Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Let your life be your argument.

Folarin Campbell

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Mike Petersen

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

Joanne McCallie

LSU did a great job. We took care of their zone pretty easily, but then they played a lot of man and did a good job with it. I'm not pleased with our team's toughness. We really need to be strong on the court. It was a good lesson for us, but not at all the kind of basketball we play.

S. Walker

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

Garrick Phillips

Lynden is a good basketball team. There is no question they were better than us. That certainly wasn't the best effort we had.

Ben Braun

Leon and I have talked a lot about his future and his options. He just had the best season of his basketball career, which is a credit to his work ethic and perseverance. I trust that Leon will ultimately make a great decision.

Jim Tildsley

Lowell is a very, very good basketball team and they pushed us to the limit. Both teams played extremely well and I'm very happy with the way we hung in and executed at the end of the game.

Dickey Nutt

Lorenzo will still be a valued member of our basketball family, and we will support him 100 percent in his desire to obtain his college degree.

Emily Oster

Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day at work, and I do not blame my mother for a second that they were not on tap in hers, either.

Chandra Bhushan

Lax and completely ineffective regulations are really to blame for this state of affairs.

Charlie Melancon

Sen. Vitter worked in this House for six years and knows its leadership, ... He has placed the blame squarely at their feet, and I think they owe the entire Gulf Coast an explanation.

Mark Duffy

Mistakes cost you, and we had a few that really hurt us today. It wasn't just on that goal that got waived off, but we had five blue shirts standing around watching two (Tech goals) on rebounds when our goalie didn't know where the puck was. We have no one to blame there but ourselves.

John Gomery

Mr. Martin, whose role as finance minister did not involve him in the supervision of spending by the PMO or (Public Works) is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct.

John Gomery

Mr. Martin...is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

John Gomery

Mr. Martin ... is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame for carelessness or misconduct,

Ian Shepherdson

Mr. Greenspan is at least partly to blame for the turnaround in the fiscal position here -- his musings on the problems of ever-increasing surpluses were a clear green light to Congress to cut taxes.

Lee Peterson

Mayor Nagin has blamed everyone else except himself,

Tom McClintock

sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect this nation's immigration laws." ()

Jim Stoyle

We had been struggling offensively and made changes. We messed with the lineup a little bit. We're still not where we need to be, but we're going in the right direction.

Jay Sekulow

for speech that was a ... secular message or an invocation. So it's neutral on its face. It says, 'Say whatever you want to say.'

Ron Gardenhire

We need to make sure we're ready for next year for him. We don't want to mess with that thing. He's pitched on it long enough, and tonight he kind of tweaked it again.

Stewart Adams

I was surprised they threw, but they needed one more first down to clinch. All day, we'd been messing up some, but that time everyone was in the right position.

J. Taylor

I was stunned. I thought he was messing with me at first.

Ruben Patterson

If we keep playing like we played tonight, we might mess up and get put out in the first round. It's very frustrating right now.

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Rhys Wakefield

I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Chris Crocker

No. No, no, no. We thought we were good. We just wanted to put it all together. Put it together and play together as a team.

Patrick Sheehan

Now we'll have to get together and work out what to do,

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Dennis Quaid

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Edgar Allan Poe

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

Eddie Vedder

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence...

Ed Miliband

The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.