Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Mara

The Giants organization is very happy for Harry. I know he's been frustrated over the last few years, as have all of us when he wasn't voted in. But now he takes his rightful place in the Hall of Fame.

The Dow has significantly outperformed the Nasdaq over the last six weeks, as well as the last few sessions, so a little pullback today (Tuesday) is no surprise.

Gaby Hoffmann

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

The last three teams (the Gators have) played, they've moved it on everybody. Big teams up front are giving us trouble. We need to be able to get a few more three-and-outs.

The latest readings on print want-ad volume suggest that job growth won't reach the 200,000-a-month pace for at least the next few months.

The last few years we've found ways to win some games,

The last few years, we've been in these games and we haven't been on the right side of them. I'm glad we got over that hump today.

The last few years we got knocked out in the second round, the first round and the first round. It didn't help us then. You have to play well to win games in this tournament.

The last few years have been very strong for the newspaper industry, ... And we think next year is going to be a very good year, as well.

Nick Rhodes

The last few weeks we've been focusing on team ball. If the guy's open, get it to him. Trust your teammate.

John Terry

The last few weeks, we haven't been too sharp from the starting whistle. But today we put them under a lot of pressure and it worked in our favor.

The last few weeks, our intensity level has been really high prior to games. We didn't have that the first five or six games of the season. You can see they are ready to go when the puck is dropped.

The last few weeks, it?s really come around. Even when I?m not swinging well, my putter will come around, and I can still shoot par or under par.

The last few summers, there's been incredible activity. It's a mosaic. It's a nice distribution of burns, and the elk will benefit, but it doesn't happen overnight.

Richard Bach

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

The long-term trend of the market is upward, but it's not surprising that we had a pullback for a few sessions.

The longer the problem went on, fewer VPs seemed to be around. Only the occasional technician would accidentally pick up the phone if you were lucky.

Peter Brock

The day has worked out pretty well. We have to watch a few little things like tyre wear, but we're doing pretty well.

You know sometimes it's a few guys, sometimes it's a lot of guys. Tonight it was a lot of guys.

You'd be surprised how few people in Florida -- a lot who've been here all their lives -- have actually been out into the waterways,

You could have paid $1.5 million a few years ago.

Allan Ray

You can't take nothing away from Florida. Every shot was contested. There were very few open looks.

You can't panic (early). None of our pitchers pitched real well, We had a few errors, but I knew that with our bats, we were going to come together and score runs.

The market has a few more stocks up in the Dow just because of that.

J. C. Watts

The major part of the problem in Ontario over the past few years is on the spending side, and unimaginative policy decisions, and we haven't really done much on the fiscal side to sort of stem problems with the increased spending.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

The Iranian situation is one that has supported the market for the last few weeks.

Bob McKenzie

The iron rods were still in very good condition. We supplemented them with a few more rods. Everything else seemed to work just perfectly.

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

Marisha Pessl

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

The friends come in here the first few days, ... But after the first week, he's forgotten. Then he's off to (long-term care) Drake, where he will spend his shortened life on a ventilator. His friends don't see what the rest of his life looks like. There's no funeral. He's just gone from the neighborhood.

The freshman really stepped up for us after a little disappointing day. I still don't think we're putting as well as we could, but hopefully tomorrow will be a better day, put together a few more putts and finish this thing off.

Edmund White

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.