Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Greff

Louisiana's performance in the wake of the hurricanes is impressive. Statewide results are receiving a strong boost from construction crews and other personnel in the region for the post-hurricane reconstruction. We think displaced gamblers from the Mississippi Gulf Coast are also driving growth.

Jennifer Duffy

Lott's re-election is something close to a sure thing, but if he had vacated his seat, the contest to replace him would have been very competitive, giving Democrats a boost in their efforts to pick up seats in November.

Bob Enos

Scott's presence gave a big boost to the team.

Dave Carlson

Most will boost their prices over a period of time. They'll do it daily.

Alan Rifkin

Net-net, the change is expected to boost earnings on a continued operating basis.

Martin Rees

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

Jenny Taylor

One important thing in the application process for sellers will be to verify that their items are produced locally and are from those counties. The Farmer's Market is for the nature and well being of the local community and for those producers trying to boost their business.

Hideaki Kurimoto

Money is gathering into the real-estate business. The trend will help boost profits of property companies and banks.

Stephen Ahn

New models will help boost sales in overseas markets this year as they did at home last year.

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Robert Walpole

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Anthony Hecht

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

Kevin Mulligan

Like Ashley, Eric and Rich can both make it to states if they play like they can at districts..

Dan Hawkins

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

Tom Livatino

Liggins and Little are both very, very good players, and they are complemented well by their other guys. We have our work cut out for us.

Pat Brisson

Luc himself has had discussions with (general manager Dave Taylor) and said he was disappointed. But what else can we do? He has put in a lot of years, and given a lot of great moments to Kings fans. So it would be nice to see him finish the season playing.

Miguel Perez

Of course, I know about Bo Diaz - he's from Venezuela! ... I know all about the players from Venezuela - Luis Aparicio, Dave Concepcion, Andres Galarraga, the Big Cat. It's a big deal when any player from Venezuela makes it to the major leagues. But the idea is to stay there, and I'm a long way from that.

Doug Pappas

(Former Tigers pitcher) Dave Mlicki made $6.2 million last year. This year he's making $750,000. Good. The problem isn't that he took a huge cut. The problem is he was never worth $6 million.

Brian Giles

I grew up in San Diego watching Dave Winfield, ... In '95, when I got called up, there he was -- my teammate. That was a pretty big thrill.

Larry Rothschild

I have a lot of respect for Jim. He's a great manager. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he was very successful there to team up with Dave again.

Mary Murphy

I have been disappointed in (engineer) Dave Carlson's performance and leadership

Curt Schilling

On a personal level, that's not the kind of situation I want to be in, having to relearn someone or have someone learn me at this point in my career. But this is one of those nothing-you-can-do-about-it situations. ... The priority is and the important part is Dave is OK.

Maurice Sendak

I don't know what to make of it, exactly, but I am so for it, ... I am in love with it. If Spike and Dave do not do this movie, now, I would just as soon not see any version of it ever get made.

Brandon Jones

A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre.

Cheryl Fey

My favorite thing about watching Joe is his sense of humor. He just has the most wonderful sense of humor. And he has this kind of depth which shows so much intelligence. You can tell because his take on the world comes out in his paintings. His take on the world is profound.

Doug Bennett

One of the things we're going to have to do is have the keel modified. Right now the keel is about 18 feet, and the maximum depth in Newport Harbor is 12 to 14 feet.

Jamie Dixon

One of our strengths as a team is that we don't foul or over-extend ourselves. We try to play sound positional defense, which keeps us out of that kind of trouble. Even with the depth we have, we always stress to our guys that we can't give fouls away.

Olaf Kirsten

I feel like we've got more depth this year than we've had in past years. We did what we needed to do in order to win the game. We had some different players step into different roles and do a really nice job for us.

Lindsay Davenport

On the men's side, obviously, you have some upsets still here once in a while. Hopefully women's tennis will get to where there's a lot of depth from one through 100.

Ron Rivera

I would say depth there is something we probably need to look at.

Mike McCall

I felt like we were gonna have depth at running back.

Marckus Boswell

If they had offered earlier, I probably would have signed with South Carolina. It was like I was last on the depth chart.

Tony Brock

I don't have a depth finder. Don't need one.

Bruce Headley

Seven furlongs is, maybe, the toughest distance because you have to run hard every step of the way. I like to try and work a horse that far before running him.

Adam Ross

'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of marriage and the distances - some tragic, some redemptive - that marriages travel over time, and those travels ain't always pretty.

Peggy Cox

Megan threw 110-11 which is a good start for her. Christina did a good job. We were fifth as a team overall. We were hoping to do a little better but we didn't have much for distance runners today.

Jason Jaffray

Of all four games on the trip, this was the one we needed to get some distance between us and this team. We've been winning, and we haven't been gaining any ground on these guys.

Mozelle Williams

We won't be entered in any distance relays, nor any of the jumps.

Democritus

There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water.

Denis Johnson

This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration

Denis Diderot

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.

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.

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.

Larry Jacoby

Memory plays a very powerful role in how we see and interpret the world, even in situations where we are completely unaware of the events that gave rise to these memories.

Dan Gilroy

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

Dennis Hastert

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Edgar Allan Poe

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Tiger Woods

I feel like I'm playing better. The things that I've worked on have really, really started to solidify. I've put together some good events this summer.

Nancy Wood

If all goes well there, we'll do more events like that that will be open to the public.

Kevin Mitnick

Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.

Thomas p Kempis

Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be blessed, but let nothing of man's praises be given to me.

Luan Enjie

Sending a man to the Moon? It would be a one-way ticket if we do it now, given the thrust of our rockets at present is not strong enough.

Tom White

maybe you could have given him a letter of reprimand.

Caitlyn Jenner

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

Rosemary Fox

One mom said if we hadn't given her a laptop, she would have gone insane.

Dannel Malloy

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.

Joanne Harris

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

Stephen Marley

Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.

Brian Billick

Make no mistake, Kyle is responsible for the way he reacted,

Brian Cashman

We've got to surround Kyle with a lot more in the bullpen.

Lorraine Randall

Kyle was great. He was my only living child.

Larry Coker

Kyle seems to be doing fine. Everything's positive there.

Gregg Williams

Kyle Orton was playing better than any of the quarterbacks,

Lovie Smith

Kyle needs to go through a situation like that, ... From the way I see it, he'll come back stronger from it.

Micah Roberts

Kyle is probably going to be somewhere around the top 10 most of the day.

Brian Tate

Kyle had a remarkable race in the mass start classic. He started in the 57th pin position, which is toward the back of the pack.

Brad Jackson

Kyle can really shoot. He doesn't do it a lot, but he can make shots.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Chris Crutcher

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Chris Crutcher

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.