Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Potts

We are looking to be respectable in our division and make the league playoffs again, ... We have a good nucleus of returning players and plenty of experience gained from last year?s run in the league and district playoffs.

Tim Mueller

There are some exciting things happening in the park district, and I'm having a lot of fun. I love the work, and being a part of what the park district provides for the community. It keeps me going.

Chuck D.

We started off slow and then put it together to get our scoring going. It's good to be 3-0 at this time in district play.

Emma Brooks

We started off a little slow, but we picked it up. We just executed the way we practiced. It's good to start district off on a positive note.

Tommy Aldridge

We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.

Cynthia Zea

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.

Kevin Ford

What the school district is doing here . . . is prohibiting a student from quoting the Bible.

Ken Perkins

When you say a school and a district is going to be judged on this, and then it's not a valid test, that doesn't seem right.

Matt Jones

We were too loose. We just talked about ending the district schedule on a good note. We wanted to come in here and win at Bloomington. This has always been tough place for us to play.

Mohammed Habib

The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands.

Steve Crawford

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

John Fitzgibbon

We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

Kevin Doll

We're speculating that the shooting may have occurred from a moving vehicle. Due to an ongoing investigation and no eyewitnesses to the shooting, we're still piecing this together.

Mark Trakh

What makes her so tough is that she's so athletic. But you know, she's due for an off game.

Paul Christopher

This suggests the economy is due for a slowdown, much like the one we had in 1995,

Katherine Young

We knew we wouldn't be able to use the Garland lot as of last year due to all the construction. We had started thinking of alternative locations then.

Freddy Adu

We knew we were due to just explode and have a lot of goals in one of these games sometime soon. It's a really good feeling.

Kevin McCloud

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Chris Brown

You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.

China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

David Ginola

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

David Prowse

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

David Naughton

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Rene Portland

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

Mike Bohn

where our fans come regardless of who we're playing.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Chris Brown

You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.

David Ginola

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

David Prowse

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

David Naughton

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Rene Portland

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

Mike Bohn

where our fans come regardless of who we're playing.

Charley Pride

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Eartha Kitt

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

David Twohy

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

Dane Bradshaw

We've all just learned so much from (Pearl), and we're a reflection of him on the court. He's working just as hard as we are on the sidelines, and we're just very fortunate to have him as well as the rest of his staff. It really has become a perfect fit, and I'm very happy for the seniors that they're able to have this success under him in their last year.

Avery Johnson

We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then.

Geno Auriemma

We're incredibly fortunate (to still be playing), and we're going to make the most of it.

Michael Mann

When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.

Nick Zito

We're going to see where we're at on March 4. The unfortunate thing is we might not see what we want to see, and the fortunate thing is at least it ain't May 4.

Antawn Jamison

When we first left, I think the most important thing was to come back and play well, like, 'You should have kept me around,' or 'You should have re-signed me. After that, it's just a point where you want to win, and we were fortunate enough to get the win, but also play pretty good games individually.

Bruce Benson

We're fortunate to have two people like that,

Tim Poole

We're fortunate to have two horses in the race and we hope they live up to their billing.

Jacque Bartow

We're fortunate to have so much depth. We wanted to rest some of the varsity kids and let the JV girls show what they could do.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Bible Bible

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Lee Quillen

The plants that are going to be the largest 10 years from now should be the largest ones you put in the ground.

Jack Colley

We're looking at trains as a primary way to move large means of people.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Ben Wallace

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

Koy Detmer

We're going to take the reps the way they want us to and see how it shakes out.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Claire Tomalin

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Greg Evans

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Joe Brancato

To be a part of this tonight is a thrill.

Amy Poehler

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

Anthony Jeselnik

I don't want to wake up with cops surrounding my bed tonight.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.