Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Reith

We have seen an average of 5,000 votes come in after the first count.

Ed Young

We have to get a better flow. We average 75 points per game, and we haven't had that for a while. Without Vaughn, we're missing 17 points, five assists, four steals.

Tom Cappel

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

Joel Berg

When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear that New York City is facing a hunger crisis. You could fill Yankee Stadium more than seven times with these children. Such numbers should be a wakeup call for government leaders, business executives and average residents alike.

Dan Murphy

We want more people to play. We want to make the game fun for the average player. Clearly, the golf consumer likes to watch the ball hit a long way, and when they play themselves, they like to hit it a long way.

Randy Blach

We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Tom Lyons

We've seen growth in the average daily rate throughout the city, from Westport to downtown, especially with an increase in convention business in St. Charles. With the new stadium opening up and development continuing downtown, we're confident we'll see growth in the new property, too.

Tom Wheeler

We have no record of any bypass of treatment. We submit them in our report every month and we have no record of bypass.

Mark Hyman

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

Ghazi Hamad

We feel that some countries and organizations try to bypass the government.

Clive Barker

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

Joe Solmonese

Faith-based organizations have been partnering successfully with the government for years without the need to bypass civil rights laws in providing social services.

David Addison

We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.

Paul Provenza

Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.

Richard Simmons

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery, and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.

Bill Hare

Here is the moment where the international community can be held up by the United States or choose to bypass them.

Aaron Staton

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

Aaron Tveit

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

Alan Shepard

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Charlie Daniels

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Charles Stanley

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

Richard Mills

The fact that so many more students now want to go to college shows our young people realize the need for higher standards and achievement,

David Elkind

We have so many good colleges. If you're honest, it's not the education they get as much as the connections, the people they meet. And that's where a lot of it's at.

Mike McKenzie

We have six kids that played for us last year but aren't back. We have some kids, we just don't have enough kids with college experience.

Anne Robinson

There are a lot of different ways individuals can earn college credit and get their degrees these days? It's probably one of the better kept secrets.

Tim Henman

When I'm not competing I try and play as much golf as time allows, and my handicap is three.

Dave Heineman

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here.

Brenda Frese

We are going to keep competing and we keep getting that margin down. Duke is so talented and so deep.

Mike Glick

We still need to show more patience on offense and we need to do a better job of competing on every possession.

Will Morgan

We're here, we're not polar opposites, we're not competing for the hold of the city.

Nick Saban

We're still competing at that position, but Gus has taken most of the reps. That's the way it is right now.

Russ Howard

We're starting to get more excited about it. It's still a long way off, even though we're leaving today. We get to Italy on Feb. 8 and we don't start competing till Feb. 13, but (there's) the excitement of being there for the opening ceremonies, the Olympics themselves and the ambiance that goes with it.

Fred Moran

We're seeing an influx of competition on national level with various players partnering together, ... Now we have a number of fully national partnerships competing head to head.

Terry Parks

We've got good kids. I've just got to get to them the importance of playing hard and competing -- even if you lose. Go with what you know. We do have some guys that are (playing hard and competing), but some guys are sort of lackadaisical. Once we figure that out, we'll be fine.

John McEnroe

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Calamity Jane

I'd punch that cocksucker in the balls before I'd cup him for comfort.

Diane Ackerman

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

Diego Maradona

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

Aulus Gellius

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

Rico Rodriguez

I can't live without my milk. We get 3 gallons every time we go shopping, and I finish it in two weeks. I drink maybe five cups a day.

Pierre Lueders

No one remembers how you finished in the World Cups in an Olympic season.

Brooke Elliott

I love... Eskimo Joe's. I have tons of Eskimo Joe's clothes and cups in my house, 'cause I love Eskimo Joe's.

William Gaillard

We've stated very recently that we are not in favor of having firearms on board,

Scott Fujita

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

Tom Watson

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.

Anna Kendrick

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Talisa Soto

I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Ted Ligety

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Landon Liboiron

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

Libba Bray

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

James Wolcott

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

Bruce Brownlee

We've already started to put up the fence around the site.

Roman Phifer

I was right on the fence (between playing and retirement).

Noel Forgeard

Nobody will remember who was second after the fourth fence in last week's Grand National. It's where you finish that matters.

Brian Giles

I had it in the palm of my glove, ... but my wrist hit the top of the fence and knocked it out.

Peter Woolley

One month ago, people were on the fence. A month later, people are off the fence and forming hard opinions. A month ago, people were waiting to see what the governor would do. Now they've seen some of it and their initial reaction is negative.

Mark Donahoe

There are a lot of people sitting on the fence waiting for the Fed.

Greg Biffle

Tony has a problem with running you into the fence the second he gets position. We were running side by side, and he started running me into the fence.

Greg Biffle

Tony has a problem with running guys into the fence as soon as he gets position. I don't know why he would try to run me in the fence.

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.

Cesare Pavese

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

Alan Chadwick

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Jon Stewart

When I said that I wanted to put together a writing staff that would only be 80 percent Ivy League-educated Jews, they said it couldn't be done,

Kevin Stacom

He's a smart kid who was recruited by the Ivy League schools. He did pretty well.

Dave Talbott

We've got to use this as a springboard for the Ivy championship. I'm real proud of the team. We can win the Ivies.

Alexandra Adornetto

Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?" "A long time ago, they used to appear wearing robes and golden girtles," Ivy explained. "They sound like losers," Xavier muttered.

Paul Giamatti

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Kim Harrison

...Ivy’s COOK THE STEAK, DON’T STAKE THE COOK apron...

Kim Harrison

Rachel?” came Ivy’s voice from her room. “Where’s my sword?” “In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Terry Francona

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

Brian Clough

Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,

Alan Moore

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

Cassandra Peterson

My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.

Dennis Eckersley

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

Gus Frerotte

Since Ricky has been in the league there has been a fascination,

Steven Jackson

let the league know the Rams are planning to do something this year.

Jim Cameron

She's in a league all of her own.

Russ Howard

But that didn't matter. She was still an Olympian and part of our family. We were pretty proud of her.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.