Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Sue Cischke

Some of the challenges include designing a system that is most of all accurate, not easily disabled or avoided, is easy to use and does not create driver-distraction issues.

Frank Robinson

Some guys, they get down on themselves and wonder 'Why? But other guys, it challenges them: 'Well, I'm not going to let someone come in and take my job. I'll show them that I'm a better player.' I think that's the way he should react and that's the way he will react, because really the job is there for him to lose.

Harold Lewis

Our stadium is the most used natural turf stadium in the U.S.. Given the challenges, he's done a great job.

Gregg Semanick

Our volunteers are the heart of the program. Many have been helping for years. They enjoy the challenges of tax preparation and they're dedicated to helping in their communities.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

Duane Ackerman

Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.

William Bird

It is a positive move. It is always a much better idea to have a public broadcaster that is less dependent on advertising.

Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

Jody Conradt

I think that is pure speculation if we would have won with Tiffany in the game. But I do know that we are very dependent on her energy.

Andy Kennedy

I think he's exceeded expectations when you look at what he's done. But it's unfair that we've had to be so dependent upon him. When he plays well, we're a tough out. When he does not play well, which happens as a freshman, we struggle.

Ron Goforth

I do not want this thing to become dependent on me. I want it to be self-sustaining. Really, for this to be a grass-roots effort, some people need to pick it up and run with it.

Gerry Harvey

Kids go to school; we develop them at school. We develop them later on in the workplace so that we get better quality individuals, so that we get less people that are dependent or get into problems.

Mark Rowen

Basically, (GM) is dependent on the new truck launch and whether it's accepted,

Cartier Martin

I think it's dependent on that and going to the Big 12 Tournament. We are fighting for a lot right now. We're looking to make something out of it.

Austin Perez

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers for their food security, and farmers and ranchers are even more dependent on hired labor.

Henk Potts

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover. Two thirds of its profit is in Asia, and it provides a good gateway into fast-growing economies.

Dave Trembley

Overall, getting out of the gate with good starting pitching like we've gotten ... we've seen some really good performances out of some people.

Ed Sherman

I was a little disappointed that it didn't have a gate in the lifelines as we tried to get aboard in four-foot seas. It would've been helpful.

Chris Chelios

I think it's really important for the guys to realize how important it is to get out to a great start. We've got to come out of the gate ready.

Toby Dawson

I was wrong, I was so wrong. I was in the starting gate for my first run and just about threw up I was so nervous.

Lucas Glover

I tee off when the gates open, so nobody (will be there). It should be good.

Scott Chasin

I think Gates had a very optimistic view of the world.

Alberto Tomba

Giorgio tried to push away from the gates during the race as I suggested to him. But unfortunately he was wrong. He made a mistake. It shouldn't have happened.

Emma Lazarus

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/ A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name/ Mother of exiles.

Fuzzy Zoeller

Steve Alford (present Iowa coach). He played there and I think he wants the job.

Bill Bryson

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Ashton Kutcher

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

Bill Bryson

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

Tom Izzo

I thought Iowa played very solid. In the second half, they played much better defensively.

Joe Trippi

Look, we haven't won Iowa or New Hampshire, a vote hasn't been cast,

Terry Brands

To Tom, the Iowa job means something he's been working for his whole life.

Terry Branstad

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

Conan O'Brien

Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding.

Phil Ramon

Some of them will need some major (repair).

Joe Jenkins

That day, there was nothing major going on,

Harley Dale

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Shizuka Arakawa

I was a little nervous today, but there was not any major mistake tonight. It was ok.

Silvan Shalom

I think there was a very major breakthrough today in the relations between us and Pakistan,

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

John Pomfret

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

Brandon Roy

I think he made up for the Stanford game.

Alan Kay

I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

Greg Kraft

We feel like Stanford will be the team to beat. We would really like to take them down.

Ken Auletta

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

Steve Jobs

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.