Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

Scott Bakula

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Jim Carter

One thing I feel sure of is that the standards CBS has set in the past will be maintained.

Andrew Tyndall

CBS News has already righted itself...It turns out they had all the talent they needed in house.

Leslie Moonves

CBS is very pleased to have forged this partnership with Mitsubishi that will give American television viewers their first sustained exposure to high-definition television, ... This agreement, which allows us to present the majority of our primetime lineup in the highest definition television format, represents the most significant step any network has taken in HDTV and further establishes CBS' leadership in the transition to digital broadcasting.

Brad Adgate

CBS is obviously dealing from a position of strength. They've already renewed 14 shows, which is more than half of their prime-time schedule.

Ed Martin

CBS is doing really well and looking like an extremely classy network. It doesn't want to thoroughly humiliate itself.

Paul Jackson

CBS has already picked up the format for this spring, and we're also spending a few hundred thousand dollars making our own broadcast-quality pilot of the all-new Catchphrase.

Tim Winter

CBS had no intention of abiding by the terms of its own consent decree after it aired 'Without a Trace,' which had generated outcry from thousands of families. CBS should comply with the consent decree it signed and, if it's true to its word, should ensure that all its employees who were involved in the re-airing of 'Without a Trace' are suspended.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Carlos Ghosn

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

Carlos Ghosn

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Jen Kirkman

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Michael Young

We have to get better. It comes down to every guy looking at themselves and seeing how we can get better, from veterans to rookies. There are no excuses. We have to find a way to get it done.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

David Tibbs

We have so many weapons we don't have enough footballs. But the thing I was proud of is that we weren't selfish.

Mike Roberts

We were as proud as we could be with the young man.

Alan Sugar

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

David Krumholtz

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Jason Bay

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Charles Baudelaire

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Vickie Simmons

We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.

Justin Glover

We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.

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.

Cass Elliot

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

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.

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.

Mark Polansky

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

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Matt Hasselbeck

He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less.

Carol Mann

[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

Carol Mann

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

Carl Everett

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Agnes Smedley

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Aaron Tveit

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Alan Thicke

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

Alan Thicke

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Alan Shepard

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Bruce Bochy

We have to get on track with our pitching, and we think we will.

Vince Evans

When I wake up, I turn it on and keep track of Augustine through the night.

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

Bruce Catton

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

Ben Marcus

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

Brian Tracy

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Prince Royce

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Timothy Simons

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

David Pogue

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.

John Roos

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

Norman Lear

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

Robert Fitzgerald

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.