

Daylon McCutcheon

I've had the wind knocked out of me before. This was way worse than that." ()

Terri Mitchell

When you're playing the seventh ranked team in the nation, you need to do something special to win. They knocked down their shots and we didn't.

Muhammad Ali

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Michael Matz

That's everyone's concern. In a 20-horse field, you can get knocked out before you get to the first turn. Nothing you can do about that.

John Mushtare

All the momentum was our way and the wind was knocked out of us after the game.

Steve Rodriguez

They got knocked down, but they got back up.

Jerry Wainwright

They don't get knocked out. They go the 15 rounds.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Jason Statham

What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself.

William Cowper

To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Gloria Arroyo

All of us are mentally and physically exhausted,

Al Roberts

They didn't do anything we hadn't seen. We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically ready. We're not mentally ready. We're not spiritually ready. We're not athletically ready.

Shameka Christon

It wasn't too hard, but I feel it now at this point in our season. Playing back-to-back seasons and going so hard, but mentally I try to push it back.

Taylor Mali

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

Riley Wallace

We're going to have to be mentally and physically ready. When you have no depth, the travel can really take its toll.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Wendy Watson

Elena was very consistent. She's very mentally tough.

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Thomas Ken

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Jeff Burton

He said it in a way that you couldn't miss it.

Buck Showalter

He's a treasure. Every day that passes, we realize how much we miss him.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

Kami Hebert

I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a state title.

Jack Rio

He's a very physical guy. We'll miss some of that physicality,

Susan Hill

We make our own orange sherbet and I think people miss it in the winter.

Diane Yomtov

He was everything to me. My world just ended. I just miss him so much.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Lawrence Goldstein

Physically it's very feasible, and politically it's very feasible.

Adelaide Kane

Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

Lindsey Kildow

As long as I can physically do it, I can suck it up for a minute, 55 seconds.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Pete Liptrap

I feel as though we've been rather competitive. But in non-league, we don't step up. We can't play back-to-back for whatever reason, whether it's mentally, physically or both.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Vladimir Putin

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Michael Chertoff

If you start to plan in an emergency, you're not planning, you're improvising,

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Sen. Jennings

I don't feel defeated, just ready to come back for the second and third reading. This is not going away.

Danny Sheaffer

I don't know what we can do about it. I'm ready for suggestions. You got any?

Daryn Colledge

I am excited. I'm ready to get out of here.

Seth Greenberg

He'll come back when he's ready to come back.

Will Smith

If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready.

Will Smith

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

Chad Hurley

In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Willie Nelson

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.

William Osler

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Brian Giles

If you're in October, not at all. I don't care. It's a new season in October. Throw your records out the door, and it's about winning series.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

James Dunn

I have never seen such solidarity. It was a consistently united voice.

Greg Willett

I have never seen him so white and sick.

Phil Jackson

I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

Lori Crunk

I haven't actually seen it because every time I've been around it's been wrapped. I do know there was some discoloration and swelling.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Dennis Kucinich

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Romola Garai

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

Ron Chernow

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Roger Kahn

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.