Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Blair

Let's just apologize and move on -- that's the sensible thing,

Marc Racicot

Sen. Kerry's statement ... in Illinois was unbecoming of a candidate for the presidency ... and ... we call on Senator Kerry to apologize to the American people for this negative attack.

Barack Obama

Mr. Bennett should immediately apologize to the nation for making a statement that clearly crossed the line.

Elias Bermudez

Mayor, I thank you very much for your understanding. I apologize on behalf of the Hispanic community and I want you to know that you have our support.

Mike Adkins

No disrespect or malice was intended by any of these comments, and we sincerely apologize for any misunderstandings that occurred.

Judy Cox

I wish to apologize to the family. I have no memory of anything.

Ryan Shimabukuro

Chris has nothing to prove. She's done everything in this sport. If these Olympics don't work out for her, she has nothing to apologize for. She's given back to the sport so much.

Dan Brown

I hate to apologize for living this long, but that seems to be what the issue is.

Angel Jr.

If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good, ... If I make her look bad, then I will apologize to her. But I don't think that's going to happen.

E. O. Wilson

Let's be honest now, he's a special kind of athlete. He's fast. He's strong. He's intelligent and hungry. And you don't find that all the time in different players. And especially finding all those attributes in one player.

Tony Giese

Making the All-America team for a second straight year shows how consistent Heather was for our program. This is quite an honor for an outstanding athlete.

Joe Alleva

Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The judgment of the team members to host and participate in this event is inconsistent with the values of Duke Athletics and Duke University and is unacceptable.

R. Robinson

From what I hear from the defensive players, he's a tremendous athlete. Hopefully we can keep him bottled up.

Rick Greenspan

There are many benefits to this partnership. Not only does it strengthen our football and basketball radio network, but it gives us a great vehicle to promote our comprehensive athletics program.

Chris Roche

One of the great things about athletics is that it really tests your character. I'm eager to see how we respond this week. Not in terms of wins, losses, league championships, or anything like that, but in terms of our team competitiveness. Our team pride. Our guts. Are we going to shy away from these challenges, or are we going to stand up and fight?

Tyler Christopher

I was finally given the right help and the right opportunities and I came through. (Tyler) and I have been working together with help from Athletics Canada, this is the year.

Mark Pease

If we're punished, we're punished. My greater concern is how Camden High athletics is perceived.

Bob Bratkowski

Chris is an explosive athlete. He does give us those options.

Allan Lichtman

selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.

Don Aaron

Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, economy is an old-fashioned thing. It savors of horse and buggy days. I am only too glad, however, to say a few words in behalf of economy, for in economy, in frugality, and in the thrift of our Government I think we shall ultimately find ourselves and our salvation.

Les Kotzer

More often, it's the lawyers who have to work it out. And once a lawyer gets between your kids -- say the lawyer sends a letter to a sister on behalf of a brother -- their relationship won't be the same anymore.

Steve Lapham

Maybe it was early season jitters on behalf of some of these guys who are playing in their first real rugby match. Those butterflies should be gone after the first couple of hits.

Chad Cluver

No, I don't think it's hit until I got into this gym. But now it's starting to hit pretty hard. On behalf of the players, coaches and managers, um, wow ? the support from this community is unbelievable.

Mark Shapiro

Obviously, this is a unique and significant commitment on behalf of ownership. Grady is one of our more unique guys. The level of commitment is distinct on both sides.

Nancy Lieberman

I can?t see Geno leaving; they couldn?t even come close to matching his salary. I think people should reach for the sky, I don?t think there?s anything wrong with that. I think that?s a very smart move on behalf of Phoenix.

John Furlong

From one Olympic city to another, we salute London. The years of hard work, dedication and planning on behalf of the London bid team have resulted in a fantastic choice for the 2012 Summer Games,

Italo Calvino

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Mike Schroepfer

Luckily we do not have any known use of this exploit, but it is fairly critical if there were to be (an attack), so this is a recommended download.

David Carroll

Liberia is an important piece of the regional puzzle. This election comes at a critical moment.

John Wicks

Losing that lead was critical as it gave them momentum to open the second half.

Konstantin Sapronov

Many major manufacturers have either already developed or (are) planning to offer devices with Linux. The only thing that is needed to encourage the evolution of Linux mobile is a critical mass of users.

Kim Gandy

Many of us think of her as one of the mothers of the modern women's movement. She played a very pivotal, very critical role in launching the second wave of the modern women's movement.

Manmohan Singh

So far we have reports of 50 dead and 15 critically injured.

Bobby Pierce

Mike was not sharp. He missed some spots on critical counts. He can pitch better, and he will.

Dr. Shannon

Mr. McCloy remains in critical but stable condition. He had an uneventful night.

Eric Gutierrez

Luis pitched a super in the first game. We got some key hits and one helpful error from them to help put the five runs up in the third inning.

Clint Hurdle

Numbers speaking, he made one error the whole time he was at shortstop, which speaks volumes. He handled himself remarkably well. He showed major-league poise.

Terri Holmes

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Bob Hartley

Obviously, this is a tough loss. Our margin for error is real small and we're going to have to run the table.

Democritus

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Deborah Sampson

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

Edgar Allan Poe

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

Lord Chesterfield

If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people

Dick Taylor

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

Roy Williams

Let's be honest, we made shots. When you make shots, the whole game looks prettier.

Paul Maguire

Let's be honest, this is a game where The Citadel gets a nice paycheck.

Werner Erhard

Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more importantthan something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.

Reggie Torbor

Luckily we all can play a lot of positions or we'd be in trouble right now. But we can't send the commissioner a letter and say, 'We've got some people hurt. Let us play Wednesday.' The game is going to go on.

Gregg Bahen

Lucky for us, games are played on the field. It was a physical game and our kids are going to be sore tomorrow, but, without a doubt, they'll be happy tomorrow.

Craig Faire

Mackenzie played phenomenal here. She really stepped up her game.

Bussy Adam

(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.

Matt Strophy

Mackenzie got the game ball. This was her first game back from an MCL/ACL tear in August.

Jena Torres

Let's just say we've had a lot of five-inning games this year.

Italo Calvino

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Denny Leathers

Lucas did a nice job. He started out not looking so good, but got stronger and stronger. He got most of his strikeouts late in the game.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

Wayne Wonder

My first time in the studio was in '85 but I didn't actually record in '85. I started recording the right way in the late part of '87-'88.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

Norman Black

We are making a very substantial proposal here that we think the union members would applaud,

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Dr. Fauci

It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken.

Al Johnson

There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred in 2004 and a 40 percent reduction from 1998's 65 fatalities.

Jonathan Diamond

We are disappointed in the verdict and will be reviewing our options.

Richard Head

Those who have been reviewing their statements have seen no unusual activity.

Mark Greene

The time for talking and reviewing and studying is over. I don't want us to wait until it's too late.

Stephen Minarik

I spoke with him yesterday and he said he was reviewing whether or not to run.

George Gwozdecky

If we did, it wasn't a scoring chance. I'm not disappointed at the loss, I'm disappointed in the way we performed.

Mike Ward

She did things for us that will not show up in the scoring column.

Rick Anthony

We are scoring in bunches and getting them from everywhere.

Mike Eaves

Three of them (in the second period) were Grade-A scoring chances.

Billy Donovan

He hasn't had big scoring nights. But he's also done other things.

Ray Allen

For most of us, when we see them scoring fast, we feel like it's all right to do the same thing on our end. It doesn't get any better.

Jeff Ackermann

I think we're a better scoring team than we showed tonight. I know we're a better shooting team than we showed tonight.

Jason Tapp

I don't think I've ever had a three-game scoring streak before.

Brent Norberg

We've got to get some more scoring out of other guys.

Doug Harvey

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Charles Olson

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

Dizzy Dean

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Al Barlick

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Bill Polian

If we come to Wednesday with no agreement, it will be a different market.

Graeme Souness

Fortunately for England, he will be fine. By about Wednesday or Thursday, he should be okay.