Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew McLaughlin

Our mission in Washington boils down to this: Defend the Internet as a free and open platform for information, communication, and innovation.

Freddie DeBose

Some of the water system is up and running, but they haven't gotten water to a point to where the customers can use it or even boil it for use.

Eric Hyman

Really what it all boils down to is (charging) $40 to go watch a Southeastern Conference football game reasonable? I think in the marketplace if you compare us (to other schools) ... it's more than reasonable.

Mike Conklin

We need the capital for a crusher and a refinery, that's what it boils down to.

Andrew Brown

Just down the stretch, it's about making plays, making shots. Sometimes it just boils down to making shots.

Lonnie Starks

The anticipation is just boiling over. They're chomping at the bit.

Bob Hill

I think (we can make a run). We have to improve the defense. The concepts are better but it's going to boil down to them. (Tonight) just can't happen. We can't let them go to the free throw line like that.

Donnie Marsh

I think road or home, you can boil it down, and it's really that our defense isn't even close to where it needs to be to win at home or on the road. We have struggled in that department for far too long.

Scott Elarton

It doesn't boil down to individual performances right now. It's just as a group, we're collectively terrible. It's time to get it figured out and get things together, or it's going to be miserable.

Gerald Cox

Real quick, what had been a close game turned into a huge blowout. When you have a kid that can shoot it like Brent can, you're going to let him keep shooting it.

Dave Taylor

Our reports on him as far back as juniors were always positive and favorable. He's definitely someone we've kept a close eye on over the years.

Alex Johnson

Our poll tells us that we should take a close look at the potential impact of some popular technology on hearing health.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Rob Sumner

Part of it is that we don't score a lot, so we had better be good in one-goal games. We're confident and comfortable playing in close games.

Jason Stevenson

Our lightweights did a good job tonight. They all went out with fire in their eyes. The matches were all close and Tait was fighting hard down to the very end.

Brian Hukel

Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on some guys. They've got a lot of guys that can knock it down. If you don't close out, they're going to make shots and he made some big ones.

Judy Pardonnet

Our legal staff looked into it very closely and carefully, and the train platforms are definitely covered.

Judy Pardonnet

Our lawyers took a really close look at this. It was ruled LaSalle Street is covered, and smoking is prohibited.

Tim Gardner

Reggie can score. He wants to score and likes scoring. It's his defense that he needs to work on.

Drew Bledsoe

Really what they played was a similar style of defense to what they played last year when they went on the run. They gave up some yards here and there, but they tightened up when we got into scoring territory.

Jessica Davenport

Our outside game was really clicking, so they had to stretch the defense out and respect our 3-point shooting, and it opened it up in the middle for me.

Mark Gibson

Our quarterback will not play defense as long as I'm alive. ... Unless he's about 6-6 and 250. And our quarterback is not 6-6 and 250.

Tim Goers

Paris was playing us a tough game. And we made two many unforced turnovers. We talked about halftime about playing good, sound defense and eliminating our mistakes on offense.

Brian Morris

Our offense played a great game. But our defense really put on a show. The whole team played great defense tonight.

Leo Veleas

Our offense picked up our defense and pitching today.

Maurice Cheeks

Our offense is fine. Our defense is where's it's at. You have to put guys out there and show them how to play defense. We have to keep trying.

Paul Raspolich

Our offense helped out our defense today. We need to play more consistently in the field.

Claes Thorson

Our last request was suspended by the State Department until further notice.

Tasia Scolinos

O.P.R. routinely looks into issues of this kind. They will not be making a determination on the lawfulness of the N.S.A. program, but rather will determine whether the department lawyers complied with their professional obligations.

Andy Agle

People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.

Mark Rubin

Susan Robinson was the first of the co-defendants to provide a truthful statement that helped the Duluth Police Department solve the case,

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Jerry Woods

Really just taking a look at each department individually and making sure it is up to the standards that we expect out of any one of our homes.

Edward Rhine

We've tried hard to communicate, to keep the number of rumors down. We've sent home a letter from the department of health. We just hope we've done a good enough job.

Dave Marmon

I was just trying to take your mind off things. A guy with the Missoula rural fire department was working with your husband, and you heard him say 'critical' on the radio, and I was trying to take your mind off that.

Cecilia Zalkind

I think there was a sense that children's services needed to be a greater priority and that organizing under one department might ensure that that happens.

Jeff Flake

Pat Tillman exemplified the sacrifice, selflessness, and service of the U.S. military. Nowadays, genuine role models in professional sports are few and far between, but Tillman proved that there are still heroes in sports.

Luke Zeller

Patience plays a huge part. As far as in high school, every person here was a star in their high school.

David Crabbe

Our offense is decent. But we're still getting our legs underneath. We're still a little wobbly right now. We'll go as far as our setter can take us.

E. B. White

Our mailing list is over 600, and we know that it's far from complete.

Craig Oren

Our original goal was to finish in the top five and we weren't far off. Overall, it was a successful year. The state was a lot more competitive. The top teams were more evenly matched and it took a lot more points to stay in the top ten than it did last year.

Debbie Kolosh

Our old canteen was a big red school bus. It was kind of limited as far as what they could do in it.

Larry Collins

Sure, I thought we had two good looks. But we missed far more than just two shots. You can't go back and look at just those shots.

Stan Sanchez

Splitting series is not going to do anything as far as percentage points. It's all about percentage points. You don't gain anything by splitting a series. You have to win at least three of four to gain ground.

Paul Lawrie

Someone had to have a go, but Raphael had to make a few mistakes for me to have any chance, so good luck to him, ... He was so far ahead, second place seems like winning.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Kenny MacAskill

Our message to the Scottish Diaspora this New Year should be to come home to Scotland.

Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires.

Judah Friedlander

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

Bill Henderson

Someone from home will be praying for you,

James Augustine

That'd be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night.

Taylor Twellman

Our first home match is going to be difficult, and we know that better than anybody,

Nick Russo

Residents of these temporary homes need to practice safety first at all times.

Earl Blumenauer

Part of what needs to be going on,

Hal Mumme

Paul Dombrowski is a tremendous competitor. If he wants to play at the next level, he needs to be a slot guy, a running-back-type guy.

Cheryl Smith

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Scott Benedict

Someone needs to step up to the plate and offer him a scholarship.

Dan Daly

Our position would not be that we don't need to do anything. The status quo is not appropriate. Something needs to be done.

Steve Zeller

Our secondary still needs some work. We weren't making the reads on the ball.

J. C. Watts

Our team is pretty unique because we're all so close. If you're scared to do a trick, you know you have to do it because the team needs you to do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Jody Conradt

Our schedule is not going to get any easier. It's a tough road from here on out.

David Sanborn

I didn't go on the road until right after my second album.

John Miller

I find it really hard-pressed to support a road tax when right here there's nothing being done.

Dean Saito

Getting gross-polluting vehicles off the road is a cost-effective strategy.

Jim Bolla

Fresno is No. 1 in our conference. Let's go up there and see if we can play well and keep our road streak going.

Kirk Maltby

Just play a good, smart road game, and we've been doing that this season.

Irish Proverb

It is a long road that has no turning.

Greg Schulz

Here we go again. We've been down this road before, many times.

Bill Womack

Historically we haven't done well on that road trip. It will be a tough road trip for us and we just need to play our game.

Brad Skene

Our tackling was off today. We struggled with that and that was the difference.

Charles Rosser

I always thought we shouldn't have been in 4A in the first place. In '99, we skipped from 2A to 4A. We struggled in 4A for a while. I feel like now we are right where we belong.

Andrea Gaston

She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.

Bill Beasley

She hadn't thrown all year, so she struggled a bit.

Jeff Knoy

She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out and said, 'Hey, you're going to have to play better if we're going to be successful.' And it usually rotates through her and Helen on how well we're going to play.

Ned Yost

We had struggled to that point. We were going down in order, boom, boom, boom.

Agnus Berenato

We didn't have a flow. I thought we really struggled offensively.

Mia Washington

We really didn't play well at the end of the season. We just struggled and couldn't recover.

Joan Chen

When I was younger, I struggled against, you know, I don't want to be pigeon-holed. And I, you know - Basically, now you want to be pigeon-holed. It's your niche.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.