Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Ferrari

I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

Robert Herrick

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast: Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Center placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?

Ragnar Frisch

A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.

Maunya Jacobs

Today was great. I felt really good and was proud of my teammates. They really pulled through today. We did what we needed to do and got what we wanted. But I still need to work on my beam routine, but everything else was OK.

Ami Pysh

We're really strong on beam and floor. We love starting or finishing on them. With beam, we kind of look at like we're getting the stress out of the way right away, and we can enjoy the rest of the meet.

Agnes Martin

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

Allen McDonald

The entire Klein Tools/Jim Beam team is really disappointed. It's such a shame because everyone has worked very, very hard to make this a great car and Dario was driving a fantastic race. I'm sure we would have had great pit stops like we did in Homestead and would have had a terrific result today.

Henry Harris

The engine would be in orbit, producing a beam of photons. The spacecraft would not have to carry that mass along.

Jack McDevitt

One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

Helen Clark

We prefer our champions to be humble and modest,

Mirko Slomka

We are not giving up on the Champions League. Our rivals will have their dips in form before the end of the season.

Andrew Nikiforuk

Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

Jim Carr

We're excited about the opportunities .... The local community has shown great interest in supporting NAIA student-athletes and the Champions of Character program so we are thrilled to showcase some of the top NAIA golfers in the country at a wonderful host facility.

Pancho Gonzales

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

Claudio Cacapa

We know the Champions League remains a very difficult competition. But given the make-up of the group, it's possible for Lyon to figure in the top two and qualify for the quarter-finals.

Joan Laporta

We have to work to try and win the league as soon as possible and concentrate on the Champions League. We want to reach the final in Paris and win it.

Rebecca MacKinnon

If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

Randall Kennedy

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

Ted Sundquist

We heard all the jokes. But we knew what we were getting. We knew Gerard would be revitalized, we knew Courtney would be dominant if healthy, and we knew Ebenezer and Michael were very underrated, hard working guys. This has worked out very well for us.

Sherri Coale

Without Ashley, I don't think Courtney would have done the things she did this year.

Shane Reid

I think playing without Courtney and Cedric in the Jay Tournament helped these guys realize they can play without them and when Cedric fouled out they were not worried.

J. J. Johnson

We were in it until they hit that little stretch where Courtney took over a little bit.

Jeff Ament

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'

Mike Beall

I think Courtney Wilson played her tough. She sat out some minutes in the first half. That helps when she gets in foul trouble. She can't score from the bench, I don't think. You never know with her.

Marianne Bretschneider

I think Courtney Owens, for never playing a tennis match a day in her life other than what she's played in practice, has done really well.

Lisa Dey

She's pitched well with Courtney (Wilkinson) out with an injury. Aubrey is the go-to pitcher, and we're going to go with her as long as we can.

Tim Walsh

He wore out, I think, at the end. The kid plays with so much heart. I thought Carlos and Armando, and we switched Courtney on him at the end, those kids really did a nice job making him work.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Dick Thornburgh

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Phil Ramon

We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Saina Nehwal

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Elsa Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Steve Graves

We need to toughen up a little bit. When we play a team that is physically better than we are, we have to play perfect football.

Ludwig von Mises

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Simon Cowell

You have the perfect voice for that kind of song. There's nothing more I can say.

Jimmy Lawler

We're not swinging the bat. I think at times we are too selective and waiting on the perfect pitch.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Judy Miller

My source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations relating to the Wilson-Plame matter,

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

John Lopez

We still are proud of who we are. But we're not the rah-rah school we were.

Nick Swisher

We battled to get in this spot, and we've got to feel proud about what we've accomplished, ... We just want to keep it going right now; we just need to keep riding that wave.

Philip Hoffman

We're at the party, mom. Be proud mom, because I'm proud of you.

Liz Darger

We could end the season right now and I'd be happy. I'm proud of this whole team.

Tommy Swanson

We had our chances. It was still a solid year for us, one we can look back on and be proud of.

Tom Renney

We were sloppy, but we didn't give up. I'm proud of that.

Shaun Alexander

We have a lot of things to be proud of. We took Seattle to a place it's never been before.

Chad Alan

We're very proud of where we come from.

Rick Hendrick

We're really proud of the team and the effort.