Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dawn Kelsch

I was just at a loss for what I would be able to do. Tony, my husband, likes to fish and even competes in bass tournaments. Turning the lake into a pay lake seemed like something I could do, even with blurred and double vision.

Ken Valentine

Kevin Bass did a fantastic job and Givens, for his first meet since junior high did a real nice job. Givens is going to be a good one for us. I think he found out what track and field is about today. He's a tired young man.

Lester Holt

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Sammy Hagar

He just was the most humble rock star I have ever met, besides having the best hands of any bass player in the history of rock and roll,

Mark E. Smith

Guys who were bass fishing and had lesser equipment and boats, they saw these tournaments on TV and they saw if they had better boats and gear, they could go out and fish these tournaments. They just figured, 'Hey, I can do that.

Jed Dickerson

Whatever happens, we know it's the world record. Unless that one gets caught again, no one will ever see another bass that big.

Will Kirkpatrick

It happens every year. The first warm spell of late winter triggers a fictional bass spawn on most East Texas lakes. The fishermen go wild, and the fish stay deep. I've been keeping records on when Rayburn bass make a major move to the beds. Without exception, it's the first couple of weeks of April. From about now until taxes are due is when the big females will move up on the beds. This is when fishermen have the best chance at catching a trophy bass.

Zacky Vengeance

You can't spell bass without ass

Dan Marsala

Our bass player ended up with a black eye, he was hit a couple of times, but other than that we did all right. We all escaped.

Keke Palmer

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

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Ken Hill

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Katherine Paterson

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

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Tim Reitz

I was always a theater buff. One of the best things is to have your own character to craft and design.

Bob Stoops

Kirk and Dan are great friends of mine. I do my best to watch the game and not root for either one.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Archibald Hill

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Randy Cornwell

He'll be a threat for us out of the backfield running and catching the ball. John works hard...football is important to him.

Jennifer Clarke

Guys can definitely be diagnosed with it in their 20s and 30s. Statistics are showing that younger guys are more susceptible than before, but with all of our early detection programs, we?re catching it a lot sooner too.

Ben Braun

He's a great defender, he challenges shots and he runs the floor well. His post skills are catching up. He's been a real factor for us.

Derek Jeter

Good for him. Now he has the chance to be remembered for something other than just catching a home run.

DeMario Minter

He's a special guy. Just look at the man's hands. Those are hands meant for catching the ball. They're so big. He's just a great athlete. He's really lived up to all the hype.

Scott Hawkins

He's got great form in catching the ball,

Clint Hurdle

He's kind of playing behind, catching up, as far as seeing pitches. He saw a number of pitches today.

Dan Hawkins

He's been really working on that. We put a big premium on catching the ball, and unfortunately that's something he didn't do on the second one.

Mike Bethea

I think it's different because one thing isn't contingent on the other. Nate was going to play football so he could play basketball. Emeka knows he has a lot of catching up to do on the football field.

Aaron Johnson

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Pat Murphy

Kevin Fields really gave us a spark. When you have three guys hitting double figures, you've got a good chance (to win).

Buck Showalter

Kevin made good pitches when he had to, but it took a lot out of him. It was a tribute to him that he was able to get through it for five innings and give us a chance there.

Alan Moller

Know what the weather forecast is. Watch your favorite TV station, listen to the weather radio, and you've got to be in a day when there might be thunderstorms and they're probably going to tell you whether or not there's a chance they're going to be severe.

Jon Corzine

Kids have places to play. This is a city that's on the move. It has a chance to have a real vital future, and I think it's degrading when you talk about people playing on roofs,

Jeff Boogaart

Jacob is a good, young kid. He's got a chance to be real good for us. ...He needs to get a little tougher, and little more physical, but he does a good job with the ball.

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Amber Bacon

Knowing we only have eight players, we have to take it up a couple of notches. But I think that will help the team a little more. We just have to fight through our (losing) streak and keep our energy high.

John Hepperle

Kim pitched well. They started to getting to her later in the game, and we had an error in the third inning. If we can get out of the inning without an error, we give up maybe a couple runs instead of five.

Jeff Woods

Kirsten definitely was a hard worker and team leader. We didn't do much recruiting my first couple of years here and she helped keep the team together.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Larry Beinfest

I wouldn't rule anything out. But we've done that a couple of years and it really ties up your roster. That was with a very set team. It didn't hurt us, but it really limits your options on the bench.

Geoff Smith

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change. His general philosophy is, if we don't get a couple things better, we're going to have a couple drivers miss out on the Chase.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Andy Xie

Growth rates could decelerate by another 1 percentage point due to further rises in oil prices.

Glenn Hoddle

He's had to go back to Spain now so it's not great preparation for the weekend, as he's only due back to train with us on Saturday.

Stephen Bernstein

Holding him without due process is improper, and either ICE or the prosecutors should explain why.

Richard Shim

I think it's a smart move, one that was probably due a long time ago, but they were just so stubborn.

Eric Young

I think it's great for these worthy gentlemen to get their due in Cooperstown. They paved the way for all of us, and we owe them a debt.

Patty Clausen

I think it's due to the economy. People are hanging onto their money, because they don't know what's going to happen.

Tom Gallagher

I think the market is due for some sort of rally. The market is very oversold.

Rick Meckler

I think that the idea of never-ending, short-term-rate increases no longer seems as likely to people. But I would not be surprised if the Fed still increases, but signals to the market that they are prepared to stop increasing if the economy slows due to the hurricane.

David Mitchell

I was due to sail tomorrow but I'm staying home this time.

DeAnn Sampley

Just to see the poverty in Eastern Europe is shocking.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Shibley Telhami

He is terrifying to Middle Eastern elites. He is terrifying to Middle Eastern governments,

Mike Harris

Harper understands, but I think the West does need to understand the East better. And I think that the East needs to understand the West better. I think urban needs to understand rural better and rural needs to understand urban better.

George J. Mitchell

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.

Patrick Franklin

What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up to us to stand up to that tyranny.

Phil Davis

His team will now provide support for the folks in eastern Texas as well as the Louisiana area,

Dennis Ross

I think it's always important when you're approaching Middle East peace never to set your hopes too low.

Ron Evans

In that one month, three of the females have ovulated and made advances,

Michelle Smurl

The females are more high-strung. They grew up in a 90-acre veldt and are not as used to human contact.

Andrea Dean

They looked over the roster and matched up the females on the roster with the information given in the tip.

Reggie Jackson

We have a lot of females who volunteer as a coach. Our girls who play see that.

Peter R. Grant

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Action Bronson

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Bob Woods

The story could be set in some fictional place, but it wasn't. They made it personal. They plopped it down in a specific place. People in a small town take a lot of pride in who they are, and that's not who they are. This isn't New York. And then set it in 1963, right? In 1963, they'd make fun of a man if he wore shorts.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Ruth Rendell

I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

Christian McKay

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Allan Gurganus

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Annie Baker

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

Jim Olson

It makes the pieces of the pie much smaller for the fishermen that don't travel.

Pete McCarty

A lot of fishermen are so poor and broke, they have to fish really hard now.

Nick Furman

Fishermen are inherently reluctant to put pots in the water without an agreed-upon price. It puts them in a very weak position from a marketing standpoint.

Greg Policky

No, he'll impact the fishermen more than the fish.

Dario Fo

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Paul Maholm

Just something that happens at this time of year.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Richard Thompson

I take notes all the time, too. You know, something terrible happens to you, and you think, "Bastards. I'm going to write a song about that." And then you do.

Mel Thomas

It can be a little more difficult. You want to say that it's not but I think that we'll be ready. It's a championship. We want to win a championship and Rutgers just happens to be -- I mean, West Virginia just happens to be the opponent.

Jose Guillen

He can say whatever he wants. We'll see what happens Wednesday.

Jay Reiff

He is ultimately responsible for everything that happens in that office. Things are going right and he's getting a lot done.

Brian Finneran

He's a big player in this league, and when his contract's up, it's going to be interesting to see what happens with that guy.

Conchita Martinez

I think it's crazy, it happens all the time.

Ken Zimmerman

Keeping the matches just may be therapeutic for everyone.

Joe Schmidt

keeping pressure on the ball, controlling the opponent's set plays and team defense.

Jack Dean

Just to be within one shot of Beaufort, I'm ecstatic. When were not keeping up with Beaufort is when I'm not happy.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Drew Stanton

Having that (run-and-pass) threat is really nice in keeping people off-balance.

Larry Smith

It didn't make sense keeping the property industrial. It would have been underutilized that way.

Don Dunn

I was disappointed in him because he has a lot of potential. He was not playing up to his potential. He was lazy. He wasn't keeping up with his academics.

Margaret Spellings

We're on the way to keeping that promise.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

James Howe

I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

Brian Griese

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw them later in the year.

Ken Bacon

He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.

Susumu Tonegawa

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

William Williams

Here it is spring againand I still a young man!I am late at my singing.

Penny Brown

Here we are months later and we're talking about the same things,

Benjamin Feingold

I think you're going to see them by mid-to late March.

Mike Mayock

I think the best-case scenario is late first round. But I'm not sure that's happening.

Dennis Quaid

I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Eddie Johnson

I was lucky. I was in the right place at the right time. I moved into the box, and Landon made a very unselfish play to pass the ball.

Billy Godwin

I would say, that certainly, this was all of a sudden. I would say there was some concern. I think they realize where this program is at, at this moment, and they're ready to tackle that and move forward.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Terry Greene

I think it just moves us up to the next level.

Joseph Battipaglia

I think it is a quarter of a point move up, but a neutral stance by the Fed, opening up the way I think for a big rally for the rest of the year,

John Cameron

I think it is the right way to go and a progressive move for our club.

Bob Peck

I think it is the right time for me to move on,

Emeka Okafor

I think I stepped on somebody's foot. I'm not in too much pain, but I really can't move (the ankle).

Martin Nissenbaum

Have your records tied up as neatly as possible, so you're not shuffling through records,

Jim Bunning

I think their records should all be wiped out.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Rick Danko

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Rivers Cuomo

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

Ritchie Blackmore

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Robert Wyatt

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

Tori Spelling

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

Winnie Pooh

Piglet: "Pooh, how do you spell love?" Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it.

Len Goodman

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

Michael Gambon

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

Tom Dougherty

We'll have a little warm spell for the weekend. And it should be dry.

Alexandra Robbins

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,

Anthony Marra

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

J. M. Roberts

Yeah. That's the right way to spell it.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Forrest Gump

Just stay a little longer.....Okay Jenny I'll stay.

Rick Parry

He wants to stay and I couldn't be more delighted.

Richard McIntyre

Hamid took him as a brother. He let him stay at his house.

Robinson Cano

He's always on me to stay out of trouble.

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Larry Pleau

He's going to stay with the organization for a long time.

Felix Hernandez

I threw it and it just stayed up there. It was an error.

Nico Melendez

It is a continual progression. We need to stay one step ahead.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Winston Churchill

There's no such thing as a good tax.

Stephen Harper

If you want your taxes to go down, you have to vote for it.

Mike Huckabee

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

Newt Gingrich

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

Milton Friedman

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

Kellyanne Conway

We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.

Piers Anthony

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Bonnie Henrickson

Hopefully, we can get more out there for the Texas game.

Dante Hall

I am in and out of Texas all the time.

Robert Duvall

I love working in Texas anywhere.

Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Richard Roeper

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Sandy Duncan

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

Van Cliburn

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

Wil Wheaton

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

Bob Lohn

It triggers a consultation. It doesn't automatically trigger restrictions.

Paul Walsh

And who triggers that demand? ... The weather guy.

T. Boone Pickens

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

Evel Knievel

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

Nick Greenwell

She'll look tough. She got her trophy, now we just need to win so we can get our trophy on Saturday.

Henry Hyde

It still is our plane, ... It's not a trophy for them to confiscate.

Lindy Ruff

He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.

Chrissie Fit

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Saku Koivu

We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Kathy Bennett

I always wanted to know what was wrong. They could never find anything wrong with her until this.

Stephen Dodd

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

London Fletcher

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

Paul Parker

If you wait until it floods, it'll be too late,

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Cobi Jones

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

Trisha Goddard

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

Natalie Gulbis

This is one of those weeks where you have to be really, really patient.

Frank Gehrke

It's a lot better than it would have been two weeks ago.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Carl Jung

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire

Richelle Mead

When Love And Jealousy Collide On The Slopes, Winter Break Turns Deadly

Raymond Chandler

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Raymond Chandler

I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.

Ritchie Blackmore

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

Valentino Rossi

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test

Samuel Rutherford

Grace grows best in winter.

Wallace Stevens

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

Wallace Stevens

Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.