Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Johnson

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

Jeff Sprouse

We blew an assignment and she made the shot.

Kurt Ebenhoch

With the low fares that exist in the market today, load factors are higher than ever. As a result, customers value seat assignment more than they have in the past.

Tom Wolfe

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

Kelly Graves

She's great. I wish I had 14 of her. She's perhaps our most consistently hard worker. She has struggled with her offense, but she had a breakout game with 15 at USF last week. She is always one of our best defenders; she always draws a tough assignment on the perimeter. What gets lost is she's a great team defender, and we're the best defensive team in the league.

Kevin Mitnick

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.

Clint Hurdle

We decided to eliminate the uncertainty. There's no timetable (for his recovery). We need him healthy. Once he is able to play, we will get him out on a (minor-league) rehab assignment and get him some at-bats.

Rachel Sklar

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Ron Shelton

Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

Sam Allen

We want to show that we're just like our neighbors. We go to ball games, we go to the grocery store, we go to church. We just happen to be Democrats.

Mike Waldo

We knew they would not quit. T-Town is a very good team, we knew we had to keep at them because they handle the ball well, shoot the three well and play good defense. That's not a team we thought we'd win big over. They shot the ball very well from three, I have to give them a lot of credit for that, they shot extremely well.

Ben Boyd

We knew they were slower, so we wanted to come out and run them. Coach wanted to set that press up so we'd get the ball a lot.

Brian Dawkins

We knew they were going to try and run the ball. That was no secret. We knew they don't throw the ball down the field. And with the defense we run as far as the blitzing package, it makes them even less likely to go down field. We kind of figured what they were thinking.

Brian Dawkins

We knew they were going to try and run the ball, ... That was no secret. We knew they don't throw the ball down the field. And with the defense we run as far as the blitzing package, it makes them even less likely to go down field. We kind of figured what they were thinking.

Chris Gibson

We knew they were going to make a run. They shoot the ball so well and they have such quality players. I was just proud of my kids for responding.

Muggsy Bogues

We knew they were going to make a run, and we got out (of) the gate early. We couldn't play all our (starters) the entire 20 minutes of the first half, so we had to make some substitutions and they took advantage. They changed the momentum, and it got them right back into the ball game.

Charlotte Observer

We knew they were going to make a run, and we got out (of) the gate early, ... We couldn't play all our (starters) the entire 20 minutes of the first half, so we had to make some substitutions and they took advantage. They changed the momentum, and it got them right back into the ball game.

Jimmy Shaver

We knew they had that big-play ability. I'm glad we were able to keep that to a minimum.

Liza Minnelli

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

Eric Osmer

When it comes down to it, a rule is a rule. I messed up. But, in a way I'm kind of glad it's all over. There is a sense of closure. We can move on.

Jerry Eaves

What a legacy. It's something that needs to be done. I'm so glad the school is doing it.

Kathlyn McClain

We were in a slump, and we're glad to be out of it.

Darin Strauss

Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

Mark Stephens

We're getting a lot of people saying we're glad you're back.

Darris Kilgour

We're really glad to have Jason Crosbie back. He's a great leader on and off the floor.

Rashad Singleton

We needed a push at that point and I was glad to be able to do that. Reggie contributed a lot. He hit some big 3s in the second half to help us get back in the game.

Early Wynn

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Carl Relyea

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

Bob Feller

I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Gibson

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

Bob Gibson

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

Dizzy Dean

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Ben Quinby

The pitching for our team was really exceptional.

Johan Santana

Most of the time it's going to take the whole team to do what you want to do, to see this team succeed and go to the playoffs, ... Yeah, pitching is a big part of it, but we haven't been able to put everything together.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Rick Burkholder

We're going to rehab him like he's going to play again.

Dwane Casey

He's going to take some time to rehab it and get it well.

Arthur Machen

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Corazon Aquino

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Alvaro Uribe

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

Ann Coulter

I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot.

Amy Winehouse

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

Jim Rosborough

It won't require surgery, so all he'll have to do is rehab it.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Rick Ochoa

I think the weather you're seeing in Texas is very unusual. You would have to go back to the '50s to see the kind of dryness you're seeing. I don't think we've seen anything like this in a generation.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Woody Williams

When he's seeing everything good, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.