Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Hitchcock

We know how important Game 3 is and know we're down 2-0. It was a frustrating loss for everybody. And we acted emotionally, me included.

Viktor Yushchenko

The plot . . . involved discussion of the ownership of one of the major Ukrainian TV channels and in order to bring about this, the prime minister acted in such a manner,

Robert McGowan

We've acted properly in this office, ... I understand the pressures and I understand this group just wants to pay less taxes. If you want to be an assessor and can't take the heat, don't do the job.

Bill Harrison

We acted properly and with integrity in all Enron matters, ... We have not knowingly assisted Enron or any other company in misrepresenting facts about their financial condition.

Kofi Annan

We acted on the report as soon as it came out, ... This is not the end. It is the beginning and we'll act on the other branches of the report as they come out.

Glory Slater

We acted like social services, just giving the ball away.

Carlos Ramirez

We acted in the best interest of the institution, ... Our intentions were good and we didn't think we were in violation of our lease. We have always had good relations with the schools and we want to maintain that relation - it's important for the community.

Parris Glendening

until the study is reviewed and acted upon by the legislature, which I expect to take about one year.

Giselle Davies

We respect the CAS decision. The IOC had acted at the time based on advice from WADA that the substance was prohibited.

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Sarah Lowe

We knew they were talented. We didn't come out with the focus and composure we needed against a team like that.

David McClure

We knew they were good three-point shooters and we knew they were real good running their set plays against man (defense). We wanted to try and see how they would do against a zone and it worked for us tonight." ()

Phil Murphy

We knew they were fast and we still panicked. We would have liked a little more time, but you don't get that against a team like that.

Jeff Mittie

We knew they hadn't been going to their bench as much, but all their players are dangerous. They obviously had a lot of reserves step up against us. Their depth makes them a much tougher team.

John Pearson

We knew they'd press. We didn't handle the ball as well as we wanted and dug ourselves a huge hole. Against Hilton Head Prep, you can't pull yourself back from that far. I thought we put ourselves in position to win.

Paul Lundberg

We knew they could shoot. We'd seen them down by 17 against North Attleboro and cut it to a point.

Chris Davis

We know what we're up against with them. I think our kids that ran into them head-to-head showed that we're not too bad at wrestling either.

Dusty Baker

What thing with Tony? If there had been a thing, somebody would have thrown some blows or something. There was no thing. We had a discussion.

Martin Brodeur

We got used to not having him around. We really have a sense of what it's going to be like without Scott Stevens. At the same time we're going to have to learn about life without Scott Niedermayer, too. It's two tough blows to take if Scott (Stevens) doesn't come back.

Mike McGrath

Unfortunately, it also blows up real good, as the folks in Oklahoma City found out. Our food supplies are being fertilized with explosives.

Ned Riley

We've taken a couple of body blows and are still standing. And I think that's pretty encouraging.

David Stempler

We have heard no complaints yet. People are a little startled the first time. Your hair blows a bit.

Martin Brodeur

Scott Stevens is a big part of our hockey club. We've got used to not having him around and we really have a sense of that, but life without Scott (Niedermayer), too ... that's two tough blows to take.

Richard C. Armitage

I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.

Marlon Wayans

'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'

Richard Wagner

Freshly blows the wind homewards: my Irish child, where are you dwelling?

Mike Eaves

When you talk about big players you talk about Brian Elliott.

Matt Kujovsky

We wanted to throw more but the line just wasn't giving Brian protection so I didn't feel confident with it.

Jim Bowden

We were counting on 200 innings from Brian this year.

Bruce Allen

We hope to have Chris and Brian next season. We would not have won the division without either one of them.

Mark Fenton

James and Brian have been around for a long time, and I'm looking forward to seeing what Bernard's going to do. It shouldn't be that big of a change.

Oregan Hoskins

I think it needs to go ahead. It needs to give Brian a fair trial and a chance to clear his name.

David Hayes

It is an intriguing race. I wouldn't swap my horses but Miss Finland is the pick of mine and I think Brian Mayfield-Smith's horse is the hardest to beat.

Jim Boehne

I think either way --if he got drafted or he didn't -- it's good for our program. It's great for this year and I'm excited to have him back. I think the world of Brian and whatever happens for him, it's hard work that's made him the player he is.

Peter Magowan

I suppose I could get disenchanted with Brian with poor results. In this game, people have to stand on their record. He knows that. That's the way it is in baseball. But I expect Brian always to do well. He's smart, he's creative, he works hard and he's got a good team of people around him.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Francis Bacon

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

Stephen Jones

We've tried to duplicate the problem but haven't been able to. We haven't had problems with the systems in the five elections we've used it, but we're concerned about what caused this.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Brad Wilson

We don't have any details on what caused it,

Toni Atkins

What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.

Bob Hofman

We gutted it out. We had a poor first half. But we played a lot better in the second half. We really picked up on defense and caused a lot of turnovers.

Mark Davis

Union Pacific apologizes for the inconveniences caused to Texarkana. Our hearts go out to the family that lost a person as a result of the derailment.

Gene Smith

We're sorry. We need to treat our visitors with class. But at the same time it's 105,000 people in a highly emotionally charged time frame. And there were a lot of Texas fans who had a great experience.

Todd Nelson

What he's charged with is irrelevant. We need to meet with our client.

Bill Thomas

We feel that he is making a very, very serious mistake in this case, that there are innocent young men whose lives can be ruined if they are charged in this case.

Stephen Cambone

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.

Larry McCarthy

Whenever you start an entirely new state bureaucracy like this initiative proposes, the costs always exceed initial estimates. When that happens, parents of preschool children could be charged a fee or the legislature could raise taxes on all Californians to keep the new bureaucracy going.

Frank Atkinson

When I charged a round in the chamber, he got down real fast,

Bill Cunningham

We have identified a suspect, but he has not been charged yet.

Tommy Walker

She was charged with making sure students stayed in school. Most of the time, she was at folks' houses, talking to parents about the importance of keeping their children in school. Education was always important to Juanita.

Jenell Atlas

She's not going to be charged because she's a victim and she's scared. It wouldn't serve anything to put her in jail.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

Ahmed Akkari

We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it.

Evan Katz

We know we take liberties in that regard, but CTU clearly is a very efficient and effective (agency). And we're frankly honored and lucky to be working with them.

Frank Lampard

We know we're not quite there yet, last year was a fantastic day for us here. It was a big step towards winning it today. We're the ones nine points clear and as long as we do our job we're going to win the league. We got the result, we're nearly there.

S. Walker

Ultimately, there will be some standardization within communities, and it's not clear to consumers who will win in their areas.

David Leavy

Ultimately, the decision is theirs to make. Our responsibility, from our vantage point, is to make clear the risks.

Laurie Arron

Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Jay Staggs

We lacked heart, effort and passion, which really concerns me considering this was a huge league game for us and we did not show up wanting to win.

Bubba Franks

We know we're not that far out of it, but all we're concerned with is winning games. And that's going to happen one game at a time,

Rick Carlisle

We know he's going to play because he plays, but we're concerned about it because it is his shooting hand.

John Street

very concerned that all of his years of public service are going to be compromised by the current situation.

Jack Straw

very concerned indeed about the human rights situation.

Steny Hoyer

very concerned by OPM's announcement tonight of a significant increase in health insurance premium costs.

Kofi Annan

very concerned about the military build-up and expressed his readiness for dialogue.

Carlton Dotson

very concerned about his well-being at this time.

Kyle Wilson

Uh, no. I don't have any concerns as far as that goes. I don't really want to talk about it. But I'm not concerned.

Charlie Daniels

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Charles Tupper

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Taylor

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Sumner

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Doug Nelson

At this point, we're investigating this as a possible homicide of a 26-year-old Webster woman,

Phil Robinson

It's a miracle we're not trying a homicide case,

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Deborah Levine

We want to raise awareness. For those who find out they are positive, we want to get them into care. For those who are negative, but are involved in high-risk behavior, we want to get them into prevention programs so that they learn to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there who don't think they are at risk.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Jamie Carragher

We're involved in six this year and this is the first.

John Tortorella

We're getting ready for playoffs. I'm not going to get too involved in this game. ... We'll be ready to play. We're right where we want to be.

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Jamie Shea

We have reports that soldiers were also involved in the casualties, not simply civilians.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

Guy Ritchie

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Ed Helms

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Rich Rodriguez

Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it.

Cliff Herberg

Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Mark Snyder

Somebody is going to have to play that hasn't been out there.

Larry Morandi

Legislators are going to have a tough time striking that balance.

Chris Shelton

I'm striking out way too much. I'm not making any adjustments, either.

Scott Gomez

It's like striking out in baseball. It's a long way back to the bench.

Andrew Cuomo

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.

George Soros

It's a very, very troubling and troublesome development.

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

Thomas Harrison

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

Crystal Candy

It was very well lit. We have a lot of witnesses and there's the surveillance camera.