Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Monica Lewinsky

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing a rising increase in children coming through our children's emergency center with injuries.

Allison Watson

We started the push by presenting to partners the importance of people being at the center of how Microsoft delivers value in research and development and for customers.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Don Haddox

We start a lot form Tom's feet at center back. Stefan takes over at the midfield and controls things from that point on. He's more or less the distribution source for everything. And Jon and Steve are just really solid workhorses in the midfield. They could play in every minute of every game and through overtime. They're just real fit specimens.

Johnny Estrada

We spotted him that one run. My freakin' terrible throw went to center field. Give a guy like that a one-run cushion when he's got his 'A' game . . . that's tough.

Jim Becka

When you travel through Montgomery County and notice the white crosses on the sides of the roads, keep in mind that the nearest trauma center to each cross is downtown Houston. The 2007 Texas Legislature will consider appropriating money for more trauma centers. If elected to the hospital district board, I plan on putting Montgomery County at the front of the line for one of these new facilities.

Ronald Neumann

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Gene Coppola

We want to take the next step forward as any good organization would.

M. Russell Ballard

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

Ted Mayer

We are pleased with these trial settings and the prospect of things going forward on a rapid basis. By the last part of the second quarter of 2006, we'll know a lot more about the parameters of this litigation.

Bob Foster

We've all been slowly working our way back. I still didn't make any money in 2004, but we're taking good steps forward this summer.

Paula Pearson

We've all been looking forward to this match all season as we do every year.

Kevin Jackson

We started practicing in the spring, planning and looking forward to playing in this game and winning it.

Ross Randall

We struggled this week with the weather. We are looking forward to getting back and practicing to get ready for our next tournament.

Hani Durzy

We are looking forward to Wednesday and having our day in front of the Supreme Court.

Bruce Allen

We are looking forward to using the new CBA parameters to improve our team.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Josh Page

We want to pressure them and get some turnovers right away. Hopefully we can pressure their guards and not let them get comfortable in the half-court set.

David Reeves

We have security guards here and we monitor quite a bit.

Tom Rossley

We're going to let those guards play a lot during the game.

Floyd Irons

We knew they wanted to run and we tried to stop them from doing that. Man, those guards are good.

John Jay

Shoot, he plays every position on the court. He's just a guy who hurts you in whatever position he plays no matter who guards him.

Kelly Hawthorne

We have people who get us the ball. So many teams don't have someone who can get it inside. Our guards can handle the pressure.

Lauren Hoisington

We usually get two or three fouls in the first half. I think we're used to it by now. Our guards played really well.

Adam Barrett

She's one of the top point guards in the state.

Patrick Cinotte

She scores well, rebounds well, passes well and guards well. She's a total all-around player and she makes others better.

Dan DeRose

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Tracy Hickman

One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess.

Twyla Tharp

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

Rob Gordon

Since we've been at Eustis, I don't think we've played in a more physical game.

Eric Coleman

Most physical team we'll play all year. In any conference.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Chris Forster

We have to play strong, you have to give it back. We're not used to being physically pushed around and you have to push back. In the state tournament, when you get pushed you have to push back.

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alain Vigneault

I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

Al Kaline

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

Al Hirt

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

Al Barlick

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

Chris Christie

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

Chris Bosh

I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be.

Chris Bosh

When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Dee Brown

When he got back in, he made his presence known.

Odette Annable

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Jeff Fisher

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Jane Austen

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Merv Griffin

I tell everybody that I’m a quatre-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

Martina Hingis

I feel a quarter Indian.

Meggie Ford

It's been like that all year. We always have one of those quarters when we don't play well.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Jim Coleman

We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joel Hollander

We're going to take a hit, no question about it.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Craig Fugate

We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.

Robert Shaffer

There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Charley Pride

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

Bobbi Brown

Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Charles L. Allen

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?