Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Olson

Swanson is a dedicated individual. She works hard and does a good job in practice, and in meets, she works extra hard.

Katherine Tsang

Standard Chartered also owns a lot of real estate worldwide and has a dedicated property team.

Camey Geiman

Stacey is so dedicated and always gave everything she had. She was our emotional leader, loves the game and is a special player.

Mark Kennedy

Right now, not enough resources are dedicated to local law enforcement making sure that our communities are free of methamphetamine and drugs.

Ray Waddell

Just as you do with the jam bands, the only way you can get turned on to this music is to seek it out. It's not on the radio. You have to seek it out and go see it live to experience. . . . Ozzfest fans are extremely plugged into the scene and dedicated to it.

Clay Fitch

Jesus recognized he was going to have a chance. He dedicated himself, and when he got the opportunity, he took advantage.

Henry Liaw

Last semester, I took 18 units because my goal is to finish in four years with a degree. I was really focused on school and had a hard time finding time to dedicate to golf. But education is very important. And I enjoy spending time with friends away from the golf course. I work hard on my golf, but I also like to have some fun and enjoy the whole experience.

Patrick Collins

That's been our position all along, ... That's why we have dedicated the resources we have to this investigation since 1998.

Mayor Bingham

I thank him for his years of dedicated service. We wish him well in his future endeavors.

Nicki Harrington

People need to understand that even though we struggle to maintain facilities with limited funds, we have always been able to maintain an excellent education for our students.

Ramon Alexander

Our students are simply being priced out of an education. We do feel that with the surpluses in the state higher education should be a No. 1 priority, a top-notch priority.

Michael Levine

Our teacher education system is not geared up for producing these teachers. We need to figure out some incentives.

David Circle

Our goal is to make sure all students have a quality music education.

Larry Jansen

Our goal has always been to raise money for the state and public education. It's the reason the lottery exists.

Kevin McCarthy

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

Jordan Goodman

Plan to finance your own retirement, help your parents and fund your children's education.

Barry Lopez

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

B. B. King

No one can take it away from you.

Zach Parise

Regardless of what the players think about it, it's the way it's going to be, so you might as well enjoy it.

Howard Stern

Our radio stations are scared, ... I mean, it's hard for them, they're in it alone. I'm telling you, and if you enjoy the show, you must go out and support our sponsors.

John Mara

Paul will be remembered as one of the greatest commissioners in the history of professional sports. When Paul succeeded Pete Rozelle as commissioner, he had big shoes to fill, as everybody was quick to remind him. In his own style, he went about the task of filling those shoes, and the results speak for themselves. During his tenure, the National Football League has enjoyed unparalleled popularity, prosperity and labor peace, thanks largely to Paul Tagliabue.

David Lynch

People just need to relax and go about their life and enjoy life and enjoy Laurens for how they see Laurens.

Bob Basso

People need to enjoy themselves because that's all they have. Many people in Hawaii are working two and three jobs, so it needs to be fun.

Ronnie Davis

People like that we give good service, and we can come to the home or to the office. I have another job also, but I really enjoy seeing the look on people's faces after I've finished detailing their car.

Kevin Bettencourt

Sure, I?d like to get revenge for him. But he told me to just go out and enjoy the moment.

Sarah Will

Some of these guys had never skied before, and all of a sudden they've got the wind in their hair and they're taking some falls and getting back up and really enjoying themselves in the outdoors with their families to support them.

Robert Sarver

Our people really enjoyed it here. The facilities are great, and we have a great relationship with the University of Arizona. It feels like home to me here.

Richard Hoffmann

Part of this is really finding the right match. We have some great candidates.

Jim Burns

People have found nuggets here. I'm finding some fine gold. But I sure won't get rich.

Carolyn Peck

Our team did a very good job of finding Danielle and our seniors showed great leadership down the stretch. Sarah Lowe did a tremendous job of finding Danielle and then after she hit one, did a good job of finding her again. That strategy of going to and finding the hot hand worked. Danielle had the guts to step up and want to win the game. She wasn't tentative or hesitant and played like a senior.

Mark McClellan

Our surveys show that, 5-to-1, people are very satisfied with the program. For people who have had problems, we're finding the problems and fixing them.

Christopher Davis

Rogers is finding value in some unusual places.

Gary Snyder

(Resort) players are finding that bunker. I can tell; they don't rake the sand.

Farooq Kathwari

People who purchased three or four years back, today are finding money to redecorate their homes.

John Ernst

We not only have Sanders' homestead, we have his boat, ... People are gradually finding it ... . More and more people are calling, making inquiries.

Bill Bryson

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

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.

Jesse Jackson

Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.

Sean Foster

Steve played fired-up tonight. He was taking hits and still finishing plays inside. When he can score inside it opens up things for our shooters.

Jerry Wainwright

Statistics point to what happened in this game. We had problems finishing plays where we had the size advantage, and it was painful at the free-throw line.

Karl Malone

Starting off my career, I wasn't a good free throw shooter, and I worked at it and worked at it, and now I want to go up there and shoot free throws, and now... it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about how many guys have played the game... when I finish playing and I look back on it, I think it'll be huge. Right now I'm still playing the game, it's kind of tough to really stop and think about it.

Catherine Lee

Some of the prongs are not down on the stone. The stone setter didn't finish his job.

Brent Eddy

Our team score was good enough to finish third but we still think we can improve our numbers.

Jim Sandusky

Our strength is hitting and offense. We've been moving kids around the infield and outfield and still finishing where they fit in.

Byron Dorgan

Our soldiers are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and we must do our part. And that means voting for the funds they need to finish the job.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Elliot Hovey

Our race on Saturday was the most focused and well-executed race this year. Every race we've been getting better and better.

Edouard Michelin

Our operating income is showing progress. Yet, it does not reflect the group's growth potential. That is why in 2006, we will strengthen our focused growth strategy and strengthen our cost-reduction efforts.

John Mesenbrink

Our kids were very focused and very tenacious today. Our guys had 12 pins for the day. I thought our seniors really did well. All three of those guys did great jobs for us.

Dick Armey

stay focused on the singular question: Is taxing marriage appropriate?

Rodney Taylor

Our pitcher wasn't focused -- we had too many walks, and hitting-wise, we weren't there. It's one of those games where you get away as quick as you can.

Paul Rozak

Our girls really played well, especially the four minutes in the fourth quarter. They (Assumption) have a really nice team, very similar to us because of their versatility inside and out. We needed our rebounding tonight and that was what we focused on for this game.

Kevin Boyd

Our game has to be focused on us. Most of what we're trying to do is to get better every game.

Ron Averill

I'm hoping they can stay focused and relax at the same time. The sad thing would be to go down there and have all kinds of success and not have any fun with it. I want this to be something the kids can remember and tell their grandkids about.

Folarin Campbell

Regardless of the attention, all four teams are going to come out here and give it their all.

Barry Trotz

Paul took four penalties. I was ready to strangle him.

Jim Edmonds

Our lineup's been thin all year. We played without three guys for three or four out of six months. We'll be all right.

Jim Edmonds

Our lineup's been thin all year, ... We played without three guys for three or four out of six months. We'll be all right.

Cathy Alexander

Our league lost a lot of players. Vail Mountain will be the strong team, but the other four teams lost a lot of players and are all young.

Mark Sweeney

Steve Finley, having him as a fourth outfielder is a luxury that a lot of teams don't have. Obviously he's not a fourth outfielder but that's what you have to pencil him in as.

Dan Witter

State is kind of like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. You don't really look at it until you get there because we have to win four games.

Chris Roberts

Some of the properties have been sitting for over four months. They need significant repairs.

Christopher Cox

Some of the most significant thefts have occurred during the last four years,

George Gero

Recently, funds who were selling oil also were selling the metals, but then everything seemed to change. Investors see that there are whiffs of inflation out there.

John Foley

real movement toward better funding and toward smaller service, smaller supports and more employment, more real employment, rather than meaningless day activities.

David Holmes

Relays are the most fun thing about any meet, especially when you win them. We are lucky enough to be able to do that more often than not.

Jeremy Siegel

Relative to the $7 trillion mutual fund industry, it's very little money, maybe one or two percent in returns.

Mel Carnahan

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

John Gunn

Past performance doesn't have anything to do with future performance. It's a massive delusion. It's the most insane thing in the world. You want a pick a fund with low turnover where the management has been around for a long time.

Kristin Chaney

Our main thing is to slow them down. It's fun for us to run, but we don't like to see them run.

James Huang

Our mainland policies remain the same. We still hope the two sides can sit down and make some breakthroughs in functional talks.

Martha Stewart

Our new home improvement series will inspire and inform, while mentoring and teaching valuable life skills, from repairing brickwork, laying flooring, painting rooms and installing a functional and lovely kitchen,

King Hussein

President Assad did not give me any letter, but he perfectly knows that ... I am ready to help to serve the goal of comprehensive peace and the peace process,

Joseph Finnerty

Our overall goal is to stop this casino.

Brian King

Our overall goal is meeting the students? needs,

Viviane Reding

Participation of people in decision-making is the real goal of e-government. Governments have to do more than just release information to the public.

Caroline Shepherd

Part of the goal was not to spend more resources preparing for trial. We took him off the street. We shut down his business.

Michael Rothman

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Doug Griffin

Our main goal was to stop her penetration and put good pressure on the shot.

Sue Curtis

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Richard Cradit

Our main goals are to grow as a team and consistently improve throughout the season, leading to a strong performance at the metro league championship, as well as the regional and state championships.

David Pillsbury

Our objective is to (essentially) take a 20-acre piece of Gore-Tex and put it over this golf course.

Billy Mayfair

People kid Phil, but he's one of the most intelligent persons I've ever been around. He's always thinking ahead. He's a smart man. He's really worked his butt off to learn this golf course.

Debbie Moore

Our strength lies in our Southern hospitality, ... You can play golf here year-round, weather permitting.

Cindy Love

Remember, there are so many golf tournaments that they tend to get watered down,

Bill Cosby

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

Bert Blyleven

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

Cathy Rigby

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Bill Bryson

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Rod Pampling

I was a little down for making bogey, and suddenly I'm tied. It's sad to see. But it's golf.

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.'

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.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

John Faso

I would look to put state spending on a diet.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

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.

Bill Cowher

Some of those games, when we took Jerome out, (Haynes) wasn't too bad.

Michael Cohen

That completely took away the bogeyman of privatization.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Jerry Sloan

That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.

Natalie Cole

I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Marcus Williams

I think he took that out on them.

Ashley Martin

I think he took that hard, but I don't think it had anything to do with this.

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.