Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Chris Lasoya

People ask me what makes a professional player and I don't know. I guess I was really marketable.

Lester Piggott

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air. Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

Francois Hollande

After what happened yesterday -- notably at the Sorbonne -- with these images of brutality, I ask the government to end its obstinacy and stubbornness and open talks toward withdrawing this law.

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Todd Holmes

An official business will never ask you for your information. They already have it, and people have to be careful, because everything looks so legitimate.

Baruch Fischhoff

Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowardice on the public's part not to get engaged in the answer.

Mitch Stoller

Approximately 1.3 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer this year. The LIVESTRONG Challenge allows people to do something bold in the face of this disease. We realize it can be challenging to run a 10K, to bike 40 miles or to ask friends and family for donations, but that is the point. We want participants to challenge themselves and their friends and families to make a difference for cancer survivors. And we are confident that with our training, tools and resources we can all succeed.

Mackey Sasser

The bottom line is, their pitchers were better than our hitters tonight. We had our chance but we couldn't get the job done. It's the same old thing we've seen all year. We have a runner at third base with less than two outs and we can't him in.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Rob Parish

Normally we wouldn't race two times in three days, but we wanted to cover our bases and preview the course.

Tom Woodruff

(Cody) didn't run the bases really well, but we we'll take what he did at the plate and what he did on defense any day. That was a good trade off.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Rene Portland

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

Brad Barton

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

Bill Clarke

I think it is a great experience to be able to go and represent your school and your program. I have been in a position that I coached in the North-South game, the Alabama-Mississippi game and the juniors game last season. I know what it is like to be in a game like this.

Renee Fleming

He coached and prepared me for a 'Rosenkavalier' scenes program,

Del Harris

Everybody says he didn't win a championship as a coach, but look at everybody who's in the Hall who doesn't have a ring. My key point is that none of the teams he's coached were good enough to win the whole thing. But did he get the most out of them that you could? Yes.

Bill Chavis

That's the fastest time of any runner I've ever coached down in Danville.

Bill Parcells

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Brandon Sanderson

What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

Brad Ausmus

Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.

Kenyon Martin

I don't back down. Like, I don't know how to flop. That's never been a part of my game. For me to know if a guy likes to turn left shoulder or right shoulder in the post, I have an advantage. Or if he likes to go left all the time, I have an advantage. Or if he can't make open jump shots, I have an advantage.

Junior Seau

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

Cameron Diaz

I was like, "Excuse me, guys. My ass is going to be facing this way. Do you mind maybe just standing over there during this take because something is going to happen."

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Robert Johnson

I sent somebody to take it down, which I think is the wrong thing to do. But I have to do it,

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

William Shakespeare

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Jim Morgan

When that tsunami hit, they sent planeloads of supplies and U.S. soldiers. Where's our help?

Anne Robinson

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Manny Pacquiao

If he wants a rematch, I will give him a rematch. There should be a third fight.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

Tim Kaine

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Hillary Clinton

Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,