Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Steve Blake

Our real identity is one which appeals to the traditional families, hard-working young couples, the pensioners and students of Britain.

Michael East

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

John Zimmerman

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

Dave Winfield

Roberto Clemente, not only because you played right field like it was supposed to be played, but your humanitarian efforts will live on forever.

Tracy Austin

Robert became the most important force in my life for my young tennis career. He was part father, part brother, part tyrant. The perfect coach.

Casey Stengel

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Len Dawson

I was just fortunate that it was detected in the early stages. Unfortunately my brother Ron wasn't so lucky. He lost his battle with the disease.

Michael East

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Aaron Miles

I'm here as an infielder and a ballplayer and wherever they put me in, that's where I'll be. Second base is my spot and that's what I'll compete for in the spring and hopefully there will be enough people who want to see the shortest infield combination in baseball.

Bill King

He wanted to be a ballplayer but said 'I would have been a Double-A or Triple-A ballplayer at best,'

Dusty Baker

He's a ballplayer. These are things a ballplayer does -- they run the bases well, they hit well, they throw, they throw to the right base, they steal a base. I think we're very fortunate to get such a talent at such a low price.

Ron Santo

He's a Cub, there's no doubt about it. Not only is he a great ballplayer and a Hall of Famer, but he's a Chicago Cub.

Argus Hamilton

If it's not true, it's libel. If it's true, just think of the ballplayer he might have been.

Will Sheridan

He never promises anything he doesn't deliver. We know we have to earn what we get. At the same time, he was a ballplayer himself, so he understands where we're coming from.

Barry Bonds

No. I don't have to. I mean I'm a good enough ballplayer as it is.

Rick Upchurch

Oh, yeah, absolutely. No doubt about it, man. That's special stuff. That's special stuff to be able to go out and play with a great ballplayer - not just a good ballplayer, but a great ballplayer.

Andy Morris

She's a smart, heady ballplayer who knows the game and situations and what to do in those situations.

Pam Martin

Some of the easiest and fastest growing vegetables are radishes. They do extremely well in the Texas heat. Tomatoes are some of the most difficult because of the weather fluctuations, bugs and diseases.

Mike Shank

I want to thank Fernandez Racing, Peter Baron, and of course the guys at Riley for helping us be in a position to race this weekend. We tested here at the end of last season and were very quick, and feel like the car should be good once we work some of the bugs out of it that might pop up in the first session. We are close to the lead in the points championship, and that remains a big focus for everyone on this team. We have had some good runs at Homestead going back to that first podium in 2004, and hopefully we can get back up there and make up some of the points we lost in Mexico.

Kelli Berglund

Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy.

Craig Beintema

If we do this, we can work out any problems or bugs out of the system and do a much better job.

Tex Avery

He wasn't Bugs without the gags we gave him.

Jim Poolman

One of the things that bugs me personally is these two-year deals.

Jack Cheevers

We want to make sure there are no bugs in it and, when we do go live with it, it will be ready to go. It's an enormously complex task to get all this information entered into this thing.

Edsger Dijkstra

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

Edsger Dijkstra

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

Jimmy Chamberlin

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

Gary Larson

Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever.

Terri Johnson

Our very first grant was a seventh-grader who wanted to go to cartooning school. Another girl went to sing with the Sussex County Chorus in Europe.

Maulik Pancholy

I watched a ton of cartoons growing up, but I don't remember specifically what networks they were on, I'll be honest. But I did like cartoons as a kid.

Tatiana Maslany

I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

Ming-Na Wen

I was hesitant to do 'Mulan II.' For me, I felt like the story that needed to be told, this legendary character of Mulan, was already encompassed in the first movie, and I was worried they would try to create this crazy cartoon character out of this legendary character of China.

Jeff Lemire

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.

Sheri Moon Zombie

I did take some voiceover classes. I always loved the idea of doing a voice for a cartoon character. I just voiced the character of Suzi X in the upcoming 'The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.'

Gene Luen Yang

If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.

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.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Mark Peterson

I watched the way he prepared himself before games. Before I saw Colton I never went to the outfield before to long toss or run before games. Now, I have my own routine before I pitch.

David Patterson

I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don't know why he didn't. He was sort of a shy person who didn't promote himself outside the scientific community. He would rather work in the lab.

Five Live

I think he's a centre-half but we know he can play in that position, so I think he's done himself a lot of good.

Bob Bradley

I still think it will happen. I think this was a little setback but there's no reason why he can't push himself forward.

Bobby Cox

Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player.

Chris Smith

John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.

Mike Trapasso

Justin wasn't trying to overpower people and get strikeouts. He had to stay within himself and learned that.

Billy Corgan

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Carrie Underwood

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Anton LaVey

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!

Tszvetana Pironkova

I always love her game, she was kind of my idol before. (But) I just have to play tennis, and I did.

Kenny Perry

Greg was the idol for young Australians, just like Jack Nicklaus was to me and my American generation.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Greg Pitts

Needless to say, American Idol clobbered us! Bad! We need a major word-of-mouth push.

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Kelly Ripa

Regis is not fired. He's just on special assignment. And we love each other.

Clare Balding

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

Jessica Alba

Paul loves the water. It seems like that's where he's the most happy.

Bryn Terfel

People have come up to me in the street saying 'Hey Meatloaf, I love that song you do, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,'

Phil Magney

People just want to track their loved ones. It?s as simple as that.

John Harrigan

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

James Alexander

People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.

Richard Walker

People immediately love them because they think they are a lot cleverer than they really are.

Luis Diaz

People here are paying thousands to get their loved ones killed.

Mike Ryan

Party's on the first floor, there's nobody on the second floor.

Virginia Steckman

Out here, they're normal. Nobody walks onto our property with a disability.

Bob Harrington

Later, I don't know when, they pushed in the walls and made it a pond. Nobody has a record of why.

Oscar Diaz

I tell people to stay out because you're going to get killed. Nobody wants that.

Jim Edmonds

It couldn't be that great; nobody wants to see this. It's all about the Red Sox and Yankees. Why don't they just show a replay of that?

Freddie Bell

I thought nobody would be there. But the place was full, and there were a lot of entertainers -- I thought everyone would be working.

Nick Saban

I don't know. He doesn't know. Nobody knows.

Brandon Jacobs

I didn't notice Strahan was gone. But I thought it was strange that when I went around the right side, there was nobody there to seal the end off.

George Jones

I don't know why nobody thought of it earlier.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Other women see all the women I play as separate people. Men say, She always plays tough, willful types; strong women who are also vulnerable.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Kip Rhoten

That's what he can do when he wants to. When he plays like he did tonight, we're tough.

Joe Gibbs

I think it was one of the prettiest plays I've ever seen,

Nicklas Lidstrom

I think we can make it tougher on him out there, make him skate a little more. He's going to make plays out there. We can get on him quicker, not give him that time with the puck.

Rod Smith

I tell all the young guys, when it's all done, it's about performance. When you get the chance, you have to make some plays . . . that's just the way it is.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Javier Solana

Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

Lee Pelekoudas

Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've got a pretty solid case.

Michael Burke

Our position is clear. The IFC can go someplace else,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Rita Leckie

Some of the principals in the corporation are the same people. We took the position that it was the same company.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.