Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Johnson

We are poised for breaking away from our competitors in the food industry, ... This strategic growth plan is designed to vault our company into the ranks of the world's renowned consumer goods companies, in terms of financial profile and market multiple.

Mike Johnson

We started pressuring them and they started throwing turnovers. We were just fast breaking and started coming back and gaining some confidence.

Jack Reed

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

Henry Samueli

Older generations of Wi-Fi weren't quite robust enough to deliver video in the home without breaking up and losing packets and so forth. 5G Wi-Fi gives you extended reach, extended data rates, and more robust coverage.

Buck Showalter

We want him to keep pitching well, maybe work on his breaking ball. It just doesn't fit for us right now, but it will again.

Kim Williams

Watching live sport, catching breaking news or the stock market close as you fly will be a totally new and unique experience in Australia,

Gerard Baker

We grew up on a ranch in North Dakota. Paige was really good at breaking horses. But one day this horse took off up a hill, and then it came charging down the hill bucking. Paige was yelling at me, 'Help me. Get in front of it. Get in front of it.' I just stood there laughing until he got bucked off. He was so mad, he chased me around the ranch all day, but he never caught me. Now that he's here, I am so proud, and I know we'll help each other all the time.

Jeff Hewitt

We're not anti-immigration. We're anti-illegal immigration. When you come illegally, you're a criminal. You're breaking the law.

Greg Clippinger

We knew what their strengths were and their outside players did a good job of breaking around our wings. It was a good hard-fought Mid-Penn game. They kept coming at us and the credit to them.

John Brady

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

Andrew Flintoff

We are pleased with the total and the fashion we got it. I think we've had a decent day.

Robert Long

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

Mike McGowan

We're in pretty decent shape as it relates to fuel supply, but who knows what's going to happen here in the next few days.

Ron Fellows

We started our session a little late and when we finally got out there, we got 'black-flagged' just before I was going to start my quick lap, ... Our guys have been working hard and that's a decent result for my first time out. I just want to thank Paul.

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Charles Schumer

Tom Ridge is a decent man and a fine public servant, but unfortunately was not given the leeway or resources to tighten up homeland security in the way it should be done,

Charles Barron

We're going to stay here until every one of them has a decent place to go.

Brad Shove

We got what we deserved today. We didn't come ready to play and we put ourselves in a big hole. We played very poorly. It was everybody. We played hard in the second half and made some good adjustments, but you can't expect to win with one decent half.

Josh Boone

When you want to stop, and you don't think you can give any more, you think about that Pittsburgh jersey in here. Looking up at the scoreboard, seeing that you're down 10 at the end of the game. That gives you a little extra motivation.

Bob Benincasa

When you want something it makes it extra special when you come through.

Shane Sisco

When you see a kid like him, who is as good as he is, it's because of the extra work he puts in. He's willing to put in the extra hours on his own to work on his game.

Jay Wright

When we double-teamed them, they made the extra pass and hit the 3.

Folarin Campbell

Uh, something about going the extra mile and not worrying about traffic, I think.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Lindy Ruff

We made a lot of things happen real slow. We always took the extra second to shoot.

Mike Hargrove

We're giving Jamie an extra day of rest. And this way it winds up giving him two starts at home.

Larry Buchanan

We're looking at getting some extra life out of them in a productive way by providing them to students.

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Michael Teller

We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

John Imlah

We wanted to win the last three games to stay in pace with Dayton. They got third place locked up. We have fourth place pretty well locked up.

Matt Leinart

Whether we're leading at halftime, leading at the fourth quarter or, like Notre Dame, waiting all the way until there are three seconds left, we never have any doubt.

Luol Deng

When we went up, we couldn't stay up. We started making silly mistakes and let them back in the game. We struggled making shots in the fourth quarter and when they got the lead, they didn't look back.

Dan Bollinger

When we had the lead in the fourth quarter I thought we rushed our shots. Nothing good can come out when you rush. We also were 6-of-19 from the free throw line.

Bill Bakamus

Usually in the fourth quarter, we ice the game from the free-throw line. Not tonight. Those things happen.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Billy Coleman

We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections.

Eliza Taylor

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Keyshawn Johnson

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

Joey Fatone

Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.

Jim Ratcliffe

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

Ron Walker

She is obviously distraught and is at an undisclosed location.

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

Zeus Kerravala

What they're trying to do is to take IP communications to another level. Every vendor has the same vision, but they're all at different points to getting there.

Brad Hemphill

When we can get big points out of her, it helps.

Andy Reid

We feel that we have the quality to get the three points and we want to win the group.

Joe Kines

We didn't want to give up that touchdown at the end, but they had been scoring about 80 points a game, and to give up 10 ain't too bad.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Chris Wielgus

She was phenomenal. The score at the end had Rutgers with more points than Dartmouth, but there's no way we were losers.

Dave Wharton

She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet.

Patrick Fearon

We've now had three straight quarters of above-average growth, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Merv Griffin

I tell everybody that I’m a quatre-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

Martina Hingis

I feel a quarter Indian.

Meggie Ford

It's been like that all year. We always have one of those quarters when we don't play well.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Lenny Clark

We're not disappointed at all. Third place is good.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Kevin O'Leary

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

Chinua Achebe

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

Chief Joseph

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Dean Acheson

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.