Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Beane

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

G. H. Hardy

Many who have experienced homelessness for a long time become numb. They feel they are separated from society, and lack the human touch. They don't get their hands shook, they don't get hugs, they are detached from society and it is not a positive world.

Ron Haralson

We have lost two single family dwellings, or two homes, one detached garage and three out buildings, and we have had six injuries to firefighters. Those range from serious to minor.

Wiley Dobbs

When ninth-grade students are detached from the high school, they don't receive the message about receiving credits. That tends to be the time when you see a higher number of dropouts.

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Megan Smith

I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Chris Mennis

I wouldn't be surprised if that $2.10 is the high for the week.

Chad Kroeger

I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Katharine McPhee

I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Jacob Knight

I'd like to see higher sales on the year and get sales back up. I can't wait to get started.

Todd Davison

Had Ivan hit Mississippi, the storm surges in Mississippi would have been higher than those in Florida.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Ray Nagin

I think it's going to send a wonderful message to the world that New Orleans is on the road to recovery.

Terry Wood

We try to get the message out there that the ongoing support of our organization is essential,

Shirley Eaton

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

Susan Collins

He was unambiguous in his message to us,

Richard Dawkins

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

Salman Rushdie

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

Benjamin Raich

Having to brake or be slow to get a better start number does not make sense. Braking is not something a skier should have to do. It isn't part of racing.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Mike Vrabel

I think you could take that and turn it around to a number of positions,

Nicholas Heymann

I thought the number would not be this weak,

Carl Gulbrandsen

I think we'll see a number of (embryonic stem cell) spin-outs in Wisconsin - we got the first one going, and we're working on at least one more.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Scott Nester

I keep checking, and we have not received any yet.

Jeong Kim

Each team will receive a word, then they will have 20 seconds to confer and 60 seconds to spell.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Jim Goodman

It's going to be really interesting to watch him work here at the receiver drills and do all the things that they do.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving...

Bonnie Brady

I travel enough that receiving faxes has always been a problem.

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Joseph Roth

We are still receiving applications every day. It's wonderful. We are interviewing still.

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Jeff Taylor

It's been my observation that for the most part, students are doing the leading.

James Touchton

Students do not just need a voice, but also a vote.

Tustin Amole

It was peaceful. The students yelled, but there was no fighting.

Heidi Smith

It's win-win. We have wonderful databases the students can now use.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Jeffrey Hirsch

There tends to be a lot of housecleaning from institutions in September,

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Gordon Sinclair

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Gong Li

I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring feeling.