Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kraft

We now have 32 owners, and everyone has their own agenda. We have to be careful that we keep a sense of tradition balanced with ... adaptation to the times we're in.

Thomas Kilroy

I think a good adaptation should send you back to the original.

Robert Gary

It has been a very exciting first year really working with the women's program. I have been impressed with their competitiveness and their adaptation to the training. They are rounding into shape just as we enter the championship season and I am excited to watch the program make a huge jump like the men's team did my first couple years coaching.

Dana Brunetti

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

Salman Rushdie

For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start.

Ronaldinho Ronaldinho

He would have to go through an adaptation period. We all have to when we come to Europe but he will get over it quickly and show his great ability,

Tim Flannery

We?re headed for 5.4 degrees over the next 100 years. Adaptation will be less likely.

Neil Marshall

I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.

Ellen Key

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

Patrick Surtain

regains the form he had a couple of years ago.

Brian Champion

Reese, he's always competing. He left some pitches up in the first couple innings and we made some blunders. ... But he stayed within himself and kept battling, kept competing.

Winston Justice

Our relationship is very, very close. He visited me a couple of times when I was suspended and he helped me through the whole process.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat, when he goes in there it's like he's been there the whole time. He managed the game well, made a couple of big plays.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Chauncey Billups

Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that I made it. I'm an All-Star. It's still a little surreal right now. It's something that I always wanted.

Steve Massey

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Harold Evensky

People have historically benefited from a couple of different types of immediate annuities.

David Aiello

Refrain from entering a profession where you are selling your time; as you will never receive fair value in return.

Ellen Siminoff

Part of our strategy is to become the premiere entertainment site on the Web.

Jeff Johnson

Sure, we'd like to make them all, or at least make more than we are. Nevertheless, we made some big ones when we needed to. We did a good job defensively and we were able to maintain a lead. When we still had a lead entering the second half, that gave us some confidence.

Edward Witten

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

John Hall

Some Linux people won't like that I'm saying this, but you won't find Linux running on a lot of larger enterprise networks, simply because of its limited processor scalability,

Chris Presson

Our product is good; our entertainment value at games is high. People go away having had a good time, whether we win or lose.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Leonard Susskind

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

Celia Chen

People who spent money on travel and luxury goods are spending more money entertaining themselves at home.

Ron Wilson

Patty played a great game. He was taking the puck to the net, and he was a force. I think he got excited when he saw he was going to be on the point on the power play.

Roger Taylor

Paul is not someone trying to be Freddie. He's someone trying to take this somewhere else... I'm very excited about working it all out.

Elizabeth Gabler

People have too many options for their entertainment, and we've got to work to get people excited about movie business.

Billy Boyd

People love the movies and they just get excited when they see someone from them, no matter who it is. It's always positive.

Dwayne Hickman

Suddenly I was on stage.Looking out into the sea of screaming excited teens, I thought for a fleeting moment that maybe I had been too hard on myself, maybe I was just as much a teen singing sensation as this slick Avalon fellow.

Jeff Fried

Steve's excited as can be. He's just excited to get there and perform.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on. ... It's a different experience for him. We're excited about having him go to a different school and getting a different perspective on learning.

Mohammed Ali

Some people are excited to take it. Others are refusing to touch it.

Royce Chadwick

Our players are very excited to play on TV so all their families can watch. We're down to late February and every game is of the utmost importance. It's nice to be home, and we have a lot of positive things in our favor. We're looking forward to a big crowd.

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.

Dan Corridon

Reconciliation is huge with us. It's a mantra.

Lee Raymond

Our numbers are huge because the scale of our industry is huge,

J. J. Johnson

Some people are doing it, but there haven't been huge numbers yet.

Bill Cleary

Our schedule was very tough this season and it's been a huge success largely because of the strength of our schedule.

Bryce Fisher

Rocky made a huge play, and the next thing you know, we've scored 14 points in (30) seconds. That's how you win in this league.

Miss Robinson

Representing Maryland agriculture, our state's No. 1 industry, has been a huge honor,

Matthew Henderson

I think the speaker's work, the governor's work and our work made huge headway.

Rob Wheeler

I think there is a huge need to get the word (out).

Alan Davidson

I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.

David Patterson

I'm impressed with one or two of the newcomers.

Janet Miller

I'm impressed with how well it's gone. It works very well as a different way of getting to MPs.

Drew Lewis

I'm impressed with how knowledgeable he is in not only football, but in life.

Jason Bradbury

Landon pitched well. They were struggling with his off-speed stuff and he kept them off balance, and I was impressed with that.

John McGinnis

I was really impressed with the questions that were asked.

Michael Pena

I was really impressed when I met Will the police motto, 'protect and serve', really means something to him,

Jack Warner

I was really impressed by Lindsay's race. It was hot, and for her to go out there with that time was great.

Jon Hampton

I was pretty impressed because Macon was one of the better teams we've played this season.

John Mooney

I was real impressed with Latrobe. They have a young team.

Matt Osborne

Parks was open, just sitting there. It was just a scramble and then just a little jump shot.

Kenny Williams

That could be part of the explanation, ... That maybe we did jump out there and then lose that edge.

Persian Proverb

Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Persian Proverbs

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Stan Heath

We need a big jump there. Our team should be a plus-five rebounding team.

Rick Thomas

I was a little nervous, because it's a big jump from the JV up to the varsity.

Matt Harpring

I was just getting some open shots. I was just taking the jump shot when I had it.

Nelson Chamisa

It is an unfortunate and surprising incident. We were surprised to be told to go back when we had not violated any immigration laws. We did not jump the border.

Herb Stratford

I think there is so much going on in this building, it's so beautiful, people don't really find them. They don't jump out.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Gennady Zyuganov

Our stance remains unchanged. (Chernomyrdin) doesn't even understand the program he has proposed.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Lou Holtz

I think that win really turned our program around,

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Lisa Williams

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.

Ken Buck

To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Benito Mussolini

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Randy Jepson

Our season was a real struggle all year long. Nothing went our way all year, but this weekend we didn't give up.

Keri Nichols

We've talked all season about free-throw shooting. We talk about shooting with confidence.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

David Dellucci

That was the worst part of the season that stands out.

Bobby Lamb

It had nothing to do with our season because we had an outstanding year.

John Butters

It has been a pretty strong season for earnings.

Dennis Dacus

Lisbon will be a 10-win team before the season is over.

Gary Sheffield

It doesn't matter. I look at it like this, the start of the season I'll do what I've always done. That's it.

Alan Trammel

I still think Carlos will play before the season is over.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Charles James

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Ben Kingsley

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

Alexis Arguello

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Thongchai Jaidee

Let's see how things take shape but I will try to do my best.

Whitey Ford

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

Bill Simmons

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

Bill Shankly

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Bill Shankly

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

B. J. Novak

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Bill Burr

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Connor Franta

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

Miguel Cabrera

I was thinking, 'Whoa,' ... I say to myself, 'I better watch out. I've got to be ready.'

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!