Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Italo Calvino

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Rick Perlstein

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

Rick Perlstein

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Robert Strauss

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy has real environmental and economic concerns, and the federal government continues to lack a national policy and process to guide offshore alternative energy development.

W. Hull

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit systems will remain vigilant.

Ed Bryant

Miss Lewinsky continues to be, in her own way, an impressive witness.

David Quammen

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.

Brian Reynolds

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Like I

My hope is that he continues to be a mystery and not become predictable.

Kathleen Taylor

Now with 68 luxury hotels and resorts in 31 countries and more than 20 properties in development, Four Seasons continues to strengthen its position for the present and future. Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Rocky Jarvis

Losing Jared was the toughest part of all. We had to use a different first doubles team and had to move everyone else up. It was a real deflating start.

Larry Sabato

McCain has been playing a double high-wire act.

Rick LaFountain

Maybe what I'm most pleased with is the way my first doubles team is playing. While trying to win singles matches is what I think we're going to need to do this year, the doubles are getting better.

Felix Silla

My job was to double for a little kid that was tied to a weather balloon.

Fadel Gheit

Occidental is paying more than double what its own stock is valuing its existing reserves,

Bill Drake

My goal is to at least double that turnout. We need more people involved in the process.

Dave Moreland

Obviously, we are proud of how our No. 3 doubles team played. They fought hard and hung in there.

Taylor Dent

I feel like it would be a shame to get rid of doubles, but I guess it's on the doubles players' responsibilities to find a way to make it lucrative.

Mike Bundy

I can't double use people. If employees are sitting in that store front, they can't run the bus.

Curt Benge

Megan and Jessica are going to be big for us offensively, and we've got to get them more involved.

Olga Klimova

She was the most experienced one here, so we will miss her. Next year, it will be time for someone else to step up and lead the team like Jessica was doing.

John Watkins

It is somewhat ironic. Jessica Williams, we know she was not impaired because a jury said so, yet she is in jail. With Veronica Schmidt, we don't know if she's impaired, and she's free.

Sarah Krycinski

Hannah surprises me, though I don't know why. She runs with me and Lindsey every single day. Jessica will get there. She just needs to be pushed.

Angela Fraser

We want to be able to send kids a message. When Jessica was killed, we wanted to find a way to remember her, something positive.

Holly Brown

Jessica pitched well. We just didn't back her up with runs.

Debbie Merrill

Jessica and I were really aggressive. Our teammates were looking for us and throwing it over the top.

Lisa Dey

When you get Jessica on base, she makes things happen.

Oscar Isaac

Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

Tom Matthews

Meghan is obviously in a game, but has a big smile on her face.

R. Ingram

Obviously we're going to investigate these as suspected arsons.

Sandy Hoddinott

Obviously we're going to be trying to do it again. They're running well.

Laura Wood

Obviously we're a little disappointed but satisfied that we did prove he was there for an unlawful purpose and did try to tamper with evidence.

Robbie Nichols

Obviously we need to make some changes, so we'll see what this week brings.

Michael Kohs

Obviously we know they can shoot and wanted to take away the outside shot and not let Baskin get going.

Dawn Ostroff

Obviously we'd like to see one thing new on the schedule, and there could be two.

Quin Snyder

Obviously we'd like to be winning, but we're not right now. We've got to keep working; there's some things we can do.

Bill Wright

Obviously we were very suspicious of his connections with Cadiz.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Larry Jones

Me and my wife are planning a 10-day vacation soon.

Kiefer Sutherland

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

Lyndon Johnson

One of every 16 planes was shot down,

Doug Wallace

No one should be able to say that they didn't know about this plan until two weeks ago.

Ray Richmond

My 17-year-old son is planning to see the 6:00 p.m. screening on Thursday in a suit and tie, ... He said he's planning to go to another screening immediately after...He wants to see the movie twice on the same night.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Joe Kines

I did a poor job. That's my fault. That's not the players job, that's my fault.

Tommy Taylor

One of the players said that we couldn't make anything and (Republic was) making everything.

Larry Brown

I wish this would get over. It's really about the players and us getting better.

Jody Bronson

I was pleased with the way a lot of our players performed.

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

Tom DeLay

Mr. Earle and his staff know it. And I will prove it.

Vernon Brown

May was released this evening. The allegations are false, and we will be able to prove it.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

Danielle Brian

No one has proven themselves strong enough to tackle it.

Lauren Goodman

More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.