Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustave Flaubert

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

They put so much effort and so much energy, for so many years, into giving this kid a life.

It's not safe. It's going to take a major effort to fix it. There's a lot of road and mountain damage.

It's not necessarily a dot.com play, but seems like an effort to get into publishing,

For everything we went through, I'm so incredibly proud of these seven girls. Regardless of the outcome of this season, just their effort is something to admire.

For a 6-2 kid to have the range that she has is unique. Her work effort is really high, there is no such thing as just good enough for her.

It's the same effort they've given us all year. I didn't know we were going to come back from down 16, but I knew we were going to play hard.

It's one step toward our ultimate goal. We are very pleased with the effort level our team displayed.

Isabelle Huppert

It's not difficult; it's not a big effort. But it's a big effort for me to pursue what I want to do, so that's the effort. When I act, it's just a relief. It's just a respiration.

Michael W. Smith

You can't make an investment like this in a vacuum and think it's going to have its own gravity. Gravity comes with great mass. This is one piece of an effort to strengthen a whole region, because strong regions have strong cores.

Mark Richards

There was effort all night. It was nice to be in a game where you didn't have to score four or five goals to stay in the game for once.

There were times we tried to make a run. But we didn't have the kind of enthusiasm and effort we needed.

There were times tonight when this team could have folded its tent. We're not as good as we think we are. I told them at halftime that it was gut-check time, that they needed to show what this team was all about. They finally stepped up and made big plays when they needed to. I was very pleased with their enthusiasm and effort at the end.

This is the pay day for the work and the organization all the effort - the struggles to get to this point. This is why we do it. It makes you feel like you have contributed to something magnificent, something outside yourself. That you've helped a family have an opportunity of a lifetime and how many times can you say that?

It is sad because we invested so much time and effort over that period and it was such a successful year.

It's a good cooperative effort with everyone involved, ... We'll be taking notes, trying to see what we can do better and if anything needs improvement.

It's a great feeling. I'm still reflecting on it. It's a huge win for our program. It's been a long time coming. A lot of people put a lot of effort into getting us into this position -- not the least of which is the kids. They are the ones that got it done on the ice. It's very gratifying.

It's a great effort by all involved, and we're very pleased about that,

I told our players we've got to learn to lay it on the line every day, like we did today. That was a great effort for our players.

It might be my all-time lowest defeat. We were flat-out beat, out-competed. Every player should be embarrassed. I mean that. To have that effort at home is unacceptable. . . . We should be embarrassed to show our faces in public right now.

E. B. White

It's a part of the game you don't want to see. You're around people who are good guys and have put a lot of effort into it and to come out here and they're missing, it shocks you. It's also a relief because you see everybody that's going to be on the team, that's going to be your teammates, you get to learn from them.

It's an honor system. We recognize the effort of the people, not the end product.

It really has been a momentum-driven push to $60 over the past week. We've seen funds really pile in hard in an effort to push it over (that level).

It's a huge letdown after our effort the last game. Good teams find a way to show up and not let this happen.

It's a huge game for Swiss hockey. We battled hard, we played hard and we played the way we wanted to play. It was a huge effort for us.

It's a guerilla effort that energizes us a lot here.

It's all a joint effort to make sure what they've got planned and what we've got planned works together. The system we have in place is not only to protect employees, but the public as well.

It's all about the players, they get all the credit. That's what we needed, total effort and we got that tonight.

I told them I am proud of all of them but I wasn't proud of everyone's effort though. But that's OK. Nobody's perfect.

Ned Colletti

I told the players ... I could only guarantee them one thing: My effort will always be honest, full of integrity and relentless.

They're not really sure if they're going to get anything that actually will work in a real-time effort like Iraq. It's frustrating in that most taxpayers are going to say we need to keep our troops safe.

It was good for us because we need to learn how to do that. You always want to to able to practice something like that and you can, but it's hard to get that kind of effort out of the girls in practice, ... We just approached it like something we want to be good at, said 'Let's go do it,' and they did.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.