Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Steinbrenner

I am very proud of Alex Rodriguez, and I am delighted for him and his family. A-Rod demonstrates the talent, hard work, and dedication of a true winner.

Carine Roitfeld

I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.

Meghan Markle

I am a California girl, born and raised, so flip-flops and cutoff shorts are my go-to look. An easy Angeleno uniform, so to speak. But for my role on 'Suits,' I'm dressed in Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford, and Prada almost every day. And therein lies the difference. For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.

Tony Judt

I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.

He's in a league by himself. Alex has forgotten more about jazz than most of us remember.

Jose Canseco

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

I believe he will overcome this bump in the road. I believe we can formulate a plan that will have Alex back racing at his previous level.

Greg Biffle

People are starting to feel the pressure. You've got to get into the chase. I think that's got people on alert of having to drive hard. Some guys are driving over the head. Some veterans, I think, are driving over their head a little bit.

Parents see their pretty talented 7- or 8-year-old, and they immediately want to make him out to be the next Alex Rodriguez. They're seeing an end, and they think they're doing him a service by making him practice, buying a batting cage, not letting him play other sports. It's almost like the parents are seeing that as an investment, and I think that's counterproductive.

Our running game was not where we wanted it to be. We have had Alex on defense. He is a Division I caliber player, so we put him on offense.

Our sweeper Alex Tucker really stood out in the back field and Derek Graham played his best game of the season as a striker, he was all over the place.

Overall it was a pretty good day. Alex made a good start and did what he needed to do to put himself in a position for a podium.

Nicola Sturgeon

I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, working together.

We did what we wanted to do, and it's unfortunate their best player was out of the lineup. But I thought that Alex and Sam showed a lot of energy running the break and on defense. And, yeah, Sam is quite a player.

Viswanathan Anand

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.

Today's collaborative technologies are presenting a real challenge for patent law, ... and for the kinds of thinking that emerged at the time of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, when individual inventions seemed much more distinct, much less complex.

George MacDonald Fraser

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

Sid Waddell

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

We'd like to know before this weekend if we can, so we can alert our teams as to what day they're likely to play.

We don't know what happened. Alexander is naturally hard to replace. He was to be our man for the GC. Now we will focus on stage wins.

We did not take it lightly. We declared full alert status, convened the crisis committee and directed the intelligence service to validate the reports.

We don't have a Russell Westbrook or a Jon Reed (of Peninsula) or an Alex Tucker (of Redondo) -- we have a bunch of young men playing their hearts out but who are without a lot of size. Our biggest guy is 6-foot-3, and that makes it tough. Everyone's bigger. We just have to play hard and give them a game.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

David Byrne

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

John Aubrey

Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born. Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great victory at sea, and died the same day.

Tony Hawk

In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we haven't seen before. Just different types of spin.

Denise Mina

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.

Denis O'Hare

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

Roger Ailes

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

We do encourage people to get weather radios - or some other alert to wake you up when these things happen.

We want to just alert people that it's just as serious in suburbia for younger people as it is for older people in urban areas of America.

Marc Crawford

We'll see how things go. We haven't had a tough schedule the last little while. Now we play every second day until Christmas. That would be a little bit of a load if Alex had to play all of that.

We didn't have any arrest powers, so when a dog alerted, we would notify a deputy and then send a report to Tallahassee on the alert whether there was an arrest or not,