Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Dunne

Like any conurbation, you have the run-down areas where you wouldn't put the dog in,

Bruce Campbell

Make no mistake: given the dearth of black suppliers in key areas such as panel beating, tow-truck operators and the like, the charter targets will not be easily reached.

David Thompson

Make good choices and keep God at the center of your life. He's got to be the main focus. I grew up in a Christian household, but when I got away from that I made some bad choices and it caused me a lot of problems in all areas of my life.

David Frum

Liberals did well, and not only in the 'Michael Moore' precincts, but also in a lot of areas where their scandals should have hurt them more.

Mark Hendrickson

Last year was a struggle, as far as the first half and the second half. There's some areas I just wasn't too happy with it. I wouldn't call it, necessarily, a good year all around.

Steve Head

Last year's conference focused on the relationships and impact between the local, regional, state and national economies. Speakers focused on how south Montgomery County and The Woodlands areas are impacted by events beyond the immediate region. Attendees learned how changing demographics in the state and region should be a critical piece of future planning and vision.

Mike Matz

Let's celebrate the progress we're making in preserving a good piece of our 'original earth' -? the wilderness areas on public lands that belongs to all of us, no matter where we live.

Craig Kennedy

Leaders on both sides of the Atlantic need to build upon areas where Americans and Europeans do agree, like democracy promotion, to pave the way forward for transatlantic relations.

Todd Graham

Many of these grants exemplify our new direction to empower organizations with start-up funding. This quarter our board recognized several non-profit applicants who were beginning innovative projects in our priority areas of community development, economic development, education and social needs.

Bob Swank

Levi, Clint and Zach held spots four through six and are running well. Calvin was our number seven and he will be challenged by the two freshmen.

R. Robinson

Losing that first set was a challenge to her to raise her level of tennis. She knew what she had to do and she made it happen. She was in control of the third set during every point and maintained that control for the victory.

Don Kirkman

Leadership remains the leading challenge of these kinds of regional efforts.

Jessie Evans

Last year was last year. This year, I think Gonzaga is a much improved team. They have better versatility. The challenge this year will be a lot greater.

David Stremme

Scott (Pruett) took me out and gave me a few pointers on the track but you really don't feel it until you get out there yourself. This place is pretty neat, especially with the tight corners and elevation changes. It's going to be a challenge (in June).

Bill Coleman

Scott has the depth of knowledge, experience, and expertise to help the department and our community through the public safety challenges that lie ahead, ... Scott's leadership abilities coupled with his collaborative style are a good fit for this organization.

Dan Callahan

Scott challenged us all day long and they outplayed us.

Robert Barry

Severe operating challenges still confront GM, including mix, pricing and market-share pressures plus a tough macro outlook as consumers face rising interest rates and energy costs.

Alberto Fernandez

Second place, three champions, I think that's a heck of an accomplishment. We're heading in the right direction. We only have one senior, so I think we'll be back and I'd like to see us challenge North Marion for the team championship next year. They've set the standard.

Sherri Murrell

Mandy Close is a senior who's playing hard and knows how to win.

Anton Corbijn

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

Ivan Seidenberg

Like all companies, we are closely monitoring the economy, but what we see at this time indicates we can hit our target for full-year revenue growth,

Rich Brooks

Make no mistake about it -- it's a very serious competition and a close one.

Geoff Ogilvy

Luke is a great player. He's probably not overdue, but close to due.

Lucy Jones

Magnitude doesn't tell you damage. If it's not that big or not that close to people, it's not that bad.

Mike Patton

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Jordan Reese

(Liberty's) always good competition to go against. It just sucks to coming so close and falling just a little short.

Les Brown

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Malin Akerman

People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.

Steve Tihanyi

We're not doing it because we're dazzled by celebrities. We do it for strategic purposes. Having the right type of personality (in GM vehicles) definitely helps the image of those vehicles.

Serena Williams

Like I said, in a later round, it's definitely easier, ... I've never played her this early, so it's a little tough.

Randy Jackson

Let's just say definitely look out for the outfits, because I think people are just getting a little crazy.

Stephen Ames

Let's put it this way. I'll take level par right now. At the end of the week, I think it will be pretty good. I wouldn't be far off by saying it's definitely going to be single-digits, without a doubt, winning the event.

Daniel Gibson

Losing in the first round last year was definitely a motivating factor. This year I didn't want it to happen again.

Kevin Reilly

Last year was horrific. We don't have the rocket fuel right now to lift us to the next level, but things are genuinely happening, and some of these shows are definitely moving in the right direction.

Sascha Hansen

Last year was definitely in the back of our minds. We had to finish it out this time.

Derek Hagan

Last year's game has definitely been lingering for all of us. We never imagined losing that game with the way we were playing last season.

Patty Vavra

Like I said before, it's a really strong event for us, especially in relationship to depth.

Alicia Figgs

Life in us is like the water in a river that eventually runs out.

Boris Yeltsin

Let us do everything to...ensure that those tragic events never happen in our land again.

Jack Warner

Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year.

Allison Forsyth

My main focus is the giant slalom, that's the event I know I can be on the podium in if I ski best.

LaClaire Carter

My legs were really tight today, so I didn't run all my events. I saw what I can improve, and I need to work on my start in the 60.

Jeff Callahan

One of the things I really like about this event is how it gets people together. I think relays keep more people involved and interested in how your teammates are doing.

Moira Kelly

My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.

Wayne Vutech

More and more people are cognizant of the event now.

Christopher King

One of the big and troubling trends of recent years is that we've been shifting away from focusing on grants to loans.

Dick Umile

Obviously we?re very disappointed by it all and now we?re focusing on getting prepared to play Friday night?s game without them. It?s how we do things. If one of us makes a mistake, we all suffer.

Carl Hayes

No, I like my role. No one is focusing on me so it's not as hard as the lead role.

Chris McGee

Now that the season's starting, we have something to get everything else off of our minds. Now we have games to worry about. We'll start focusing on what's important, and all the little things won't matter much - like our sanity and free time.

Pavol Demitra

I did it much faster. I was focusing more. The first time I didn't know what to expect.

Dave Wannstedt

If we ever get in a situation where we can play younger players at any position we would, but right now it's just focusing on whatever we have to try and do to get a win.

Paul Davis

If we do (win the Big Ten) or we don't we still have a big opportunity in the postseason. We're focusing on us and we're not letting anything else get in the way of that.

Kaz Matsui

I feel my role right now is to get on base, ... That's all I'm really focusing on.

Rob Honzo

She was trying some new things, like staying low in her shots and not going for power, but focusing more on control.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Terry Taylor

My life has improved so much. Frankly, I was very grateful.

Doc Rivers

Obviously whenever you can improve your team you're going to do that -- with a veteran or a young guy. But we're in games.

Alex Rodriguez

October is what I need to improve upon. But you can't think about October on Opening Day, you have to think about the present war.

David Goldberg

Now we have lasers that can improve the quality of skin without removing a layer of skin. It's called the lunchtime laser procedure.

Luis Suarez

Now, we're going to try and improve on the last World Cup.

Asif Bajwa

We needed a six-goal victory to improve our position, and we managed that today.

Howard Davidowitz

For me, the big question is what is Wal-Mart going to do to improve sales,

Rob Enderle

Now that the settlement is done, RIM can work on improving their relationship with their customers.

Aubrey Taylor

I have been improving every meet. I want to keep improving.

Andrew Dorais

She has been improving all season long and really peaked at just the right time.

Drake Johnstone

If they demonstrate improving revenue growth, they could get $20 a share.

James Kelley

We still have plenty of improving to do, especially in the secondary , but I think we made an important transition tonight. As long as we keep moving in the right direction, I'll be satisfied.

Daniel Grabauskas

We need to tighten up our procedures because there are a number of people out there scamming the system. But the first priority is improving performance. We'd love to be in a situation where we don't have to pay any refunds.

Chris Hill

We want to keep improving and feel the trend is going up. We'll keep striving to get better.

Jean Turner

We all need good, vital, improving schools; we're all in this together.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

John Cornforth

Liam needs competitive matches and this will do him a world of good.

Chad Roland

Mike was one match away from making the championships.

Yurii Pidopryhora

One theoretical model shows that young stars could power an outflow that matches what we see very closely.

Clifford Garnto

One match could swing one way or another, you just never know until you get out there.

Todd Woodbridge

Naturally, Wayne and I were miffed. We'd been setting ourselves for this match for weeks,

Mark Johnson

Whenever you win two Big Ten matches on the road, no matter who it is you're up against, you have to feel pretty good.

Mike Newell

We had a very tough match on Saturday but they are all tough matches.

Andy Roddick

I feel like Taylor might have actually played the better match tonight,

Eidur Gudjohnsen

I can't say strongly enough that when you have a big match like this you need a referee who is up to it.

Tom Izzo

If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.

Joe Johnson

The people of Michigan will play an important role in this survey,

Brent Musburger

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Bret Bielema

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

Dick DeVos

We need to look at getting people in Michigan money in their pockets and do something tangible to reduce the price of gasoline.

Adam Haluska

Up there, we rolled over, no question, but I remember saying that I thought we were a better team than Michigan State.

Dan Rather

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

Liz Boyd

We don't need a report out of Washington to tell us that people in Michigan are hurting.

Maurice Stovall

Michigan State just made more plays than we did.

Ludwig von Mises

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Dennis Prager

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

Dennis Prager

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Deniece Schofield

Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent.

Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

Denis Diderot

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Denis Diderot

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

Bart Bryant

Mentally, I was just ready to do it.

Gerhard Schroeder

My country, Germany, stands ready to support such a process.

David Kudla

More so, many of them who are about ready to go anyway, and they have the $35,000 sweetener on the deal.

Kerry Wood

When I can go out there and throw the way I want to throw and recover the way I want to recover, that's when we're ready to go. Until then, that's what we are waiting on.

Brian Bannister

I feel like I'm ready to go out there and pitch.

Vernon Davis

I feel like I'm ready. I'm ready to go out there right now.

Lindsay Davenport

I feel like I'm ready for the challenges.

Palle Pedersen

Growers need to be ready like they were in 2005.

Matt Baker

Getting butterflies I don't think is a nervousness that's unnatural, ... If you don't get butterflies in a game, I don't think you're excited, you're not ready to go.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

John Beilein

Now we just go back and teach. We start over.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Marco Buechel

If Bode wants to start winning, he could start winning tomorrow, immediately.

Karel Bruckner

I can tell you that the starting lineup will be very different this time.

Melissa Carlson

Get out there and start talking to people.

Kevin McHale

Getting Marko was something we really wanted to do. It's all starting to come together.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Richard Virenque

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

Chris Evert

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Elena Vesnina

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

Sonu Nigam

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.