Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivette Mendez

Reforms are clearly overdue and we believe an independent monitor along with the federal investigation are the catalysts to provide them.

Bill Cline

Records are made to be broken. My hats off to them...somebody will probably come along and break theirs.

Lynn Franco

Recent turmoil on Wall Street and in worldwide financial markets, along with continuing layoff announcements, have not dampened consumer confidence,

Greg Knapp

Really, when all is over and done with, people will judge a quarterback by wins and losses. That's the best criteria you can have. Sure, we want him to improve his completion percentage. We'd like for him to complete every pass he throws, but you have to be realistic. This offense develops, for many young players, from the inside out. We're moving along at just the right pace.

O. J. Simpson

Reggie, Michael and J.D. are coming along well. I'm really proud of how the three of them look thus far in the season. The other ones are learning. Most of the other ones, this is their first year, but they've got good basics and good mechanics, so I think we'll improve as the season goes.

John Browning

Our recent experience, particularly with solar, has given us the expertise and confidence to develop new products and markets alongside our mainstream business,

Eric Lindquist

Patients breathe. If you've got a lung tumor, the patient's going to move, so the tumor is going to move. You have to have an intelligent robot capable of moving along with the target. So this robotic system really expands radiosurgery for use throughout the body.

David Pepper

Part of getting along well is ... to put what was a good race behind us. We're going to work closely together. To move the region forward, you need a county commission that can really work closely together. Frankly, before the race, Mark and I always had a good relationship and we have a good relationship now.

Jeff Halpern

Part of what we're trying to do is get pucks to the net and outwork teams along the boards, something we'd like to build on. But now pucks are just going to the net. Some of the time when we're getting a lot of those chances we're trying to get second and third opportunities. It's really just getting the bounces.

DeLoss Dodds

Regardless, we are proud of our student-athletes, coaches and support staff who have worked at meeting the standards, but we are not satisfied with some of our numbers.

Judy Samaha

People know what I would do if that ever happened here. I have a frank conversation with my coaches about matters of sexual harassment. They know where I stand.

Larry Conley

Sure, there were times when I hated the man but like all great coaches he was a great teacher. He would settle for nothing less than our very best. That's what a coach should do.

Matt Hasselbeck

Some of those people are former players here. Some are coaches that have been around or people in the building. Or maybe it's just some of the people from Seattle who have followed the team since 1976. It would mean a great deal to them.

Mike Cox

Some kids are really good students in high school, but go where they like the coaches better, or like the facilities better. That's the trick question with the whole thing. What is that particular kid interested in? And what you find out, that's what you emphasize on that visit.

Kevin White

Our team has probably been the most resilient team in the history of college basketball. They've competed every night -- the players and coaches deserve the credit for that.

Shaun Heshka

Our team excels in the playoffs. A lot of it has to do with preparation; the coaches put in countless hours in on video. And then it comes down to detail and discipline.

Tim Curley

Our focus is 100 percent on this season ... I hope he coaches for a long time.

Herb Kohl

Our goal is obviously to get to the playoffs, but I hope we'll be more than that. I hope we get to the playoffs with a good seed, and we can win a round, maybe two rounds. In my mind, we're not a team that will be satisfied to be 41-41 or 40-42. We can do better. I think the guys feel that way, and I know the coaches feel that way.

Mahmoud Abbas

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Alice Morse Earle

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

George Howard

We're returning this river to its colonial days.

Sara Sheridan

The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?

Hal McManus

We couldn't hit that little 7- or 8-foot shot for anything. We've played down here twice and have had probably our two worst shooting percentages here at the Colonial Center.

Gore Vidal

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Samora Machel

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Anthony Burgess

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Calvin Trillin

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

Alan Curbishley

Our recent record in the League Cup is appalling.

Kevin Quinn

Our first team goal was to get an opportunity to get to (the Penguins Cup game). Now that we've won it, obviously our road doesn't end until we win our last game and that's the state championship.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Our World Cup preparations are firming up but the door remains open for interesting candidates.

Paul Ince

Rio can play that holding midfield position for England - the kid is good enough to do it. Sven should be looking at Rio to do that in the World Cup because I think he is awesome. He can play centre-half, right-back, anywhere.

Jonny Wilkinson

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Carl Edwards

Maybe if we can get us a win this weekend, we can get on the roll we need in the Cup Series, too.

David Small

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

Jacqui Cooper

I want to win another world championship and another globe (world cup title).

Sigi Schmid

I want to those three guys not to be fringe national team players, but national team players as the team prepares for the World Cup in 2010.

Saurav Ganguly

Our record in finals is an issue we're trying to forget about and tomorrow is a new start,

Chuck Michaelson

Our focus is to have success as a team. They love to see their teammates get in the finals just as much as themselves.

Anju George

I will look to make it to the finals first and will not go full pelt in the qualifying jumps.

Gordon Tietjens

I think they thought they just had to go out, put some points on and play the finals later on. You'd have to feel for Japan, they made all the play.

Mike Polz

It doesn't get any better than to have five guys in the finals and one of them your son while your other son is also down here. We're very fortunate since things have gone very well for us. They're great kids and they've wrestled hard.

Darin Dollemore

Junior had a great day making it into the regional finals ... that was big.

Mark Fox

He can't work out or communicate with them until the finals are over. Only I can set that up right now.

Jade Gribble

He is taking up some new styles. I just showed him a new offensive shot and he had three takedowns in the finals with it for six points.

Fred Russell

I hated finals week. Finals week was 24-7 quiet hours, which meant no serious guitar playing for a week.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Michael Fields

Our offensive line is a senior-oriented group that is jelling. They do a heck of a job working together and making adjustments.

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Doug Adams

People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

D.J. Owens

Our team is a mixed group of scorers in that on any night six or seven different guys can explode. Tonight was my night, but I'm sure in the next game, it will be someone else. We're going to spread the love around.

Darci Lewis

Our starting group really stepped up tonight. They're such an unselfish team.

Brian Smith

Our first match in the group could not be more difficult,

Dirk Koetter

Other than the running back, a lot of those are just names on a paper.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

Becca Fitzpatrick

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

Azzedine Alaia

I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

B. R. Ambedkar

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

B. R. Ambedkar

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

B. B. King

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

Bill Simmons

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

Bill Cosby

What's your name again? That's right. I'm so glad you know your name.

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Steve Gibson

Our wines are doing quite well in national and international competitions.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

Bill Daly

We now have a national product we can sell in United States, ... When you're perceived as a regional sport, you can't sell national sponsorship agreements.

Edward Collins

We need a backstop of a national catastrophe fund,

Chris Bosh

I think it's (the national team selection) a little bigger.

Tanya Chaplin

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Curtis Sumpter

I think of it all the time. I think we could be national champions. But even with us not out there, I still think we can be.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Catriona Matthew

I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible,

Pat Toomey

Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then,

Peter Mandelson

If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Diana Wynne Jones

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

John Lennon

I would have turned round right then and walked away.

Marsha Sinetar

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Nate Robinson

The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

James Bailey

If it's still in the trial stage no.

Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

will.i.am

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

Peter Chan

We are not making a concert, this is not a stage musical,

A. Hodge

This stage has got a stinger in the tail.

Bill Burr

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

Bill Condon

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Carrie Brownstein

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Arsene Wenger

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Anton Corbijn

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Fran Maier

I think they could all be complementary and get together over time.

Joe Tiller

That was much more accommodating than us getting together with Utah,

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.