Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Blagojevich

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Ron Coleman

Last year, we were really on the short side, aside from Rathert and Rachel. But it all comes down to how hard you play. Volleyball is kind of a strange sport that way.

David Hancock

Leaving aside the exceptional nature of the 1930s, we can see a peak in the film industry's fortunes in the 1960s and 1970s, and a relative decline since then,

Thomas Vinje

Leaving aside the copyright issue, the source code is simply not needed.

Liz Tucker

Set aside set times when you do office work or phone calls, rather than letting the whole day go on where you are thinking -- I must ring the office,

Source Unknown

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

Karen Hughes

meant to be a whispered aside to his running mate. It was not intended to be a public comment.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

One should become so capable that even the closest instrument of mind can be put aside and can be put off. It can be done, it has been done, but it has not been done on a great scale. But more and more it will be done. This is what I am trying to do here with you.

Martha Stewart

One of the things I do to stay healthy and fit is to make sure I exercise every single day. Aside from eating right and getting enough sleep, exercise keeps me trim and boosts my energy.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Louis Aragon

Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.

Craig Biggio

Last year we got to really see what our crowds were all about in this building. They're your 10th guy.

Greg Paulus

Lee is a natural leader. He's been great to me, just telling me crowds are going to say this, or they're going to try to do this. He just makes sure you're doing your thing.

Jacob Epstein

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Shaun White

Music gets me in the rhythm I want before the run. And the (loudspeaker) music gets the crowd going, and that pumps me up.

Matt Thomas

When he is announced, the crowd really goes nuts.

Ian Holloway

When their man was sent off, it seemed to wake up the crowd and give them someone to get their teeth into and fortunately for us that was the referee,

Dustin Moskovitz

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Diane Kruger

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

French Proverb

Life works out - but not as you expect it

Christopher Low

Like everyone else, we expect a quarter-point hike in fed funds today to 4.75 percent -- we also expect the statement to be softened.

Frances Tuke

Life has to go on and people have to use the transport system. People always expect the Americans in particular to shy away after there have been incidents but we have not heard of any mass cancellations.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Greg Olsen

Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win.

Bob Castellini

Lou really had a year that he had to stay away from major league baseball. I didn't know that at the time we talked about it. It's just not going to happen this year. And I would expect Lou to go back to managing.

Dave Duncan

Looper is important to our bullpen. Can it be a good bullpen? Yes, if somebody else steps up if he isn't what we expect him to be right away. The key is getting him to do the things he needs to be doing.

Ron Eastman

Last year was the first year in about 19 years they didn't make the playoffs, so you always know they are always going to have a quality team. They usually have a lot of talent. We don't know a whole lot about them, but I fully expect them to come in ready to play and have one or two real good pitchers to throw at us.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

John Breeding

So, it's back to practice for us on Monday. The thing I like is that we have three weeks to get things sorted out before sectional. We saw what we need to work on. Now, we just have to focus on it.

Brian Seymore

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Scott Luster

Moving Lindsay outside forces defenses to honor the left side and that means they can't focus on our middle or the right. Lindsay on the outside gives us the outlet we needed.

Bill Cowher

Maybe we focus better. Maybe there's a sense of urgency. We've been the underdogs and our guys relished that.

Todd Hultquist

Meal times are such a focus for Hispanic families.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Kristy Curry

Let's not make a mess of this. It started with our seniors today, for whatever reason. They didn't handle the situation. We will be better from today, I promise you that. The film clips are already being clipped.

Digger Phelps

Let's get serious. Glen Davis, he's so tough in the paint. They can't handle him.

Bruce Carter

Obviously we don't have a Superdome. We have to take a look at what we have in our county. We can handle hundreds or thousands, but not tens of thousands.

Troy Powell

One thing we did well was we handled their full-court press. They've got a lot of quickness, and they press the whole game.

Derian Hatcher

My abs are sore. They speed around, and they handle the puck, too. It's really tough to handle the puck when you're moving.

Peter Bondra

Maybe the pressure was too much for us, and we couldn't handle it.

Rafael Palmeiro

Maybe it wasn't the right thing to do. I've never been in a situation where I'm getting booed so badly, and I just really don't know how to handle it.

Ben Roethlisberger

Obviously, Tommy can handle this team, ... but I'm going to make sure that I'm out there.

Stew Morrill

Obviously, Nevada speaks for itself, a Top 25 team. They handled us pretty well in Logan. We played well the last time we were here. We've played pretty well in this building.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Jim Epperly

Sending a team to the free-throw line 43 times is not something you want to do.

Josh Blaisdell

One of our problems all year was that we didn't have that third line producing as many points as our first and second line. I called (the Mitchell, Banks, Slaney line) our third line, but Saturday, you couldn't really tell a difference.

Steve Ellis

New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Edward Heath

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Kurt Schrader

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Erika Messam

Senior Day is emotional, whether you're a senior or not. It's tough to play after that. We got ourselves together and played strong. Everyone contributed today. It was special to me.

Alan Foreman

Now we speak in telegram form, we write little e-mails, and we have everything at our fingertips, so we don't train ourselves to keep anything inside.

Dennis Murphy

If we get there, we give ourselves a chance. We got there, so now we have a chance.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Billy Joel

If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.

Mike Shula

If we let ourselves start worrying about this and that, that's the quickest way to get yourself beat.

Cory Doctorow

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Charlie Morgan

One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example.

Sam Bush

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Tom Adams

More of this stuff, ... and transportation to places downtown.

Darrel Hoffman

When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.

Dave Ramsey

There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work!

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Dean Atkins

If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to squint to read it.

Tony Domenech

There are other places students can live, and if you want an investment, go to a condo.

Matt Nagle

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Brewster Kahle

If we pull this off, then we'll have done something very worthwhile,

Darrell Waltrip

Since I'm in Seattle, I'm pulling for Seattle!

Jeremy Root

If they had pulled those out, we would have won.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Rick Noble

I don't know what we said, but it was kind of like a high-five, we really pulled this off. It was better than we thought it was going to be. Even now when I talk about it I get chills.

Rick Reeves

I can feel the weight, so I know it's going to pull down on the uniform.

David Simons

This would pull it all together in one place,

Gracie Gold

I always try to have a fun nail. It's something whimsical that you can pull off anytime.

Angelo Scola

more simply and efficiently respond to pastoral needs.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Horacio Gutierrez

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Idina Menzel

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Frank DeRosa

We won't respond to the suit until we see it.

Mike Brey

Let's see if we can put two together. That's the only step we can think about taking right now.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

John Roe

Getting united as a team was step one. We know we have to keep working on the skill.

Trey Johnson

Getting 'discovered' is something that made us step up our game.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Josh Beekman

Now they want to be sure when you come in that you're going to graduate.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Jeff Hanna

If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?',

John Currie

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

Joe Wineke

We need to make sure our vote is out there.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.