Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Watkins

Like any recruit, when we talk to them individually, we explain where they're going to fit in so they understand exactly what it is we expect of them, ... And when I recruit kids, the main thing is if they'll be a good fit to the program, and with these two that was an easy decision.

Stephanie Coontz

Life is filled with trade-offs, and I worry that it's so easy to slip from descriptions of problems to one-size-fits-all prescription,

Rick Hartzell

Mac is more of a laid-back, easygoing guy. Pat is the opposite. He's fiery, and pretty excitable. Where they're similar is that they're great people, good family guys. They have gone back to their alma mater and have really enjoyed being there.

Doug TenNapel

Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.

Ariel Sharon

Look, the Jews are not easy people. Maybe that's the reason they managed to exist, I would say, for thousands of years.

Eric Schmidt

Let's face it programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. We make it easy for them to do both.

Werner Herzog

Many of my films have not been easy work,

Rob Sumner

Scott Jackson's an easy gut to take for granted when things are going good because he does everything well. He logs a lot of ice time and he's such a key part of any of our successes.

Jeff Bagwell

Second guess all you want. I think that's easy to do in that situation, but I think it's a little unfair, too. I feel like I can help the team, I really do. I feel like I'm going to give a good at-bat. I'm a lot stronger now.

Ed DeChellis

Last year, they knew exactly what they were doing. This year, this guy's starting, that guy's starting, probably because that's just the way it is. They're trying to find the right mixture.

David Cobb

Many people still don't know exactly what Goodwill does for the community. We are trying to pair local faces with our mission.

Ray Allen

Mike would spend the night at the house. We'd stay up late and then get up in the morning and go to practice. Everything he did just emulated exactly what I was doing out there on the floor and you see what he can do now.

John Kelly

Mr. Simpson, isn't this exactly what happened on June 12, 1994?

Emily Oster

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

Gwen Stefani

(My inspiration) was so strong with 'Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and it was just like I had such a fire of inspiration.

Doug Trantham

One of the things I actually learned to some extent from Doc Watson most of us hate amplification anyway, and I think a lot of people tend not to spend a lot of time working with that. He won't start until the sound is right, and that's exactly what he needs to do.

Richard Greene

No one can say what exactly is going to happen.

Joan Collins

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

French Proverb

Life works out - but not as you expect it

Christopher Low

Like everyone else, we expect a quarter-point hike in fed funds today to 4.75 percent -- we also expect the statement to be softened.

Frances Tuke

Life has to go on and people have to use the transport system. People always expect the Americans in particular to shy away after there have been incidents but we have not heard of any mass cancellations.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Tee Newman

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Greg Olsen

Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win.

Bob Castellini

Lou really had a year that he had to stay away from major league baseball. I didn't know that at the time we talked about it. It's just not going to happen this year. And I would expect Lou to go back to managing.

Dave Duncan

Looper is important to our bullpen. Can it be a good bullpen? Yes, if somebody else steps up if he isn't what we expect him to be right away. The key is getting him to do the things he needs to be doing.

Ron Eastman

Last year was the first year in about 19 years they didn't make the playoffs, so you always know they are always going to have a quality team. They usually have a lot of talent. We don't know a whole lot about them, but I fully expect them to come in ready to play and have one or two real good pitchers to throw at us.

Zhang Yimou

Love that can be explained is not love.

Debbie Roth

My daughter's pretty upset about the moving. It's hard to explain it to a 7-year-old.

Hicham Guerrouj

My father told me it was not a job, that I wouldn't make a living at tennis, ... The toughest part was trying to explain to him that I could be the first one from Morocco to do it. But he didn't want me to play. We didn't talk for a year. That was when I knew I couldn't fail. I had to show him it was the right decision. It was a great motivation.

D. James

I can't explain what happened. I really don't know what to say.

Grant Laman

I can't explain the misses. That never happens. But something was on our side and we pulled it out.

Steve Ford

I can't explain that. I'm not disappointed. I'm really just a little embarrassed.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because I'm not myself, you see

Yelena Isinbayeva

I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.

Chuck Davis

I can't explain it. We've been through a lot together. I'm just proud of those guys.

Italo Calvino

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Jacqueline Leo

Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.

Richard Turner

Madonna is a pretty good rider and very fit and agile. Being thrown off is just one of the risks of riding.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.

Deon Thompson

Sean May, I like how he plays. We've got the same style. It's a good fit for me.

Elisa Zied

Moderation is boring, but it's the key. You need to watch your portion sizes and then you'll see you can fit a lot of these beautiful, wholesome, healthful and tasty foods into your diet.

Jennifer Armintrout

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Ewen McKenzie

Mat was very keen to be fit for this match, but in the end he wasn't right.

Rudi Voeller

My impressions are more than positive, all my 23 players are fit and all have been practicing well.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Zhang Shiping

Mandarin has to be used as the main language, especially at school.

Don Wright

Main Street is really the thing I remember as a child.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Brian Durocher

Maine is a team that has some talented and strong kids. They play a real solid game.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Merton Miller

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

Carly Rae Jepsen

My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

Dav Whatmore

Obviously we would try to tie the series tomorrow (Wednesday) and tomorrow's win would be our main objective.

Bill Burton

I wouldn't say we're recruiting them. ... Most have taken it upon themselves to run.

Dick Peecher

She's very loyal. They were the first school to recruit her.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

Carl Forti

To us, it's much more important to recruit someone who can win,

Vivek Wadhwa

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Beth Burns

When we recruit someone who is going to be a junior, we're going to recruit someone who is going to come in and play.

E. B. White

When we recruit running backs, we recruit big backs,

Greg Schiano

We just have to keep recruiting to the finish. That's it.

Lacey Schanz

Recruiting is an art. You have to be as serious about recruiting as you are about coaching.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mon cher, you are a simpleton. You really don't understand a thing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

William Ford

The only person who can understand a veteran is another veteran.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.