Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Shapiro

The national labor market numbers are being skewered by the hurricanes at the moment and it's going to be a few months before we get a clean read.

Chris Hill

The thing about the committee, and you get tired of telling people, is everything's independent. Every year's different. Every team's different. We go in with a clean slate every year.

Craig Leipold

Some teams will have to clean up old messes, but frankly, once that's done we shouldn't be losing money anymore.

Kelly Middleton

One game will be played, then the gymnasium will be cleared. This gives our people time to clean up before the second game begins.

James Blake

On clay, his serve still isn't a weapon, but he can back it up really well. Here, he wasn't able to do that. I was able to hit a couple of clean winners off of first serves, and that can rattle you early.

Wayne Allard

Now isn't the time to be firing anyone. It's the time to be focusing on helping people, ... We will have plenty of opportunity at a later date to review what happened and to take the appropriate steps at that time. We need to focus on rebuilding, getting clean drinking water restored, getting kids in school and those priorities.

Buzz Peterson

Sometimes you need a different face. It just wipes the slate clean and they feel better about themselves.

Ozzie Guillen

Sometimes when you win the World Series you clean the house and get a new team. It's not easy, no matter what you do. (General manager) Kenny Williams has given us a good shot to repeat.

Valerie Harper

SAG elections are going to be squeaky clean from now on, ... Win or lose, I feel this is a huge win.

John Kostecki

This is going to be the most challenging venue to date because there are so many variables.

David Simons

This is not one of those situations where we can sit back and say well we've got a study plan and 6 months from now we should be well. How many people are going to die between now and 6 months from now when supposedly that get well date hits?

Jim Higgins

This is part the jousting that goes on with these things. The pilots will use every significant date to try to highlight the fact they're in disagreement with management.

Jonathan Todd

This date has now been pushed back to Feb 15.

Glynn Turman

My wife and I have our date nights. We love the Showtime shows like 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'House of Lies.' And of course, 'Scandal' is high on the list; you've got to do 'Scandal.'

Shaun Alexander

To me, I'm not one of those guys that do things just for the fun of it. If we're going to date ? there's a potential for marriage. And that's how I am.

Steve Johnson

We will always do whatever we can to help our promoters, and if moving the race to a more accommodating date helps the event and helps our loyal Mexican fans, we are happy to do it.

Ricky Henderson

The existing, dated facilities provided by the Ross Theatre do not meet the demands of the events it is now required to host.

Zach Galligan

I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Alain de Botton

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

Gary L. Francione

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.

Dan Thompson

I am awake, I might as well be drinking

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Billy Connolly

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Charles Bukowski

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Edward Abbey

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Edward Davis

We've had several people get engaged here on Valentine's Day. One time we put an engagement ring in the glass of wine so when she started drinking it she noticed the ring. I actually suggested that to the guy because that's what I did when I got engaged. One year we even had a wedding on Valentine's Day.

Ryan Rowe

We'll do what we can and come out firing. If we come out firing in the doubles, we'll be firing the rest of the match.

Scott Vickrey

She was on. She was firing on all cylinders.

Morgan Pressel

I was looking at firing at pins but not being stupid.

Mark Goulston

Firing someone is much worse than hiring someone,

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Rinko Kikuchi

Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Mao Asada

I wasn't thinking about the championship ... just focusing on the two triple axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100.

Mao Asada

I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple axels.

Adam Gilchrist

I think people questioned whether we were even interested in trying to win this, you know, maybe focusing too much on the World Cup.

Carmelo Anthony

I think I'm starting to get into a rhythm a little more. I'm focusing more.

Preston Early

(Julius) was real smooth. She did a great job of focusing and knocking down some big shots for us.

Juwan Howard

We can't be focusing on who we have out there or not. We've just got to go out there and play hard and be aggressive. If we have one or two guys that are out, we've got to roll up our sleeves and go to work.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

John Green

Whenever you use historic models, the housing market is going to be underestimated, and I think this is what has happened here.

Terrell Owens

When I haven't been outside signing autographs, I've been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that's what happened today.

Doug Elmendorf

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

David Wright

We had a respectful disagreement. It has happened before and it will happen after me.

Steve Robinson

We've had such a strong run that a pullback was inevitable, and what we see today is just the reflection of what happened in the metals market.

Rob Parsons

Everyone's talking about it, ... I mean it's a huge thing that happened here.

Pierre Turgeon

At that point, I don't know what happened on the bench. I was just so happy about putting the puck in the net.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Fred Couples

You're on the International side, and you're helping me out?

Arthur Ashe

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When you feel helpless, help someone.

Booker T. Washington

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Steve Burton

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.

Joel Kaplan

Nowadays, it's the kids who have the power. When they don't do the work and get lower grades, they scream and yell. Parents side with the kids who pressure teachers to lower standards.

O. Henry

I wanted to be on the winning side (on the record), but to it was truly unbelievable to have the season we had. The kids just stepped up and played well.

Mary Pope Osborne

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

Luke Jensen

Tennis for me is the same whether I'm playing in a tournament or instructing, ... I just have a passion for the sport and love the game. That's what I tell all the kids I work with about life. Just find something you love to do and be passionate about it and it won't seem like work.'

Ennis Proctor

Sometimes these kids that are well-rounded don't get enough credit. We want to recognize the true scholar-athlete.

Jane Lowe

Sometimes it's not visible, but the kids all know.

Chris Lasoya

Seeing how the kids react, smiling and all, that makes it all worth it. I let the kids shoot me sometimes and they'll be talking about that for years.

Bruce Graham

Pulling kids from line really shakes a lot of people up, ... It is important to keep teachers accountable.

Kathy Bailey

Prior to that, it was mostly in the single digits. A week later it was 20.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, you can work hard, but you have to be lucky too and you have to have a lot of talent. And later in the season, it's just my opinion, the talent is always going to show up.

Dan Bonner

The Monday after Selection Sunday, I'm scrambling to learn all the teams that I'll have to do later in the week. And then I'm out on the road.

Greg Evans

The secret is if you write enough words, sooner or later you have a book.

Romano Prodi

Sooner or later they will recognize how things are. It is very sad that there should be something like this in a mature democracy.

James Marsh

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

Paula Creamer

I see the photographers. I know I'll be doing some things later on.

Pat Gerard

That's iron-fisted control, and sooner or later it's going to fail.

John Gibbons

We could probably use some of those later in the year.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Ken Dunham

There are plenty of ways to get around all of those things.

Buck Showalter

We had plenty of opportunities to score 10 or 11 runs.

Jim Allchin

there's plenty in there that doesn't require new hardware.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is plenty of work for love to do.

David Fitzgerald

Give yourself plenty of time and take it easy.

James Smith

Well, it's kind of uncomfortable. You got to put on sweatshirts or wrap up in plenty of covers. I think it could be warmer.

Craig Bellamy

I have seen plenty of level-headed kids, but I don't think I have seen any with his sort of talent.

Marcia Clark

We've got plenty of time to get emotional.

Henry A. Kissinger

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through law school.

Brendan Fehr

I never liked group work in school.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Douglas Preston

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

Suzy Kassem

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

Simone Weil

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Tim Howard

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Cameron Bright

There is so much life underneath the water that we dont know about.

Diane Duane

You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!

Daniel Goleman

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Ricky Gervais

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Billy Carter

I found out water can be drunk straight.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Edwidge Danticat

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.