Famous Quotes & Sayings

It should help eliminate the perception of an East Coast bias. And the seeding will help teams and fans better understand who they are playing next and will help schools publicize the games, sell tickets and draw a better TV audience.

It's been a roller coaster ride. But at the same time, you're not ready to pinch yourself yet because you know you're still winning. We're so deep into the tournament right now, it's like we can't be satisfied.

It's been a roller coaster for me. I had to fight just to be around. I was told I was going to be here but on special teams. Then Tim was traded and I was No. 3. Now I might be No. 2.

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

It's like a roller coaster - you're high and then you come right down low. It hurts, but we have to get back on the horse.

Jeb Bush

It just did not seem right that 25 miles off that coast that there would be the possibility of drilling. Today that possibility no longer exists.

It's a lot less common to have a weather pattern that drives a storm straight into the coast in that part of Florida.

It's always been in our plans to have a West Coast presence.

Brad Thor

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked, but America's self-confidence.

I'm very fond of Glasgow, particularly the West End. The whole stretch of the west coast of Scotland from Loch Lomond up through Mallaig to the Kyle of Localsh is so beautiful.

Diane Warren

I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.

Insecurity off the Somali coast has escalated sharply. It is very worrying.

In my opinion there is not one true dominant team in the NW4A conference. I think it's going to be a roller coaster ride through the conference this year and the public will get their money's worth if they come out and watch. It's going to be exciting.

Robert Preston

I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.

Being on the court is a whole lot easier than being on the bench. It's a roller coaster ride on the bench.

Homeowners up and down the Eastern Coast are seeing significant increases.

Ben Howland

He's an East Coast guy. Going to Manhattan would be a home run.

I didn't play it with the Florida Orchestra but with its predecessor, the Florida Gulf Coast Symphony, under Irwin Hoffman in 1980. It has been a long and very nice association.

Schoolboy Q

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.

Loretta Napoleoni

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

Brad Davis

Some people may feel that we are stating the obvious and some people may not. We want to encourage people to move away from the coast rather than towards it.

Paul Parker

We've just been overwhelmed by the number of people that are coming through Lufkin as they evacuate the Gulf Coast area.

Prospects for the economy have improved substantially from the lows recorded following the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the surge in gas prices. Firms still expect a slower overall pace of economic growth during 2006 than in 2005. The expected growth slowdown is mainly due to anticipated increases in interest rates. Firms are much more optimistic about their own prospects in 2006, as they expected strong growth in revenues and profits.

Joe Bastardi

The Texas coast is in for a long period of tropical activity.

It's far from over and people are still in dire straits in a lot of the Gulf Coast communities. It may have dropped from our consciousness somewhat, but from talking to people in New Iberia, they are still desperate. Some still don't have running water.

Eddie Jordan

It's early. They've been on an East Coast trip. I don't want to measure our team as far as predicting how good we are or will be.

It seems that Orlando and the west coast are hot spots now because of the overvaluation and unaffordable homes in South Florida.

It's a unique conference ... because the competition has risen - it's the same as the West Coast now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've seen it the last few years, it goes up and down, up and down. Is that we want to do with our children, take them on a roller coaster ride?

The hurricane heading to the U.S. coast is raising fears of oil production cutbacks, higher energy prices and a slower U.S. economy.

The hunt is still a few weeks away, but the coast guard said the ice thickness is somewhat thinner this year.

Harry Reid

The Gulf Coast region does not deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or ideological experimentation. Now is the time for unity.