Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Laurie

Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.

Howard Dean

I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.

Hilary Mantel

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.

Herschel Walker

I'm just not a guy that loves to eat. I love to work and love to work out. I think I go against all the nutritionists who say you need to do this or need to do that, so I'm one of the oddballs.

Eli Pariser

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

Eleanor Catton

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

Elaine Pagels

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.

Fred Wilson

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.

Frank Wolf

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.

Francis Parkman

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

Ridley Scott

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Tim LaHaye

It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.

Sun Myung Moon

So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die - those who go against our movement.

Barton Gellman

The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

We came out and played soft and gave up two goals immediately. After that, it was nice to have that one goal, but we didn't fix the problem. With some of the teams we've played we've gotten away with that, gotten away with some shabby things -- and against these guys you can't do that.

We came out and played a heck of a first half, but they're fourth-ranked in the country for a reason. We did a lot of good things, and it so happened it was against a very good team.

We came out and missed some shots that we usually make. We also had too many turnovers and you can't do that against a team as good as Eustis.

We came out and hit the ball extremely well today. Overall, I was very pleased. You hit the ball like that, and put 12 runs on the board against a team like (Elkins), I was very proud of them.

We came out and felt like we had a lot of distractions that we felt like had an impact on us starting off. We were just disappointed in our start. We focused on that from last year. We knew how we started against them last year. Then we came out and had penalty play after play. Those are things we focused on for a long time. In order to play 5A football, we can't make those kinds of mistakes.

We believe that this services review -- due to complete in mid-August -- is necessary, but will again detract from the main goal of increasing revenue just as the sales force realignment did in previous quarters,

We came in saying if we stop the run they are going to have a hard time moving the ball against us. The problem was we didn't take care of the ball. We shortened the field for them.

Roy Hibbert

We came in knowing they're an hour away from this campus. We knew they'd have a large fan base. But we've played in conditions where the crowd is against us. We came together.

Roy Hibbert

We came in here knowing this was almost a home game for them. We've played in atmospheres where the whole crowd's against us. The seniors led us and we followed right behind them.

We came in here as the number 14 seed and they were rated third having played a very competitive schedule against a bunch of Division I teams. We have nothing to be ashamed of. We played hard right to the end. Our kids can hang their heads high.

We came in confident. We've played some great, quick teams, and Aliquippa is probably the quickest. You need to play your best against this team and we didn't play our best.

We came here to win this tournament, but we really came here to evaluate some of our young players as they played against their peers with the other teams in our division. To that end, a number of our players played exceptionally well.

Roy Hibbert

We came here to win, not to participate. It's a fight every night in the Big East. We play against Top 25 teams every other week, so we came prepared for this tournament.

Carlo Ancelotti

We came here to try and win but we are happy. It really is not easy playing here against Parma, who are quick and very well organized.

Dave Allison

We came back from Saturday's loss and we were better against Grand Rapids and grinded out a win.

We came back from being down one early and I'm real proud of the way they played. The kids were pretty excited, especially after being no-hit (Wednesday) night against Bellingham. It's a huge win for our program.

We came back from an emotional loss Saturday against Jeffersonville.

We came back and won the game in the last minutes against a strong team. I think the most important thing was to stay out of the penalty box. They have a great power play. We scored some big goals on the power play and then they scored some on the power play.

We came and put the ball in play consistently. We came through with some big hits. We hope we can do that again tomorrow.