Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Morgenstern

People figure they'll get to the personal stuff as soon as the work is finished,

Officiating is a lot like being married. You tend to have selective hearing after a while. The toughest part to figure out is when to respond. When does (a coach) have a question, or when is he talking to be talking?

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Jay Feely

The music was eerie, so I figured they were playing something like that. I tried to visualize what I needed to do.

Rodney Davis

Once you've figured out where you want to go, what's your plan, focus on the minimum worst outcome. Turn inwards and focus on whether you can deliver.

Now it's our job to figure out why, and to make sure we are better prepared for the future.

Meg Rosoff

Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.

Compaq management has never really figured out what they want to do with the company.

Any person with a little math sense can make up their mind as to how big this was. You look at the opponents we have left and the schedule we have left and you can figure out that obviously with a minute and a half left, we needed a goal.

And then you go to the main systems integrator -- us -- and you say, 'go figure out how to do this.'

Richard Seymour

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Leila Janah

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.

Joe Girardi

I used to think that I kept playing to keep my mom alive. There was no joy going to the park and I couldn't figure out why I was playing. You never know when something is going to hit you.

Thanksgiving weekend spending figures suggest that predictions of another strong online holiday season are on track.

Maurice Cheeks

Sometimes, I'm a little soft-spoken, and sometimes I yell a little bit. They have to figure out when I'm going to yell, when I'm not going to yell. I think there's a happy medium. I have to find out the little things about players' personalities, and they have to find out about mine as well.

Sometimes, the guys have to figure it out for themselves. They know our offense. They know our defense. They just had to work it out.

Rubble pile asteroids are something we always figured would be out there, and suddenly, 'voila,' there was one in front of us.

John Gibbons

Roy has missed nine starts so far. You figure he's good for at least four wins. Where are we with four more wins?

Jim Mora

Right now, we figure he'll be good to go Sunday night. When you're Mike Vick and your team needs you, the guy shows up - he's a great one.

Right now these kids are pretty well down. I don't know what the problem is, but I have to figure out a way to fix it.

Samantha is the real deal. She has a high vertical and given the time to figure out the left side, she'll be a hammer.

I've never really sat down and figured out what we've put into it. I don't think I want to know.

Ryan Zimmerman

It was up to the older guys. I guess they figured I will be in the game for a long time, so they figure I might as well learn what goes on. It will be a good learning experience.

It was a little old school. We wanted to have the mass start so that some of the kids who are stronger at cross-country wouldn't have to start at the back of the pack. We figured out the places after it was all over.

Jeff Byrd

The spring race, we have a 99-percent renewal rate on tickets, ... For this race, it's 99.6 percent, which proves that 0.4 percent of the people don't renew their tickets to Bristol. We figure those are the ones that died.

August's UK public finances figures are, for once, rather better than expected.

As long as these guys from Harrison can figure out how to talk like they're from the South, we'll be OK,

Cassie Scerbo

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

As long as we can get up in the morning and move around, we figure we can ski.

As our figures showed, our focus is on organic growth.

That took a day or two to figure out. Where did they go?

Laurence Maroney

That's my plan, to figure out something by the end of the game. I know that will be the first question they ask.

Steve Elmendorf

A large part of it is getting a sense from the candidates' point of view of whether or not they really want to do this. Lots of people want to be president, but they've got to figure out: 'What do I have to offer that's going to make people want me to be president?' It's not something people wake up with one morning crystallized in their head. A lot of it comes from being out there, talking to people, test-driving their message.