Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

Mike Connors

Make sure I mix up my pitches and keep guys off balance and I think I'll be fine.

Ed Moyle

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

Kevin Kyle

Luke Smith is a really good player and they have some of the same balance that we do. They have some size, a good bench and some guys who can shoot it. And they play really good pressure defense.

Dan Bartram

Lucy came out ready to play. But it was a good, balanced effort for us.

John Winters

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Mike Stock

(Lewis) wants to win so bad. He felt like he had to take over the game himself. But the reason we were here is that we've been much more balanced offensively lately.

Nicola Sturgeon

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.

Leah Rush

Legislators don't want to feel their hands tied, but you've got to balance that with the public's right to know.

Mo Shaoping

Many lawyers who handled criminal cases have ended up in prison.

James Diamond

Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.

Kandise Gilbertson

One of the things we saw was a decline in cases and a better understanding by the council of its role. I feel like it's been really successful.

Ron Huberman

One of the things that disturbed us historically was the backlog of cases that existed. We are very happy to see that a lot of that backlog is now starting to be chipped away at. We're seeing a rapid turnaround of cases,

Santo Centamore

One main problem with these cases has been that we needed to get these kids identified. They're new to us.

Nathan Brookwood

My expectation is that Intel's new products are definitely going to narrow the gap with AMD, and in some cases may even close the gap.

Vickie McKeever

Mumps have been in Iowa for the last 10 years, but this year we've had more mumps cases than we've had in the last 10 years combined.

John Powell

Now we'll be able to work those cases in house more efficiently,

Edward Fox

Now that means in some cases, maybe occasionally, supplemental food and in other cases maybe it will mean a daily ration of food to keep them alive,

Kyler Hall

We're not disappointed in A.J. at all. He's our teammate and he's our brother. You never want to see one of teammates get in a situation like that. I haven't had the chance to speak with him, but I would like a chance to before the game, just to let him know that we're all with him. I'm pretty sure he knows that already though.

Dick Vermeil

We're not concerned about the playoffs. Right now our concern is playing well Saturday. That's all that matters. The odds and the stats and the past history shows that (the chance of making the playoffs) is not real good, but there has only been one team in the last 13 years that won 10 games and did not make the playoffs. We have a chance to win 10, but you can't do that until you win No. 9. For us, it's all about Saturday.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Scott Sickau

Like I always tell my girls, a lot of people always wish they could go do something but they never get the chance of doing it. I may never get rich, but it's like getting on the back of a stallion with no saddle. You get on and hang on and see where it's going to take you.

Oronde Gadsden

Like everyone else in here, I hope those two moves are the moves that help us get past that playoff level to the next level. They had a chance to get Ricky, and they went out and did it. And it's like everybody says, we're going to ride him until the wheels fall off.

Dick LeBeau

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

Phil Simms

Make Denver make the decision here. In other words, put pressure on Mike Shanahan. What's he gonna do? Is he gonna run it and maybe waste a down because it might not gain a lot of yards, or does he take the chance and throw it and if it's incomplete it stops the clock. That's what the Patriots are hoping for.

Carlos Zambrano

Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.

Frank Sinatra

Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it

Ashley Knoll

I felt pretty good about the round. I thought my chipping and putting were great and it was a good round. I just need to keep playing my game. I thought my course management was good, and I think the key to this course is course management, so I am going to keep that as my strategy.

Mats Sundin

We need everyone playing very well, we need everyone chipping in something and making a contribution for us to win games like that.

Jamie Ullman

We know teams are going to try to take away Kristen and Julie on the inside, and we've talked that someone has to step up and knock those shots down. They've done a great job with that. Everybody's been chipping in.

Wendell Byrd

You dig yourself a hole and then you have to dig yourself out. We cracked back. We were down by 12, we were down by 13, we were chipping away. A good team makes you do something different with the ball, and they did.

John Lutz

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

Ian Poulter

He was flying traps at 320 yards, chipping on to the greens and generally putting us under a lot of pressure.

Fredrik Modin

We're not trying to do anything fancy. We're just chipping away.

Margaret Stanley

Our chipping and putting is improving, but we're still having some three-shot greens. The greens were a little slick, but overall the course is in good shape.

Ken Hitchcock

Our overall defensive play and goaltending have been excellent through six games. What I like is that we have different people every night who are chipping in. They've kept us competitive.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.

Terry Adams

Last year was the first one where I really struggled. I'm determined to make it back.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

Let's display our determination that was lacking in Buenos Aires.

George Henderson

My grandparents instilled in me that hard work and determination are keys to your success. I think the students need to learn that in the school system.

Chris Evert

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Gene Sarazen

From where we were last year to now, this is a huge win for our program. This is a big stepping stone for us and it just shows the determination of these girls. When they have things going, they can really play this game.

Alfred de Vigny

Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil; that does us good.

Adoniram Judson

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

Rich Thompson

Many races were determined by less than half a second in another exciting, full-house meet.

Daniel Costa

Much of the world's weather is determined by what happens in the Antarctic, so understanding the Southern Ocean is a key to understanding global climate.

Rep. Caruso

No one is excluded. But at this point, we haven't determined which individuals we want before the committee.

Tara Stewart

My great grandmother was feisty. She was determined to be around forever.

Matt Millen

Maybe it took me a while to really understand that. But I do understand it now, and if anything, you're more resolute and more determined and more, to be honest with you, downright ticked off to get this thing done.

Phil Jackson

Obviously the game was determined by Howard leaving so early. That took a lot of energy away from them and we played well as a group.

Frank Gonzalez

If a terrorist's determined enough, he'll find a way. I think some of the rules went too far, like (prohibiting) nail files. But people got used to it. So why not just leave it alone?

Robert Osborne

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

Kumail Nanjiani

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

Doug Smith

Let's spend the next four years working to polish the jewel that is Portsmouth. Let's go make great things happen.

Christopher Smith

Lots of drug sales, gang violence. We have had our house shot four times.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Losing your last three out of four games, well, it's incredible. I don't know where we go from here, but I think we need to have a gut check.

Bob Burke

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Joyce Thompson

Last year we worked with three or four (volunteers) and that wasn't really enough because some had to do it in Midland.

James Jackson

Last year, we lost a lot of games by one, two, three, four points on a regular basis. This year, a lot of those losses we turned into wins.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Seventy four of the culprits were killed and four were wounded,

Stump Mitchell

Mack always is looking to get better, not just maintain.

Jared Bernstein

Maybe we were looking under the wrong rock.

Bill Fulkerson

Maybe we're looking at November for oral arguments.

Simon Hawkins

Obviously we weren't able to offer him what he was looking for.

Matt Campbell

Obviously, we're looking to go well past ($1,000) this year.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Sheperd Paine

Monogram was reissuing the kits they made in the '50s, and they were looking for something new to give them some oomph,

Johnny Damon

More times than not, he's going to come through. He threw some tough pitches on the outside of the plate to get him looking out there, then he threw a perfect pitch in. Shields was an All-Star for a reason.

Christopher Monger

Now we are looking for distribution and fielding our first sales offers,

Jerry Nelson

Of all the times you get a wrong number or a prank call, I was wishing it was a prank.

David Macdonald

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Telyshia Adams

No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my jersey, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do it tonight. Not at all.

Nathan Brookwood

Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

Diane Glossman

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Ben Edwards

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Bud Selig

Number one, let me say that the program we have is working, ... There's no question about that.

Rick Burch

Number one is we don't have day jobs. And something that stems from that is we're able to get together more often.

Russ Howard

Number one by a mile, baby. No question.

Albert Schweitzer

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

Deepak Chopra

Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.

Dominique de Villepin

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

Stephen Peach

One of the most pleasing outcomes is that Australians topped all three charts.

Ian Brown

The patients are very disappointed with the outcome this morning.

John Wooden

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

Ludwig von Mises

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

Lara Ramsburg

We'll do whatever we can to see they have a positive outcome for the workers involved.

David Mitchell

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Alex Barashkoff

I don't think he was rattled. Big plays come with more experience. We're a young team and we need to get better.

Augie Garrido

If we play our best, and the other team plays its best, and they win, then congratulations to them.

Plaxico Burress

I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.

Jason Richardson

I'm a jumper, he's a passer. So there's going to be some spectacular plays going on.

Michele Jackson

She understands that if she plays well, this team plays well. Defensively, she buckled down and the rest of them followed.

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

Kelly DeFeciani

Sharon's position will be replaced immediately in May by the person who comes in third.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Kenenisa Bekele

My getting to this position is something that doesnt completely surprise me at this point,

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Terry Carmack

She supports the president's position when she agrees with him and stands up to the president when she doesn't.

Ledawn Gibson

She can do it all. She can play any position on the court, one through five.

Claude Tyler

She had a will to compete. She would play any position for us, one through five.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Edvard Munch

My will exceeds my talents.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Ed McBain

McKinty is an exciting new talent.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Alex Gee

I don't know what happened. The talent was there. I just don't know.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Liz Campbell

We're really thrilled we have the talent here in the valley, now.

Michelle Beall

We have the chemistry, with all the talent we have we just have to put it all together.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Dominic Monaghan

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Dave Ramsey

You can't work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn't work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

Chris Stringer

Neanderthals are three times as different from us as we all are from each other,

Josh Sibley

I would have to say (our goal) is to make the top three in our league.

Robert Hickey

If we do those three things, then we will take our chances.

Kelly Holmes

I have another MRI scan in three weeks' time,

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.

Wade Smith

She said they were very close. He was only three years younger than her.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Mike Anderson

Obviously. I have to turn it up a notch.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ralph Soffredine

I can't see why you could ever turn this down.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Michael Fincke

I got to see some video of my daughter. She can turn over now, she's getting really big without me.

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.