Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Papa

We have a special group of athletes on our team this year with a strong nucleus of athletes that compete to the best of their abilities every single meet.

Scott Jackson

Whenever you have people in the community knowing that all the professional athletes are interested in the community and not just here part-time, that they care, I think it helps. And I think it helps that the Devil Rays are here for Spring Training and the regular season.

Scott Cowen

We want our athletes to carry the torch, face, and name of Tulane University during this difficult time.

Alan Thompson

We have picked a team of athletes who we believe will benefit from this type of intense competition in the lead-up to the 2007 FINA world championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Frank Uryasz

We've seen significant improvements regarding drug use in sport, and we're very pleased with how far we've come in this area. The studies show us that most athletes do not use drugs.

Ron Brant

There are a lot of countries flying in just to watch that meet. It'll be a first big step to it. You're going to put athletes together from different countries. Then you're going to be able to compare differently designed routines. Then you're going to see judges from different countries sit down together and compare.

Scott Fujita

It's important for closet gay athletes everywhere, not just at the professional level, but more importantly athletes at the younger level in high school and college, to understand they do have support around them and that they can come out and feel comfortable. And honestly, that is going to help save lives.

Tim Tebow

At the end of the day, everything is God's plan, and he cares about what we do. He cares about our hearts, how we play the game, and how we treat people. He's definitely involved with how we handle sports and not just the outcome of it. I'm proud when athletes mention God in any way.

Fred Davis

We are going to look at how many athletes or drivers tested positive, as opposed to the normal student population.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Miguel Nicolelis

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

Evan Hirsche

We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.

Chinua Achebe

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Cam Newton

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.

Catfish Hunter

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

William Shakespeare

in black ink my love may still shine bright.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

David Gower

As they say the sun shines on the righteous.

Bryan Cranston

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

Nhat Hanh

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

John Webster

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.