Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Dennis Kelly

Our members last got a raise when Willie Brown was the mayor of San Francisco and Gray Davis was the governor of this state. The district, we believe, can do better.

Richard Spies

Some of the things the University was able to do earlier in Simmons' term created a buzz that said, 'Wow, that is bold, that is aggressive.' The fact that we have been able to keep it up ... shows that Brown is a force to be reckoned with.

Dean Duerst

Our game plan was specifically for Marisa Brown (Evanston Ill.) to take care of Tiff Weimer. Obviously she is a very special player and Marisa did a fantastic job.

Karen Benzel

Our beloved, endangered brown pelicans have a never-ending struggle to survive. Pelicans have been my inspiration. I've wanted to retire, but I can't I promised them I'd help them. They have had such a hard life, and they still do.

Mike Lewis

Physically, he resembles him a little bit, at least a slight resemblance, the shape of his face, the brown hair. Journalistically, he's kind of followed in Jennings' footsteps, as far as he's done a lot of foreign reporting. He was embedded with the Marines in Iraq. Bosnia, Afghanistan. Pakistan. ... He's not a lightweight.

Diantha Harris

Red gives one energy, so the combination of the red and brown in this dress is giving Sarah the energy to keep her busy schedule. It's also nurturing and supporting, so she doesn't get off balance. While we could say that it is a color we don't normally find young celebrities wearing, it could be a very wise and wonderful choice for a young woman in a crazy business who is looking to be centered and secure.

Carol Brown

I'm here today to get chocolate chips and brown sugar, I decided to make cookies and brownies.

Steve Alford

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament. I thought the job he did on Brown was outstanding. What he did (against the Gophers) was no less than incredible.

Ed Heintschel

Kyle Brown was darn near impossible to guard.

Tom Kelley

Pat Bledsoe wrestled well. He wrestled a pretty controlled match. Four or five different times, he was in on a single leg, and we covered each time.

Dave Dagostino

Statistically, we had a good first half, but Rebecca Haynes made so many plays in that half. She was involved with every single offensive play that we had and she single-handedly controlled the defensive glass.

Michael Shapiro

States are doing an excellent job in keeping the tires in a controlled management situation.

Jack Strong

We never quit playing. We controlled the play in the second half, we just couldn't finish.

Fred Hogan

I think they all played pretty well tonight, but my two girls in the middle really rebounded well. Hamilton really played well and controlled the pace of the game for us.

Chris Simcox

It is being very tightly controlled this time because the opposition has blatantly said that they are going to direct violence at our volunteers,

Phil Jackson

Kobe played a game in which he really controlled the offense from his position. He really doesn't play guard very often. We had people open because he got double-teamed. In the first half, Cook hit his shots.

Scott Smith

That was a very workmanlike performance. He never let up. It was really solid technique. He controlled the pace of the match and all positions.

Dave Carlile

That's Trevor 'The Waterfall' Hall. He's the full package. He's the full meal deal. ... It may look like he's in trouble, but he's actually in controlled position.

Jim Bauer

That was before the three-point line. He was a tremendous jumper for his height. He could dunk a volleyball. He was a tremendous jump shooter and had a lot of great offensive performances.

Brian Randle

I think (Tim) Doyle tried to be smart one time and say I should punch my hand through some glass or something. Needless to say, when I got the dunk I said something back to him.

Jason Richardson

It felt good to finally get up and get the dunk in. That's the most I've done since I got injured. I hope I don't feel it tomorrow.

Chase Budinger

I did hope to save myself for Monday and Wednesday. That's why I didn't do the dunk contest.

Darryl Dawkins

I can't dunk as often as I used to, but I promise to give you one.

Ross Albert

I don't think it's a slam dunk either way.

Bill Renner

He was very athletic. He could dunk a basketball. He was extremely fast for his size.

Jeff Ellis

When he hits a three, the whole team and our fans get going. That's like a dunk for us.

Darin Hazel

Obviously, the dunk was huge because of the crowd. That dunk set the tone for the night, especially out of a half-court set. After that, it was our game to lose. The kids did a tremendous job of finishing it out.

Ned Colletti

That was important, that he had a knack for winning and a knack for developing, that he knew the road it took.

Dom Capers

I think his quickness and speed. He's got a knack for rushing the passer.

Seth Greenberg

He is a winning player -- he's got a toughness about him that's unique. He has a knack for making other people better. I don't know where we'd be without him.

Ray Depwe

He had a knack of knowing what to do.

Gary Dunn

She has always had a real knack for this stuff. She has training in something and she can make a living at it.

Jill DeVries

She has a knack to getting to the basket.

Brandon Lee

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell

George Lloyd

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

Steve Forbert

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Amy Bloom

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Dave Roberts

With everything he has been through this year, for Sean to rise to the occasion like that, it says a lot about his character.

John Tortorella

We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save.

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Robert Mitchell

I think it smells good, like rising bread, but some don't like it,

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Ludwig von Mises

Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Bonnie Raitt

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Isaac Singer

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Teri Barbera

Someone has to have seen something. We're hoping.

David Ross

Man, we were weeping, ... I've never seen so much destruction.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Warwick McKibbin

I think it's pretty much a continuation of what we've seen but probably a slightly different style.

Paul Cummings

I don't know what to say. I've never seen someone do this, either.

Drew Stafford

I don't know what to say about that, I've never seen that before.

Roger Clemens

I don't know that I've seen anything like it,

Blake Shelton

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'

Don Yaeger

Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.