Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Mahoney

We applaud federal and state law enforcement for their tireless work in making these arrests concerning the Alabama church fires.

Daniel Pearl

We are pleased to have this opportunity to work with Mr. Williams and continue efforts in assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ... We continue to call on our associates and guests to keep helping our fellow residents of southern Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama during these difficult times.

Debbie Smith

We?re in San Francisco. She?s from Alabama and she knows where the Goodie Shop is. That?s because she grew up in Arlington.

Tanya Chaplin

We're going to focus on our own performance and not worry about what Stanford or Alabama is doing.

Antarrious Williams

We know we have two important games left in the season. A lot of people are going to ask us about Alabama, but we're not worried about Alabama right now. I'm like, 'Alabama who?' It's all about Georgia, and we're just getting ready for these 'Dogs.

Thomas H. Cook

I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers.

Ellen Gilchrist

My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.

Judy Green

When I came to the University of Alabama in 1996, I was given all the tools to develop the volleyball program. We have an effective and ongoing recruiting program that gives us an opportunity to recruit the right kind of kids.

Bear Bryant

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

Tom Izzo

The only reason I'd say no to that is because it's the type of player he is. We have other guys that can fill in in certain spots, but it's the athlete, it's the versatile 6-6, 6-7 athlete that can guard inside guys and guards, and that's where it creates some problems for us. It's not really replacing apples to apples. Anybody else that we replace him with is a completely different kind of athlete.

Roderick Wilmont

The positive today is that we just know we can play with anybody at any time. Going into next week, we'll start it all over again. Everybody will be back to 0-0.

Ron Wolf

The person I heard say it the best was Bum Phillips when they asked him about Earl Campbell. He said, 'I don't know if he's the best, but it won't take long to call the roll.' I think Reggie White is a charter member of that club right there. He was as dominating and as good a player as probably anybody who ever played the game.

Sean Rushton

The people who would know have not been talking to anybody but each other. The message broadcast by the White House up to this point has just been to focus on an orderly process for Roberts.

Jeff Haile

We've already played Lexington Catholic. We're not going to see anybody better than the teams we've already played.

James Denton

We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.

Ricky Skaggs

We started the label basically to do roots-type music, whether it be Ricky Skaggs or, say, the Whites, or anybody that I feel has a heart for roots music and no real market or label that will give them an opportunity to do something like that.

Josh Miller

We started practicing the drop kick and I thought, with anybody else, you've got to be crazy. But everything he touches seems to turn up roses.

Sylvester Croom

We are a football team, and we will play as a football team this year. I'm not going to make any predictions, but we go into the season this year feeling like we can play with anybody on our schedule and have a chance to win.

Charles Caleb Colton

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Alan Alda

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Yoshinori Ono

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

Catherine Booth

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Caitlin Moran

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Mads Mikkelsen

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Richard Head

The other thing is to ask the person on the phone to identify themselves and who they are working for, ... At any time they should be able to provide something in writing. We recommend that people dont respond over the phone but have information mailed to them. That gives them time to check it out and, if it is a scam, (the false organization) wont have written material.

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Paul James

We're in a win-win situation. If we lose, we've still done more than we expected in our first year.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Kelly Trahon

Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.

Kim Yuna

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Greg Albrecht

We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.

Russell Robinson

We're a young team and not too many people expected much out of us. We tried to go out there and play hard every day and it paid off.

Ron Haskins

Three years after a recession we're still having trouble getting into a recovery. I would have expected poverty to go down.

Jeremy Mincey

We know what's expected of us, and we know what we need to do. We don't want to end up like two years ago.

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.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Bill Hybels

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Teemu Selanne

This schedule is unbelievable. I don't know what kind of Superman you have to be to stay healthy.

Danny Wuerffel

If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Charles L. Allen

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Jeff Murphy

We started off very slow. We had to refocus and get back to the things that won the first set for us.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.