Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.

David Morrison

What we're seeing here is a laying bare of the political process without the euphemisms, without the sugar-coating. People are recoiling.

Helio Castroneves

Unfortunately, I think we made the wrong choice on our race setup, and the Marlboro Team Penske car had a tremendous push in Turns 3 and 4. Those corners were my biggest problem. I could barely touch the throttle going through there. The team made front wing adjustments on both of our pits stops, but it didn't really help. All considering, I'm pretty happy with a fourth-place finish.

J. M. Roberts

We're barely meeting the core in rural Utah.

Pam Davis

We're barely keeping up with the growth in Naperville and the surrounding communities, ... We need more beds.

Tom Halbmaier

We're barely getting beat, just one or two possessions away from winning. We've played good basketball. But we haven't played consistent.

Paul Thomson

Three years ago, I used to go out a lot and I used to drink quite a lot. On a Sunday night, I'd think, 'Right, I have to sign on on Thursday, and I can't forget that' and now, into the space of one day, I'm cramming in what then I would have done in two weeks. I can barely remember my old life now.

Dennis Conner

With these new boats and our veteran crew of American sailors, I feel this is one of the best campaigns I've ever put together. The bare hull of USA-77 just left Newport, Rhode Island two weeks ago and here she is going sailing today, which is true testament to how hard our whole team has worked to make this day possible,

Kurt Braunohler

All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Brazil Nut-hued tan to Monty Hall's oversized lamb chop sideburns. As the host of IFC's new comedy game show 'Bunk,' I, too, have worked to develop a style signature by being the first man or woman in TV history to host every show in my bare feet!

Herman Edwards

There are certain players that bring more to your team than just being a football player. If you're talking about Tony Richardson, he brings a whole lot to this team besides being a good football player. We're going to do everything we can to bring him back.

Murray Gell-Mann

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

Lindsey Kildow

World Cups are important because you have to ski well and gain confidence for the Olympics. You have to have other goals besides the Olympics because the Olympics is only one race.

Matt Link

We're hoping to build on last year. Our goal is to get by the second round of the tournament and to be competitive with some of the big teams in the SCC and get into the SCC tournament. We want to capitalize on our experience. These guys all have a lot of time as varsity players last year. We are working on solidifying our defense. We're hoping we can get a couple of guys besides Matt to score some goals. If we do those things, we should be all right.

Isabella Rossellini

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.

Ronald Kessler

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.

Jim Wolfgang

Like everything else, parents need to be cautious because besides having a lot of good material out there, there's a lot of junk material out there as well.

Julie Solis

She has grown a lot this year. Besides Brown, she is one of the reasons why we're here.

Allen Carlson

She has a lot of strengths, besides being such a tireless worker, she has developed a very strong shot, I am waiting for her to rip one in from the outside. She also has a knack for being in the right spot at the right time. Part of it is field sense and the other part is being willing to do the work and actually make the run.

Louise Jameson

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

Michael Strahan

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Richard Tucker

The person we chose brought a lot of skills and experience and credentials,

Alberto Romulo

The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,

Mike Ryan

We are probably looking at six months to two years before some of these outbreaks can be brought under total control in the poultry population.

Roger Hatch

We've already brought people up for Akio and Christoph and the guys who just got onto the fire department. Between that and the injuries it's been unreal this year. I mean. it's great that our guys make the national team, but all this really tests our depth.

Paul Grayson

We started the game like a house on fire and scored three tries, then we lost our shape in the middle a bit, but brought it back towards the end.

Nate Dahlman

We started looking, and God brought us here.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

Bob Huggins

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

Mickey Hatcher

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Greg Evans

Most people don't realize their neighbors are as nosy as they are.

John Galloway

We're having just a wee get-together with neighbors.

Angela Johnson

See all us? We neighbors. We got to stick together.

Chris Fox

But we feel the safety of the neighbors to the pipe is more important.

Jose Rivera

Neighbors come by and give us food. We have support.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

Robert Rhodes

Go back to your neighbors and talk to them as quickly as you can.

Marco Rubio

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Louie Perez

We ran with them in the first half. We picked up fouls and we couldn't press.

Joan Rodgers

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Don Ho

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Doug Hawkins

We don't have pitchers to strike out 10, so we have to rely on our defense. They picked us up today.

Gary Barnett

But we've sputtered at times on offense, especially in the red zone. But at the end of the half, we picked up things there.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

Dave Barry

If everybody were a guy, the human race could easily get by on less than one twentieth the current number of shoes.

Cary Grant

It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.

Carolina Herrera

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

Carolina Herrera

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.

Caitlin Moran

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

Bill Richardson

John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.