Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Evans

I was just hoping for three or four good innings from him. We were eager to see what he could do as a starter. He did a great job.

William Hazlitt

That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Ted McIntyre

I think that is when we will really see a lot about ourselves. The girls are eager to face some really tough competition, and that tournament is filled with it.

Charles H. Townes

I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.

Brandon King

It feels a lot better now. I'm real eager (to play again). It was tough watching my team last week.

Ryan Culp

I think mentally it's nice to know you're guaranteed a winning season, especially for the seniors. It's nothing we focused on, but it feels good to know. Regardless, no way do we want to stop now. We're eager for a big game with Penn, and we'll need to be.

George Pierce Baker

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Frank Martinez

I feel good about this team. We're young and going through some growing pains, but we're eager to learn and get better.

Eric Brown

From what I've seen of the kids here at the gym today, you can tell that they're very eager to learn, they're hungry for the game and they enjoy playing basketball,

Saurav Ganguly

Our record in finals is an issue we're trying to forget about and tomorrow is a new start,

Chuck Michaelson

Our focus is to have success as a team. They love to see their teammates get in the finals just as much as themselves.

Anju George

I will look to make it to the finals first and will not go full pelt in the qualifying jumps.

Gordon Tietjens

I think they thought they just had to go out, put some points on and play the finals later on. You'd have to feel for Japan, they made all the play.

Mike Polz

It doesn't get any better than to have five guys in the finals and one of them your son while your other son is also down here. We're very fortunate since things have gone very well for us. They're great kids and they've wrestled hard.

Darin Dollemore

Junior had a great day making it into the regional finals ... that was big.

Mark Fox

He can't work out or communicate with them until the finals are over. Only I can set that up right now.

Jade Gribble

He is taking up some new styles. I just showed him a new offensive shot and he had three takedowns in the finals with it for six points.

Fred Russell

I hated finals week. Finals week was 24-7 quiet hours, which meant no serious guitar playing for a week.

Matt Cressman

Paul worked his butt off tonight. I thought he had waited too long to pass it, but he timed it just right and Mike finished it for us.

Paul Keyes

I think this team has good potential. We finished up strong last year, and I think that bodes good for the kids' confidence.

Muffet McGraw

I was a little disappointed with the way we finished the game. We have become a team lacking a killer instinct.

F. Schumacher

I was lucky with the safety car. With all the back markers we went through and finished third. It was great. We're strong people and we're looking forward to the next races.

Terry Nelson

Krause finished with two birdies, that says a lot. It means you can hold it together, don't panic.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Peter Jacobsen

I was on the 15th tee. I just eagled 13 and birdied 14. Nicklaus birdied 10. I thought 'This is cool, Jack and I are now tied.' As I hit the water on 15, I looked over at the scoreboard and just as one guy was finished putting up the 'S-E-N' (in Jacobsen), the other guy was taking down the 'J-A-C.'

LaVerne Knox

I think we are ready. We want to take one game at a time. We are playing a pretty good team. They finished fourth in the region, but could have finished second.

Corry Irvin

I think we all sat in our hotel rooms (after the semifinal) and sulked. Once we got in the locker room, we let it go. Wherever we finished is better than people thought we'd do.

Paul Konerko

Really, you can split that thing five ways. Those guys were unbelievable.

Bret Meuli

Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost games. If we could have had five innings back, we would have made the playoffs. The playoffs are our goal.

Eric Etchison

Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.

Kenichi Chizuka

Our original outlook was that we are looking to win five medals. Talking with the various federations, we might get two or three more.

Stan Smith

Our (offensive) line is amazing. If the line gets off and gives the back five yards, it opens up a lot of things. I can't stress enough how well they do.

Steve Roach

People have been saying that for five or six years. You can only put these things off for so long and then the day comes when your realize you're in serious danger.

Peter Lynch

People have been looking for recessions for the last five years,

Leslie Peterson

People need the help now. Easily, I could give out five times what I give out.

Martha Stewart

People make jokes about making lemonade. I actually like lemons. These are my first lemons in five months,

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.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Jim Williams

Roger's been running for a year and a half. And there hasn't been an unkind word said.

M. Wolfe

Replays and reruns are running out of steam,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

Bede Griffiths

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

Becca Fitzpatrick

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

Duane Starks

Starks said. ''I just think we executed more in the second half.

Colin Cushman

Standish in the second half, that's the story right there. She's the real deal.

Mark Teixeira

That could be it exactly. The first day, I didn't sleep at all. The second day, yeah, a little bit.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Acie Law

That's the second time today someone's done that.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Greg Thompson

I think it's who comes in second place.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

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.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!