Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Franti

Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide open, and there's music blasting out in the street. You can see the reaction of people immediately.

Howard Gordon

Part of what gives the show its energy is we paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out.

Thomas Pickering

Someone either waved or threw hand grenades at (a guard). He refused to open the gate. When the hand grenades came, of course, he ran away to save himself. The blast went off, knocked him down, and he survived.

John Doe

Restraint can be tough. I've made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That's a challenge I've given myself, because it's easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you're exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.

Jimmie Johnson

I was little surprised that he just continually drove in and kept trying to blast me in the center. The time that he got by me, he really had my wheels off the ground and I couldn't get to the gas.

Brian Dunn

It is a pretty outrageous case. They gained entry by literally blasting down the outside doors with shotguns while people were sleeping.

Dan Harris

It is likely the force of the blast disabled both cameras. You cannot hear or see anything else on either tape.

Jimmie Johnson

I was fading so I don't really have any complaints with the way that he raced me. I passed him two or three times earlier in the day and found another line and worked my way around the outside of him. I was a little surprised that he continually drove it in and kept trying to blast me in the center. I think he probably hit me for four or five laps and the time that he got by me, he really had my wheels off the ground and I couldn't get in the gas and he got inside of me and from there drove on and drove away from me. This is short track racing.

Jason Schwartzman

I thought it would be good for me to do something bigger, more bombastic, more physical. I had a blast making the film.

Joshua Kohn

Our own faculty has gotten sensitized to the issue that there's a bunch of people that just don't get it.

Billy Lange

People keep looking at them and saying, 'Ah they are not that good,' but that's a bunch of baloney. That's a very, very good team. They've got great guards who know how to win.

Dick Costolo

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

Janice Williams

People in there are always trying to rob Sam. Sam has called police a whole bunch of times.

Michael Curry

Steve and Robert have been really great about stepping up to cover a bunch of courses, ... And Melissa is a temporary faculty member, primarily filling in for Susan. I think everyone, including the students, has tried to roll with it.

Dennis McAlpine

Some of these movies could be in trouble. I suspect that a bunch will fall by the wayside. There is not enough demand.

John Gamble

Some of them know about my career but some of them don't have a clue. But I don't think they place a whole bunch of importance on it.

Tyler Cowen

Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.'

Tim Kirby

Someone offered me a bunch of money for it. I couldn't do it. I'm too attached.

Rich Irr

Rebounding is all about will. At halftime, I challenged our kids' will.

Curt Fredrickson

Regis has an outstanding three-point shooting team. It will be a real challenge for us to get out to that three-point line and guard their shooters.

Steve Sampson

Our players have had the challenge of, like every other club in the country, to meet the physical challenges of travel and on many occasions, Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday games,

John Schafer

Parking can be a challenge downtown, so we thought why not encourage mass-transit use.

Maribeth Smith

Parking also promises to be a challenge downtown and chances are you'll spend more than $5 a pop.

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Terry Hoeppner

Payton is a guy with great potential. He'll challenge for a spot. He'll give us that quality depth, at least.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

August Wilson

Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.

John Papa

Records are hard to come by, especially the outdoor records. The records that have fallen this season are significant ones, and are not easy to achieve.

Jamie Langenbrunner

Patty sees the ice very well. I was trying to find a lane there so he could make as easy a pass as possible. It was a great pass by Patty.

Jason Jennings

Our offense was, to say the least, pretty impressive this whole series. It really just let us, as a staff, just relax and be aggressive. When you get nine or 10 runs a game, it's pretty easy to pitch.

Richard Sheridan

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Mila Kunis

People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

Tony Brock

People have GPS. They give their position, and they're easy to locate.

Mike Lorello

People have to realize Rutgers isn't the same team historically that they've been. It's pretty easy to tell they're a good football team.

Brian Moody

People like to pick on the Hummer, because it's an easy target,

Thomas Poore

People have been waiting since 1992 for students to be in the hallways of John Paul II High School. That is exciting to me.

Randy Bachman

People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

Garth Illingworth

Suddenly whole new programs open up, things you can do that you could never do before. It'd be great scientifically, it'd be great for the nation, for educators, for students, and it'd be just great for the public at large, because Hubble is so exciting for people.

John Oliver

Some of my students have gone off to be involved in these space missions. They work on it for four or five years, then wait four or five years more for it to come back. It's so exciting if it works, and so disappointing if it doesn't.

Jeff Dohn

Some of the younger kids are nervous and the older kids are trying to lead them the right way. Every season is exciting because of the different personalities. Hopefully we'll find our way and find what we do best.

Gov. Carcieri

RISC is the hope for taking the state back. It's exciting because it is long overdue.

John Patrick Shanley

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

Joe Sakic

Pierre's done a good job filling holes. We're going to have a talented team, an exciting team. We're looking forward to the challenge.

Katie Nelson

I was about to cry. It's exciting that I got first. I would have been thrilled to be in the top three.

Stanley McClover

Our reputation to the Big 10 is that we're just fast and soft. We take offense to that. We've got to go out and set the tone on Wisconsin real early.

Kerry Collins

Sure, wer'd like to have a fast start, ... We'd like to be 16-0. But it's a long season. Hopefully, we get better as it goes along.

Kerry Collins

Sure, we'd like to have a fast start. We'd like to be 16-0. But it's a long season. Hopefully, we get better as it goes along.

Michael Redd

Starting out fast was key. That was big. We really didn't let them have a run throughout the game. Tonight felt really good. It showed what can happen when we start out fast.

O. Henry

Some kid is going to take him out really fast one of these times, and he'll be all right. He'll stick with him and run a 44.5 or something.

Evan Harrison

Our stripped series has taken off even faster than we had originally anticipated.

Raymond Gilmartin

Our goal is not to be just one of the largest pharmaceutical companies, but also to be one of the fastest growing,

Chris Richard

Our four big guys can run with guards. And we all know it, so when we go on a fast break, it's like a track meet with us running side by side down court.

Tom Brady

Playing this team as many times as we have in the last few years, ... we realize how physical they are, and they're fast and they're disciplined. They're very well coached. It is going to be quite a challenge.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

O. J. Simpson

People have questions. It's had a negative impact on the fishermen.

Javier Solana

Steps are urgently needed to improve the visibility, impact and effectiveness

Dr. Jain

Our findings show that the technology is unlikely to be used by the majority of Americans and should not have an impact on the natural sex ratio.

Jason Gibbs

Our view is that this is an isolated incident and the value of the registry to parents and communities outweighs the impact of one isolated incident.

Justin Gray

Man, they made some tough shots. The three-pointers can impact the game. Especially when you give them up in a row.

Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Bill Crawford

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

Bethany Hamilton

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Tom Cech

It is a target that could impact a wide variety of cancers.

Daniel Stewart

Regardless of what party you are, you have to learn how to play in the same sandbox because nothing will kill redevelopment quicker than combative local politics,

Ed Fleischman

People learn something and take it away so they can do it again. It is very gratifying.

Sheila Dikshit

People have to learn to pay for what they use,

Mark Mitchell

Survivors of London and the survivors of 9/11 and I just pray that people would be safe and learn to know the Lord.

Anna Kournikova

Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus,

Raymond Mason

Sure it's frustrating when you lose, but you can't use being young as an excuse. When you're learning, there's always something new to unfold and you find the right way to do your job. We know we can still be better this season.

Michelle Young

Some of our players will only have been with us a day, so it should be a real learning experience,

H. Hart

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

Lindsay Davenport

Someone said she served at 125, 126 (miles per hour) here. So I have to learn some more about her.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Josh Herring

That could have been a big turning point in the game. If we tie it there, we would have the momentum.

Hans Blix

that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Our selling point is, if you have to get through, it's Ricochet.

Randy Gumbley

Our strong point is that we'll be solid on the back end.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Phil Condit

Overall, at this point I'm pretty positive, ... We've got things going in the right way. Now, we've got to go out and do it.

Rick Simon

Really, it's getting to a point where it's really serious now.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Thomas Pickering

We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course.

Mae West

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

John Stuart Mill

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

Katie Murphy

That was our plan, to just get her tired out, and slow her down by the end of the game.

Ricky Henderson

I think it was just a slow start. It was pretty disappointing. We've got a lot of things to work on, but I think we'll do better. We'll be all right.

Mike Hill

I think it went really well. The word is slowly spreading. We're starting to get more people.

Stacy Stewart

The only thing that could slow this down is itself.

Nicole Strasko

I got off to a slow start thinking about the game. I'm a freshman, and this was my first tournament game, and with it in the new gym, I wanted to do really good.

Christopher Traulsen

If it's a trend, it's going to be slow moving.

Frank Middleton

He taught me a lesson, ... Never slow down.

Flip Saunders

We were a half-second slow and they were throwing it up there.

Dave Wannstedt

We've got to find a way out of it, ... We started slow and that's where we are right now.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

Bebe Neuwirth

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

Bebe Neuwirth

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

Beck

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

Beck

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

Beck

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

Beck

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

Beck

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

Beck

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.