Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Jones

Right at the beginning of the second half, we had a couple of guys that come out looking lethargic. Maybe we need to look at our first-half warm-up.

Last year playing like that helped our kids. It proved to them they need to do things better. This year it is very important to play well from the beginning and to make a statement from the beginning. For me personally I would like to open up with a win. It is an important game for the entire program. We have had success and if we want to continue the tradition.

Sergei Ivanov

less worried now, than at the beginning of the year, that either side could take measures of some sort liable to endanger security.

Jane Smiley

'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.

Many people are deficient in vitamin D. A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 IU. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.

Sentiment is finally beginning to show that consumers are getting a little bit unnerved about higher gasoline prices.

Mary Bono

So many people got us through the loss. Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous friends, Sonny's congressional friends -- they really held me up in a huge way. I had a handful of members of Congress at my house everyday after Sonny died for about a week. They were there with me. But mostly, I think my children ... the big thing that my kids needed ... to know was that they lost their dad and they needed (to know) mom was strong and mom would go on.

Mary Bono

So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous friends, Sonny's congressional friends -- they really held me up in a huge way. I had a handful of members of Congress at my house everyday after Sonny died for about a week. They were there with me. But mostly, I think my children ... the big thing that my kids needed ... to know was that they lost their dad and they needed (to know) mom was strong and mom would go on.

She was a cooperating witness from the beginning.

She waited so late to decide, and I'm kind of glad, because she had such a stellar senior year. I'm not sure at the beginning of the year that people realized how good a player she was.

She was outstanding from the beginning. She was a monster.

Gilbert Parker

She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.

She's way more confident in the post than she was at the beginning of the season; she wasn't used to playing with her back to the basket. She's like a sponge, soaking up information, and we've been doing a lot of teaching with her footwork.

She's tough. She has improved so much behind the plate. At the beginning of the season she was at shortstop, and we made a few changes defensively and one of them was putting her behind the plate.

Tatiana Golovin

She's the player that I lost to at the beginning of the year in Australia, so I was expecting a tough match, and it really was a tough match in the first set,

She's had a great beginning of the year. We knew coming in she'd be a great impact player for us. She's just been so dangerous.

She's blossomed, ... She's beginning to talk. I just can't believe the progress that she's made since she's been here.

She's getting better every game. She's made a lot of strides since the beginning of the year, so you know she's got a good future in front of her.

She's one that will never get tired and always gives 110 percent. She's a hustler, from beginning to end.

She's definitely helped us all. She's humble enough to know how it feels to lose and she's ready and willing to win. She's helped us through a lot of things, keeping us positive. This is her last year and all this change happens, and she only gets to experience the beginning of it.

Jane Pauley

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

Tom Stoppard

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.

Howard Dean

Mrs. Parks will long be remembered for her courage on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which sparked the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott led by civil rights leaders such as E.D. Nixon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Ralph Abernathy,

Donald Rumsfeld

much closer to the beginning than the end.

McDonald's has done a terrific job of turning around. We're starting to see the beginnings of a sales resurgence in Europe, and that's exactly what we've been looking for.

(McDermott) stepped up. He?s come a long way since the beginning of the year. He was playing real tight at the beginning of the season, but he?s starting to relax a bit and it?s made a difference.

May the joys you share today be the beginning of a lifetime of great happiness and fulfilment.

Mayors are beginning to understand that this is a market, not physics. If you provide services and amenities that people appreciate, they'll move. ... As new construction prices get extremely expensive, people are looking for square footage and architectural style.

John Tavares

Maybe we're a little complacent at home right now. At the beginning of the season we tried to raise the bar, but here we are again, two straight home losses. I think the road is going to help us out.

Medical school is just the beginning of medical education for these young men and women. We want them to leave here and go on to be the best first-year residents they can ever be.

Me and Will (Thomas) got some early shots at the beginning of the game and we made most of them. If we can make shots at the beginning of the game it builds our confidence up. We just carried that confidence into the second half.

My kids have worked tremendously hard and deserve it. The hard work has paid off. We're beginning to gel.

Corey Brewer

Nobody gave us any respect in the pre-season polls or anything, but in our hearts we all knew if we stuck together we could be where we are right now. We can play. Don't think we can't play. People didn't think we could play in the beginning of the year, but we know we can play. We kind of just proved that we can.