Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

We want to take this and teach our athletes that there is a bigger picture. We are thankful we still have a gym and a football field. We are trying to get the kids to learn a life lesson.

Ian Gray

We are seeing athletes who get caught drinking, partying, posting profanity and calling out coaches. Student-athletes feel it's spying ... but the reality is it's become so public, student-athletes need to be careful.

John Guppy

We are proud and delighted to work with Chicago's educational and recreational leaders within the Latin American community. We are determined in our goals to help create a better environment for many gifted students and athletes through our Foundation and community programs so that they can enjoy a better and more productive life. The Hispanic community and the Mexican American community in particular have greatly supported us for nine years and we are happy to be able to give back.

Donna Orender

We strive to do all that we can to help emphasize the importance of sports and athletics for women and young people. National Girls and Women in Sports Day recognizes female athletes that came before us, and encourages future generations of girls to make physical fitness a regular part of their lives.

Maggie Dixon

West Point graduates love everything that has to do with West Point. As much as it is male-dominated in terms of numbers, there is a great respect for female athletes and the females who go through here.

Roberta Anthes

We started off well - I'd like to build off of that. I see no reason why these athletes can't do better. We've had good performances off of base work. In a perfect world, we have a lot of room to improve.

John Papa

We have a special group of athletes on our team this year with a strong nucleus of athletes that compete to the best of their abilities every single meet.

Scott Jackson

Whenever you have people in the community knowing that all the professional athletes are interested in the community and not just here part-time, that they care, I think it helps. And I think it helps that the Devil Rays are here for Spring Training and the regular season.

Scott Cowen

We want our athletes to carry the torch, face, and name of Tulane University during this difficult time.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

John Johnston

We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Harris County Hospital District. The hospital district plays a vital role in support of healthcare in the region. Premier brings value and market leadership in supply chain cost effectiveness to support the district as it provides high quality patient care and training for health professionals.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Pasuya Yao

We are looking forward to a bottom-up dynamism that brings out what most people think of Taiwan.

Alexandre Oliveira

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

Noemie Lenoir

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

David Suzuki

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Haley Barbour

We've actually got utility crews in from Canada.

Leopold Trepper

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

Mordecai Richler

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

David Phillips

What we're saying is from Vancouver to Thunder Bay, Ont., that western part of Canada is looking like it'll be warmer than normal, so it's a continuation of what the fall has been like.

Matt Kelly

We had 106 people do the Double last year, and there were people from 34 states, Japan and Canada.

Mark Chandler

Usually Canadian data doesn't mean that much but we were so close to testing the previous (dollar/Canada) lows that when we got better productivity numbers it gave the market a push.

Richard Jenkins

We know from previous research that shopping cart abandonment is fairly high in Canada with about one in two shoppers reporting that they did not finalize at least one online purchase in the past three months. Shipping costs, customer service shortcomings and privacy and security concerns are holding consumers back from doing more of their shopping online.

Dennis Laycraft

We want to make sure we don't slide back to where we are too dependant on cattle exports and we don't have enough capacity in Canada . The only way processing exists, is if its able to make a return on investment.

Brendan Taman

The other thing we need is Canadian depth.

Paul Tate

We're interested in continuing to grow our Denver presence and clearly a natural link or extension would be Canadian service.

Joe Sakic

When you think of Canadian hockey, he was the greatest ever to play the game. When he talks, everybody listens. He has that much knowledge and respect, and whatever he has to say is important. It's not that we can't win without him, but we feel that much stronger with him.

Ralph Goodale

We want every Canadian to have an opportunity to experience the fulfillment, empowerment and freedom that flow from higher learning,

Rick Moranis

When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.

Jack Layton

Unfortunately it has become clear that Paul Martin and his team are not cut from the same cloth as Lester Pearson or Pierre Trudeau. And so, most Canadians think it's time for a change.

Michael Shanks

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

Tony Valeri

We're focused on keeping the House open, not shutting it down, ... It's the opposition that seems to be focused on shutting it down and dragging Canadians back to the polls.

John Matheson

We know he hasn't got any money...the American people say he hasn't got any money and the Canadians say he doesn't have any money...he tried the same scheme here.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Jamal Qureshi

We're in a world that faces serious problems with political stability in several key regions. People want to hold more supplies closer to home, and that's going to keep demand high for purchasing imported barrels.

Lorenzo Jones

We started out good, but we had a lapse in the second half. I was able to play everybody and it would have been closer if my big girl had not fouled out.

Jack Sturgeon

We stabilized there and showed some life. We didn't fold the tents. Offensively and defensively, we got our heads back into the game. It wasn't an 11-3 game. We're closer to them than 11-3, but there are some things we have to work on.

Dan Webster

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

Susan White

When you think about it, it makes sense, ... People are living closer together in the dorms.

Rob Portman

We always come closer every time we talk.

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.

Bill Owens

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Shari Arison

I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.

Rand Paul

The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

Doug Cameron

It is simply about quality, it is about safety, it's about ensuring that the track record Qantas has continues.

Carol Davis

I think it's the only fair way of really ensuring that a school's performance score does indeed reflect the performance of the school.

Paul O'Neill

with a view to ensuring that investors in all mortgage-backed securities are provided with the information that they should have.

Anthony Romero

The photos and videos play a key role in ensuring government accountability for the torture that happened,

Robert Wallis

The opportunity for ensuring this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami. We urge everyone to put the well being of Elian before all else in this process.

Phil English

Ensuring the safety of our communities by providing our fire departments with the resources they need is extremely important to help fight and prevent fires, ... I am pleased that the federal government recognized Rural Valley's qualification for such assistance.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Chris Colfer

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Chinua Achebe

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Dave Chappelle

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

David Levithan

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

David Cornwell

We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Bryan Clay

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Denzel Washington

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Bob Ross

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.