Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Dan Bartlett

The plight of the Palestinians has always been on the president's mind and a part of his statements. But sometimes when we state our case not all of it gets out. So we reorder the priorities to make sure our entire policy and positions get out there.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

Joe Gibbs

We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament,

Grant Hedgepeth

We've actually run into one case that was well over $100,000 in damage and it's still a misdemeanor. That's bad.

Bob Bowlsby

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

Raheem Brock

We want to show our defense is going to be better.

David Korten

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Camille Paglia

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Bill Snyder

The positive side is that we put together about 12 minutes of play where our offense, defense and kicking game played probably as well as we could play at this particular point of the season. That was only 12 or so minutes, though.

Guy Greening

We are pretty strong at defense and midfielder.

Pam Adams

We've always been known for our defense. We have so many seniors and they've worked so hard. Defense is just what we try to do.

Tyrell Sutton

We've all had a month to prepare for this game, so they've all been studying us in and out. Everyone hyped this up to be an offensive game, and definitely the defense stepped up better than the offense did.

Hill Denson

We usually play better defense than that. That's usually the thing that keeps us in games.

Jack Smith

We started playing better on defense and I think Eagle Valley got a little worn down. In the third and fourth quarters, they (Rifle) kept the intensity up, which I appreciate.

Dave Barry

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

Dave Barry

I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

David Talbot

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

Carl Hiaasen

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

John Anderson

We're not going to play differently because it's Florida State. We're going to be a team that's going to steal; we're going to put runners in motion.

Billy Gardell

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

Betty White

I always tape my Christmas show in advance. That way I can spend the season of joy and goodwill with my only sister in Florida. She’s kinda a creep but she’s got a pool.

Helen Pitts

When we got her down to Florida and started training her, it didn't look like she'd lost that much.

Cheyenne Trussell

We faxed the application to about 12 other (state high school) associations, and Florida was one that posted it.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Denise Juneau

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Bob McKenzie

There are a lot of considerations, especially on a road that is as traveled as I-15.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

Brad Paisley

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

Bryan Singer

The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Michael London

We've always, always, always wanted to shoot in Pittsburgh.

Steve Carell

We've already shot two episodes, and I'm going back soon to shoot a third,

Rich Lyons

When we don't shoot well, and don't get back on defense, we have problems. We hurried some shots.

Scott Hamilton

We're shooting to have it as soon as possible.

Kerry Greenwood

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Jon Snow

Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

Daryll Hill

Shoot or pass. It was in between. I should have shot it, but I made a pass.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Guan Yi

We really have no idea what is going on now in southern China.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Arnold Palmer

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Tim Donovan

Whether you have to go to Groveland or Timbuktu, ... there should always be an official. It's tough to find volunteers.

Avery Johnson

We're making progress, but it was just a tough loss.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know (what to do), ... If we have to make a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know, ... If it's a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision. But I don't know what we're going to do. Mel has written it down all the way to the end of the season, but there are a lot of scratch-outs.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.