Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Hudak

We've always wanted to try to figure out ways to improve our attendance. There's no doubt it's a great advantage if you can have a lot of people in the stands cheering for you and cheering against your opponents.

Graeme Smith

We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

Jim Hendry

We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.

Katie McMahon

We've always competed against D-I teams in our division. Now we're playing big name East Coast schools and we're getting more recognition. However, the team is not eligible for the playoffs for another two years.

Dave Klingel

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

Greg Harrison

When we went in there, they really started blitzing everybody. They saw Morelli as an inexperienced, second-string quarterback and they brought the house against us. But as a whole, I thought we picked it up well. We had a couple, little miscues, but nothing that can't be corrected.

Harri Holkeri

When I was involved in Finnish domestic problems, I used to bring people together and make them work together instead of fighting against each other.

John Goodman

When I was in high school playing against those guys I really didn't feel friendly towards them at all. I tried to make myself think I hated Unionville at the time, and there was definitely a lot of trash talking. You run into those guys all the time. It's pretty important to have those bragging rights so you can walk with your head a little higher. But now that I'm out of school and you see those guys there's no hate there. I have a lot of respect for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Kathryn Hulme

Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an esplanade where stretcher cases lay side by side, end to end, waiting for a priest to come with a monstrance that gathered sun to its gold and blazed in the sign of the cross above the stretchers.

Ron Brownstein

So he's got an environment in which you don't really have a bonfire burning, a grassroots demand for tax cuts, ... He's going to have to go out and make that case because otherwise Democrats are going to be able to go out and say, 'Look, this will endanger programs that you care about.'

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

Pippa Middleton

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.

Daniel Handler

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Terence McKenna

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Charles Baudelaire

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Charles Scott Sherrington

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

Charles Horton Cooley

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

Camille Paglia

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Benjamin Walker

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Brad McClellan

We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough.

Jaimie Ross

We're flush with revenue and there's no economic crisis. I can't imagine their excuse for not fully funding these programs this year.

Ray LaCroix

We're not a great free-throw shooting team. But there was no excuse today.

Hollie Woodard

We want the program to get better and better and better. We don't want to have any excuses anymore as to why Council Rock isn't what it used to be.

Charlie Munger

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

Charles Schumer

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

Charles J. Givens

Make choices-not excuses.

Craig MacTavish

The perfect guest again. I wondered why they're going to pick us to retire Al MacInnis' jersey. There's no excuse for not having everybody ready to play and we end up being the perfect guest for what ends up being a crucial game for us.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Lori Allen

We believe that the star clusters lighting up the tips of the pillars are essentially the offspring of the region's single, massive star.

Cat Deeley

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

Elliott Erwitt

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.

Erich Bergen

I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the '80s and started putting on 'shows' in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me... but it was just a couch.

M. Hardman

One of the first things we will do is offer our downtown lights to be sponsored by people. Marilyn Mathews will be heading that up. We will get that information out later. Hopefully next spring Charlie Hartley will be successful with her bridge lighting grant.

Kathleen Kennedy

I would prefer creating lighting districts before turning the lights off,

Richard Wood

If we have any intelligence on people who may be lighting fires we pass that on to police. We leave the day-to-day monitoring to the police.

Christopher Masterson

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

Anna Olson

When we went to the representatives and the governor, there was understanding, but there just wasn't the appetite there for it to happen this year. We listened to that and pulled back from that arena.

John Bell

When I was mixing the album I was just cheering it on, ... I was actually getting to put myself in a position of observation of listening to the band, watching it, experiencing it probably closer to a fan thing than I've ever had the ability to do, or that I've ever let myself do. And I was just like, yeah, George is getting it on. And that's what you want for anybody's performance.

Chris Cornell

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

Norman Blake

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice, ... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.'

Georgie Fame

When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American Forces Network.

Omar Sy

When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

Robin Pemberton

We respect all of our competitors and listen to them. ...They're out there. They're our only feedback. We know what bump drafting does, we don't know how rough it is until the drivers actually come in and complain about it.

Kent Beck

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

Kay Robertson

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

Dave Klingel

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

Dianne Nolan

We remember Alex and his family in our prayers. We have cards going out to the members of the pep band and our team wants to do something as a tribute to Alex in his remembrance.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Gene Hall

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

Keegan Bradley

People look at me weird because I'm a Howard Stern fan, but he's very misunderstood. It's the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament - just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.

Tenzin Dhonden

When we are turning the prayer wheel, we are requesting (Buddha) to send more healing light to change the energy on the planet.

Kyle Johnson

We found out at a team meeting in the morning. Our prayers are going out to him and his family. We just wish for everything to go smoothly, and that he'll be safe and be well.

Howard Safir

We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial,

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

John Banville

What a little vessel of sadness we are, sailing in this muffled silence through the autumn dark.

Michael Winter

We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Chester W. Nimitz

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Charles Buxton

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

David Barnes

We believe that NZL 60 is still the fastest America's Cup Class boat in the world at the moment and so it is a great opportunity for us to sail against them in our ex-Nippon boats,

Eddie Izzard

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. - I claim India for Britain!They go, - You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!- Do you have a flag?- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.

William Shakespeare

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

Source Unknown

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

Nicole Miller

When I was on my honeymoon, I lost use of my right arm and right leg, and that's when we knew something was wrong. I was not totally paralyzed, but there was loss of sensation and feeling. The doctor on the ship could feel that my right side was weaker. They told me something was going on, but that it was not a medical emergency and that it didn't matter if I went off the boat that day or in four days.

Wendell Brown

We're going to ship them to a Nazarene church in Mobile, Alabama. There are several evacuees heading to Mobile, and we're providing some support when they get there.

Randy Reid

We're going to see the cost of everything go up, just to get basic supplies here, shipping costs will go up, ... We'll have to deal with that as we go, we just have so much money to spend, it's always a challenge. ... Budgets are just a projection and it's so volatile, it's just hard to plan. If things rise in one area, we'll just have to make up with it in another.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Brad Wilson

What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.

Barney Ross

When we came back into Pearl it was pitch dark, and we could see the fires from the Arizona and the other ships still burning in the harbor.

Jim Steinberg

When we finish collecting, we have to sort, box, shrink-wrap and ship them more than 1,500 miles to Louisiana.

Mitchell Baker

When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.

Kanwar Chadha

We found that mobile phones and some other devices that were shipping with our GPS chips also had Bluetooth, and it made sense to provide a lower cost, lower power, and size-optimized alternative to having two separate systems.

Ken Warwick

We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Joan Berry

We've asked for a meeting with the sheriff numerous times, and he never has any time or even the courtesy to return my phone calls. This is very upsetting to me.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Brian Cashman

We've always considered Roger a Yankee. If he decides to play, he'll give us the courtesy of an audience. We'll have to take a look at it when the time comes.

Brian Finnerty

When we were down this morning, I was worried about some bargain hunting and window dressing coming in; but it certainly did.

Omar Sy

When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

Dan Hawkins

You don't like playing against your friends because someone's going to wind up (losing),

Gary Bongiovanni

Tom Petty kept his price very low compared to his contemporaries. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire did, too, when they paired up for a tour, and it was very successful.

Scott Handy

We're more balanced than a Microsoft solution provider, who pretty much promotes Windows as the answer no matter what the question is.

Chris Liddell

We remain confident in our growth prospects and have an exciting product line-up, which includes major releases like Xbox 360, SQL Server 2005, Office 12 and Windows Vista.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Ned Rifkin

What they were trying to do was to invent a new visual language for the 20th century. And what they did was they took the Renaissance window -- one point perspective illusion -- and it's as if they took a piece of glass over this painting and shattered it, creating all these fragments and planes. And then took those planes together and reassembled it.

Mike Adkins

When we finally get all the numbers posted and even in the next day or two when any mistakes are corrected and adjustments are made, I think it'll wind up being double that.