Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our successes, failures, whatever it may be, it seems like Providence always plays us close. I think it's 3-3 over the last six games. Our national championship team (2004), they showed up at 12 o'clock at the (Hartford) Civic Center and beat us pretty good.

Jack Garrison

(Reese) came out here and beat all the good kids. What a tournament both of them had.

Scott Taylor

Rebounding. That's one word to sum up tonight. The first half they beat us down the court and they beat the heck out of us on the boards. We hustled, but they hustled hard to every rebound.

Alexander Savenkov

Regrettably, beating has become a typical method of dealing with subordinates in the military.

Rick Carlisle

Our point guard position was really tremendous, especially in the second half. That's the kind of production we need at all our positions. Let's face it, we're the kind of team right now where we're playing eight guys (Friday). We need six out of eight (players) playing at a high level to beat a team like Sacramento.

Alfred Bea

Our players know that somebody, figuratively speaking, is going to beat those odds. It could be any one of them.

Ron Gardenhire

Our outfield's been beaten up pretty bad, and Jacque's the one guy that needs to step up. And he's been doing that.

Justin Wilson

Paul Tracy is a great driver and a tough competitor. You know when you have beat him in a race, you have beaten one of the best drivers in the world.

Chris Simon

Our number-one focus is winning one game. We know they're a good team and they beat us last time. They've improved a lot and are a good team with a lot of speed.

Alexandra Adornetto

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Martin Jol

I did not even see it, I was watching Edgar Davids. The lad was going down then standing up and for me there's no problem.

Peter Hutton

(Jockey) Edgar (Prado) said she was sharpsharper than he expected her to be,

Ross Lynch

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Samantha Shannon

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

Dan Wilson

To be one of 30 nominees is quite an honor, and to have Edgar win it last year and Jamie the year before makes it even more meaningful,

Rick Smolan

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

Martin Jol

We have a terrific young squad but we lack a winning mentality which you can only get through experience. He has the mentality to help us make a big step. Everybody tells me we have the players, but we have to prove it. Away from home we have to do better. Edgar can help us.

Ray LaHood

What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

Mark Winkleman

Reform is necessary and preferably something that gets us more money. Until there are some changes, we aren't in a position to do anything immediate with the Morrison report.

Leslie Manigat

Our position is very clear, whoever gets 50 percent plus one wins, and if they don't get it, we go to a second round.

Bill Snyder

Part of it is he presses awfully hard. He wants to make a play every time he gets a chance.

David Seaman

Paul Robinson has not even reached his peak yet. I like Paul. I like the way he goes about his job. He's not flash, he just gets on with it.

William Mauldin

Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants.

Gerald Brence

Sure they could. We've had a lot of years like this. It never gets old.

Nancy Heaton

Some of the teachers, I know, are working on those right now. They, of course, won't be processed until Mr. Jansen gets back.

Neil Young

Some get stoned, some get strange. Sooner or later it all gets real. Walk on.

Paul Woolpert

Someone gets hot (in the playoffs). Our problems were all on offense. We were never able to get into an offensive rhythm.

John Podhoretz

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

Elliott Abrams

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

Eliot Spitzer

To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.

Jeb Bush

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

Paul Peterson

This is strong GOP country. This is the hotbed of Republicanism, the most conservative state in the nation.

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Laura Bush

Roberts' nomination was the result of surprise, not consultation,

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Michael Caine

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Roger Ebert

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.