Famous Quotes & Sayings

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

You'll be amazed how much you're going to find, either by human error by someone at the credit-reporting agency or from actual fraudulent use.

George Lewis

We don't factor in the cost of labor, only materials. If we included the actual price of the land, no one (low-income family) would be able to afford one our homes, and that's not the point. Even if someone gives you everything you need, the permit fee is still anywhere from $25-30,000, and depending on the size of the house, traffic impact fees can cost $15,000.

He also just got his new shoes he's been asking for. This is the first meet he's worn actual triple jumpers' shoes.

For the first time ever, we are going to demand players have the discipline and commitment to actually maintain fitness. We have seen a wide range of attitudes and actual physical conditions with MLS players in the past, and if that is the case next time around they're not going to be eligible to make the World Cup roster.

Darin Strauss

For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.

For our kids who are actual swimmers, they get bored pretty fast.

If it is an actual increase it will depress prices at least in the short-term,

Chris Eigeman

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

Peter Capaldi

I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.

I did a lot of research, both in England and Holland. We know that there was some sort of sexual arrangement. But the actual relationships in the play, I made them up.

I don't think there's any actual loyalty in the marketplace. I think it comes down to cost and what kind of phone you can get.

Bryan Adams

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy...but let's set the record straight on something! The Summer of '69 has nothing to do with the actual year 1969. It's about making love (69 - get it?) and looking back at the good old times.

I approached the problem as a series of thought experiments - unlike many other sciences, we typically cannot do actual experiments.

I am walking a fine line, but I am doing it very carefully because I am not disclosing actual vulnerability details, ... I do this to inform users that flaws still do exist in IE...I don't like it that Microsoft tries to give users a nice warm feeling that they are disclosing everything researchers report to them.

If digital can help drive a movie's box office and DVD sales or help a TV show be successful, the actual digital revenues are secondary.

He's made a habit of rapping on his artists' records in the hopes that this will jump-start their careers - and it does draw immediate attention - but that's just a shortcut. He'll need to do real artist development to ensure these guys have actual long-lasting careers.

Henry David Thoreau

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins

Henry David Thoreau

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends.

Douglas Hyde

I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood.

David Rakoff

I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.

Ronda Rousey

I don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle that I train for show. If I want to be able to do a certain move or action, I train really hard until I can. And with all of that training comes muscle definition, so it's really an afterthought.

If Congress does not address the exports problem, company simply will pocket tax breaks. Any actual increase in production occurring in the U.S. will likely to find its way out of the county and prices will continue to climb.

Eric Lander

I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease. Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.

Damon Jones

I never thought I'd get booed here. Anything is possible. I hope not. You never know how they perceive the reason why I left. I'm not even nervous about the actual game. When I check into the game, I'm worried about their reaction.

If you look at the actual facts on the ground, they have thousands of more drilling permits in their pockets than they can even drill on. So why is Congress or the administration always looking for ways to exempt the wealthiest companies in the world from their environmental responsibilities?

In some ways, the symbolism of this referendum may be more important to this administration than the actual substance because the referendum is not likely to alter the underlying security environment. And, in fact, there is some chance that it may make matters even worse.

If there is an attack on a nuclear plant with the weapons and tactics described -- weapons and tactics against which the Commission decided were not important to defend -- (the) records will reveal to the public exactly who ... dismissed the actual threats.

Peter Garrett

I tend to define what we've done much more by the actual substance of what we've created than by whether we've sold 50 or 50,000 records.

The compromise could be 700,000 barrels but the actual production increase could be around 400,000. At 1 million extra barrels prices may be drawn lower but at 500,000 prices could hit $40.

The industry has been involved in the process, they had representatives on the committee that looked at the actual codes, and I think that hopefully they'll take them on board and we'll see some change.

And, of course, ... if we get the equivalent of J.D.'s actual production, well, we're kind of screwed. But, no matter what happens, it still can't possibly be as bad of a signing as Russ Ortiz .

Jim Crace

All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.