Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Preston

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

David Ware

If ballplayers were women, Drew Rosenhaus would be a pimp.

Cynthia Ozick

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Ricky Williams

I don't think we've had a long drive since I've been back, ... That makes it hard to get into any kind of rhythm.

I don't think you can draw any conclusions. The ocean comes in, the ocean goes out. It doesn't feel any different to me.

I don't think where a driver is from, to our fans, really matters. You're always going to have a favorite son, so to speak. But I think Jeff Gordon has fans in every state.

I don't think you have to worry about Tommy driving recklessly again.

I expect it will be long and drawn out, exhaustive and costly.

I expect growth to be around 7.7 percent in 2005/06. The main drivers will be services and manufacturing.

I expected to go third round or somebody would invite me. I'm just glad we all got drafted. Knowing I got drafted in the second round and being able to go home and play, that's a good thing.

I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The important thing was to stay in touch with the leaders without taking any risks and dropping too much time. It was a good day for me.

Hugh Johnson

I expected the market to inch or edge forward. I wouldn't have expected this in my wildest dreams.

Randy Johnson

I expect to win every time I go out. The way I would draw it up would be exactly like tonight not very many strikeouts, no walks and a few hits. For the most part, I was pretty efficient.

I expected (Lions president) Matt Millen to come in and do a great job. He's a great football guy. I just think things haven't gone his way with some draft picks.

Jeff Flake

I encouraged him to get in the race as a way to draw the others out.

Jill Wagner

I eat a salad every single day. I also have been doing the juice 'thing' after every workout, and I try to drink a half-gallon of water a day.

Patrick Keeler

I'd usually go to Jack if Brendan was busy. There was also a series of paper, rock, scissors, drawing lots and, ultimately, a duel.

Andy Roddick

I don't think it was a good draw for either of us, ... Fortunately I got a little lucky there. I could easily have been extended to four sets and it's anybody's game then.

I don't think it's strange that they dropped off,

Andy Roddick

I don't think it's a great draw for me, but at the same time, its probably not a good draw for him either.

I don't think it is appropriate to drag in the other candidates. I don't have any intention of signing (the pledge). I didn't have anything to do with the suit or any of his original troubles.

Eric Staal

I don't think I've gotten any faster. I think just my stride has gotten more powerful. Just going wide, being able to drive to the net and get by the D, using the strength in my legs to get there. Kind of like the type of skater that Erik Cole is. He's got great speed, but he's got such a powerful stride, it makes him tough to stop.

I don't think I've ever been so nervous in a game. Even in warm-ups, the first time I saw the knuckleball I dropped a couple. I thought, 'Oh, oh. Here we go.

From the beginning, we said we would wait for the science prior to drawing any conclusions.

Thomas B. Macaulay

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife

From the time this game started, the guys in the middle of your lineup have hit the home runs and driven the runs in. Now, those guys tend to strike out, too.

Luis Figo

For us a draw means little, we need to win to get to the top of the standings,

Forty-six years ago, Martin Luther King had a dream. Today, we have a dream, a dream to come out from the shadows. .

Forty points was our first target and we have not got there yet. We need another draw and it is only when we get it that we will set another target. We have spent most of the season in the top six or seven and we don't want to start slipping now.

Ted Koppel

For the rest of his life, and I do mean the rest of his life, he always regretted the fact that he had dropped out of school,

Chris Lane

For three months I have been working to make my dream happen. Money has been tight. This win makes things easier on my family.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

For the time being I wouldn't panic or read too much into (the oil price), but if it goes even higher or if it remains at such a level for an extended period, it could become a drag on the economy.