Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretchen Rubin

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Adam Smith

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Jill Sales

She works on it until she perfects it. If she makes a mistake, she corrects it. She's probably her hardest critic.

Steve Burtt

He's a grammar fanatic. He has a grammar fetish. He's the one who corrects everybody.

Kevin Steele

We knew he was a great player when we signed him, but to see him out here now, I mean, 'Wow!' what a talented football player. He's one of those guys when you tell him what he did wrong on a play, you never have to tell him again. The next time, he corrects it.

Steve Wozniak

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.'

Jason Ferguson

We've all played football all our lives. This isn't the time to get nervous. This is what you play for. There's more on the line (than in most regular-season games), but it's still football.

Rick Vanhoy

West's got a good football team. They're gonna go very far.

Matt Leinart

We still think we're a better football team. We just couldn't make the plays.

Calvin Johnson

We still need to play fundamental football, and we must rise to the occasion if nothing else.

Vince Lombardi

When you've got the momentum in a football game... that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone, ... We want to score for America's families.

Bill Cowher

When you turn the football over four times and are minus-3 in the giveaway-takeaway ratio, you aren't going to win many football games,

John Mares

We're not going to make excuses. We played a good football team.

I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.

My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.

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.

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 Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Marty Hurney

We know what Todd can do and we want to look at the guys we have here. We told Todd it is not necessary for him to come to camp.

Glenn Thiel

We know what have to do. We needed this week to rest our guys up.

Isaiah Thomas

We know how to lift each other when we need it. I know those guys have my back when I need it. We trust each other.

Billy Wagner

We know how important this month is. Guys turned it up for the second game. We're going to have some tough losses, but we didn't let one tough loss turn into two.

Randy Brown

We know at some point somebody's going to put us on our heels and we're going to have to react to that. Today, we thought that might happen, considering the way things were going, but the guys stepped up.

Lee Corso

Wait'll you see Notre Dame, ... These guys are good.

Mike Holman

Vault guys love the sport. You find that they just stay with it, that they want to help everybody.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Sean Burke

We knew they would throw everything at us.

Bill Otte

We knew they wouldn't go away and they chipped away. It's a rivalry for a reason.

Jack Coit

We knew they would be tough inside; they have some physical players.

Randy Matthews

We knew they were working on a no-huddle offense. And, we've watched their films.

Mike Adras

We knew they were not going to quit. We're all playing for our lives at this point, so we knew they weren't going to go away.

Damarius Bilbo

We knew they were going to try to take Calvin out of the game. Same as last week with Auburn.

Rick Carlisle

We knew they were going to make runs. We knew Wade was going to play big down the stretch. When that happens, we had to keep our poise and composure. We did that and made the plays we had to make to win.

Mike Gundy

We knew they were going to make mistakes. We knew they were going to make big plays. We didn't want them to think if they did something wrong they weren't going to get back in forever.

Randall Stallworth

We knew they were going to make a run. They were playing like that throughout the tournament.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Marty Jaggers

We're going to try, the next time it comes up, to get in that district. It makes sense for us, and with the price of gas, it makes even more sense.

We're going to review it. And then, we'll go over the notes, talk to everyone involved, and we'll work it out next year, so something works out better.

Buddy Bell

When we do things like that we don't usually come back. So it was nice to come back, especially in that next inning.

Terry Cornett

When we get some people on there we've got to (stay aggressive). Because if we don't, we get a little stale. We got up six and then the next two innings, three up, three down. I just keep telling them, contact, contact, contact, see how things go from there.

Stephen Urban

What about next year? What are we going to do next year?

Nancy Sudduth

We would work out requirements, and Brenda would communicate them with the offshore programmers. They'd work while we were sleeping, and she'd have them ready for us the next day.

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alain Vigneault

I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

Al Kaline

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

Al Hirt

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

Al Barlick

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

Chris Christie

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

Chris Bosh

I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be.

Chris Bosh

When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.

Stephen Taylor

We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.

Thomas Carroll

She signed me up and said, 'You have to do this,'

Asa Hutchinson

She delivers the signed affidavit to Mr. Jordan,

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Pam Schild

He didn't even tell us until after he'd signed up.

Johnny Rivers

One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.

Mark Jones

My granddad always said, 'Until you have a signed deal, you don't have a deal.'

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Bill Johnson

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Dean Koontz

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Cat Deeley

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Gregg Laskoski

We were as wrong as you could get.

Douglas Brinkley

With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it.

Anthony Horowitz

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Marc Crawford

Only if it's the wrong message. I know it wasn't wrong.

Eric Idle

But we were wrong and we were amazed.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy, ... Nothing is wrong with me. I'm not sick. I'm healthy.