Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Pierce

Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.

Lance Marifke

St. Catherine's is a very good team and Bob is a great coach. As we've seen this season, they can give most Division 1 teams in the state a run.

Mack Strong

Our philosophy on offense is to wait for opportunity. Those guys have proven they can play when they get that opportunity. Eventually, we'll get Darrell and Bobby back. Until then, hopefully those guys can continue playing well.

Rachel Sklar

Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

Glen Murray

It is a sacred ground for golf. I was really taken in by the history of the club going back to Bobby Jones.

Joe Kennedy

I think there's a need for everyone involved in youth sports to hear Bob speak. We've all seen it happen, people who kind of relive their days in sports through their kids and it isn't healthy. Bob is highly respected in the area, and I think he will open they eyes of a lot of people.

Colin Clarke

Just having a look at some different options. Steve played out there (at right back) in L.A. and did a good job and he did a good job tonight. I thought Bobby was great in front of him, he could have scored another two or three he got forward well. It's a more solid look, just to have a look at it going into the playoffs and just open our options up.

David Perno

That was a good effort all the way around. Gentry got a good break on it and I thought he was going to make a great play, but Bobby was running right out of the box. If he's not hustling right out of the box, he doesn't make that happen.

Paul Henderson

That's the way Bobby Clarke played the game and I would suggest he was the only one of the 35 players that would have gone out and done that. But we looked at it as war.

Scott Ostler

Play it straight, come out with the simple truth: He was abducted by space aliens, taken aboard their flying saucer and subjected to various probes.

Kyle Williams

We need something normal. Helicopters flying over the stadium is not normal.

Samantha Perez

I was able to fly in a plane for the first time and see a snow flurry.

Robbie Grinestaff

I was just trying to hit it hard somewhere. I know they wanted a fly ball, but once I got two strikes on me I just wanted to put it in play.

Ken Hamlin

I was just pumped up. Guys were making plays. You could tell guys were flying around and really trying to get it done.

Scott Brison

I think there's too much testosterone flying around that caucus,

Kenji Johjima

That was the one situation we didn't want to see. I went to the mound because Jarrod was flying open and his pitches were sailing.

Wayne Gandy

Like I tell everybody, ... if you have to get on a plane and fly anywhere, you're not at home.

David Howell

It doesn't worry me that I fly under the radar over here,

Pete Carroll

Reggie just tried too hard on that play and he'll regret it forever. Reggie was just trying to get a TD.

Linda Ronstadt

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

John Berlin

(Paul) is a perfectionist. She works so hard on hurdles and it really shows.

Malik Rose

Part of me thinks Larry likes it, people not knowing what he wants or whatever. All I know is I go as hard as I can when I'm out there. Sometimes, things just don't go your way.

Bertrand Russel

Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor

Dan Rucker

Our motto is play hard to play another day.

Steven Lopez

People in the U.S. didn't know what taekwondo was. But they saw what the Lopezes were able to do with all the love and support and hard work we put in, and what we accomplished. It makes me feel real lucky to be in a position like that.

David Walton

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

Samantha Morton

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

Jason Chaffetz

People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.

Bernard Beckett

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Donna Davis

I wish I was in (the host city) Detroit. But it was a little too much.

Dan Pfeiffer

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

Selenis Leyva

I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.'

George Ward

I think, for the most part, people understand that we can't undercut the private sector, ... If anything, our price structure was a little low when Secretary Host got here.

Tom Buford

I think Jim Host can be the governor's lifeline.

Brian Wansink

If a person wants to limit how much they consume, it's better if you pour into a tall, skinny glass. If as a host you want to limit what people drink, you better use tall, skinny glasses. You will be less likely to pour too much.

Bill Vickroy

If we win, we would host it Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., after gymnastics.

Michael Kennedy

People have been talking about it, and the reason they have been talking about it is that it looks very ominous. The joke is, is there a prison going in there?

David Collins

People may say it was meant as a joke and we're being fuddy-duddies. But we don't see it like that.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Taylor Twellman

He jokes around -- when he looks up, he sees The Big Head. When he sees The Big Head, he reads where I'm going.

Teller

People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'

Nipsey Russell

is very simple to do.... I start with the joke line and write backward.

Robin Ince

I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and, to be honest, I don't know what I'm talking about either.

Michael Lehmann

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Fred Jacobeit

He's got a big butt, and all the kids joke about it all the time.

Lori Glass

Out of 10 bouquets, we sell about nine red.

Rod Barnes

I won't have to pick up the paper and read that it's nine in a row.

Eddie Johnson

I was told if you make a run, nine times out of 10 you will get the ball. It's true.

Jack McKeon

I can teach, ... I have nine grandkids.

Chris Perry

I don't think I've had that much success. If I had nine catches for like 180 yards and two touchdowns, yeah. But you can always improve, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Larry Scott

I don't think nine is the right number for women's tennis.

Kim Ens

For us to see nine cases, that is unusual for us.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Jeff Bowden

He does that several times during the game. And nine times out of 10, he's right.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Shannon Edge

She always opens it up to questions, comments, suggestions.

Stephen Frears

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

Mike Mason

We welcome that. Then it opens things up for our other talented receivers.

Frank Abagnale

The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Dee Brown

When we come out and he plays aggressive, that opens it up for other players. When he plays like that, the sky's the limit.

Steve Cohn

Until he opens up, there's nothing we can do.

Billy Corgan

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

D. James

I don't know my situation right now. I'll find out when I get to Phoenix or when I get back from Phoenix.

Dan Fogelberg

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Mike Butters

Phoenix is a tough team. It'll be a tough game. They're ranked second in the nation, so we're going to have to work.

Ambrose Bierce

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Ann Coulter

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Bess Myerson

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Kirk Hammett

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Dana Smith

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Nick Velasquez

I think that raises questions about what he has done in the private sector. What's he trying to hide?

Shannon Flaherty

His tight schedule deemed these private travel arrangements necessary.

Kathleen Ham

He's been out there 32 years. And I've been in my own private jail.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.