Famous Quotes & Sayings

Particularly when people look at the makeup of our team and some of the things we've been through, with playing more freshmen than anybody in America and having some really potentially, what could have been devastating, injuries. And then to be able to kind of pull it all together and still win the conference is a tremendous achievement for a team that I think most people felt like was probably a year away.

Passing the 7 million milestone was a tremendous achievement for our state's visitor industry.

Our most important achievement to date is having established a definitive online leadership position through our sole focus on the estimated $200 billion global market for children's products.

Pablo Picasso

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

I believe that on the basis of this stable balance, Taiwan and China's peaceful achievement of one China -- which is the policy of China, the policy of Taiwan and the policy of the United States -- can move forward,

Hu Jintao

I am satisfied with the achievement of the robust China-Canada co-operation, ... This move meets the needs and the times of our peoples.

Andriy Shevchenko

I am really happy with this achievement and I must thank my team-mates who have made it possible.

Richard Branson

I am slightly biased, but I think it is an incredible achievement -- the last great aviation record left.

Bumping is really demoralizing for our teachers. If we lose all this ... student achievement will go down.

He's been an outstanding kid to have in our program. I think (finishing second) is quite an accomplishment. It's been a joy to have him. It just kind of breaks your heart when you've got to lose a kid like Wes. Going into next year he's the only guy we lose. But I can't replace him.

Jim Nelson

The Rand report confirms what those of us in Texas have known for many years -- that Texas is at the forefront in education reform, leading the nation in achievement gains among minority students and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds,

Unless we are of one accord, we are just beating the bushes coming to these meetings and accomplishing nothing.

Joe Johnson

It is a great accomplishment and I look forward to doing more of that. I'm a versatile player and that allows me to not only score, but rebound and get my teammates involved. It makes it easy on myself and the team.

I think Will has done a superb job and the team has too, obviously. It's a step in this process for a school that went from (Division) III to II and I, and this is not a culmination by a long shot, but to get into the dance is a tremendous accomplishment, when you look at where the basketball team was four years ago.

Jack O'Connell

It is clear that California must do more to improve student achievement. The scores released today are not surprising and are another indication of the challenges we face.

Haile Selassie

Last May, in Addis Ababa there was convened a meeting of Heads of African States and Governments. In three days, the thirty-two nations represented at that Conference demonstrated to the world that when the will and the determination exist, nations and peoples of diverse backgrounds can and will work together in unity for the achievement of common goals and the assurance of that equality and brotherhood which we desire.

Sam Simon

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

Simon Spurr

The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.

This was a great accomplishment for the seniors, to go out with a win. They're second to Kent, and it's a close second.

King Kong is one of those rare cinematic achievements that reminds us of the truly magical power of movies. From the first frame, Peter Jackson and his team take us on an unforgettable adventure that not only thrills, but also touches us on a deep, emotional level. We are extremely proud to be able to bring this one-of-a-kind film to home entertainment audiences.

I wouldn't say it was a world record in achievement for Puget Sound, but it was pretty darn close to it. We waited for a white mushroom cloud, but it never happened. I'm pleased with the outcome, the state is and so are the tribes. We protected the stocks we needed to, and it was extremely cooperative.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Alex Lifeson

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

E. O. Wilson

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

Dinah Shore

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Dean Karnazes

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

Andrew Sarris

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

Ambrose Bierce

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

That was my greatest achievement because I was just a 19-year-old boy who thought dreams could never come true.

I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to America in the early 1900's. My father was a tailor and my mother, a housewife. Though of limited education themselves, they instilled in me the values of intellectual achievement and the use of whatever talents I possessed.

Buzz Aldrin

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

Jon Gruden

I would just like to say it is a great feeling, a great accomplishment by our team. I am very proud of them. A credit to the New Orleans Saints, they came in here under adverse circumstances, obviously, missing some key players and they competed greatly today. We hung in there and we earned our 11th victory. We look forward to continuing the season at home next week. I am really proud of our football team.