Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Saban

Reggie had a chance to make a play on the ball, ... In trying to intercept it I think he put himself in a bad position to tackle the guy. It turned out to be a big play.

Reece Thompson

Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

Aaron Harberts

Rebecca, much like Pepper, takes her job very seriously, but she doesn't take herself seriously. A lot of actors don't like to play the fool. They feel it weakens them in some way, but Rebecca gets power from it. So when bad things are happening to Pepper, or humiliating things are happening to Pepper, she rolls with it. And because she's able to throw herself in all the way, it makes the gags work.

Sergei Kupriyanov

Rejection of the solutions we proposed will play a very bad havoc on the Ukrainian economy and, which is most unfortunate, on the Ukrainian people.

Yasser Arafat

Regrettably, this is a dangerous escalation that drags the whole region into a very critical, bad and grave situation,

Justin Hott

Regis missed earnings badly in a critical quarter for establishing credibility with consumer investors. Instead, this miss has created questions as to whether Alberto's beauty supply business is truly better off as a part of Regis.

Simon Greenberg

Relaying a pitch at this time of year makes it much more difficult to lay a new one in the summer. The pitch here has always been a difficult one. Last year, it contributed to Scott Parker picking up a bad injury playing for us. It is all about where it is and where it can get the benefit of natural growth.

Jeffrey Greene

Our police officers also say they need help lobbying for resources for prevention and treatment. Dismantling labs leaves them with less time to chase bad guys,

Steve Jobs

Our relationship with Microsoft is kind of like a marriage. It's terrific 99 percent of the time. And one percent of the time we argue, usually over multimedia. And in life, that's not a bad ratio.

Chuck D.

Our filmmakers are very, very happy because the movie scored a 90 in the top two boxes (excellent and very good). We have wonderful word of mouth working for us again.

Bill Cosby

I'm here for a friend. I brought a couple of boxes of chocolate Jell-O.

Denis O'Hare

I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.

David Schatsky

I think there are really two classes of problems. First is the availability of the Web site, particularly Web site outages and performance. Many customers were turned away because there were sites that couldn't handle the volumes. The more serious problem is fulfillment -- getting the goods into the boxes and getting them into the hands of the shippers.

Mike Wilson

Larry predicted that the whole world would one day do its computing on very simple, computer boxes without hard drives and without other gadgets on them. And these things would sell for two, three, four hundred dollars and people didn't need all this complex software that Microsoft was selling them for you know, a hundred and ten dollars every two years.

Steve Moore

I still have boxes and boxes of fan mail that I still go through, ... It's really been something that has inspired me to come through it, that people cared enough to write a card and something about their own story that they thought would help me.

Sasha Cohen

I think over the past four years, I have changed as a person - because my focus is not on the medal. None of the medals I have at home, I even know where they are - they're in shoe boxes and random places.

Julie Murphy

I have boxes of pictures and things at home, but not to this extent,

Edith Bowman

If I was Bridget Jones and had a tick-list of things to look for in the perfect man, he would tick all the boxes

Mack Brown

Reggie Bush is like an instant highlight film. It's fun to watch him. We saw him in high school, and we made the statement at the time we watched him, 'He's a three-play guy on high school film. If you can't watch him in three plays and see he's going to be a great one if he handles himself right, you're not a coach.' He was a three-play guy.

Maurice Drew

Reggie Bush is a great guy and I mean no disrespect to anyone. But my goal is to be the No.1 pick.

Dave Roberts

Reggie Bush and the RBV All-Stars. Those guys definitely are at the top of my list for 2005.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Recently President Bush struck down the Sudan Accountability Act, which would hold accountable those who perpetrated these atrocities.

Jim Henderson

Recent economic news around the world is causing us to reassess our near-term business prospects in key international markets,

Keith Morris

(Receiving the grants) started pointing us in the right direction of the whole change process, ... If that didn't occur, I'm pretty sure we would be doing business as usual.

Bill Maher

President Bush was on the ground all day today - you saw him there hugging the starving and touring the devastated area,

Trent Duffy

President Bush wants the troops home as soon as possible, but the U.S. will not cut and run from terrorists.

Gene Sperling

President Bush takes the credit for a 'shallow recession,' he denies any responsibility for an even 'more shallow' economic recovery.

Toby Claudio

Regardless of the cost of these high tech gadgets there would always be buyers just because they are serious in their chosen sport. Who knows, maybe in the future, someone would create a jogging suit that has a built-in computer.

Michael Hartnett

Previously it was a rush to buy anything. Now I think that quality will stand out.

Consumer Reports

Our report overturns the long-held conviction that to lose weight, you have to enroll in an expensive program, buy special food, or follow the regimen of a particular diet guru,

Kevin Magee

Our radio shows are scattered on satellite, and we decided to consolidate them under the Fox brand. XM was extremely interested and wanted to do it before the Christmas buying season.

Amy Cutts

Part of the purchasing decision for buying a house is an expectation of what housing prices are going to do in the future. It's true that houses are getting more and more expensive, but people are increasing their wealth in ways we haven't seen in a while.

Luke Reilly

Our motto is 'team first' and every single guy has seemed to buy into that. This has been a really fun group to coach because they're highly motivated. It's been a pleasure.

Andrea Dunn

Or buy already pasteurized eggs if you like your eggs runny. You'll pay more but have peace of mind. Egg substitutes are a pasteurized product -- you can use them freely without worry of salmonella. You can also buy frozen whole eggs that are pasteurized.

Andrea Dunn

Or buy already pasteurized eggs if you like your eggs runny - you can use them freely without worry of salmonella.

Andrea Dunn

Or buy already pasteurized eggs if you like your eggs runny -- you can use them freely without worry of salmonella.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Alex Saitta

Relative to surrounding school districts our starting pay is lower than most, but the cost of living in Pickens is less too. It's not how much you make, but how much you have in your pocket after you pay all your bills.

Kelly Wilson

Our recent success has a lot to do with the cost of prescription drugs. People are looking for alternatives, healthier ones that aren't as expensive. We help people get back to the roots of everything. Nowadays everything is so chemically enhanced. People don't know what they are getting. But with us you do.

Helen Clark

Our rates are disturbing and will deliver poor health long-term to many of our people at a very high cost to the taxpayer.

Takuma Sato

Our qualifying positions cost us the result, ... but we tried a very different strategy today to try to make up some places.

Lino Spiteri

Partisan party considerations and public funds and cost should not mix.

S. Walker

Pay issues can cost up to about $8 million a year and that would leave very little, if any, for incentive programs and educational programs. The mistake we made was on the benefits.

Steve Miskin

Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff.

Bob Warren

Our offensive line did a great job for their first game. We have just one returning player on our offensive line. Defensively, we didn't have any big mistakes that cost us.

Patrick Surtain

regains the form he had a couple of years ago.

Brian Champion

Reese, he's always competing. He left some pitches up in the first couple innings and we made some blunders. ... But he stayed within himself and kept battling, kept competing.

Winston Justice

Our relationship is very, very close. He visited me a couple of times when I was suspended and he helped me through the whole process.

Rich Rodriguez

Pat, when he goes in there it's like he's been there the whole time. He managed the game well, made a couple of big plays.

Jay Mergenthaler

Our main goals are to finish over .500 and to win a couple of tournament games.

Shahid Ghori

Our leaders have been receiving threats for the past couple of months and we had informed the government about it, but no security was provided to our leaders.

Chauncey Billups

Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that I made it. I'm an All-Star. It's still a little surreal right now. It's something that I always wanted.

Steve Massey

(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.

Harold Evensky

People have historically benefited from a couple of different types of immediate annuities.

Dan Barnett

Our members are growing more rapidly than most Fortune 500 or S&P 500. We've measured their growth from before joining TEC and after, and there is a significant growth after joining us.

Tom Brady

I think it was great fortune that night. I'm glad the referees got the play right,

Michael Hutchison

is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.

Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Alex Ferguson

I think the first goal was a nice one-two with good play from Ruud and Quinton Fortune but that second goal was superb.

William Shakespeare

Happy is your Grace That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style

William Shakespeare

Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel

Martial Martial

Fortune gives too much to many, but enough to none.

Marcus Aurelius

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this title again. I think that you are really, at the end of the day, judged on how many Grand Slam titles you have, and probably how many titles you have.

Buck Showalter

I was happy with the outing, as I was with his last one. We had opportunities to make the grand slam not matter.

Ernie Els

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

Goran Ivanisevic

He is strong in the head. You can't win a junior Grand Slam and knock out the world's No. 25 player in your first senior tournament if you're not strong in the head.

John Whitehead

We are going to open up Monday at 7 a.m. and we are going to stay open until 12 p.m. Tuesday. After that, we are going to reopen Wednesday at 7 a.m. and have our grand opening just as we had planned and stay open for 24 hours.

Elena Dementieva

I feel much stronger now and I know what it takes to reach a grand slam final. I just feel I need to take one more step and I think I can do that this year.

Thierry Fremaux

If 2005 was the year of the return of the grand authors, 2006 will be all the opposite.

Graham Cluley

Globally, we have a grand total of zero reports of damage.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't want to speculate as to what's happened or not going to happen with regard to the grand jury, ... I simply don't know. In fact, I would suggest that none of us know, since it's supposed to be a confidential proceeding, by law.

Linda Harkins

Part of it is that they are going to get in the habit of going to the dentist.

Michael Redhill

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

David Hogan

Habitat protection for the toad translates into water quality protection for the people.

Gerry Jones

He was very knowledgeable about their habits and what it would take to get rid of them.

Gordon Auchincloss

He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.

Mike Mularkey

He has some talent there running the ball. I don't want him to make a habit of it, but with a first-year quarterback, the thought process speeds up and typically the first instinct is to run.

Steve Siegel

He had a habit of using the same rainbow-colored pencil.

Charles Portis

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

George Bernard Shaw

Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Sergio Ramos

Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.

Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Jonathan Bass

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Joseph Badaracco

In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.

Timothy Noah

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

Naya Rivera

I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

Jonathan Safran Foer

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

John Glover

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

C. S. Lewis

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

You can’t have a masterpiece without madness,

Kristan Bromley

There is a touch of madness to it.

Edward Fitzgerald

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

William Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method

Bob Bowman

March Madness is massive. And we have a very big pipe.

Dan Brown

Madness breeds madness.

Elie Wiesel

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Proverb

One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it

Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary

Bonnie Tyler

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.

Angela Merkel

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

Barbara Hepworth

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Bo Schembechler

Nothing good ever happens after midnight.

Mike Scioscia

It's out of our control. We'll play at midnight if they tell us to play at midnight. We'll be ready.

Cassandra Clare

Scott noticed Will staring at it and grinned. "Like what you see?" Woolsey Scott asked. "I do enjoy these surprise midnight declarations. Go along, have at it.

Paul Hayes

I called these three numbers from about 10 a.m. until midnight and was unable to get through. They were always busy,

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Jamaal Magloire

Portland has a lot of talent on their team. Their talent speaks more than their record.

Fred Armisen

There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?'

Lauren Oliver

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Jason Young

That stretch made it so we didn't feel so rushed in the third quarter.

Lionel Messi

I rushed to get back before it was time.

Mack Brown

We didn't want to be stubborn, ... We rushed for 145. We'll take that.

S. Walker

they were rushed to get their performances in.

Steve Wilson

A thank-you to all of you who rushed to Kersey and valiantly searched for Sam,

Bill Cowher

I was just one small part of this, trust me.

Brad Radke

I think these two teams have a lot in common. We can look out and say, 'Look what the A's can do with a small payroll' and we're in the same boat.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Aaron Sanchez

I think I can find a house, ... but a small house.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

DerMarr Johnson

He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small lineup. He wants me to be a little more intense.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Roy Wilsher

There are still some small bund (concrete container) fires, but the tanks are out.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.

George Raft

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Terry Jenkins

If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

J. Hoover

It will be tough but we have two other stores that are non-smoking and things are going well there.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

David Pearson

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Liam Gallagher

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

Trent Reznor

Touring in the past, the show was just something you had to do to get to the after-show,

Daniel Johns

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

Cyril Cusack

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Andy Partridge

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Jeff Lynne

I don't actually like touring.

Shaukat Aziz

Some of the towns have been flattened, so there's nothing there,

Arnon Goldfinger

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Dylan McDermott

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Cornelia Funke

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

Adam Savage

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

Terri Bartlett

To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.

Daniel Craig

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Jean Kerr

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Jason Mewes

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Sonny Vaccaro

I've got a lot of toys to play with. I just turned 64, and I'm reinventing myself again.

Nicola Formichetti

I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.