Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Rogers

Overall, Graves is a good person, ... I just hope the stress from upstairs isn't so tough on him that (it hurts) the relationship with the wide receivers. He's going to have pressure. He's got three No. 1 picks. ... But hey, he knew the assignment when he came.

Russ Knocke

Our undivided attention is placed on the victims of this catastrophe and seeing that they get the help that they desperately need. There is going to be a time and a place for the government and no doubt for Congress and the administration to really take a careful look at where the missteps were and assign blame.

Charlotte Bergeron

Our attorney general's office has objected to role because they are assigned to represent various public bodies, and they see it as a conflict.

Jeff Waters

Reduce the speed limit from 25 to 15 (miles per hour), establish double fines and assign a motorcycle unit that can generate more money.

Jess Walter

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

Joe Gibbs

That was a tough assignment there. That kind of tells you the reason why people fight so hard for home-field advantage. That was a tough environment today, and that's the way it's supposed to be.

Brandon Jenkins

That was my assignment not making it so comfortable for him.

Howell Raines

That story was something I've never had occasion to discuss publicly, ... I assigned it because I was interested in this question: Here is a network that was once iconic in American broadcasting, that was traditionally, in the years of Cronkite and his predecessors, identified as being on the forefront of social policy reporting and coverage of the civil rights movement. Now it's basically at the mercy of the Masters, and what does that say about what had happened at CBS? What did it say about CBS's relationship with the Masters, and what did it say about CBS's relationship with its sponsors? That was the story that I was pressing to get.

Imre Kertesz

It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

Richard White

Our objective will continue to be to finish with a balanced budget,

David Wluka

Our strong seller's market has been replace by a more balanced one that will help stabilize home prices.

John Cullen

Our scoring has been balanced too. No one guy has to score for us.

Jeff Guenther

Our goal all year long was to get balanced scoring, and after the sectional we reached that with five kids averaging double figures. Obviously you want to stop our guards, but our big kid can step up. The more balanced we are, the more difficult we are to defend.

Jen Larsen

Overall I was very happy with the team's performance today. It was good to get that first conference win out of the way with such a balanced effort.

Tricia Martin

Overall it was a strong showing by the entire team. We were very balanced and played consistently.

Mark Bray

Overall, we are a balanced team. But when you have the height that San Joaquin Memorial has, taking the little bit of an inside game that you have, it makes it a little bit tougher to do the things you want to do.

Jack Warner

Our women should be pretty competitive. It should be a pretty balanced meet for us and we should do well in the scoring.

Tom Little

We'll be a little more balanced offensively in terms of running and throwing, ... Last year we had outstanding backs. It was silly not to line up, pound the ball, and let them break off 60-yard runs. We're going to widen out a bit. We do have some weapons.

Rubin Carter

Regardless of where you have been in the past, you have to go out and compete, give your best effort and don't quit. I only see a tremendous upside based on what I've been through with this program so far.

Corazon Aquino

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Lisa Randall

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Randy Vossburg

Releasing such a statement to the media (on Tuesday) before the township even had a chance to see the documents in question showed a distinct lack of courtesy and respect by the department. Creating media frenzy did not serve anyone's best interest and undermined efforts for good faith discussions based on preparation, planning and good sound scientific advice.

Colin Masson

Relatively few manufacturers have the luxury to choose a different product mix based on energy prices.

Ricardo Alarcon

President Carter represents the future, a day when there will be a mutual respect and a good neighbor policy between the U.S. and Cuba, a future with a policy based on certain moral and ethical values.

Trip Chowdhry

Our research shows that Oracle is losing some database business to IBM and Microsoft, ... Based on that, I doubt if the company can raise sales guidance.

Joe Horrigan

Our position has always been that O.J. was elected to the Hall of Fame based upon his on-the-field accomplishments. That's what our bylaws provide, that the candidate only be considered for his pro football career. And as such, he is in the Hall of Fame and will remain in the Fall of Fame.

Fidel Castro

Our relations are based on mutual interest and devotion to peace, in the context of cooperation and integration.

Mark Shapiro

Our original plan in the off-season was to slate the No. 5 spot in the rotation for a younger player (Jason Davis or Fausto Carmona) and to spend money to upgrade elsewhere. When we were unable to get some other things done, we saw an opportunity to improve the team by signing Jason. The young guys still could end up playing a role for us in 2006.

J. Hoover

Steve's making the majority of the catches, but our offense isn't designed just to get him the ball, ... He's just getting open and making some great plays, and Jake is hooking up with him. Naturally, we'd like to spread it out a little more and get other guys (into the end zone), but whenever we can move the ball, it doesn't matter to us how we move it. Whether it's getting Steve catches or Stephen Davis a lot of carries, as long as we're efficient, it really doesn't matter.

Henry Rollins

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

Adam Scott

I think Davis was much in the same boat. When you just get in the worst spots, there's no forgiveness.

Bob Spencer

I think Davis is the team to beat.

Tom Izzo

I think Davis did the 'Lambeau Leap,' even.

Dan Schnur

That would be just what Davis needs. There is nothing Gray Davis would like more than to be able to talk about the recall as a nefarious plot by out-of-state Republicans.

Mark Rozell

I think Tom Davis is about as safe as an incumbent can be these days. Davis strikes a pretty good middle ground for his constituents.

Gary Anders

I think having Davis in the middle gives those other guys a lot of confidence.

Gary Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

David Cameron

But equally we stand by every word. We're not going to run away from it.

Richard DeKaser

For the U.S. as a whole, I expect we're going to have an orderly correction. But that doesn't mean it's going to be equally orderly in all places.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Lanny Davis

He focuses on the half-empty glass. But it is equally true to say the glass is half-full.

Thomas Kristensen

Only a few companies, including the open source vendor Red Hat, handles vulnerabilities in an equally responsible way.

Dr. Hedberg

Men and women do get paid equally for the same work for the most part.

Christina Sweden

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways

Jonah Goldberg

Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than rank relativism and nihilism. All perspectives are equally valid, which means no perspective is truly valid.

Joe Archuleta

Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose.

Billy Donovan

Our margin for error is small. We are not more talented than any team we play against.

Todd Fairbourne

Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.

John Marhefka

Overall records are misleading, we are treating the PSAC West schedule as a new season and we are pushing for a PSAC playoff spot. We must execute better and our margin of error is very small right now.

Brent Hand

Mallory had a great tournament and she is just a sophomore. She only had one hitting error in all of the games, which is pretty amazing.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

C. S. Lewis

[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error.

C. S. Lewis

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

Carl Sagan

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

Jeff Sessions

Let me tell you why I wouldn't vote for Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

Val McDermid

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

Tony Lazzeri

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Orson Scott Card

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

R. Robinson

We have got be more ruthless in our approach,

Tamika Catchings

We got killed on the boards, Cheryl Ford, Ruth (Riley), Plenette (Pierson), Swin (Cash) everyone killed us on the boards.

Billy Graham

End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.

David Letterman

Tim Tebow has been on the bench longer than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Dodie Smith

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Karen Thurman

I think the Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt, more important lately, they've show us how incompetent (they are) and how they have been divided. I think those are important themes and strategies for us as we go forward.

Carly Syverson

I think that we've shown how we can be. We don't want (the Bears) to think they have a chance.

Gail Begley

He just didn't show up and he still hasn't shown up.

Scott Hoffman

Had they not have shown up, it could have been tragic.

Jim Riccitelli

He has shown us little glimpses here and there, and I told him tonight he had to be better than the other goaltender, and he was.

Larry Coker

He has shown me a lot. He's going to be an outstanding player.

Dusty Baker

He doesn't have to show more. I like what he's shown already. He has to show more of the same.

Ted Johnson

shown you no hair, no fibers, no eyewitnesses. Not one.

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'