Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Therrien

We want to put the puck on net a little bit more. There were times we did it, there were times we could have done it more.

Munir Akram

We have said right from the start, without negotiations, the document is not going anywhere. So we're happy finally that there's a recognition there has to be face-to-face negotiations. These will be difficult, these are a bit late. But it's not an impossible task,

J. C. Watts

We have to get a junior hockey franchise put together from top to bottom. We're looking forward to it, but that year and a bit is going to go by in a hurry.

Freddy Adu

Whenever you get the chance to represent your country in a World Cup, it's a great honor. It's a chance to show the world what you've got. I'm looking forward to it. I do wish, though, that I would be able to stay here and play with D.C. a little bit more, because this is an important stretch for us right now.

Helio Castroneves

When everyone jokes about (taking chances), there's a little bit of truth to it, ... Hopefully people have learned from what happened (at Sonoma).

Ron Wilson

Whenever we play L.A., we look at their stats and they're one of the most penalized teams in the league. They play hard all the time, right on the edge. So you've got to expect to get power plays. We lost a little bit of our discipline in the third period and had to kill some too, but in the first two periods, we kept on task.

Andre Agassi

When you see a little bit of that edge off, when he comes down into just warp speed, it gives you a little breath of life.

Brett Morgan

When you see a 12-year-old kid winning national races, you can see a little bit of that. But they're not like that.

Christopher Reid

When you scan a document it takes quite a bit of space -- 1/2 a megabyte or even a megabyte per page.

Mike Bellotti

We have to find ways to utilize James Finley and find ways to do a better job of integrating Cameron Colvin into the offense.

Toni Collette

Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

Kathryn Newton

I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.

Laura Haddock

I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

Pankaj Mishra

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Frank Haith

But we've played in some tough places this season. We've been to the Dean Dome, Cameron Indoor Stadium, Maryland and Michigan. It's not like we don't know what it's like to play in a hostile environment.

Theresa May

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't want the Thatcher years back, but I don't want the Brown-Prescott years either. I am prepared to give David Cameron his chance - even though he is a Tory.

Cameron Boyce

I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

Ruth Walsh

We want people to not just sit at the dinner and not be able to participate. We want people to get up and have fun.

Alan King

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Jennifer Grant

The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

Jane Addams

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Charles Lamb

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

Keith Lawrence

We have a place at the dinner table for her.

Juvenal

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

Laurie Colwin

There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.

Junior Seau

For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Joshua Katcher

We want it to be a team effort from top to bottom, and we want to give the fans a good show. I think everyone will tell you that the traditional (tournament) title is more special because that's where the sport started, but this is special because we've been so inconsistent with injuries, and different line-ups and we have been able to go undefeated so far, even with all those things to overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Phoebe Diftler

We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.

Richard G. Scott

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Bret Harte

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Teemu Selanne

We know how much it takes, and nothing is going to come easy. We just have to find that effort and do better on special teams.

Conor Maynard

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

Stephen Mangan

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

Dave Gahan

Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.

Dorothy Thompson

Romancing the Soul--True Stories of Soul Mates from Around the World and Beyond.

John Martin

If you remember the film Spartacus, when the Romans said 'stand up Spartacus', all his mates stood up. If we all do that, they will be no target and the threat will disappear.

Lena Headey

I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'

Libba Bray

She's no beauty, mate

Helen Fisher

Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.

Shane Warne

I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Chris Smith

We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.

Jack Straw

We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are talking about the possibility of a recess. We are going to have another meeting tomorrow.

Skip Patterson

We?re having a search (committee) meeting next week.

Evan Bayh

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

Georg Greve

There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.

Albert Camus

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Stephen Mangan

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Charles Kennedy

Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.

Matthias Platzeck

Arbitration is a sensible suggestion which it is worth discussing.

Theresa Wise

This is a fantastically sensible idea. With the convergence of telecom and broadcasters through interactive television, there is a real need for a single regulator.

Paul Ashworth

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

Michael Adams

It was a tough call, but a sensible one.

John Henry Newman

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Vandana Shiva

My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind.

Jane Austen

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

Edmund Burke

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Brett Hoebel

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Ashley Scott

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

Ben Stein

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Christopher Nolan

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Christopher Walken

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.