Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lori Montag

Like I said for the past 17 years there has always been an assistant to the clerks office.

Jim Boeheim

Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of those guys come up to me and say that. He's been double-teamed all year, and the coaches voted him first team all-conference. The head coaches, they don't know (expletive), I guess.

Mike Browning

Lou is a great, multi-talented (guy). He does great work (in sculpture). He brought his expertise from Don Haskins, used his big-man coaching. He played quite a bit with the kids. That was my first two years at the Academy; I was his assistant coach, his JV coach. When he was at the Academy, I was at Holy Ghost.

Matt Savoie

Lori Parker, one of our assistant team leaders here in Calgary has a daughter attending Kansas, who Bradley already beat this tournament so I had fun teasing her about that.

Frank Haith

Last year was our first year in the league and my first year in the league as a head coach. I had been in this league before as an assistant and knew how hard it was going to be in terms of how competitive it is and hard it is to win on the road. I think our kids are better at it after going through it one time. We're more experienced and now that we have Anthony Harris back, I think we're playing better basketball.

Dan Lake

Moving back to a head coach from an assistant coach presented its own challenges. When you are the head coach you are setting the tone. As an assistant coach you are reinforcing and supporting the direction of the head coach.

Dan Penick

One of the (Wright State) assistant coaches told me to get in touch with them when I decided what I wanted to do. I called them back Saturday and that happened to be the day they were playing Bowling Green.

Tony Giese

One of our assistants suggested that four guards will open the floor and create penetration opportunities for us. We haven't been shooting the ball the way we did early in the season, so creating some opportunities for our inside people seemed like a good thing to do. Our kids responded to the change like troopers.

John Brockington

One of our assistant coaches, Lou Holtz, had a bet that Keyes would not get 25 yards. We skunked 'em.

Thornton Wilder

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Joe Cook

So few communities have the opportunity to take a blank canvas of land and create a core for its residents,

Turkish Proverb

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

Johnny Rutherford

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check,

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Steve Meyers

I feel like they need to come back and demonstrate some prudence, and better management, before we write them a blank check.

David Keene

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without explaining why it should be forthcoming. The days of the blank check have ended.

Oleh Rybachuk

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.

Joyce Blazier

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

Dave Ramsey

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Elie Wiesel

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Damien Hirst

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Pete MacArthur

We're not doing anything special. We're just doing all the little things that coach talks to us about everyday in practice. We're just benefiting from it right now. We're just going to keep doing that.

Todd Fox

Man, four state placers and the school's first top 10 finish. It's a head coach's dream come true and speaks to my great coaching staff.

JaJuan Smith

Like coach said, we've done what we're supposed to do. Now we've got to take it up a level.

Tyler Palko

Like coach said, we're not playing well right now, but we're getting better and we're going to keep fighting. Football's a rough game. It's a tough game. Things don't always go your way. It's a test of manhood to see what kind of guys we have on this football team.

Todd Blersch

Like anything else, it's a lot of on-the-job training. The more experience you have, the more you see and the better you are at what you do. It's no different than if somebody was trying to coach in the Super Bowl.

Terrell Buckley

Life is not fair. You're one game away from a championship one year, the next year they let him go somewhere else. His coaching didn't change. You never want to be where you've proved you can win but there are still questions.

Flip Saunders

Like I said, I think a coach is as good as the players he has. You do have to drive them. You've got to make sure to put them in the right situations. And we have a group that's very committed as far as what we're doing.

Xavier Perkins

Mainly just the coaching staff. I didn't have to go far away. The coaches with experience know what they're doing.

Ron Lynch

Magnolia reminds me a lot of Deer Park. There are good, hard-working kids. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to coach them.

Alexandra Paul

I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun!

Rod Blagojevich

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

Kou Shibasaki

Wouldn't it fun to be able to communicate with a horse while you were riding it?

Good Vietnam

Lt. Steven Hauk: Sir, in my heart, I know I'm funny.

Susan Danly

Magnum photographers can take a very somber picture but they can also take a very funny picture. I do hope people come away with a sense of humor about this.

Michael Clayton

(Madison) liked it. She thought it was fun time.

Aaron Williams

Liam is real cool. He's a funny guy. He's real smart, and he shows real good leadership on and off the court.

Ed Reed

Let it play. It's funny. I'm glad I got that highlight if they are going to keep playing it and put me on TV like that.

Yoda

Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing

Rich Schoff

Luke's been playing very well lately. He's playing at a level where I'd like every to be playing heading into sectionals.

Marianne Faithfull

Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.

Ellen Davis

Many malls will spend weeks, if not months, to start setting up. Many retailers are just trying to get a head start on the holidays so that when they arrive, they'll have everything decorated and in place.

Michael Cohen

Software really now has to be at the head of the company's strategy so it makes sense to have Jonathan at the role he's in.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Paul Hewitt

My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'

Arthur Jackson

One side of her head and neck was burnt. Everything was raw.

Goran Persson

One might say that after 33 years as head of state this should have been done before, but it should be painted when one is the middle of one's life, so here we are.

David Gates

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

Brian Robertson

The paints don't have any formaldehyde in them.

Dave Arnold

Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.

Ed Belfour

I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto.

Dave Foley

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Personally, I love Toronto.

Mike Myers

I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

Madonna Ciccone

Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

Jeffery Deaver

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Griffin Dunne

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Eric Roberts

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

Mats Sundin

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

Benjamin Franklin

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Barbara Jordan

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Tom Shannon

Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere.

Daniel J. Boorstin

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

Julian Assange

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

Nolan Bushnell

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

John Betjeman

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Joss Whedon

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

Tim Cook

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

Yul Brynner

Now that Im gone, I tell you; Dont smoke. Whatever you do, dont smoke.

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Phil Kessel

I don't have to worry about it right now. I'm just going to go out there and play and whatever happens, happens.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.