Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Callahan

We want him for the fall. Beating the White team or the Red team ain't the big thing right now. It's more important to get him ready for the fall.

Drew Neitzel

We've shown how good we can be, beating three top-10 teams. It's just a consistency thing with us.

Igor Andreev

There are a lot of good players here, so I'm happy to be where I am. After beating the No. 4 seed in the first round, I've grown in confidence. I've learned how to fight for the important points.

Chris Ault

There are a lot of factors that go into evaluating a coach but conference finish and beating your rival have a strong presence.

Michael Collins

When it was all over, Warsaw played really well for how windy it was, and they ended up beating us by seven. We ended up getting second, so it turned out well.

Suzy Menkes

There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can't touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.

Julian Peterson

We know we're not just a 2-14 team. We just have to remember how to win. And remember how to hold on to the lead and continue to improve once you have the lead. There's nothing wrong with beating a team 55-0.

Ramon Llamas

Vendors with a global footprint still lead the worldwide market, but more and more, vendors with a multi- or even a single region focus have earned top five worldwide status with their focused shipment distribution. The departure of other worldwide vendors has opened the door for smaller vendors to improve their position within the market. During the course of the year, several smaller vendors remained within striking distance of beating each other for the number four or five position, and even posed a challenge to some of the worldwide vendors.

Ellen Hollman

When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

Chad Cassel

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

Paul Spiegel

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

Henry Hyde

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

Brian Lucas

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

David Dulkys

We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.

Anthony Crabtree

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.

Paul Pierce

Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us.

Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Pavle Jovanovic

We have to find three more tenths tomorrow. We have something in mind. We're just happy to be in contention for a medal.

Theodor Mommsen

During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

Tom Watson

Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters.

Dave Jones

Rhys is having treatment and we hope he will be back in contention for Southampton.

Al Michaels

Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.

R. Robinson

My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Keith Ashdown

With all these new programs, the administration's contention that the deficit will be cut in half in the next five years is a tall tale, derived in large part by omitting very likely or inevitable costs, including costs for proposals the administration itself hopes and intends to support.

M. Wolfe

With our schedule, it'll be hard to predict how we'll do. But I'd be disappointed if we're not back in contention for the playoffs again.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Matt Mullenweg

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Kim Clijsters

There are a lot of good players here this week, but Amelie is in form and playing well so she will be tough to beat.

Tori Amos

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Gary Wolf

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Donald Selkin

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Brian Ellis

We have improved every game. Now we probably need to take another step higher to play with Herkimer.

Jane Reynolds

We have higher standards for teachers. We should have higher standards for teachers.

Carol Vorderman

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

Carlos Mencia

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot.

C. S. Lewis

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Steve Squyres

We have no idea yet how widespread Home Plate-like material may be. We have not seen anything like this before, but it doesn't mean there isn't more stuff out there.

Robin Cook

We want peace, but it must be a peace that makes Kosovo safe for the refugees to go home

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

Alan Shearer

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

Alan K. Simpson

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Marc Johnson

Portals still play an important role. But there is truth to the idea that their importance may have been overblown.

Patricia Johnson

Nobody of importance has spoken to me yet. It's not Virginia. She was nice and respectful. Her staff was rude, disrespectfulall we wanted was some information to keep us calm.

Arthur Machen

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Catherine McAuley

A good beginning is of great importance.

H. Hunt

If we can take anything away from this, it's that we recognize the importance of flood-control projects that we don't necessarily think about every day.

Robert Connor

We're stressing the importance of the public taking CPR classes,

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Travis Bradberry

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Sue Miller

This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

David Buckner

Nothing indicates that any member of the jury was influenced by anything going on outside.

Bryan Robson

I don't think it influenced the game, but the referee should have started the match without them.

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Beck

I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Andrew Young

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Fernando Ferrer

we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.

Kirk Ferentz

When you do things that are uncharacteristic, we had to play well on special teams, and we didn't do that. When you do things that are not characteristic, even subtle things, you have to give your opponents a lot of credit.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Sterling Ivey

We would be eliminating their positions at that site.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

I. Stone

We're here to stay and see this thing through.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

Carlos Castaneda

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Carlos Castaneda

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Carlos Castaneda

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Stephanie Uecker

Whenever we would get stressed out, we would talk.

Agnes Repplier

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

Dianna Agron

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Diane von Furstenberg

Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

Diane von Furstenberg

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've got multi-agency teams doing what they do,

Bruce Lewis

We've tried to set it up where we put teams together that are pretty evenly matched.

Bob Lennon

We'll see the course, and we'll see most of the teams that we'll see at district, too.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Matthew Faltys

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Marissa Chovanec

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