Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andray Blatche

I had a lot of teams and other people tell me that I was going to be a first rounder and that convinced me to enter the draft, ... When I fell into the second round, I was surprised. It was frustrating but there's nothing I can do about it now. I'm here and I'm going to make the most of it.

If you can convince the state to fund us what we need, then we'll be happy to meet the 50 percent.

If you look at the correction that's already occurred in the leadership group, tech, over the past few weeks, it's been pretty severe. I don't expect that there will be a dramatic sell-off on Tuesday -- stocks will go sideways for a while until people become convinced that, while multiples won't expand, the earnings outlook looks pretty good.

Sven Goran

I'm quite convinced that we are going out there tomorrow to do the job and win the three points.

I'm more convinced now we need a moratorium,

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Immediately after the official results, we are ready to start talks with the Platform about economic policy. We are deeply convinced that they can be effective.

I'm less convinced of that ? especially when the stocks are trading at the premiums that they have been.

David Wright

I'm just not convinced that there's a need, but it's not for me to decide.

I had to convince kids that this was a good place to come to. There is no reason you can't have a good program here. We have good academics, we have good facilities and we play in Clearwater, Florida. I mean, come on.

Brad Pitt

I had to go through this 45-minute ritual every night looking for bugs, cameras, ... I was convinced they were taking me down.

Frank Hadden

I never really saw us winning the championship, but I think we've done enough this year to convince people that we are a good side and there will be a lot of teams that won't relish the prospect of playing us in future.

It was the first time he had run in two weeks. He took two weeks off to heal (from a severe blister on his foot) and we are very pleased to see how he did. It was hard to convince him to take the time off.

It was so severe that at one stage Steve had put on his parachute because he was convinced the plane was falling apart.

Jose Sosa

It was a typical Brendan Murphy race. He passed four or five runners in the last straight-away. He's still not convinced he can run with the leaders.

It is reasonably valuable if you can convince someone to steal from other people.

It's going to take a lot more than one month to convince me we are in a worrisome trend.

Jason Stanford

It's going to be hard to convince Democrats to vote for a Republican.

It's frustrating and it's getting to where it's depressing. We've only played seven games. To play seven games midway through the season. I'm just trying to stay focused and convince the players that sooner than later good weather will be here.

It shows that the court is convinced that to date the process hasn't been as objective as it should have been.

It's hard to prove a lot of these things, but I'm convinced there's enough evidence that there is a cause-and-effect relationship,

It's been a long time since we've done something together. And since then our work has changed, so it will be interesting to see how it works now. Ira's convinced that radio is the dominant thing and that theater is dead. But I'm not so sure radio is doing so much better than theater.

It may take a little longer to get the deal done but we're convinced that this deal is worth the wait.

In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to.

In technology, it's just a lack of serious buying. The market needs to be convinced that the Fed will not raise (interest) rates for the remainder of the year. This is all part of the summer doldrums, but we see cyclical stocks doing a little better here.

In each study, we've come away convinced that the use of depleted uranium munitions does not present significant or residual environmental or health risks,

Jared Bernstein

I'm not sure this report convinces us that a recovery is underway in the labor market in any big way.

Investors are not convinced (the deal) will necessarily go through, or at least as two firms as we know them today with the full (product) line-up.

William Osler

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

It has taken two or three weeks to convince our counterparts -- the United States and (other) NATO countries -- that while withdrawing the (Yugoslav) troops, it's necessary to leave some of them behind.

His idea of good living was to finally have a wonderful big garage. I had to convince him to give it a chance.

He wrestles well in practice. In the break, I was trying to convince him that he could go out and take this guy down and he could do it, and he did.

Be convinced of one Truth about Me; Swami will never lay his hand on a task without proper reason and without some profound effect that will flow there from.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I remain convinced that the problems we have in the suburbs have been going on for 30 to 40 years.