Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

I have called for this special meeting to begin immediately the work of rebuilding our state and restoring our people,

Joseph Alsop

I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...

Seth McClung

I don't hurt. I don't wake up in the middle of the night hurting. ... Any time you're coming off an injury, you have to stay positive. And I knew one day it would all turn around for me, and hopefully this will be the beginning of a long time being healthy." ()

I don't have to pinch myself. I knew it was a good team from the beginning. It's just surprising to all of y'all.

I don't have classes on Friday, so my day begins as soon as I get out of class on Thursday at 4:15 p.m.. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but if I were to go somewhere it would probably be Atlanta.

I didn't let myself get down for not being here at the beginning of the year. You have to let the game come to you and wait for your opportunities. This is definitely a good start.

Ray Ozzie

I don't even think we have begun to scratch the surface.

Frank Robinson

I don't get the same feel. I don't get the same electricity, the same energy about the situation now that I did at the beginning of the year. That is missing out of the clubhouse.

Jason Robert Brown

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

I don't know what happened. I can't even begin to explain it. I wasn't pressing. I thought I was relaxed, but it kept popping out of my hands. I've never had a game like that.

I don't know. Things just happened. A lot of people can say it was the quarterback; a lot of people can say it was me; a lot of people can say it was the offense. I don't know. It just didn't go right. Point blank. It's a new beginning now. I really don't linger on the past. I want to look toward the future and do something good.

I don't know where to begin with that one. I'm just as perplexed as everyone in the building. I honestly don't know what happened. Crazy things happen.

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.

I cut out of work early today to catch the beginning of the game. But the girls are counting on me to be there tonight for practice.

Bob Edwards

I can do whatever I want to. I'm completely independent. NPR over the years began taking itself enormously seriously -- as it should. In the end I was so micromanaged that they were telling me how to pronounce syllables of words.

John Holmes

I am excited to begin a relationship with SFX. They have a track record of really helping golfers on-and-off the course. I am looking forward to the many opportunities they will offer me.

John Holmes

I am excited to begin a relationship with SFX, ... They have a track record of really helping golfers on-and-off the course. I am looking forward to the many opportunities they will offer me.

Antoine Walker

I am excited. Our preparation begins tomorrow. When I was with Boston, we were just trying to get in the playoffs. Our goal here is to win a championship.

I am excited about expanding our insurance operations and moving into niches we see as less volatile during a competitive market cycle. Our experience in delivering service provided us insight into opportunities that will help grow our insurance business. We spent considerable time and effort developing our strategy and the relationships necessary to begin this growth initiative and are confident that we will be very successful over time.

I am especially excited about giving computers common sense. Computers should be able to understand the emotions of humans. As computers begin to understand the human world, they can help us far more efficiently.

Kate Ford

I am disappointed that some folks who clearly are not strong citizens to begin with took this opportunity to make this statement, ... I was chagrined that there were obvious mothers and children in the crowd with them. Several intimated that they had guns.

I am delighted the president has signed this bill, ... Hawaii can now begin to develop alternative sources of water.

If I said in the beginning I'm happy I'm coming off the bench, that would be a lie. I thought it might be last year all over again, but it wasn't because it was different. I was more prepared.

I first began collecting posters for simple decoration on my wall.

I find that I am much slower in the beginning of a book. I am thinking of the plot, of the characters and who they are, and where they are going. I often throw out a lot of the writing I start with, because the characters and plot improve as I write. Or perhaps I should say it is my hope they will improve as I write.

If China introduces all these more flexible measures, and capital decides it wants to leave China, then it makes it easier for the currency to go down. If the currency begins to weaken, you'll find quite a lot of people taking money out. It tends to be self- fulfilling.

I feel more confident in myself and with the system. I don't go running around like crazy at the beginning anymore.

Richard Thomas

I feel like we sold ourselves a wonderful future. This is just the beginning of a new page in and around the western edge of the panhandle. I think we will get the Joint Strike Fighter.

I didn't have a lot of the jerseys to begin with, but I probably had a dozen last week. I only have about four left.

I can tell that the boy I help is getting better. He is more comfortable and I push him with harder books to better himself. In the beginning he would not look at me and then we started talking about the dogs and he opened up. When we got finished with the first session, he said he wanted to come back again.

I can't discuss anything she's told me. But I think you have to look at the entire picture. You can't look at the end of a story and determine what the beginning and middle were.

Hines Ward

I can't even begin to tell you how do good this feels ... especially after how our season ended last year. Nobody believed in us except the guys in this locker room. All our hard work has paid off. We're going to the Super Bowl.

Johan Santana

I can tell you every game is going to count this season. You can not just wait until the end to do something. You have to start strong in the beginning and finish strong, too.