Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce George

Regrettably, despite some efforts which were undertaken to improve the process, the authorities did not exhibit sufficient political will to hold a genuinely good election.

Sal Guatieri

Price pressures were fairly mild, despite the economy operating flat out.

Mike Dubbelde

Our relationship with the parents so far has been great. Despite being a new sport, the fundraising and support has really been there.

John Longworth

Some held earlier and longer summer sales despite margins already being very tight, but there has been little sign in this survey of a response from consumers.

Melissa Richardson

Our team has always thought we were going to do as well as we did. We set our goals high. We had winning league and going to state on our goal sheet. So despite what everyone else thought, we thought we could.

Sushmita Banerjee

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Jay Bavlish

That was a microcosm of our whole season. I couldn't put it any clearer. We dug ourselves a hole and despite the effort, we couldn't get out.

Mike Harper

I was proud of our kids. They found a way to win despite losing a starter right before the game.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Hines Ward

Relieved? Yes, ... I dont wish this on anybody. It was very hard to go out onto the field with peace of mind knowing that youre so close. I can go into the season focused now.

Jerome Bettis

Our quarterback has been incredible. His development on the field is the reason we're here.

Charlie Bell

Our offensive line was outstanding, our open field tackling was improved and our inside linebacker play was improved.

Herman Edwards

Our mindset was to get him in the game to kick field goals and he did that,

Herman Edwards

Our mind-set was to get him in the game to kick field goals, and he did that.

David Rehr

Our middles didn't do much the last time we played them. In our previous two matches (against Lee), Haley had 16 kills and our other two middles each had one, so we doubled our middle totals because that's something Lee hadn't seen before. They were worried about our outside hitters because they had a field day before.

Joe Tiller

Surprisingly, the injury isn't too serious. We thought he might have been able to hold for field goals but he wasn't able to.

Richard Barnes

States can be leaders in the field of biotechnology while holding firm to moral principles and the protection of human life.

Howard Wolfson

Spitzer has been raising money for a while, whereas Pataki's indecision froze the field and prevented Republicans from raising money until relatively late in the game.

Dave Roberts

Regardless of what our record is, the goal is to make the playoffs. If you win 100 games and you don't get to the postseason, what good is it? I guarantee you every single team that wins more games than us this year would like to be in our position.

Steve Yzerman

Regardless of how the game is played, there will be low-scoring games, and good teams have to win 1-0 or 2-1 (in the playoffs).

Terri Sullivan

Record wise we want to get back on track, so we know the opportunity is there to play games and do something with them. At this time of the year we're looking to play as many games as we can.

Ray Allen

Records are always made to be broken. I have a long way to go, games to play, threes to hit. The key is getting to playoff basketball.

Mike Rucker

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

Rick Stansbury

Reggie needs to not always look for the 3-pointer. He's got to play off that dribble, take it to the hole, which he's done more lately. A mid-range game opens up the 3-point shot. It makes him a more versatile player. And he needs to be a screener, because screeners get open. But it's getting better.

Lana Ross

Our region is tough. We're going with the same lineup to give our players a lot of at bats. Right now, we're sore. We've played a lot of games with a little rest. Our pitchers are doing just enough and Maple Woods is a good team.

Jacques Rogge

Organizing the Games is never easy. But I am glad the fundamentals are sound.

Scott White

Oregon and Washington State are the most physical, hardest-fought games every year. You always have to pick it up a notch when you go play at Oregon.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Tiffany Townsend

PATH line rail schedules have nothing to do with toll-crossing charges.

Ali Moshiri

Our objective is in line with what their objective is.

Jim Darling

Our offensive line wore them down and we just ran over them.

Chan Gailey

Our offensive line is pretty young. We did not feel like it was imperative. We'll make a push for some next year, maybe one or two. I don't feel any pressure right now and I think we'll have to look and see what we have numbers-wise to work with next year.

I. Stone

Our offensive line is not near where we need it to be. Our wide receivers are better than where we've been in the past, though.

Oprah Winfrey

Stanford, Yale and NYU line up to get a seat in her class.

John Swainson

Our results for the quarter were not in line with our expectations.

Martin Brodeur

We'll be able to make a long pass because the red line is out,

Gary Warman

Our passing was to red shirts all night long. We'll regroup, like young teams do.

Michael K. Williams

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

Jack McCoy

Sushi was gone, ... Somehow, she just got out the night before we were supposed to leave. She was just gone." ()

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!

Barry McGuire

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

B. B. King

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

Herman Edwards

Our offense was very, very sluggish. We didn't play well and we didn't play smart.

Johnnie Morton

Our offense was very sluggish out there, ... and we never had our tempo.

Mike Garland

Our offense right now has to come along.

Fisher DeBerry

Our offense played real well the first half,

Barbara Turner

Our offense just clicked. We ran everything that he wanted us to run, set every screen he wanted us to set and got every open shot we wanted to get.

Daunte Culpepper

Our offense is very rhythmic, ... We couldn't get into our rhythm.

Jeremy Bauer

Our offense is there. We've been putting up a lot of runs so far.

Clay Jordan

Our offense is one dimensional, ... We have to be able to throw.

Joey Harrington

Our offense isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing. A lot of different people not quite working together.

Bill Halbrehder

Our penalty-killing unit was actually an offensive threat.

LeBron James

Out of our 22 turnovers, I'd probably say 10 to 12 were offensive fouls. Questionable calls, but we have to live with it.

Katie Brunelle

We never really got into our offensive rhythm. All season we've relied on our play in the paint, and they just pressed us outside a lot.

Ted Bahhur

I will probably give it to the offensive line.

Rene Portland

Kudos to their defense. We couldn't get into our offensive sets if we had tried. Turnovers were not only self-induced.

Don Johnson

I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way,

Dan Miller

I thought offensive rebounding killed us in the first half. They just pounded us on the glass.

Quantez Robertson

He just told me to be more of an offensive threat because a lot of teams saw that I wasn't scoring a lot of points.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Rajon Rondo

Patrick played great. That was a big key.

Michelle Connors

Some of those teams (we played during the season) are here today. It proved very valuable to their efforts. I'm just super proud of them.

Stan Heath

Our team played very well at Alabama. That was one of our better road games. We could have made better choices. Where do we go from here? We go to Auburn and get a win.

Dan Kumetat

Our whole team played well. Our whole team contributed.

Don Williams

P.J. played well and he played hard. He played well all year for us.

Nell Fortner

I think this team has played very hungry. I'm really proud of their focus.

Brad Ellebracht

We never really played with any urgency throughout the game.

Chuck Amato

I was just totally disappointed with the way we played defensively.

Bud Selig

I think they played a very constructive role.

Jim Williams

Roger's been running for a year and a half. And there hasn't been an unkind word said.

M. Wolfe

Replays and reruns are running out of steam,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

Bede Griffiths

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's really going on.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

Becca Fitzpatrick

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Carrie Brownstein

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

Antoine Lavoisier

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

Ellen Brown

I will be monitoring the weather all weekend.

Steve Anderson

Hopefully, this will be the end of the wet period. In all indications, it will be the end of the long-standing wet weather pattern.

Shelly Chernicki

We've been very fortunate, but there's more weather to come.

Celia Rivenbark

Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to 'How's your cold' with 'It sucks.' So there should be an It Sucks cold formula.

Argus Hamilton

Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into Los Angeles for the convention. The hot weather in the desert kept the numbers down.

Dick Van Dyke

We should never judge a day by its weather.

Alexei Sayle

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.