Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Keating

We want to provoke heat and debate and a closer look at the man and leader in full, not just the leader who has been raised to secular sainthood.

George Glynos

We have seen a recovery in the gold price and commodity currencies have consolidated slightly off their lows, which bodes well for rand resilience. The rand could trade closer to 6.20/22/US$.

Joe Chandler

We have no specific information about what number of job cuts would be at BellSouth. That's going to be determined after the close of the merger.

Tony Blair

We have never come this far before. We've never been this close to a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland,

Edwin P. Whipple

Whenever you find humor, you find pathos close by his side

Anthony Johnson

Whenever we're playing teams that don't have good records, we play well for three quarters, but we don't close them out down the stretch.

Phil Long

When your goals seem too difficult to reach..... move the posts closer

Dave Auday

When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen.

Neil Craig

We were trying to be too precise, too perfect. Close finals football is not about perfection.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Tim Loomis

We wanted to wait until the second half to do what we needed to do to stop him.

Josh Beckett

We've still got little more than half a month to go, probably three-quarters of a month actually. We've got to keep winning. This thing ain't over yet.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Jason Hafner

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Bruce Morrow

We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,

Tom Hopper

London's so busy, London's manic half the time.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Eugene Fama

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Jane Austen

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Paul Friel

We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.

Scott Howell

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Ashwin Sanghi

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Mike Myers

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Elizabeth Wilson

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Eric Carr

We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

Brian Dawkins

We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon.

Bobby Bowden

When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Kami Roeder

We've seen them play, played them twice, and we know what they're all about.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

David Warrick

We'll just have to regroup and look at things in a different way.

Jim Wiscombe

We need to regroup and come back tomorrow for Emery.

Jacques Martin

It's very disappointing. We have some time to regroup ... look at the game, see what we need to be better at.

Ron Allen

It was unfortunate, but we have to look forward. ... We'll regroup and find a way to get better.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Clint Hurdle

We've seen him play short and how he can play there. We want to keep getting a feel for him at second base.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.