Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Glaser

We're not being critical. We certainly appreciated the good news and we appreciate what the governor is doing.

Trent Plaisted

Man, he's 7-foot-6. You don't really appreciate it until you see it in person.

Craig Marks

Like healthcare preparedness that preceded it, schools are one of the two 'magic bubbles' where we seem to think our children are somehow divinely protected when we put them on the bus each day. We have infrastructure that is in some cases over 100 years old, and built in a time, and in a manner, for the era when chewing gum was the major crime on campus. Today, we have to appreciate that natural disasters are on the rise, as is crime, in and around school campuses.

Mike Tice

Let's talk about Chicago. It's Friday. It's been a long week, very emotionally drained. I hope you can appreciate that.

Tim Allen

Lower-valued properties appreciate less quickly. Higher-valued properties appreciate more quickly. Someone with a $100,000 home benefits, but someone with a $1 million home benefits more.

Rose Mashigo

Love and appreciate me for me, not through set societal standards.

Rosalind Murray

Less than 10 years ago, Delray was home to several blues and jazz clubs. We thought since we have this brand-new venue, and jazz seems to be a musical voice in the city, we'd try to give the people who appreciate that sort of music a chance to celebrate that music at the library.

M. Wolfe

Many members of our community appreciate the diversity and quality of our offerings and support us by watching, pledging monetary support, donating used vehicles, and volunteering their time,

Steve Kaplan

Many of our cruisers are looking to take a last-minute vacation and appreciate the value available through our last-minute deals. We ensure that we offer high-value vacation options for all cruisers, from luxury travelers to bargain shoppers.

Jonny Gomes

Like I always tell people, I'm a baseball player, it's what I do,

Robert Fick

Like I always say, I'm just glad to be in the lineup, playing baseball.

Paul Archey

Major League Baseball is very interested in playing games in Europe. We're investigating possibilities in Europe where we may be able to play regular-season games as early as the 2007 season.

Bud Selig

Major League Baseball is fortunate to have a man of Jimmie Lee's experience, intellect and dedication already on board to handle such a complex and important position as the chief of our baseball operations. Over the years, he has demonstrated considerable skill in working through the labyrinth of our minor league system. I have great confidence that he will be an enormous success in this key position.

Gary Wadler

Major League Baseball can't put its head in the sand and do a sound-bite press conference and say everything's going to be fine. Everything's not fine.

Mark Snyder

Major League Baseball and Holiday Inn are going to hit a home run. I just had to say that.

Mike Butters

Lets put it this way. If this was baseball, our magic number would be six.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Higinio Velez

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Issa Rae

I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

Rick Perlstein

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.

John Hancock

We're not desperate, we just want to get our head count up to our control level. I'd like to hire about nine or 10, and I think that would move us into this winter and spring. We're basically hiring and training year- round.

Fred Smoot

Like Coach Tice told me, I can't get out there and try to jump back in and try to run and get where I was, ... I've got to step up the ladder. So basically I've just got to be smart right now instead of trying to be who I am.

Bill Brunson

Let's say that you decide to electronically file your tax return, but want a paper check issued, you're still cutting your time basically in half by electronically filing your tax return.

Melanie Boeglin

Losing this game, we basically know that we blew our chance for an at-large bid. We know that we have to come back here to win three games to go to the NCAA Tournament.

Garrett Hedlund

'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

Lou Piniella

Look, there are a lot of people who care about him and work with him, ... He has to be careful how he responds to the media. Basically you have to be careful. ... He wants to do well. He gets a little bewildered.

Magnus Scheving

'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

Dylan Penn

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

Bennett Miller

Capote was an enormously and dangerously ambitious, talented, conflicted guy who really concealed himself from the public. He was at once a very public figure and a very private figure. And this is a movie that sort of peels back the public mask and gets into the heart of darkness.

Bennett Miller

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

Dan Futterman

Capote had these dueling motivations for being involved with this guy. He genuinely was fascinated with (Perry Smith), but he also saw him as a ticket to writing this great book.

James Wolcott

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

JJ Abrams

I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.

Bennett Miller

It was the perfect gift for Perry, who saw himself, like Thoreau, as an outsider persecuted by society. It made him feel good about himself, which is just what Capote wanted.

Philip Hoffman

Somebody said the other day, at the end of the movie, you feel like Capote committed a crime, and that's exactly right. That's why the film works so well. You really have this sense that he's the one who committed the crime, and I think deep down inside, that's how he felt, too. That's something he could never come to terms with.

Isla Fisher

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.

Aaron Huey

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

Wayne Norris

Lenders are taking a deeper look into things ... maybe than they were eight months ago.

Emma Goldman

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Gary Smith

Last year we had a really exciting playoff experience so you would think that we would again. But we got unlucky in the middle of the season and we dug ourselves in too deep of a hole.

Zhai Kun

Lee's visit can be regarded as a tour for deeper political ties.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Robert Brady

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.

Rick Perlstein

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Jeffrey Mount

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jim Sturgess

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lou Marcoccio

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

Eli Khamarov

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

Jay Hood

None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred,

Randy Thompson

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Greg Biffle

I can't say what happened because we didn't have a failure all year.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Matt Birk

Like him or not, say what you want about him, but the guy makes plays. He said he was going to make up for last week, and go out and make some plays. He showed up today.

Clint Hurdle

Luis is having some difficulties getting anything going at the plate. He's not where he needs to be or where he can be offensively, yet. He's 0-for-7 off this guy lifetime. It's a manager's decision.

Dale Lennon

Mac Schneider went down with an injury. The first guy Tyler went against, if I remember right, was an All-American nose guard. Fortunately, we had the lead.

Pudge Rodriguez

(Leyland) is the manager we need. He's a guy I respect very much. We're going to play hard for him.

Frank Robinson

Let's see what has kept this guy where he's been, ... Is he a usable part for next year?

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Lynn Schusterman

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Kathy Stephens

I think people are just now realizing the magnitude of where we are.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Eric Rignot

What surprised us was the magnitude of the changes.

Joe Burke

We don't completely understand the rationale for the magnitude of the downgrade.

Jon Johnston

That's orders of magnitude more than what's at HP Archives, for sure.

Patrick Ho

I'm not surprised that there is a sell-off but I'm a little surprised at the magnitude of the sell-off.

Albert Schweitzer

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Democritus

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Meghan Steiner

I did everything I could for it. I was working out the whole time. I took calcium pills.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

John Enos

I got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.