Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Dumars

I never even thought about the Hall of Fame as a player. Really, all I thought about was trying to play to a bar that players before me had set.

In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy.

Cheech Marin

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

Sean Thomas

I'm the college educated, know-it-all barber who instigates a lot of the arguments in the shop.

Jen Lancaster

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

Gwen Ifill

I'm happy to break down barriers and be a role model, but I don't want that to be the only thing people talk about. At some point, you have to move past it... . I try not to play into it. I've had this job for a while.

O. Henry

I'm hoping. I've tried to carry myself that way because the struggle was much more than just breaking the color barrier in baseball. It was everything.

Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds.

Rory Bremner

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

In that sense, it has been rewarding in a sick way. We're leaner and meaner with oil at $55 a barrel coming off the peak than we were going up to $55 the first time.

In terms of the kind of hurdle that Microsoft and IBM have to leap over, the kind of growth they have to deliver is not as significant a bar as it is for Intel.

Iran and Nigeria have got people extremely nervous. There's a concern that around two and a half million barrels per day of Iranian exports could be removed.

If you think Hong Kong's expensive today, wait 'til you see it five years from now. We'll call Tokyo Macy's bargain basement. It is going to be an extremely expensive city. The pressure's going to be on companies always to define what value-added role does Hong Kong have.

If you slept too many hours, you didn't even know it. We barely caught the tail end of it.

If you sense you have bargaining power, you can write your own ticket.

Robert Wilson

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.

If you're talking about a 400,000 barrels per day refinery next to a French Chateau in the Loire valley, the timeline is infinite. If you're looking at an industrialized part that already includes an oil refinery, it's much less of a big deal.

Tim McCarthy

If you're sitting in a bar in Oakland County and you need to get someplace your best bet is going to be calling a cab that typically serves that area.

If you've put together a wish list to buy stocks, there are some great bargains out there. The include quality names, those that remember to bring that top line revenues down the bottom line in the form of earnings -- that's going to be the key.

David Lawrence

If you want to completely tear yourself away from your home, your family and all you've ever known; if you want to endure months and years of a Spartan lifestyle and a harsh disciplinary regime; and if you don't mind carrying out the most menial tasks with only the bare minimum of material, then by all means join the French Foreign Legion.

Will Rogers

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Ann Landers

If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel

In addition, such an outcome would encourage other employee groups to join unions to improve their bargaining position in future contract talks.

Chris Evans

I had eel at a sushi bar once; it's disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, 'That looks safe.' It wasn't.

Sami Gayle

I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

If there is someone out there who is willing to play for Barbados, and they have the right qualities, I would welcome that person, but that is totally up to the Barbados Football Association. I can only make a request, but it is not in my hands.

It has been the experience at the CBC for deals to be concluded in Ottawa with both the federal mediators there, but also key members of the CBC management team who for the most part have not been present at the bargaining at all.

It encourages young people not to get into addiction. They'll find that bars and restaurants are smoke free. They'll have to hang around in the cold. That will lose its charm fast.

I supported local projects in the $286 billion transportation bill, even though it was filled with pork (pork barrel projects),

Jonathan Turley

I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Iran's oil minister has said that oil exports would not be used a s a bargaining chip, but that possibility must be considered, particularly if tensions escalate.