Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Cameron Bennerman

We're not crazy, we know that teams in this conference are going to fight back tooth-and-nail. They've got good players and they did that.

Ernie Nestor

Like every team, we want to go to the NCAA tournament. Our seeding for the conference tournament is very important, as is the way you're playing. Hopefully, we'll have those in our favor when it counts.

Chris Grinde

Losing that game means if we are going to win a conference championship, we don't have any room for error any more. We probably need to win all of them.

Larry Eustachy

Look, UTEP was 11-3 in the conference for a reason. They had a lot to do in the difference in winning and losing. UTEP is a tournament-type team.

Brent Gentry

Last year, some of the money went toward their conference title rings. They use the money for many things - maybe a meal on the road. It's just a way to help the team.

Bob Scucci

Seattle was expected to win. Pittsburgh went through the one, two, and three seeds, and a lot of people think the AFC from top-to-bottom was a lot better conference than the NFC.

Rick Pitino

Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and probably Creighton and Missouri State should be in (the NCAA Tournament).

Jason Long

One of the things I've done is take our players into the gym where they hang up banners for every sport that wins a conference or section title. I tell the kids, 'Look around. Do you see anything for football?' There's nothing.

Scott Wofford

One of our big goals is to be conference champions. We're going to have to work hard to get where we want to be.

Mike Gill

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Randy Rutledge

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.

Henry Bibby

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Kit Bond

Let me be clear: The National Guard is being fully active, not only in the work they are doing overseas but in their homeland defense activities.

Marcus Johnson

Lots of time we'd come down and make one call, then the defense would be something we didn't expect and we'd have to make another call. It gets tough but we just need to get better at it.

Jerry Moore

Last year was a struggle in a lot of ways, ... Defense really hurt us last year. We're used to some pretty tough defenses, and that wasn't the case.

Raheem Brock

Last year, the defense was young and inexperienced and the linebackers moved around in different positions. Everybody's used to playing where they're at and we're communicating well.

Dennis Fowler

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today,

Lonnie Lawrence

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jim Grobe

Last year was just one of those years when we didn't have a lot of old guys - and I'm talking about seniors in that mix. And some of the young guys, quite frankly, I don't think were tough enough to play.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

Tyler Perry

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

Monica Johnson

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.

Tom Epstein

We want to wrap this up by the end of the month.

David Levithan

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

Ken Hitchcock

We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,

Keith Kameg

This could have been wrapped up that night.

Patti LaBelle

They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn't clap.

Mayor Goulbourne

It should all be wrapped up by week's end.

Jim Gaffigan

You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly