Famous Quotes & Sayings

Butch Buchholz

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challenges. That would have been a problem. That would take forever to play a match.

Gary Bettman

Our member clubs, our officials, our players and our hockey operations people will face many challenges in the weeks and months ahead. My job is to make sure that everyone stays focused on the objective of fostering competitive NHL hockey that features flow, skill, speed, puck movement and skating.

Duncan Hunter

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Sue Cischke

Some of the challenges include designing a system that is most of all accurate, not easily disabled or avoided, is easy to use and does not create driver-distraction issues.

Frank Robinson

Some guys, they get down on themselves and wonder 'Why? But other guys, it challenges them: 'Well, I'm not going to let someone come in and take my job. I'll show them that I'm a better player.' I think that's the way he should react and that's the way he will react, because really the job is there for him to lose.

Harold Lewis

Our stadium is the most used natural turf stadium in the U.S.. Given the challenges, he's done a great job.

Gregg Semanick

Our volunteers are the heart of the program. Many have been helping for years. They enjoy the challenges of tax preparation and they're dedicated to helping in their communities.

Herb Harris

Riley is the kind of kid who likes challenges like that. He's always willing to step in and give it a shot.

Duane Ackerman

Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.

Bruce Green

It doesn't look good right now. In the back of the home, there are several cracks throughout the walls of the house.

Greg Robbins

I feel like we're reaching the kids that fall between the cracks because of funding,

Neil Strother

If it's done right, whoever cracks the digital-music-on-the-cell-phone conundrum will do well,

Jamie Sharper

He might be a short guy, but short guys can get through small cracks and make plays.

Darlene Norman

We've repaired the cracks and they keep cracking.

Ned Yost

One run there is a huge run, ... You give up five, but you still have 27 cracks at a young kid.

Aaron Huey

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

Michael Wong

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

John Nersesian

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

David Aaron

It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.

Wanda Peterson

Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Joe Torre

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.