Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rubin

Secretary Albright had asked Ambassador Ross to travel to the region this week. Of course, she will be following the situation closely.

Trent Yawney

Obviously, it's a sad day for the NHL. He's been a great ambassador for the game. ... He's probably been through more than any other superstar.

James Costos

One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador - anywhere in the world - is to promote bilateral trade and investment.

Alejandro Fernandez

I feel very proud to be an ambassador of Mexican music. Wherever I go, I will always bring my mariachi. It's what I grew up with. It's what I love the most,

Jennifer Pagonis

She takes her work for us extremely seriously and that means a lot to her and the staff. She's a terrific goodwill ambassador who can help people understand the difficult life of a refugee.

Guy Perron

She's great to the kids who come to our games and any time you ask her to do something, she goes beyond it. She's a great ambassador for our program.

Tom Mauer

I'd like him to be an ambassador for the sport and a great role model for the school.

Taro Aso

I don't know the reason why the Peruvian government has stopped the function of ambassador to Japan, ... I don't think it is related to Fujimori.

Carol Moseley Braun

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

E. O. Wilson

Let's be honest now, he's a special kind of athlete. He's fast. He's strong. He's intelligent and hungry. And you don't find that all the time in different players. And especially finding all those attributes in one player.

Tony Giese

Making the All-America team for a second straight year shows how consistent Heather was for our program. This is quite an honor for an outstanding athlete.

Joe Alleva

Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The judgment of the team members to host and participate in this event is inconsistent with the values of Duke Athletics and Duke University and is unacceptable.

R. Robinson

From what I hear from the defensive players, he's a tremendous athlete. Hopefully we can keep him bottled up.

Rick Greenspan

There are many benefits to this partnership. Not only does it strengthen our football and basketball radio network, but it gives us a great vehicle to promote our comprehensive athletics program.

Chris Roche

One of the great things about athletics is that it really tests your character. I'm eager to see how we respond this week. Not in terms of wins, losses, league championships, or anything like that, but in terms of our team competitiveness. Our team pride. Our guts. Are we going to shy away from these challenges, or are we going to stand up and fight?

Tyler Christopher

I was finally given the right help and the right opportunities and I came through. (Tyler) and I have been working together with help from Athletics Canada, this is the year.

Mark Pease

If we're punished, we're punished. My greater concern is how Camden High athletics is perceived.

Bob Bratkowski

Chris is an explosive athlete. He does give us those options.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Richard P. Feynman

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Robert Walpole

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Robert Walpole

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

Anthony Hecht

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

Kevin Mulligan

Like Ashley, Eric and Rich can both make it to states if they play like they can at districts..

Dan Hawkins

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

Tom Livatino

Liggins and Little are both very, very good players, and they are complemented well by their other guys. We have our work cut out for us.

Randy Broiles

We're not concerned about the election. Canada has a long history of stability through changing governments. We're committed to working with whichever government is in place.

Jeff Zimmerman

Scouts and college recruiters realized Canada was an untapped market. We have a gold mine of athletes, lots of kids willing to work hard.

Stephen Harper

One of the things that has made Canada a great country historically has been our traditionally low crime rate,

Mike Myers

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

David Frum

No one thinks Canada is sending troops to Iraq.

Adam Foote

Obviously, this hurts. It?s a huge letdown. For people in Canada, if we?re not there in the final, we?re not a success.

Brenda Watson

Obviously, the results of this research show that there is a need for education. Given this information, it's not surprising that Health Canada estimates that there are 2 million cases of foodborne illness each year and proper food handling could reduce the risk of illness.

Dan Boyle

Obviously, (it would be) an honor to play for Team Canada. There's a lot of history there and I'd be ready to go. But it's out of my hands. I'm just trying to play well every night and not really worrying about it.

Piers Handling

Obviously, ... politically in the United States there has been such a drift to the right that hasn't happened up here, as Canada has become much more tolerant and open.

James Blanchard

Mr. Harper's hit a home run. Wilson's the quintessential Canadian - thoughtful, reserved but very strong.

Andrew Pyle

May delivered another dose of unexpected strength in Canadian job creation.

Alex Campbell

Mechanization or industrialization of this sort has really only left man with one all-important mission in life: to conquer nature.

Robert Bourassa

One can always debate questions back and forth.

Shane Doan

Obviously you want to be on the team but there's at least 100 Canadian players that could easily be on that team. The group making the selections will have a tough decision on a lot of guys.

Andrea Martin

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

Donald Sutherland

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.

Tommy Chong

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

Tommy Chong

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Abdus Salam

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Abdus Salam

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

David Wong

When we went to them and told them that we want to do a heritage tour of Hong Kong, a lot of them were very skeptical,

Nick Russo

We want to preserve and protect Mississippi's rich architectural and archaeological heritage as communities restore and rebuild.

Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Catherine Ponder

When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

Brian Sandoval

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

Sholem Asch

Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.

S. Walker

We're older, poorer, less well insured and more rural than much of the rest of the country. ... But our heritage is rural. We shouldn't have to give that up to have quality care.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Tom Arlis

(Mahan) has really stepped up and become a real leader on the team out there.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

Bill Cunningham

leaders in other boroughs did. State party leaders did.

Justin Gray

Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

John Maxwell

Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.

William Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.

Tom Chillemi

Left-handers have a natural hook. They really have an advantage.

Mat Iandolo

Obviously, there is a revenge factor. (Indiana is) obviously our natural rival.

Dave Ramsey

Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

A. N. Wilson

She was a natural leader, ... You know when there's a group, somebody always seems to be a leader? She was that.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Michael Redd

Oh, yeah, naturally it's going to be disappointing,

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

William Masters

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Jeff Buttle

If we can make it through the Olympics without any scandals, we'll be all right.

Eric Shanteau

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Laure Manaudou

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Kenko Yoshida

Love. Its roots are deep. Its source unknowable.

Charles Olson

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Dennis Prager

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done...

Elizabeth Blackwell

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Deepak Chopra

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Alan Cohen

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

Alan Watts

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Joe Sakic

When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Caroline Lawrence

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

Michael Owen

There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.

Howard Hawks

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

Lil Wayne

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

Taylor Swift

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

Rob Zombie

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.