Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Buck

We're not deliberately making it worse. I've read they move the ball mostly on the ground; we move it in the air. I'm not sure that's an accurate portrayal of a Chelsea system.

Tommy Amaker

Lester has arguably been our most consistent player since he's been here. And it's obvious when we haven't had him we haven't been the same team. That's not an excuse. That's an explanation. And it's an accurate one in our minds.

Kim Edwards

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

Bernard Ingham

Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory.

Adrian Gonzalez

Many companies, however, do not have a clear and accurate understanding of their transportation costs, ... They're often bundled together with other costs and reported at an aggregated level, thus preventing companies from allocating transportation costs to specific products, customers, or business units.

Frank Beamer

Sean's been the most consistent both in getting into plays and making decisions and making throws. Sean has thrown the ball more accurately than he did last fall. He's made very good decisions. He is against a couple of quarterbacks who are more athletic than he is. So it's not so much as what he's done wrong, but the other kids have done some things right. That's why this is a tough decision.

Dennis Moore

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Michael Shamberg

Sensitivity and accuracy, at the end of the day, are the same thing. Because of what we've heard from the police, firefighters, civilians, the Port Authority, everyone who was there that day, loved ones - they said, 'Tell the story accurately so people understand what happened.' You can't do the Hollywood version.

Steve Chapman

One of our roles at the Forestry Commission is to provide Georgia landowners with high-quality, accurate and timely timber price information. Georgia has 24.3 million acres of forestland available for commercial use and timber is the highest valued vegetative crop in the state. Since timber prices vary across the state, Forest2Market had divided Georgia into three primary timber pricing regions. Forest2Market's report will serve as a valuable tool to help Georgia's Forest Products Industry compete in the global market. We are pleased to provide a timber market report specific to Georgia.

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Italo Calvino

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Rick Perlstein

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

Rick Perlstein

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Robert Strauss

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Kazinsky

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Malorie Blackman

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

Auggie Tantillo

Manipulated currency, non-performing loans made by Chinese state-run banks, intellectual property theft and other state-sponsored subsidies are the driving forces behind the job-destroying US trade deficit with China.

Andy Roberts

Like all the other territories, Jamaica is well behind in its preparation and there is a lot of work to be done.

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set it us back. On the next shift they scored another one to put us behind the 8-ball.

Jared Dudley

Making the Sweet 16 is a dream come true. Now we need to put it behind us and get ready for the next game.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Make no mistake. We face a very difficult job once we get the pomp behind us tomorrow,

Joel Edgerton

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Shaun Alexander

Mack Strong is the difference between us and the Philadelphia Eagles. We can get behind him and run all day.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Holly Brown

We're not counting ourselves out. We're right there.

John Lowery

We're not counting on them as saviors or anything else like that,

Phil Garner

We're not counting him out, but this is a day-to-day situation,

David Scurto

Make sure you have the willpower of your elected officials and the people.

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Marie Wilson

Maybe we can actually use this show to get that tippy point over and have a woman elected to office.

Laurent Gbagbo

Of course, because he was elected in October 2000 and in principle his mandate runs until 2005.

Shashi Tharoor

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

Oscar Fonseca

From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Rica.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Fred Jordan

I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could have his opinion swayed.

Michael Hendricks

Somebody finally had the intelligent idea to remember that Harper isn't elected yet. That seemed to secure everybody. They quieted down and the subject hasn't come up again. Just that one shot.

Tony Ciriello

Majority rules -- and this is the vast majority. It's not fair to people who are standing in a line 10 tables back.

Bob Gammage

Let's put the wealth of the state as a whole on the table. Let's put every conceivable source of revenue on the table and forge a plan where every person in Texas pays their fair share.

Norma Martinez

Many of us own our trailers, but they aren't movable. We are low-income families, and this is not fair to us.

Bob DuPuy

MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.

Pat Harris

Mr. Hale thinks it was a fair deal.

Harry Kemp

Ms. Jackson and the staff at Fair worked so hard to reach Level 4, we just knew they would make it even before the test results, ... I don't think she (Jackson) has stopped smiling since I told her they reached Level 4.

Rhianna Pratchett

My journalist sensibilities have guided me toward the types of projects I've gone for, even though the projects have been fairly diverse. It always has to have that interesting to attract me, I think.

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Dennis Prager

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Elbert Hubbard

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

Eduardo Galeano

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Greg Gard

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Michael Jansen

I wouldn't stand in the way of that.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.

Karen Hughes

is something that's widely supported in the region.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

Michael Williams

This was my little guy, and whoever did it, they're going to get caught, I already know it,

Francis Arinze

is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.

Roberto Calvi

Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.

Jeff Lanza

Whoever put it in there wanted it to look like a bomb.

Ellis Wyms

Whoever it is, I'll come in and go to work with them.

Maura James

Whoever did this, I want them to pay.

Joe Jackson

Whoever did it, they will get caught. Can't get away with doing wrong.

Sam Altman

Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.

Mark Sweeney

That's crap. Whoever did that should be embarrassed.