Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Dobson

Paul is a good friend of mine and I really wanted to support all the people who have put together this race. It's a big deal for Pensacola to have this. I wasn't looking forward to calling (Paul) and telling him I couldn't run, but there really was no other alternative. I had to do it.

Dianna Booher

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling . . . An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Mike McCormick

People have been calling me that, but I deny it." ()

Jeff Petersen

People have been calling KCSU and requesting our songs, that's awesome.

Gloria Davis

People have really been nice in calling and sharing their concern.

Riley Wallace

Our power guys inside, I'm calling them floaters now because there's no power. We're not scoring in the paint.

John Tait

Our suppliers are mostly down east, and when we were calling saying we need 140 hippos, the first question is, 'What are you doing with all these hippos?' It's funny, because down there there's no demand for it.

Julia McCray

Our fund-raiser tells us that it can take three, four or five meetings before you get companies to commit (to a project like this), which could take four to eight months. But he was really encouraged by their response. He had people calling him the day after the show." ()

Walt Fricke

Our campaign is designed to reach out to this 50 percent -- those who are uncomfortable calling their mortgage company.

Hines Ward

Relieved? Yes, ... I dont wish this on anybody. It was very hard to go out onto the field with peace of mind knowing that youre so close. I can go into the season focused now.

Jerome Bettis

Our quarterback has been incredible. His development on the field is the reason we're here.

Charlie Bell

Our offensive line was outstanding, our open field tackling was improved and our inside linebacker play was improved.

Herman Edwards

Our mindset was to get him in the game to kick field goals and he did that,

Herman Edwards

Our mind-set was to get him in the game to kick field goals, and he did that.

David Rehr

Our middles didn't do much the last time we played them. In our previous two matches (against Lee), Haley had 16 kills and our other two middles each had one, so we doubled our middle totals because that's something Lee hadn't seen before. They were worried about our outside hitters because they had a field day before.

Joe Tiller

Surprisingly, the injury isn't too serious. We thought he might have been able to hold for field goals but he wasn't able to.

Richard Barnes

States can be leaders in the field of biotechnology while holding firm to moral principles and the protection of human life.

Howard Wolfson

Spitzer has been raising money for a while, whereas Pataki's indecision froze the field and prevented Republicans from raising money until relatively late in the game.

Tony Blair

It is also perhaps fitting that here in Northern Ireland a good part of our discussions focused on the Middle East,

Alan Ayckbourn

it couldn't have happened to a nicer person and it's a most fitting award.

Kevin Harvick

It couldn't be more fitting to have it go this way. It's been tough, but we got to keep doing what were doing. That's what Johnny would want us to do, and that's what we're going to do.

Justin Bocot

I talk to him. I tell him I know it's going to be hard the first two years fitting in. He was the star of his eighth-grade team. He's in the same spot as me. I talk to him about my experiences and tell him what not to do.

Tomas Brock

I think it's fitting our style more. At least lately, anyway.

Steve Noworyta

He's a rookie in this camp, but you can't tell the difference. To me, that shows a lot. He's fitting right in and looks like he should be here.

Bob Gumbita

He's just fitting right into our program. It's their first year, but they're great athletes.

Wesley Smith

He's fitting in well at the singles position. He makes his opponents work hard, and he never goes down without a fight.

Tim Funkhouser

He was impressive. He's really fitting into that role well.

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

B. J. Novak

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Cecelia Ahern

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?

Cecelia Ahern

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

Bill Bryson

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Other women see all the women I play as separate people. Men say, She always plays tough, willful types; strong women who are also vulnerable.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Kip Rhoten

That's what he can do when he wants to. When he plays like he did tonight, we're tough.

Joe Gibbs

I think it was one of the prettiest plays I've ever seen,

Nicklas Lidstrom

I think we can make it tougher on him out there, make him skate a little more. He's going to make plays out there. We can get on him quicker, not give him that time with the puck.

Rod Smith

I tell all the young guys, when it's all done, it's about performance. When you get the chance, you have to make some plays . . . that's just the way it is.

Brad Harman

I feel we're about where we should be. This year's non-district schedule is about as tough as we've ever played.

Danny Wuerffel

If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play.

Ted Sundquist

We're on schedule and will be under the cap.

Kirk Lewis

We're on a totally different schedule on testing day.

G. H. Hardy

We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.

Bill Hybels

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Teemu Selanne

This schedule is unbelievable. I don't know what kind of Superman you have to be to stay healthy.

Tim Parmeter

We've got the right schedule for us down the stretch to see if we're going to have a chance.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.