Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Sugar

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Jim Fiore

We have phenomenal resources, we put a half-million into new lockers, we're building a weight room and new academic center, ... We are doing a lot of the foundation work to get us prepared.

Kenneth Womack

When I figured out this was the first broad-based academic activity to do with Bruce, I was kind of shocked.

Andrew Joudrey

When I visited Wisconsin, I fell in love with the place. I liked the academics and the fact it had Big Ten sports. So I called Maine because I didn't want them to waste their money on me.

Mykal Riley

When I visited, I liked the coaches and all the players. I like the academic programs they have, too.

Sarah Steele

Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.

Abby Wambach

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

Michael Kelly

When I was an undergraduate 30 years ago, the only role model was to become an academic like the people teaching us.

Ed Speleers

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.

Terry Edwards

We want to scale this across the community of users in a systematic approach to ensure we keep in mind the users' needs and requirements.

Adam Mackillop

We have seen buying across products and client types. But clearly they're being overwhelmed by the selling in New York.

David Allen

We have seen bears in the trees across from Signal Hill Elementary. Some fruit-bearing trees don't attract bears such as cherry trees because the fruit is quite small.

David Sandor

We have seen across all genders a very healthy increase in home improvement projects, particularly those geared toward the inside of the home.

Shaukat Aziz

We have as of last night opened relief centers on various proposed points of movement across the Line of Control,

Ian Shepherdson

We have no real idea what the number next week will be, but we can be pretty sure that for the next few weeks the data will tell us next to nothing about the state of the economy across the country outside the areas hit by the storm.

Gary Sheffer

We have no layoff targets and no company-wide numbers. We never announce overall layoffs because we don't plan for them across GE. We leave it up to individual businesses to decide what actions are necessary to meet their objectives. However, it's clear we'll need fewer jobs at GE because of redundancies from the Honeywell acquisition, the Montgomery Ward bankruptcy, modest volume-related reductions and GE's digitization activities.

Alastair Reynolds

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Jay Remy

We want parents to talk to kids. It's free speech. We can't stop students from participating. But if they do this, first of all, it's skipping school. And second, talk to them about safety. If you're walking across town, be careful.

W. S. Gilbert

We have no seniors. We have a young and athletic team. I think this is the year we'll turn the corner.

Pedrito Estrill

We have never received this magnitude of funding for physical education or for athletics overall. It was a sacrifice, but it was a sacrifice in my opinion that worked very well because of all the things we gained by calling this wildcat strike.

Ed DeChellis

We were trying to run at him and make him get the ball to someone else to make some shots but he's very good. He scores the basketball when he has the ball in his hands, and he's very quick and he's very athletic and it's tough to keep the ball out of his hands.

Tom Davis

We have quickness, we have athletic ability, good hands and good heads. We just don't have good games.

Boyd Browning

There is certainly significant quality in our book both in terms of the quality of the horses at the end of the shank and in their racetrack performance. We had a bunch of horses that worked well during our first under tack show, they looked good doing it, and they look good when you go to the barn. In the 2-year-old sales, you've got to pass all three tests, and we had a number of horses that I thought passed all three tests with flying colors in the first preview. They have good conformation, they looked good on the video, and they worked within a reasonable timeframe in terms of demonstrating some level of athletic ability.

Sallie Beard

What we do have over at the stadium is only suitable for a brief meeting at pre-game and halftime. Both the home and visitors teams have to go from this building (Leggett & Platt Athletic Center) to that building.

Louise Taylor

We know France are exciting, quick, strong, organised and very athletic with good movement but I'm getting the videos of them in and we're very confident.

Elaine Irwin

I was a bit of a tomboy when I started modeling. And I've always felt athletic and strong.

Bo Ryan

We are not athletic or quick enough to be playing from behind. These guys know it, and the coaching staff knows it. Boy, did (Arizona) play well.

Michel Therrien

We want to put the puck on net a little bit more. There were times we did it, there were times we could have done it more.

Munir Akram

We have said right from the start, without negotiations, the document is not going anywhere. So we're happy finally that there's a recognition there has to be face-to-face negotiations. These will be difficult, these are a bit late. But it's not an impossible task,

J. C. Watts

We have to get a junior hockey franchise put together from top to bottom. We're looking forward to it, but that year and a bit is going to go by in a hurry.

Freddy Adu

Whenever you get the chance to represent your country in a World Cup, it's a great honor. It's a chance to show the world what you've got. I'm looking forward to it. I do wish, though, that I would be able to stay here and play with D.C. a little bit more, because this is an important stretch for us right now.

Helio Castroneves

When everyone jokes about (taking chances), there's a little bit of truth to it, ... Hopefully people have learned from what happened (at Sonoma).

Ron Wilson

Whenever we play L.A., we look at their stats and they're one of the most penalized teams in the league. They play hard all the time, right on the edge. So you've got to expect to get power plays. We lost a little bit of our discipline in the third period and had to kill some too, but in the first two periods, we kept on task.

Andre Agassi

When you see a little bit of that edge off, when he comes down into just warp speed, it gives you a little breath of life.

Brett Morgan

When you see a 12-year-old kid winning national races, you can see a little bit of that. But they're not like that.

Christopher Reid

When you scan a document it takes quite a bit of space -- 1/2 a megabyte or even a megabyte per page.

Becky Hammon

We have to get to the offensive glass. We didn't crash the boards when we should have. We settled for jumpers instead of getting to the line.

Richard Tillis

We were billed at the end of the last fiscal year, and I've toyed with this for quite some time. I've just need to get direction from the board to see if you all see something I don't.

John Biggs

The creation of the special committee reflects the serious commitment by all of our trustees to ensure that the J. Paul Getty Trust, its board and each of its members and employees meets all legal requirements as well as the highest ethical standards while carrying out the trust's mission,

Javier Solana

There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.

Susan Russell

The people leading the split claim they are representing people in the pews, but these are the same people who in 1954 would split the church over our support of Brown v. Board of Education and who would have split the church in 1976 over the issue of women's ordination. The issue now is gays and lesbians -- it's all part of the same struggle.

Trinny Woodall

I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school.

Tony Hawk

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

Pig Miller

We know Gary will go to the boards and will press. We've got to turn it into our style of game and get out and run.

Paul Proctor

Ultimately the change has to come from the board down.

C. S. Lewis

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

C. S. Lewis

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.

Richard Clarke

We want to provide a link between the classroom environment and what you are doing outside of the classroom.

Kim Anderson

We have no idea how to classify ourselves. We pull from everything -- rock, hardcore, punk, indie.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Greg Amundson

Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.

Wendy Kopp

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Jeff Judkins

When you're up 25 points, you pull your starters out with 1:54 left in the game. It's a classy way. You don't need to rub it in.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Sasho Cirovski

We have purposefully put together a tough spring schedule to help us prepare for next fall. We are trying to get our players used to playing in pressure situations.

Ken Hitchcock

We have players who played for the Phantoms last year who do a lot of things really well that are going to help us,

Darrell Dickey

We have played the 3-4 some in the past and are looking at using it more. We think it will help us get some of our better players on the field.

Eric Hyman

We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

Javier Vazquez

The expectations are here, they want to (repeat) again. I want to help as much as I can to do it again.

Arlen Kantarian

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

Lou Davis

We have no sour grapes. We're looking to the future.

Fred Thompson

We have no idea at this time (why he killed himself), ... But we are looking into it.

Neil Shubin

We were always looking over our shoulders; we saw lots of tracks.

Lisa Dutton

We were always looking for the open player. Sometimes we took a shot too soon.

Jeremy Sweet

We were always looking around for cottonmouth, rattlesnakes and alligators.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Jason Koumas

We've still got a lot to play for and we're looking to win in Poland, definitely,

Adolf Rosenstock

The outlook for recovery is fading. We are looking at another possible recession in manufacturing which would not bode well for the overall economy.

David Young

Ulster will be a much tougher side than Connacht so we will be looking for big improvements.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Trevor Carritt

Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.

Nic Beaver

We have to be solid between our ears. If we play our game, I'm not worried at all.

Martin Pyykkonen

This seems, on balance, a solid report, with nothing wrong in the quarter,

John Blackburn

We competed well in non-conference play and have had solid practices.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Byron Katie

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Bruce Tulgan

Leverage your uniqueness.

Jane Austen

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!