Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cammi Granato

Please, ... don't indicate that I brought this up at all. ... Besides smiling about it, I haven't taken it further.

Maria Monk

Large quantities of bread are made in the Black Nunnery every week, for besides what is necessary to feed the nuns, many of the poor are supplied.

John Arnold

Last night we heard that someone got robbed right down the street, on Spottswood right down here. That's about all I've heard of, besides people walking around breaking into cars.

Gary Brunner

That was a heck of a performance by Ashley. Besides her great numbers she has also stepped up and taken a leadership role on this team despite being a sophomore.

Dave Schmotzer

That's baseball. Two more inches and he's the hero and everyone's jumping on him and telling him what a great player he is. We had other opportunities besides that one, though. It's a case of either you step up, or you step down.

Ike Hilliard

I think it's one of the reasons that the NFL is the most popular sport in the world, besides soccer,

James McKay

It gets them off the streets and gives them something to do besides sitting in front of the television.

Allen Iverson

I think that with this team, we honestly worry about other things besides team concepts.

Doc Rivers

It is nice when you are a scorer like Ricky and you can make a contribution in another way besides scoring. That first quarter might have been the worst defense we played all season, but they turned it around with the way (Davis and Pierce) played in the fourth quarter.

Markus Persson

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

Regina Rogers

It gets boring a lot of times. When I'm in the game, it's not as boring.

Bob Johnson

It had to have been one of the most boring games in the world.

George Carlin

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)

Jon Phillips

I could sit around all day picking stocks I know would return 10% to 15% per year, but that's boring and not very profitable. Finding undervalued or 'forgotten' companies is what makes investing fun.

Mitch Corwin

Grocery stores have historically been fairly boring and not a fun place to shop, but now Whole Foods turned that image on its side.

M. J. Rose

If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Marcus Martial

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Rich Irr

Rebounding is all about will. At halftime, I challenged our kids' will.

Curt Fredrickson

Regis has an outstanding three-point shooting team. It will be a real challenge for us to get out to that three-point line and guard their shooters.

Steve Sampson

Our players have had the challenge of, like every other club in the country, to meet the physical challenges of travel and on many occasions, Saturday-Wednesday-Saturday games,

John Schafer

Parking can be a challenge downtown, so we thought why not encourage mass-transit use.

Maribeth Smith

Parking also promises to be a challenge downtown and chances are you'll spend more than $5 a pop.

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Terry Hoeppner

Payton is a guy with great potential. He'll challenge for a spot. He'll give us that quality depth, at least.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Bill Hawkey

Patrick and I are feeling very good about this team. We saw some promising things in our first two scrimmages.

Eric Love

People need to speak out about their feelings to those of us who are in denial,

Scott Kahan

People may have a better feeling psychologically than they did at the end of the year. They're a little more comfortable. So this is a good time to do a self-assessment.

David Cline

People looking for a private retreat with a lot of land, seclusion and a feeling of living 100 years ago.

Simon Schoch

Our preparations have been perfect and right now we're feeling really confident.

Robert Kreps

Our team has really been talking about this game. I think everyone was in the zone tonight, and I was really feeling it.

Alex Rodriguez

Our state of mind right now is that we're feeling good about where we are going. We're playing with a lot of urgency right now. We're playing with a lot of grit.

Dan Marsala

Our first record wasn't really . . . I don't know . . . us. I mean . . . it had no feeling at all. People still loved the record, and that's awesome. But we didn't want to do that again. We wanted to sound like a real band.

Erik Palladino

Our feelings politically about war have stayed the same. We have a general code, we don't really talk about it.

Scott Ostler

Play it straight, come out with the simple truth: He was abducted by space aliens, taken aboard their flying saucer and subjected to various probes.

Kyle Williams

We need something normal. Helicopters flying over the stadium is not normal.

Samantha Perez

I was able to fly in a plane for the first time and see a snow flurry.

Robbie Grinestaff

I was just trying to hit it hard somewhere. I know they wanted a fly ball, but once I got two strikes on me I just wanted to put it in play.

Ken Hamlin

I was just pumped up. Guys were making plays. You could tell guys were flying around and really trying to get it done.

Scott Brison

I think there's too much testosterone flying around that caucus,

Kenji Johjima

That was the one situation we didn't want to see. I went to the mound because Jarrod was flying open and his pitches were sailing.

Wayne Gandy

Like I tell everybody, ... if you have to get on a plane and fly anywhere, you're not at home.

David Howell

It doesn't worry me that I fly under the radar over here,

Michael Long

Part of this process is looking at the older kids and giving them an opportunity to see what is actually needed to succeed in the AFL.

Marty Schottenheimer

Our offensive line is not giving him a lot of space.

Steve King

Our misdirection stuff was working well, ... We still want to be want to be balanced, but you have to take what they're giving you, too.

Dan Moore

People lead by giving. Giving is power for communities and individuals.

Jim Timon

People just love to be immersed in a frightening Halloween experience. They love giving up that control.

Michele Johnson

Steve-O and Jackie were very loving, very giving people.

Howie Dickenman

Steadiness. Lenny's not going to make a lot of mistakes. And he can hit shots and play defense. He's giving us a lift.

Jeri Porter

Stephens has stepped up and done a real nice job giving us a really good low-post presence.

Tanis Ybarra

Some of these organizers are green. And when I say green, I mean totally green. We're giving them a class. Organizing 101. By the seat of the pants and the grace of God.

David Akers

I'm honestly proudest of this kick today. I can honestly say that.

David Akers

I'm honestly most proud of that kick today.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

Susan Glisson

I think they offer a model for the rest of us on being inclusive and honestly appraising the past.

Pat Hill

I think it's very important for my team to know that as a young man I was influenced so much by Ron McBride, ... Players are a mirror of their coach. I can honestly say I tried to mirror his personality.

Ron Howard

I think people relate to the story for personal reasons. Some are interested in the mystery, some are interested in the spirituality and some are interested in the locations. I honestly think that a lot of people get a lot of different things out of it.

Larry Brown

I don't know when I will be back. Hopefully it'll be sooner than later, but I honestly don't know.

Melody Strong

I can honestly say that there was no nurturing at all. I mean, we were fed. We were well clothed. The neglect was love. I can never ever remember being told 'I love you' as a little kid. I have no memories of sitting on my parents' lap, snuggling. I have no memories of my mother ever reading to me. I don't remember ever, ever being hugged.

Tom Turner

I can honestly say that's not the case.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Shlomo Yosef

Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Keith Schwer

Someone might find low taxes agreeable, but not the way tax revenues are spent, such as on education.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Mike Showalter

Our strength is down low in the post. I like to pound it inside. When we do that it opens it up for our guards. And our guards, when they take it in the lane, are awfully tough to defend.

Kim Zimmerman

Overall, I was very satisfied with our team score today. The one thing that surprised me was how low the team scores were today. It was virtually the first time out for many of the girls, especially playing 18 holes. Some have played nine holes.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Mitch Kapor

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Eddie Jordan

That was our low point of the season.

Kunihiro Hatae

People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.

John Tortorella

Our power play (stinks). We moved the puck, but we didn't produce.

Patti Smith

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.

Jean Reno

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

Tom Ridge

I think they moved as quickly as they could,

Andrew Heyward

That's totally ridiculous, ... I would say on a scale of 1 to 100 that had zero to do with it. The organization has moved on.

Fidel Castro

I think that it has moved the world. It's something extraordinary, something historic.

Eddie Davis

I was very upset. They pulled it Saturday. I thought I was going to USF. But they said that since I moved on they were moving on.

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.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Lee H. Hamilton

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

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Nayef Rajoub

Our relations have always been excellent. If we don't see each other in person, then we are speaking on the phone every day.

Beck

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

Karen Stewart

I was just so delighted, I called her right on the phone right away and said, 'We got it! We got it!' .

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Charlayne Woodard

I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

Kevin Garnett

Good; I can talk some (trash) to him. That's probably the reason he's not returning my phone calls. It makes a lot of sense.

Bobby Bowden

I get to sleep. The phone doesn't ring ... If I have a two-hour flight, I get to sleep for an hour-and-a-half.

Paul Jacobs

We may see WCDMA phones at those price points, between $100 and $120, toward the end of this year.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Dan McTeague

I think they were better prepared for this.

Marc Shapiro

I wish I could tell you, ... We're cooperating with all investigations, and we're prepared to do that as long as it takes.

Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

Jane McGonigal

I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Seth Greenberg

I don't think anything in my training has prepared me for this season. I'm not sure there's ever been another season like this. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Juan Montoya

I feel well prepared for the long season ahead. But as always there is a lot of work still to be done.

Dirk Bogarde

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Kenneth Brown

This protects students' privacy rights as well as professors.

Eduardo Saverin

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Billy Graham

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

Daniel Craig

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Cory Doctorow

Like all security, privacy is hard.

Anna Eshoo

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

Bob Dylan

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Barry Lopez

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Robert Dunn

We now know, he didn't have anything to do with the device. He didn't have anything to do with the attack. So what does that say about the quality of whatever the polygrapher was doing?.

Bill Crawford

Love will keep us safe when we commit to choosing the kind of qualities, characteristics, and relationships that we would recommend to someone we love.

Carrie Fisher

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Arsene Wenger

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Igor Shpilband

I think they just ran out of steam. I think they have the same quality of skating that the Russians do, and that it's totally comparable, but they just made some mistakes.

Bill Burr

When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.

David Waller

That would have been a water quality nightmare.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool...

Allard Baird

It is all quiet there. There's nothing new, right now.

Michael Manning

He said he killed a woman. He told us to be quiet because we will get into trouble too,

Plaxico Burress

He's kind of got a little quiet 'Eli swagger' about him. You can actually sense that he's being more vocal and he understands that it's his team.

Gary Thompson

He was a better shooter than anything. He was a quiet leader. He did it with his actions, and the respect he had for his teammates.

Cindy Miller

He was a quiet guy, but not in a weird way. Just quiet.

Harry Pachon

He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.

Carla Bruni

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Michelle Duffey

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Peter Tibbett

He wasn't on our anti-virus radar until Thursday. That suggests to us he probably didn't write viruses until now.

Avery Johnson

We're on the radar now. There is no hiding.

Warren Rudman

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Buzz Aldrin

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

Ron Campbell

We wanted to get it on people's radar screens, and everyone we've talked to said it has merit.

Buddy Rice

I've always been under the radar.

Matt Kohn

We've always been under the radar. Now we are on the radar (but) we still don't get any respect.

Larry Coker

When you're under the radar a bit, ... you just go about your work.

Susan Levy

Hillsborough has been on our radar for a while.

Floyd Abrams

Reporters should keep their word to their sources.

Robert Redford

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Jay Gibbons

We see reporters that we have never seen before,

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

Tim Russert

Hey, do you know that all the reporters know that Mr. Wilson's wife works at the CIA?

Jan Johnson

The sports reporters got everything all worked up.

Alex North

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

David Hallberg

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

John Mellencamp

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Bill Cowher

Some of those games, when we took Jerome out, (Haynes) wasn't too bad.

Michael Cohen

That completely took away the bogeyman of privatization.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Jerry Sloan

That was pretty big for us. It took away their momentum.

Natalie Cole

I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Marcus Williams

I think he took that out on them.

Ashley Martin

I think he took that hard, but I don't think it had anything to do with this.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

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!