Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you take over in the middle (of the season), you don't know what kind of groundwork was set. We were able to set the groundwork from the beginning (this season) on what we expect of the guys, how we're going to do things, what type of players we want. This definitely is the direction we want to go and feel good about.

Harry Morgan

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

We're not going to rush into the season. We're going to let it play out in the beginning stages, see how guys react to one another's play and develop a chemistry.

Tony Blair

We're not going to negotiate some new treaty on climate change ... What this is about is seeing whether it will be possible in the future to bring people back into consensus together. Can we do that? I don't know, but it's important that we at least begin a process of dialogue that allows us to make progress on this.

William McDonough

There is no question that the U.S. economy, especially in relation to the world economy, is beginning to exhibit signs of imbalance and strain.

There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich

When I looked into the eyes of the people who knew Laci best, I saw something I didn't want to see: a group of people who desperately loved Laci, and who were beginning to suspect she wasn't coming home.

Marian Seldes

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

Mariella Frostrup

When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.

Nicholas Kristof

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.

Natalie Massenet

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

Natasha Trethewey

Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

Natasha Trethewey

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

Nic Pizzolatto

I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with.

James Allen

We don't have any choice but to pay it back, but it shouldn't have been borrowed to begin with.

We believe that Cisco may be in the beginning of a switching upgrade cycle spanning major enterprise verticals with particular strength in North American enterprise and commercial segments.

Ma Jian

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Billy Graham

We've always needed God from the very beginning of this nation but today we need Him especially. We're facing a new kind of enemy. We're involved in a new kind of warfare and we need the help of the Spirit of God. The Bible's words are our hope. . . .

We've always had our event in the second week of January, beginning on Monday. They're the ones who changed the date.

When we were there at the beginning of the year, they handed it to us pretty good. We have to make sure we come out, play well and play smart. We have to be very strong in our own end. Defensive zone coverage is going to be key.

Roland Martin

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Joe Gray

When it came right down to it, we did what we needed to do to win. We kept our heads in the game from start to finish. Finally, we're beginning to show people that we have a good team.

Tom's a wonderful person and outstanding role model. We value what he's done (but) we felt it was the right time to begin new leadership.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tomorrow, we begin anew, ... I feel the same tonight as that night two years ago ... You know with all my heart, I want to do the right thing for the people of California.

We're making changes because the bookstore has struggled to make a profit or break even over the past few years. We have begun affiliating our bookstore with Columbia as they are the eighth largest in the country and know how to run a retail company.

We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use camera in the second half of 1998. We are confident that 1999 will be one of the company's strongest in recent years.

Larry Brown

We're going to shut him down a little bit. Hopefully, he'll be back at the beginning of next week and we'll know a little bit more. Hopefully he'll be ready to play. If not we'll worry about that then.

Al Sharpton

We're going to show up and turn around this country. This is not the end of the day, this is the beginning of a regeneration of a movement.

We're going to pull the five powers -- Russia, South Korea, Japan, China, the U.S. -- together, not to corner the North Koreans, but to begin to present them with pretty strong options and requiring them to make a move.

We're going to go about business. We're going to work hard and see if we can't dig deep and find that drive we had at the beginning of the year and make that final push to make State.

Kendrick Meek

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.