Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Sanders

Reese Morgan (a Hawkeye assistant coach) came and talked to me and Chris Aldrich and asked us to walk on there,

Ken Jefferson

Recognizing that, in light of this incident as well as some previous incidents with persons impersonating officers, we're subject to be asked for that and we have the patience that we need to calm that person down.

Nigel Hamilton

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

Jacques Chirac

President Bush asked me if I was going to the session, and I said it was possible, and President Bush said 'I'd be happy to meet you on that occasion,' and I said 'naturally',

Lamar Alexander

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

Joe Thomas

Our question marks are the other three spots in the line. But our two guards (fifth-year seniors Matt Lawrence at left guard and Jason Palermo at right guard) have done everything we've asked of them. I feel very confident they'll be excellent at their positions.

John Wade

Or if one of them is asked to do eight double teams in a row, then he does it.

Roy Schmidt

Oregon was really the only high-major that stayed with him through thick and thin. I think it's a good choice for him. They will use all of his skills, and he won't be asked to do more than he is capable of.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pat was a different person. She asked about the children in the hospital, the food, their medical care, education. I liked her very much. She was always what I expected a president's wife to be. She was really down to earth, good to everyone in the Embassy, all the staff.

David Decker

Sure, we bought some too early, ... But take out calendar-year performances and look longer term. Over the time we've held them, those names have turned out to be pretty good investments for our shareholders.

David Gornall

Some of the reasons why people bought gold don't hold true anymore. Rising energy costs, inflation, the double deficit in the U.S. and geopolitical tension. None of them seem to be much of a problem.

Louise Bennett

Some of the people who bought tickets told us to keep the money.

Terry Davis

Some journalists may be silenced through intimidation, others may be bought into compliance, but the end result remains the same because democracy cannot properly function without media which is genuinely free of governmental interference and control.

Shigeru Endo

Some investors bought back debt that they sold on speculation consumer prices would post a gain.

Doc Sadler

That crowd was terrific. I don't know if we could have won the game without them. And I know there were people who couldn't come, sitting home by their radios, and they helped us, too. SMU is one of the top four teams in the conference and I'm glad we've got them out of the way. Our defense was key. Our defense is something we work hard on and something the kids have bought into. We also held them (the Mustangs) to only seven offensive rebounds. Doing that to a team like that is big.

Mark Driscoll

Our fans really stepped up for us; I thought they were great. I think we had about 3,500 fans there, and those who couldn't come still bought tickets and sent in money to help us. I feel really good about the whole experience.

Dan Zweifel

Play solid half-court defense, don't do anything fancy, really kind of dumb our offense down. The kids really bought into it.

H. Hart

Manuel has brought stability, he has bought long term predictability, he has brought pragmatism to the whole field of the budget and the economy.

DeLoss Dodds

Regardless, we are proud of our student-athletes, coaches and support staff who have worked at meeting the standards, but we are not satisfied with some of our numbers.

Judy Samaha

People know what I would do if that ever happened here. I have a frank conversation with my coaches about matters of sexual harassment. They know where I stand.

Larry Conley

Sure, there were times when I hated the man but like all great coaches he was a great teacher. He would settle for nothing less than our very best. That's what a coach should do.

Matt Hasselbeck

Some of those people are former players here. Some are coaches that have been around or people in the building. Or maybe it's just some of the people from Seattle who have followed the team since 1976. It would mean a great deal to them.

Mike Cox

Some kids are really good students in high school, but go where they like the coaches better, or like the facilities better. That's the trick question with the whole thing. What is that particular kid interested in? And what you find out, that's what you emphasize on that visit.

Kevin White

Our team has probably been the most resilient team in the history of college basketball. They've competed every night -- the players and coaches deserve the credit for that.

Shaun Heshka

Our team excels in the playoffs. A lot of it has to do with preparation; the coaches put in countless hours in on video. And then it comes down to detail and discipline.

Tim Curley

Our focus is 100 percent on this season ... I hope he coaches for a long time.

Herb Kohl

Our goal is obviously to get to the playoffs, but I hope we'll be more than that. I hope we get to the playoffs with a good seed, and we can win a round, maybe two rounds. In my mind, we're not a team that will be satisfied to be 41-41 or 40-42. We can do better. I think the guys feel that way, and I know the coaches feel that way.

Tim Gardner

Reggie can score. He wants to score and likes scoring. It's his defense that he needs to work on.

Drew Bledsoe

Really what they played was a similar style of defense to what they played last year when they went on the run. They gave up some yards here and there, but they tightened up when we got into scoring territory.

Jessica Davenport

Our outside game was really clicking, so they had to stretch the defense out and respect our 3-point shooting, and it opened it up in the middle for me.

Mark Gibson

Our quarterback will not play defense as long as I'm alive. ... Unless he's about 6-6 and 250. And our quarterback is not 6-6 and 250.

Tim Goers

Paris was playing us a tough game. And we made two many unforced turnovers. We talked about halftime about playing good, sound defense and eliminating our mistakes on offense.

Brian Morris

Our offense played a great game. But our defense really put on a show. The whole team played great defense tonight.

Leo Veleas

Our offense picked up our defense and pitching today.

Maurice Cheeks

Our offense is fine. Our defense is where's it's at. You have to put guys out there and show them how to play defense. We have to keep trying.

Paul Raspolich

Our offense helped out our defense today. We need to play more consistently in the field.

Bill Cowher

Our passing game has not been in sync, really, this entire preseason and it showed very evidently tonight.

Aaron McGruder

Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance. That's a power that you have to respect. And ultimately I respect it.

Ariel Sharon

Such threats are intolerable. In my entire life I have never surrendered to threats and I have no intention of starting now.

Diane Ninemire

Our team is way too good to be having two or three errors in a game. We should have just three or four for an entire tournament. Our goal is always to play errorless softball and I'm hoping that the things we did this week in practice will make that happen.

Jim Guest

Our team has been putting the pedal to the metal in practice on the beam. And it's not just the competitors, but the entire squad. We're happy with the way we performed and are looking forward to next week.

George H. W. Bush

Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house he's lost his entire house there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.

Laura Bush

Out of the rubble of Trent Lott's house - he's lost his entire house - there's going to be a fantastic house, ... And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.

Peter Russell

Our box-office take for Carmen exceeded the usual take for an entire season.

Ken Holland

Other than maybe two or three games right after the Olympic break, Manny has been very consistent, very solid the entire year. He has done a lot of winning for us.

Mamie Gummer

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

Dario Argento

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

Mari Yori

We played solid softball this weekend in all phases of the game. We couldn't have had a better tournament.

Lee Meyer

We'll get better, not only defensively, but in all phases of the game.

Constance Baker Motley

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

Dorothea Lange

I've never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning - but some phase of photographer I've always been.

Daria Werbowy

I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

Ariel Pink

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

Nick Bennenbroek

Part of the reason for the dollar's weakness today is positioning,

Lee Rainie

Part of the reason for that is resources,

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Graeme Smith

We never really got a reason from the umpires, I think that was probably the most frustrating part.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Andrew Strauss

I think there'll be a result and if we play like we have done there's no reason why we can't win it from this position,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Daniel Alfredsson

Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

C. S. Lewis

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Skip Bertman

That would be something very special. It's already been a very special season.

Jimmy Calderwood

That was very disappointing on such a special day,

Chris Chelios

I think it's pretty special and he's having a blast.

O. Henry

I think he could be a very special player.

Avery Johnson

I still think this can be a special season, but right now we are sputtering.

Donald Trump

I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.

Jason Elam

Part of you really wants it, and part of you, there's some stress there.

Bill Crawford

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

Bill Crawford

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.

Bill Crawford

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.

Bill Crawford

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

Bill Crawford

You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.

Bill Crawford

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Bill Crawford

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Carl Safina

We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Crawford

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

Bill Simmons

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

Bill Shankly

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Bill Shankly

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.