Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mac Gifford

We set many goals for ourselves this year, and one of those was to beat Yale. We just wanted it that badly and we fought.

Thom Gunn

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Todd McCullough

When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()

Lucy Powell

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

Bill Schneider

Where is Gore with women? Just 50 percent, ... Given how badly he is doing with men, and it is very bad, he has got to boost his standing with women.

Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Raymond Seed

We're hearing from people who were involved and now feel very badly and want to make it right, ... What we have now is stories of malfeasance and some field evidence that would correlate with these stories.

Kevin Brownlow

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

Larry Brown

When you're a coach and you see guys trying and you don't get a win, you want badly for something good to happen, ... I sensed after the game they really felt good about it, they were excited about it. That was fun to see.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

James Spader

When I moved there, I completely believed that anything was possible. I believed I could become part of the fabric of the city, and not by portraying someone, but truly.

Adolf Eichmann

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

Jerome Bettis

We set out a long time ago to bring this back home to Pittsburgh. You all believed in us, believed we could get it done. I'm just so thankful for everything that this city has been able to give me. I'm just so happy we were able to give this city the one for the thumb.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

Trent Lott

The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

Susan Hill

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.

Steve Erickson

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

Terri Blackstock

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

Carol Kane

My face is my career.

Carol Kane

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

Carol Vorderman

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

Carlos Ghosn

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Carlos Ghosn

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

Carlos Ghosn

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

C. S. Lewis

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

Tom Johnston

We've spent so many hours trying to get drunk drivers off the road in so many ways. It makes you really mad to see that, after all that, people still do it.

David Richards

We set out 10 years ago to improve safety for competitors and spectators. We've not seen a driver killed for 20 years almost,

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Sal Basilone

We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.

Beth Gibbons

We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.

Hollis Zhao

With time, there will be gangs of leather-clad Harley drivers cruising through the streets of China.

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Frank Williams

What he had as a driver is a quality he shares with many of his compatriots, ... He was canny.

Helio Castroneves

Motor racing is going to miss a phenomenal race driver and I'm going to miss a good friend. I think I will learn a lot with Sam. He is an experienced driver even though he is young. He's been fast at a lot of tracks where we haven't done well so I hope to learn from him.

Stanley Brand

These are staggering numbers, even by Washington standards.

Tequan Richmond

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

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Cameron Bennerman

Short-range shots, you're going to know where it's going to come off, so I just stayed with it.

John Short

She never showed up, ... We stayed until 4 in the morning. We don't know why she didn't come.

Joan Armatrading

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Linda Grant

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Ian Scott

I was surprised it stayed right there so I could go get it.

Charles Stiles

I have intentionally stayed out of that discussion.

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Billy Joel

Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.