Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

When I finished telling that story, the master of ceremonies said Howard Green enjoyed the story, but you named the wrong commissioner.

Aaron Parchem

We're there for the total experience -- and the Opening Ceremonies is definitely a big part of that.

Artie Lange

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Dwayne Lee

We just knew we had to be mentally tough once the ceremonies were over. We had to get down to business, and then it was just another game we had to win.

Larry Sabato

Virginians, like the British, did ceremonies very well. No one ever did anything inappropriate.

Louis Smith

We're going to work hard to make the graduation ceremonies just as exciting as they would be if they were held here.

Mick Beddoes

We will develop the opening and closing ceremonies early in the New Year and complete the rest of the 14 day program as well.

Tanith Belbin

In 2002 I was sitting at home watching the Opening Ceremonies and, realizing I could have been there, it was pretty emotional, much harder that I thought it would be. I turned the Games off pretty quick and pretty much ignored them.

Patricia Seed

In a sense, we remember him because he's a guy that made a mistake but had good luck, ... Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World.

Iris Evans

We're not closing the door to looking at the insurance-based model for one part or for several parts of the health-care system,

Joe Aiello

Letting teams back into games that we should be closing out has nothing to do with who we are playing and the level of competition. Every game we should be trying to improve and do what we do better whether we are playing Clovis West or Fresno High.

Harley Shaiken

Losing 30,000 jobs, closing 14 plants, has enormous consequences not just for the union, but for the future of their members. It is a major blow.

Jeff Backus

My first preference would be to test the market, without closing the door on coming back. I feel I have earned the opportunity to explore my options.

Jean Killy

Of course, not everything is finished yet and the IOC will continue to worry until after the closing ceremony, just as we do at every Olympic Games. The remaining test events will give the games organizers vital opportunities to further improve on plans that have been drawn up for the venues now being completed.

Abel Oshevire

One was detained yesterday and the other two on Monday. I think we are closing in on them, we are closing in on the kidnappers.

Ethan Harris

More and more of the job losses are in industries that are effectively closing down domestically. This has been a gradual process since the 1950s, but it seems to have accelerated.

Tony Lesiak

May be the San Martin mine might be closing a year earlier than expected. It's a modest negative.

Bill Gates

Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done.

William Williams

Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Kris Mayes

Legislators will debate the issue of how much the program should be funded. So we're waiting for the funding process to be completed and we just don't know when that will actually occur.

Quentin Crisp

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Sathya Baba

Love is essential to become a complete human being.

Rajendra Dahal

Last year there were many who welcomed the king's move. But now the same people are opposing the king's government. It's a complete turnaround.

Preston Burch

Scrapping hardware that is three-quarters complete is, I think, sinful,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters, I do know that at the end of the day, when the process was completed and the transaction was approved, homeland security questions were resolved.

Jeff Lemire

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

Mahmud Abbas

So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident.

Robert Teeter

We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Jason Varitek

Like every year, the personality of the team takes hold over time. It's something you develop as the season goes along. You don't have a personality that is set going into the year, because every year there's a different mix.

Chris Davis

Luke's favorite practice is the one where they didn't have Abby here because he got to take a leadership role. It was fun because they got to lead one another and develop teaching skills as well.

Michael Griffin

Let me be clear. The primary objective for the next several years is to develop a new vehicle for lower orbit and beyond, following the orderly retirement of the space shuttle.

Mark Twain

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall. This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall, ... This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Craig Whelihan

Like every football team, NFL or arena, you want to start out with a win. It puts everyone in a good frame of mind. It kind of shows you where you're at early in the season. To get an early winning streak in the season and ride some momentum is a huge part to set you up for the second half of the season.

Mike Bauer

Luke Harman did a great job of finding Davin and Sam early and that really opened things up inside for Maurice and Casey.

Joe Horvath

Losing those early matches all in a row just tore our morale in two. I'm surprised that we were able to fight back as much as we did at the end of the meet.

W. S. Gilbert

Last year was pretty much another freshman year for me, and early on I was fine. But then once we got into conference, in those pressure situations, sometimes I guess I got too nervous.

Joey Galloway

Last year, with the early injuries, we started shuffling some guys around and that's tough. It's tough to be successful that way.

Ron Noedel

Last year what happened is we jumped on them early and got her frustrated. Today was a whole different story. We couldn't get to her today and she just got really strong.

Ronald Vincent

(Leggett) was throwing three pitches for strikes, and getting his changeup and curveball over early in the year is difficult. We have to make adjustments and see it a lot of times.

Steve Wammer

Leah had a great year. She had some injuries early and we had to kind of watch her a little bit. But by the end of the year, she was on top of her game.

Mark Hamilton

Sean threw fantastic. It was good to get him some early runs. We've started stringing together those timely hits, and it helps the pitching staff.

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Barry Bonds

If Opening Day was tomorrow and I had to go out there, I'd go out there. It's what I get paid to do.

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

L.A. Reid

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Robert Niro

(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange.

Bill Vickroy

We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Joy Austin

The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Laura Harper

When they were about to say it, I was chanting, ?C. Lang,' with the rest of the team.

Jim Tutwiler

I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.

Bill Stoneman

I wish he were here with the rest of the guys.

Becky Sarro

She's made some vibes that it isn't something that she wants to do for the rest of her life, so we'll see.

Rex Ryan

If we can do that the rest of the season, that would be super.

Dennis Dacus

If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Steve Relford

I'd just like for him to suffer for the rest of his life,

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.