Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Horton

Regardless of what you all were told, when you basically tell somebody with six games left that they?re not going to be here next year, I think it?s pretty tough to finish the year out.

Donnie Wilson

Our rent has gone from $1,000 a month to $2,500. That's basically our whole budget.

Herb Sendek

Our rebounding was basically non-existent tonight, and I'm very disappointed in the way we played. Noel had it going and their entire team really played well, but we certainly helped their cause.

Craig Venter

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

Johannes Ullrich

Particularly over the last year, anti-virus (programs) have lost a lot of their effectiveness. They are basically no longer capable of keeping up with the proliferation of new viruses.

Gary Meyer

Partway through the process, we threw up a flare and said, 'We think we've made a mistake. We think we should design for 400 watts per square foot.' And we were basically laughed out of the room,

Ken Holland

Pavel and Hank are two young players who are very, very important to our franchise. In Hank's case, he's really coming into the prime of his career. I'm happy he made a long-term commitment; basically we bought ourselves one year of unrestricted free agency.

Ken Ford

Orange had one of the better programs in the state. One thing I remember was how he had an offensive and defensive system that basically was the same every year. The kids knew what to do. It was like playing a machine.

Cheryl Brom

People have been basically staying away from them. The citizens need to keep up the good work of letting the professionals handle it pesticide companies and us.

Sarah Brady

Our ultimate goal- total control of handguns in the United States- is going to take time... The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced... The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of handguns and all handgun ammunition- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors - totally illegal.

Michael Zolensky

We thought maybe the collectors wouldn't open properly, or maybe they would be covered with gunk from the spacecraft.

Paul Mellon

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

Jim Holt

Those are the same sandbags our garbage collectors will probably be picking up this week.

Ronnie Wood

I'm thrilled to be in South Florida for our tour and to open the first gallery exhibit this year. It's a great turn-out and I look forward to speaking with the collectors who have shown me such great support over the years.

Clive Cussler

Ever since Pitt was wearing one, collectors were dumbfounded; they were saying that it wasn't an expensive watch, what's all the fuss about. I understand the prices have been driven up since then; people are even paying $1000 for them. I've met people that tell me that they spent two years looking for one.

Christopher Burge

The results reflect a strong, solid and successful market - there were some very high prices but participating collectors remain focused and controlled.

Hanno Langenhoven

Theologians are collectors and tellers of tales; the better the theologian, the better the stories

Richard Pearson

Collectors purchase these and they are used for target practice.

Jack Billion

States with a life only policy do fairly well economically.

Gerald Massey

Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses.

James Peterson

Out of all those variables that people talk about, you can really narrow that down to a fairly small list.

Adrienne Freeman

On the valley floor, it's probably compacted about six inches and that's fairly significant.

Mike Bryan

I thought we were fairly sharp. We haven't been practicing too much this week because we've been resting...This bodes well for Indian Wells.

Rob Gooch

I thought we were a little slow getting it going. Once we got it going with Reno Gilbert, we played fairly well.

Michael Specter

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

Thomas Haden Church

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Diana Light

I was influenced, or inspired by, my kindergarten teacher. I wanted to be just like her.

Barry Bonds

He kind of inspired me to get back, ... Things we say to young kids, this young man was saying to me. It motivated me.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.

Pat Summitt

I think it inspired the team so much. You could feel it in the gym.

Alvin Lee

I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside.

Joseph Conrad

He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it!

Jaime Nelson

He was inspired by it and wondered why we didn't have anything like it in the States.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Daniel Stewart

Regardless of what party you are, you have to learn how to play in the same sandbox because nothing will kill redevelopment quicker than combative local politics,

Ed Fleischman

People learn something and take it away so they can do it again. It is very gratifying.

Sheila Dikshit

People have to learn to pay for what they use,

Mark Mitchell

Survivors of London and the survivors of 9/11 and I just pray that people would be safe and learn to know the Lord.

Anna Kournikova

Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus,

Raymond Mason

Sure it's frustrating when you lose, but you can't use being young as an excuse. When you're learning, there's always something new to unfold and you find the right way to do your job. We know we can still be better this season.

Michelle Young

Some of our players will only have been with us a day, so it should be a real learning experience,

H. Hart

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

Lindsay Davenport

Someone said she served at 125, 126 (miles per hour) here. So I have to learn some more about her.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Pat Roberts

Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis, ... there was obvious Saudi involvement.

Colin Doyle

People have a right to think we're probably not as cohesive as we should be because it's showing in our play. I don't think anyone's doing anything intentionally, but obviously something's not working and something's not right.

Boris Yeltsin

Our calls, continual proposal (on a peaceful solution to Kosovo) obviously are not getting through

Sasha Jackson

Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'

Maria Sharapova

I think they obviously wanted a better match. After the first set, it didn't look like it was going to be much of a match.

Jamie Johnson

I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.

Adam Treu

I think there are obviously differences,'' Turner said.

Kraft Foods

Kraft is the most obvious spin, because its price is known,

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Carl Sagan

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

Ben Jorgensen

I was kind of stuck in that place where the only thing I could write about was through the perspective of me being dead, What to Do When You Are Dead.

Matthew Pinsent

I can't really get any perspective on it at the moment,

Nick Ingelbrecht

From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.

Larry Brown

From my perspective, it's a big step forward.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Brian Smith

From our perspective it would be a positive.

Jonathan Littman

From most of these shows you get a different perspective,

David Wagler

From his perspective we know what he would have said -- he had no regrets.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Jane Goodall

Some often refer to the population as 150,000.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Ember Swift

Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some pop and rock elements.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

James Shuler

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

Roger Ortmeier

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

George Burns

Our record doesn't show it, but we are getting better.

Jim Peters

Overall, 2006 will probably come in somewhere between the record sales of 2005 and the very strong sales of 2004.

Wayne Perry

Really, my record is my program's record. That's kind of how I look at it.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Jamie Lawson

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

Bebe Neuwirth

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

Bebe Neuwirth

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

Beck

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

Beck

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

Beck

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

Beck

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

Beck

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

Beck

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

Jeremy Corbyn

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

Jon Kyl

Some may think that's old-fashioned, but it's really the way it's supposed to be,

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

James Gandolfini

I was just supposed to say what I was supposed to say and get out.

Horace Jenkins

That was probably one of the toughest things. I did everything I was supposed to do. I just took it as a test from God.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Roy Hall

I think for us it would be more satisfaction than any other year if we won the title. We are not supposed to win and that is what makes it more exciting.

Douglas Booth

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Chuck Grassley

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.