Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Mike Massucci

Our overtime loss at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard last Friday was devastating. It was a game that we believed we should have won. I was interested to see how the team would react tonight. The players came out really focused. They played with intensity.

Renato Reyes

patently illegal because it would curtail peoples right to express themselves in what is believed to be a historic rally site and freedom park.

Travis Hannah

Our kids were ticked off at halftime. By the time we left the locker room, we believed we could win it, though.

Brad Lavigne

Surely they can show us where Martin said these things he says he's always believed in.

Alberto Gonzales

Some in this country mistakenly believed it could not happen here, ... Today we have chilling evidence that it is possible.

H. Hunt

Our team believed that all year long (we were the best in conference). Even with the two regular season conference losses we truly felt that it was our tournament to win.

Kyle Ellingson

Our girls have been through it before. They know what they have to do. They managed to stay calm. We believed we were going to win. That's a sign of a team with character.

Patrick Cinotte

Overall, defensively, we've been solid all year. I've always believed that defense wins championships.

Steve Schuler

Our bench play has been a positive for us of late. The kids believed it when I told them I'd put them in a position to succeed.

Nora Martinez

Patty Kelly fought very hard to keep it in the family and to keep it open. She wanted to keep it part of Hoboken.

Shintaro Ishihara

Part of her must feel carefree, relieved, now that she has left the imperial family and become a commoner. I want to set up an opportunity so that she can get a taste of this.

Harris Pastides

Our medical school puts the highest percentage of graduates into pediatrics and family practice in the country.

Marion Jones

Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.

Mike Strauss

People need to sign up to be organ donors, but then they need to talk to their family about it so there is no question what to do with your organs.

Liz Harrison

People have passed on wonderful family trips, family reunions, missed funerals, missed weddings.

Wendy Rosenbach

People have larger tracts of land and they'll hunt it themselves or have family and friends hunt it.

Kendall Simmons

People in his family have diabetes, so he knew what I was going through, and he talked to me about it. On other teams, when they find out you have it, it's like you have a handicap and you become a liability. They don't even give you a chance.

Tommy Hutton

People may see this and judge without really knowing the stuff he's gone through the last few years. My wife and I went to see him and his family after his son died. He was very quiet. At a time like that, all you can do as a friend is just be there.

Patrick Arney

That's what it's all about. No one knows what's going on right away. You don't know grades or transfers or graduations, so that's why we play these games.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Jim Lampe

There are 20 grades of turkey breast available. We use the top of the line.

Sandra Ford

We're very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Brenda Taylor

These people are going to be judging you, and no matter what I say, these grades are going to be final. I need all of your attention. I need 120 percent of your effort.

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Rod Smith

Somehow, in Arkansas, I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

David Gibb

Our secondary grew up a little in the second half. There were some positive things going on.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Daniela Ruah

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Greg Davis

I think they grew up, and they took a huge step toward maturity.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

James Nesbitt

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Celine Buckens

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

Al Pacino

I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old!

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Kadiatou Diallo

I don't know what went wrong that night. I just know that he (Amadou) was in the right place because he lived here, ... He was going in the place where he lived.

Orhan Pamuk

I am a Turk. I've lived in Turkey for 43 years, and for that reason my political observations are about Turkey, because that's what I know.

Ben Bernanke

He lived with us for 24 years, ... He studied with us.

Steve Nash

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Stella McCartney

For years, the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house.

Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

Phil Jackson

That was something to behold. That was at another level. I've seen some remarkable things before, but I've never seen anything like that.

John Banville

I thought it was remarkable on his part to be so generous.

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens.

Gilbert Metcalf

He made a bet. I think he was successful. That was a remarkable achievement.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Joe Shields

We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Reggie Lewis

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

Maria Sharapova

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

Brandon Sing

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did today.

David Peterson

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did,

Matt Kuchar

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.