Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Barry

What has really helped the quarter is very good sales because of El Nino. El Nino, is blamed for many things, but this time it can take credit for the boost in sales.

Catherine the Great

I praise loudly and I blame softly.

Would you blame him if he had interest in Felix Hernandez? I'm a guy who worked my tail off to get Carlos Delgado.

Billy Sunday

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

We were devastated and in shock, but we had no one to blame but ourselves.

The refs are under a microscope. So we can't blame them.

Bill Parcells

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

Kevin O'Connor

This really is about the predators. When it comes to blame you can only point the finger at the defendants.

Kate Moss

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

Bob Hoskins

When you get to my age, what you want is the cameo. You get paid a lot of money. You fly in for a couple of weeks. Everybody treats you like the crown jewels. It's all great and if the film turns out to be a load of s - -, nobody blames you.

There is a lot of blame to spread around.

Don Larsen

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

We probably played the worst game of the week tonight. It's definitely a big disappointment. I put a lot of blame on myself. I came out flat. I didn't play as well as I wanted.

When you are 2-10 you can't blame the coaching staff for going in a different direction. We played different people ... it was simply strategic and we will do that the rest of the year.

Walter Kirn

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

We were a little tentative, and who wouldn't be? This game, you're building toward it your whole career, and you get it, and everybody's in the building. I can't blame the kids for being tight. And we didn't work our way out of it as quickly as I thought we could have.

We've got no one to blame for this but ourselves. We let the Big Ten Tournament get away after finishing the regular-season so well.

We gave them way too much ice. I hate to put the blame on anything. We just didn't do the job.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

Ben Shapiro

In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you.

Tim will get more comfortable, ... He's a great talent, but he's a freshman. He'll be a good punter, and he'll learn from it. He was nervous, and I can't say that I blame him. I was nervous, too.

Jim Hill

To turn around and blame the parties? He's the governor. He's the one who can make things happen.

Robert Anthony

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

The credibility should be pretty high, very high. If law enforcement had the note, then it should pretty clearly direct blame only at that individual.

Pedro Noguera

We starve them, ... We don't give them the resources they need and then blame them for the results.

TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant. . .

You know what, I blame George Bush. Instead of shoring up this country and making it really defensible, which is what his job is, he went out and started an illegal war in Iraq that is doing nothing but starting a civil war in that country. It's insane.

Darcy Tucker

Our job was to get us into the playoffs. We didn't fulfill our goal and with that obviously comes disappointment. We understand that a lot of the blame lies with us.

Mark Twain

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an

Squarely we should put the brunt of the blame on the TEA.

Name it and Blame it, doesn't mean you solved it, nor owned it, nor changed it

It is always easy to put the blame on the curators if we don't come up to the expectations of those who run and play the game. Good weather and time factor are very crucial all the time.

I think there should be more phone calls and more face-to-face meetings, and the guys from Tampa can come to New York and vice versa. Certainly there should be better communication; there's no excuse with modern communications as we have it today. That's where we've fallen short, and I blame all of us for that.