Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivette Mendez

Reforms are clearly overdue and we believe an independent monitor along with the federal investigation are the catalysts to provide them.

Bill Cline

Records are made to be broken. My hats off to them...somebody will probably come along and break theirs.

Lynn Franco

Recent turmoil on Wall Street and in worldwide financial markets, along with continuing layoff announcements, have not dampened consumer confidence,

Greg Knapp

Really, when all is over and done with, people will judge a quarterback by wins and losses. That's the best criteria you can have. Sure, we want him to improve his completion percentage. We'd like for him to complete every pass he throws, but you have to be realistic. This offense develops, for many young players, from the inside out. We're moving along at just the right pace.

O. J. Simpson

Reggie, Michael and J.D. are coming along well. I'm really proud of how the three of them look thus far in the season. The other ones are learning. Most of the other ones, this is their first year, but they've got good basics and good mechanics, so I think we'll improve as the season goes.

John Browning

Our recent experience, particularly with solar, has given us the expertise and confidence to develop new products and markets alongside our mainstream business,

Eric Lindquist

Patients breathe. If you've got a lung tumor, the patient's going to move, so the tumor is going to move. You have to have an intelligent robot capable of moving along with the target. So this robotic system really expands radiosurgery for use throughout the body.

David Pepper

Part of getting along well is ... to put what was a good race behind us. We're going to work closely together. To move the region forward, you need a county commission that can really work closely together. Frankly, before the race, Mark and I always had a good relationship and we have a good relationship now.

Jeff Halpern

Part of what we're trying to do is get pucks to the net and outwork teams along the boards, something we'd like to build on. But now pucks are just going to the net. Some of the time when we're getting a lot of those chances we're trying to get second and third opportunities. It's really just getting the bounces.

Chante Black

Rebounding is my forte. Coming off the bench, I have to keep the game going. We're such a deep team that anybody can start. If you don't play hard you won't get any playing time.

Bill Self

Our point guard and two-guard play has been average. That's not throwing anybody under the bus. We've just got to play better. When we do start playing better (at guard) I think our big guys will play better because they'll get more touches in tight at the basket.

John Morris

Our patents are very broad and very deep, and we have the only patents that anybody has that are issued in this space. What we think we're building for, ensuring for and scaling for, is for Pay By Touch to be the method that people use for biometrics, for payments or loyalty transaction.

Anthony Solomon

Our overall talent base has improved. We have some young men that went home over the summer and improved their games. We're continuing to take it step by step. Is the progress we want to make as quick as anybody would like? Certainly not. But there is progress being made and we're going to continue to represent this university in a way that shows we're of high character.

Reggie Witherspoon

Parnell's fatigued. He's been out a long time. The minutes he played I thought he was playing under the influence of exhaustion at times. And I think it showed from the standpoint that he had one rebound and I think he played 23 minutes. We didn't play anybody that had less rebounds than him. We had one guy who played eight minutes and he had a rebound.

Jerry McSwords

Paul had a great tournament. He had a couple big wins early on. He was never intimidated by anybody or anybody's ranking, so I was really impressed with him. I thought all of our kids wrestled well.

Rick Adelman

Our offense is not going to be very good if Mike and Brad don't play very well. Francisco had numbers, but our starters, I don't know if anybody had a decent game. ... We needed everybody to play well and play at a high level, and they didn't do it. When that happens with the team we have today, it's hard.

Matt Carere

Our main plan is to keep winning. If we do that, we don't have to rely on anybody else.

Tony Dungy

Our mission is to win a Super Bowl. And we know we've got a very, very tough team in front of us. New England has won about 13 straight and they're playing the best ball of anybody in the league. Going up there is going to be tough. We know what the challenge is, but we're not going to be satisfied just getting to the championship game. We think we've got a team that can win it.

Duane Ackerman

Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to avoid it, but many companies our size and particularly our competitors operate with lower overhead and fewer management layers.

Jewel

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Carol Bellamy

recognizes that economic sanctions are an instrument intended by the international community to promote peace and security ... but our concern is that whenever sanctions are imposed, they should be designed and implemented in such a way as to avoid a negative impact on children.

Mark Stahlman

Previous management understood what needed to be changed, but they were unable to make it happen, ... To actually make these changes is a massive challenge. It can't be done quickly. There will be people who will resist. There's no avoiding a good deal of internal conflict.

Robert Wood

Our research shows that for some children, however, lifelong avoidance of these nuts, found in countless food products, may not be necessary.

Doug Smith

Parking was totally disorganized on Monday. We left extra early (Tuesday) to avoid another rush.

Shinya Yamanaka

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Nancy McBride

Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.

Juan Lubroth

People need to be informed about the importance of basic hygiene notably washing hands after touching poultry and disinfecting boots or shoes before entering or leaving a poultry farm. They should also be aware of suitable farming practices such as ensuring that poultry are roofed-in to avoid any contact with wild birds and not mixing chickens with other species, such as ducks.

Jeff Capel

Regardless of whether we develop something in the post, we're going to be a good team. We're going to be just fine. We're going to continue to get better as a basketball team, individually and collectively.

Sue Semrau

Rebounding was our emphasis the whole game, especially in the second half when we came out and held them off of the offensive boards. We limited them to four offensive boards in the second half and quite frankly, I thought that was the difference in the basketball game.

Steve Spenner

Records don't mean anything this time of year. Everybody starts 0-0. Some teams play their best basketball at the end of the year. If we don't play good we'll be in trouble. If we play well we'll be fine.

Rafer Alston

Regret? ... I just regret getting into situations. Because it's unlike me. I'm a guy who just loves to leave it on the floor, have a jolly old time playing basketball ... that's the great thing that everyone understands about me I'm going to play hard no matter what.

Chris Bowman

Our position has not changed, in the interest of basketball we think it's best if we call the GABF into accountability.

John Hughs

Our players need to understand the type of basketball we need to play all the time. We need more of a team-oriented game without a true, true point guard.

Joe Consolino

Our players know basketball is a game of highs and lows. This is a pretty good basketball team we have here, and they know what it takes to win, and that's what you saw tonight.

Bill Evans

Our patience wasn't good enough. We didn't guard them in the post and they got easy baskets, but we've really got to take care of the basketball and good shots every time down the floor.

Don Eckerle

Our quickness on defense caused them problems. We're playing our best basketball right now.

Tony Robichaux

Regardless of what happens Tuesday (tonight), we're not going to carry it into the weekend. When this one's over, we'll immediately start thinking about and getting ready for the weekend.

Shane Battier

Pau is doing a great job. He's carrying the team and had a huge night.

Jim Sherman

Our offense has had to carry us and the hitters have really stepped up. To be able to maintain the pace we've set lately has really been something special. And it's not just one or two guys -- it's everybody we send out there.

Justin Johnson

Our offensive line is going to carry us through the season. We've got four returning starters on the line.

Glenn Takara

Our defense was good. We gotta try to carry it over to the next game. We can still get better, but we're on the right path now.

James Seals

supplying enough of the right resources for the child protection system to carry out its three-fold mission (protecting children, preserving families and providing permanent homes for children.)

Fu Mengzi

Such frequent mutual visits show China and the United States carry out high-level communication free of obstruction, which is conducive to the improvement of bilateral ties.

Jerry Rickrode

Steve has really improved. His intensity picked up to a different level, but you can never rely on a freshman to carry your team.

James Jones

Steve does a great job of getting everyone involved. When we're balanced, we're unbeatable. But when we rely on one or two guys to carry us, we're in trouble.

Trevor Hoffman

Regardless of how the outcome happens, it's how you get over the failures that matters more than anything else in this role, ... If you do screw up, 24 hours later, there's a chance the ball's going to be in your hand again.

Mark LaTurner

Rebounds just killed us in the first half. When you give a team two, three chances at scoring, it's going to hurt you.

Gene Rasmussen

Rebounding and second chance opportunities were a big key for us.

Aaron Harberts

Rebecca is tripping over stuff and we're just humiliating her every chance we get.

Jose Maria

Real Madrid created their chances and we couldn't have done anymore. I had the feeling we were going to be struck by an avalanche,

Li Zhi

Regulators have picked out two points this year: encouraging fund inflow to the market and revving up studies of new derivative products. The index has a good chance to test 1,300 this week.

John Barrow

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

Dragan Cavic

Our positions are considerably different. We shall see today whether there is a chance for creating a middle ground.

John Bunting

Our players know this dismantled us in the second half, ... I think they also knew we had a chance in the first half.

Jerome Bonnafont

President Chirac expressed his hope that the international community would show solidarity with Lebanon on the economic and financial levels.

John Burness

President Brodhead has had a positive influence on town-gown relations. Duke's relations with the Durham community actually have been far stronger than one might have guessed from recent media reports. I suspect that's why despite all the tensions the media describe, the community has not splintered but, in fact, has come together during the current crisis.

Albert Carlson

Our position is that we want to protect community services, and there's no need to privatize or make cuts if there is no economic crisis in the city.

Joy Redding

Our paper actually the community's paper will cover eight years of local history each month using headlines and pictures from community archives.

Beth Martin

Parks are very important. Ours are used for many different events, including family gatherings and other community social events.

Jennifer Wagner

Passover is one of my favorite times of the year. This is when the whole community and family gets together to remember who we are and why we are here.

Charlie King

Part of what Mediacom is trying to do is become part of the economic development plans of our communities,

Adrienne Worthy

Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised our profile in the legal community in terms of the work we do and how we are a big part of the justice system.

Jeff Jenkins

Our main purpose is to make sure fraternities are cooperating and making sure the Greek community is healthy.

John Tesh

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

Charles Churchill

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.

Bill Cowher

Sports Town: A Look at the Famous Sports Pages of the Post-Gazette.

Julie Nelson

That was his famous saying, ... He would never let them leave feeling like they had failed.

Andy Roddick

That's the weird part for me, ... Being famous never feels normal. I don't know if it will ever become normal.

Vic Peters

That says something in itself. It's still one of the most famous bonspiels in the world.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Marvin Oliver's

I was very fortunate. You hear the names of entertainers, famous people who lose their lives not getting a kidney.

Gore Vidal

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Paul Gallay

Our relationship with communities is growing as we work with private- land owners and planning boards.

Jane Rosenthal

Our record-number of film submissions this year reflects the growing strength of the Festival. This year's program includes a wide range of talent and perspective from around the globe.

Paul Casey

Our numbers are growing in our regular program as well.

Ron Ruff

Our laws just keep growing and growing and growing.

Nancy Todd

People learn growing up to react with anger.

Mike Shanahan

Some guys (have) got more growing to go. That's part of the season. But I thought we made some strides and hopefully it pays dividends.

Aaron Oldfield

Our boy's team is very young; we only have a handful of seniors. They are going through some growing pains.

Daniel Meckstroth

Manufacturing is growing but the pace of growth has decelerated. The outlook for manufacturing production in 2006 is for moderate growth.

Beck

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

Bob Holt

Part of the state-wide scheduling meeting was, some of these schools around the state have had trouble getting games, but if we all do our share ...

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Sabrina Davis

Some of the meetings are just a big mess. I'm sure if they reduced, they'd run much better.

Kevin Quinn

Our staff has been meeting today with advocates and also with members of the Legislature

Hosni Mubarak

We need another meeting and we need more deliberation,

John Chaney

I will meet with him whenever he desires. He made some nice overtures to me that he wanted my support and I'm going to support him.

Don Perkins

I think the most important thing he teaches all of us, ... is that anything is possible when preparation meets opportunity.

Vernon Davis

Just from being around them and meeting with them, it seems as if they would take me.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Scott Kaden

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall.

Cynthia Morgan

Respondents in the mountain states -- where self-employed technologists are proportionately rare -- were the most optimistic, regionally.

Rep. Chalk

I think you all are making a mountain out of a molehill. I don't know there was anything she said that was not the truth.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Mayor Mavis

Mount Vernon has always been very supportive of the program.

Chuck Tursky

Mount Pleasant has a solid team from top to bottom. They have the most solid lineup of any team in the WPIAL.

Sheldon Souray

Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Lindsey Graham

We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.

Jeff Gundy

That's a very important weapon to have, especially when you have somebody like Bryant.

Saeb Erakat

I was under shock, ... You have to think, 'take it down, then they'll storm the plane, somebody may shoot.'

Lana Savage

I think I did the right thing, that's what I think. And I feel like I got somebody that could have done this to someone else.

Avery Cutshaw

I think he can play, but somebody is going to have to give him a chance.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Angela Ruggiero

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Carl Lewis

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,

George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Burn Gorman

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.

Plato

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Rosanne Cash

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.