Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Evans

We want to see broad public participation, (which is) part of what's missing with the Balloon Track, anyway.

Brian Billick

We want to score more points, ... If the profile of the game dictates that we play good defense, special teams, run the ball and throw the ball effectively enough to keep a game under control, that's exactly what we'll do. Yes, we'd like to score more points. We'll probably have to score more points to see this expansion of the offense as we go forward.

Jeff McInerney

We want to rush and pass the ball with production and variety to keep defenses guessing.

Marc Bulger

We want to run the ball more, ... Earlier in the year we didn't have that luxury because we were behind.

Chad Spence

We want to run the ball but we want to mix it with the pass.

H. Hart

We have to handle the press and not turn the ball over. We have to shoot fairly well and get off to a good start.

Carl Relyea

We have to handle the ball a little sharper, defensively. You look at the breakdown: The first five runs they scored were all unearned.

Pat Riley

We have to guard the ball a lot better. And he's got to go to the rim a little more with his blocks.

Sarah Davis

We have to go out and hit the ball first of all. We haven't been hitting the ball the last three games. Offensively we need our bats to come through, and defensively we've been making mistakes which we need to eliminate.

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Bob Bote

When he first came up as a sophomore he wasn't a very good hitter. He was weak and he had really slow bat speed. He batted in the nine hole as a sophomore.

Pat Merrill

We wanted to win the battles all over the floor and that's what we did.

Joey Eischen

We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no wind left in our sails because of our schedule. Twenty-two extra road games beats you down.

Michael Vaughan

We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series.

Tara King

We were trying to do that with Battle Mountain, and I think we needed to slow it down. We weren't being smart with our passes.

John Blackburn

We were tougher today in facing the adversity, knowing that it is going to come and how you deal with it. A good example was in the two doubles match and Chris Thomas pulled a muscle in his abs. He didn't quit and kept battling and that was probably one of the biggest matches today.

J. Horton

We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.

Sen Brownlee

We have protected the state of Kansas from her and her ideas as best we can. Now, there will be that battle of who's really done what and who gets credit for it.

John Brady

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jeff Bowden

We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

Rich Bowen

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

John Asher

We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source.

Ed McKelvey

Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.

Michael Vaughan

We have played to win throughout the series and will certainly be doing that again,

Matt Murphy

The expectations certainly were on her this year. Everybody knew that she'd be the player to stop on our team. But she went out every night and produced. I knew I could always count on 20 points and at least 10 or 12 rebounds a game from her.

Horst Koehler

The fact that other people are worse off than us is certainly cold comfort for those in Germany who have to count every cent.

Juan Gonzalez

We have (second-place) Southwest this coming Wednesday, then Sweetwater and Eastlake. All three will be tough, tough games, so hopefully we can finish on top and go for the No. 2 seed.

DeMarcus Nelson

We have to get better. There are a lot of things we can do to get better. This feeling that this team is feeling tonight. This hurt and this pain has to motivate us this coming week to get better and to prepare and get refreshed for the ACC tournament. We really have to come out in the ACC tournament and really have an edge and a fire in each and every one of us.

Dave Schmotzer

We have to get better at that daily grind that all ballplayers have to go through. Right now, we have too many inexperienced players being put into pressure situations and not coming through. But it's just two games, so it's not time to panic yet.

Lovie Smith

We have a stretch run that we're coming up on and we need all of our guns, really, for that. And Cedric is a big part of what we're trying to do running the football. Other guys will have to pick up the slack until he gets back.

Marci Skeen

We have a solid team coming back. I was really impressed with our freshmen. They turned in some big scores at the OCC and at the district meet. Being a freshman at the district meet didn't seem to phase.

David Starkey

We have musicians coming from Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans to play in the band.

Jeremy Gunn

We have so many people coming back, and with the new additions, we're in a good position. We have lots of people vying for time, and there's definitely competition for places, which is nice. It's a nice problem to have.

Scott Ford

Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we picked it up a little more in the second half.

Kathy Gibson

When everybody left the locker room, there was a lot of talk that we're going to come back next year already. Every player that walked out said we're coming back here next year.

Ouida Forsyth

Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.

Charles Clark

on the grounds that his presence is not conducive to the public good.

Sarath Amunugama

I am quite confident that the policy environment is quite conducive for taking our economy towards a six to eight percent growth path with significant reduction in poverty over the next three to five years.

Christina Ricci

Nobody's kissing my ass, unfortunately. I could use a little. But then again, my personality isn't conducive to butt-kissing.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Dave Baseggio

I don't think it was conducive to what we had. We've come a long way since that game.

Douglass North

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

Steve Turner

We would have loved to have him stay. But he was able to get back to his school and be in an environment much more conducive to his comfort.

William Wagner

The patch helps keep the tissue thick and mechanically softer, creating a more conducive environment for healing instead of scar tissue formation.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Tom Seaver

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Randy Wilstead

She's one of the most pure hitters I've had.

John McGraw

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Ned Yost

He didn't have any trouble getting the first two hitters out. We're talking about a third of an inning that killed us.

Craig Nicholson

Our hitters are getting to the point where they're pretty locked in. Hopefully, we're going to see some big things down the stretch from our offense.

Gord Ash

We couldn't really tell (if the velocity was down), but obviously the hitters told you that.

Dusty Baker

We had to use Eyre earlier. They have too many left-handed hitters over there.

Randy Noland

We've got some hitters to replace, no question.

Mark Nation

When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Ernst Toller

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Jon Stewart

Wow. I can't wait till later when we see Oscar's salute to montages.

Claire Tomalin

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

James E. Faust

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Albert Jones

When I got there he was laying on the ground. He was hollering and waving his arms.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Kevin Hall

There is not $150 million laying on the table.

John Scully

The picture was laying on his stomach when he died.

Ted Astolfi

We're laying it out today to say this is where we want to get to.

Juanna Graham

He was laying around a lot. He didn't want to play, he didn't want to eat. He was throwing up.

Marc Guggenheim

We've enjoyed laying the foundation for 'The Flash' series.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Timothy Ghriskey

We're seeing a pullback really just from yesterday.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Carlos Fuentes

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Agnes Varda

I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

Agnes Repplier

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Charlotte Bronte

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Bronte

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Charlotte Bronte

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.

Charlotte Bronte

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Richard G. Scott

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

Carlos Beltran

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Ray Giacoletti

We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

Brendan Fraser

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

Brendan Fraser

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

Charlie Parker

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Bob Hope

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

Clara Mamet

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

Bill Hybels

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

Brian Giles

With my toe tap, I need the at-bats to get ready. It's a timing thing.

Seth Erwin

Basically, we didn't have the same 15 set for every week. We had different starters, and we just couldn't get our timing down.

Eric Thomas

Now that PNTR (for China) is out of the way, the timing is right.

Chauncey Billups

I wish the timing was a little different.

Carol Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Stan Javier

Our timing is not there yet, but we are all in the same boat. We are here. That's where we wanted to be.

Chris Leak

My timing is better, and as a team, were more experienced, ... So, most definitely.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Brad Garlinghouse

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.