Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelley Smith

Our players were not happy with the results from last year and the record was not indicative of the level of soccer they played. They have been working hard to do everything they can to correct that and a refuse to lose attitude is key entering this fall. They have the motivation to improve and don't want a repeat of what their record was last fall.

Carleen Courtney

Patient care wasn't suffering, but the efficiency and the attitude of the nurses were.

Patricia Richardson

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

Dennis Johnson

Our main goal is to steadily improve throughout the season. The girls positive attitudes are their biggest assets. They all work very hard and have a strong desire to improve, which is going to be essential to their success.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Rose Mashigo

Our lives are driven and channeled by our decisions, whatever situation we find ourselves in, we got ourselves there.

Kyle Fenner

Our kids will take the same attitude they've taken all year and that's to compete and rebound and play defense and execute on offense.

Evelina Christillin

People have been incredibly receptive, showing a very positive attitude and lots of goodwill. Turin will be a much more international city now.

Mike Lowell

Sure, there's been a little bandwagon jumping. But I think that's only normal, ... It's tough to identify with guys who haven't been with the organization for a while. I still believe you have to win back the fans, and I still think, after '97, I guess the fans had an attitude of 'You got to prove us wrong before we start giving you our money to watch you play.'

Joe Lunardi

Recent history suggests they're in. When you win the championship of a top-10 RPI conference like the Mountain West, you're in.

Matt Kuk

Our players have their sights set on winning our conference this year. Last year, we were around a .500 team, so we're definitely looking to improve, because we know we can do better than that.

Rod Gorman

Our regular season conference schedule prepares us for the post-season. To come out of our district was rewarding, for sure.

Flip Saunders

Part of it is teams that were not very good have gotten better, which makes for a much more competitive conference. What developed for a few years in the Western Conference has now come back to the East, where there aren't really any gimme games.

Pascal Lamy

Some of you will have read, or perhaps written, stories about a Plan B to be implemented in the event that the Hong Kong ministerial conference falls short of our objectives.

John Hendricks

Somehow, they have become our conference rival, and we're opening the season with them, so I'm expecting a good, hard-fought game.

Tracy Smith

Our preparation and focus is to get ready for the Big Ten. Our record is 0-0 in the conference and that's our mentality right now.

Lonny Sargent

Our plan was to get as tough of schedule as we could in the spring, so that way when we played our conference we'd be prepared, and I think we have been able to do that.

Mike Ferda

Our plan is to get ourselves ready for the conference schedule with these early games.

Dianna Booher

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling. ... An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Peggy Kerns

States are doing this for two reasons. They want to be ethical institutions, and they want the skeptical public to view them as ethical institutions.

Matt Doherty

Rodney is a tough kid. He really has a good work ethic and is one of the hardest working players I've been around.

Stephanie Herseth

I will be positive, will be respectful, always truthful and demonstrating that work ethic that we're all so proud about here in South Dakota.

Jenna Elfman

That's what I find is just the work ethic of some of my peers I've noticed, and it has to do with how they were raised. And I didn't come from a lot of money either, so I never had any kind of strange thing that can happen with rich kids where they're not always given discipline. Not always, but I've seen that sometimes. But it happens with people with no money too, so. . . .

Sen. Langhorst

It gives the public a better way to judge whether they think there's ethical conflict.

Sam Allen

It had already been a long day when we found the suspect - we had searched about 50 homes - and that speaks volumes of our soldiers' work ethic and dedication, ... They always put 100 percent into every mission, and it pays off every day.

Brett Norris

I thought it was a great year. Obviously we progressed tremendously. I thought the way we played the last six weeks was a testament to the work ethic of our players.

Jim Bowden

I'd like to thank Jamey for his long-standing and numerous contributions to the Nationals-Expos franchise. During his time here, Jamey was the ultimate teammate, whose integrity and work ethic were contagious.

Ron Wilson

Patty played a great game. He was taking the puck to the net, and he was a force. I think he got excited when he saw he was going to be on the point on the power play.

Roger Taylor

Paul is not someone trying to be Freddie. He's someone trying to take this somewhere else... I'm very excited about working it all out.

Elizabeth Gabler

People have too many options for their entertainment, and we've got to work to get people excited about movie business.

Billy Boyd

People love the movies and they just get excited when they see someone from them, no matter who it is. It's always positive.

Dwayne Hickman

Suddenly I was on stage.Looking out into the sea of screaming excited teens, I thought for a fleeting moment that maybe I had been too hard on myself, maybe I was just as much a teen singing sensation as this slick Avalon fellow.

Jeff Fried

Steve's excited as can be. He's just excited to get there and perform.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on. ... It's a different experience for him. We're excited about having him go to a different school and getting a different perspective on learning.

Mohammed Ali

Some people are excited to take it. Others are refusing to touch it.

Royce Chadwick

Our players are very excited to play on TV so all their families can watch. We're down to late February and every game is of the utmost importance. It's nice to be home, and we have a lot of positive things in our favor. We're looking forward to a big crowd.

Jeffrey Zeldman

When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

Don Cornelius

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

Kerrilynn Gallagher

When you're hosting a tournament, it's mentally and physically exhausting.

Bruce DuMont

As successful as Jay Leno is, Jay Leno hosting the Today' show wouldn't work.

Nancy McDaniel

We will be hosting our first-ever international invitational.

Matt Willig

The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.

Richard Ross

And for Norfolk, and other towns hosting correctional facilities, not to be reimbursed at a reasonable rate for the ambulance services that they provide seems unfair,

Mark Levitt

The unified messaging market is being revived by the availability of hosting of unified message services. If you're not sure you need it, why not rent it on a hosted basis?

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

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.

Kunihiro Hatae

People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.

John Tortorella

Our power play (stinks). We moved the puck, but we didn't produce.

Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Jean Reno

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

Tom Ridge

I think they moved as quickly as they could,

Andrew Heyward

That's totally ridiculous, ... I would say on a scale of 1 to 100 that had zero to do with it. The organization has moved on.

Fidel Castro

I think that it has moved the world. It's something extraordinary, something historic.

Eddie Davis

I was very upset. They pulled it Saturday. I thought I was going to USF. But they said that since I moved on they were moving on.

Abdullah Gul

I can't see any problem that will prevent the start of talks on October 3,

Natwar Singh

If it was a stalemate then I would not be going to Pakistan on October 3, would I?

Peter Scott

He was sold out for the October trip by June.

Adrian McKinty

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

Arthur Hailey

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

Vance Joy

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Ian Shepherdson

The rebound in expectations since October is still big enough to signal strong first-quarter consumption, but not a sustained boom.

Mark Hendrickson

We need to do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

Richard Hadlee

We've come up with these combinations and they're quality sides - but by the time October comes, are they all going to be fit?,

Rhys Ifans

Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it’s definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I’m going to school today, end of story.

Becca Fitzpatrick

For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true— and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You....Your eyes, Nora. Those cold, pale gray eyes are surprisingly irresistible.” He tipped his head sideways, as if to study me from a new angle. “And that killer curvy mouth

Becca Fitzpatrick

He inclined his head at my dress. "What's the occasion?" "Homecoming," I said, twirling. "Like?" "Last I heard, Homecoming requires a date." "About that," i hedged. "I'm sort of...going with Scott. We both figure a high-school dance is the last place Hank will be patrolling." Patch smiled, but it was tight. "I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true—and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You.

B. F. Skinner

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

Joe Green

We never stopped having school, ... Things are going well.

Bill Simmons

When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.

David Lowery

Some of us (band members) have September birthdays, and we wanted to have a party.

Michael Englund

I wouldn't be surprised to see more weakness in the September report.

Richard McCabe

We may spend most of September going sideways,

John Gibbons

He wants to pitch, but you know it's not worth it. You've got to look at the big picture. If this was September and we're in the thing . . .

David Cooper

Since September 11 we have been continually challenged.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Dick Cheney

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Ali Khamenei

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Gore Vidal

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

Bill Cowher

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Charles Comiskey

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.