Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Bohn

We want to stay ahead of the competitive curve.

Lawrence Summers

The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.

Marv Levy

We appreciate his efforts and wish him well in what lies ahead in his career.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to what we saw in 2002, the counts of cases that we're having now are ahead of what we had in 2002, least in the city.

Zina Garrison

We are pretty much considered the underdogs here but I have a lot of confidence in the young women that are here and we are really looking ahead to a good match.

John McDonnell

We are ahead of where I thought we would be by two points. Florida State has a lot of great bullets and Texas and LSU, but we are on line to do what we are capable of doing.

John Sheehan

We are ahead of the curve on this.

Brian Halla

We are ahead of schedule on the return to profits plan we announced on May 5.

Robin Clifford

We are ahead of schedule for Sunday's deadline, and by midnight Sunday, (all) Yugoslav forces will be gone,

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

China Mieville

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

David Schwimmer

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

David Morrissey

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

C. Wright Mills

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Ben Wallace

We are a veteran team that knows what it takes to go out there and execute. We know that sometimes it goes, and sometimes it does not. There is no need to get excited about any one situation. We know we have to go out and play the game.

Willy Child

There are some good teams. Pine View is ranked in the top five, Mountain View played well in its win over Payson, so it will be tough. Normally, we would have played three games by now. Our kids are really excited to play. They've been working hard. They're all frustrated and ready to get started. We're hoping to get good weather down there.

Fred Mumford

We're interested and excited about the preservation of this property because of its historical value.

Lauren Miller

Girls will go see anything. They're open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.

Edward Gibbon

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

Nancy Clouse

We always get excited for them because we know they are quality teams.

Mike McCready

We also take time to be away from each other to live our separate lives, which allows us to be excited when we come back together to play music." ()

Marc Kudisch

When we were looking for a weekend place, ... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said: 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive? With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.'

Benedict Cumberbatch

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

Bela Karolyi

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

Bela Karolyi

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

Bela Karolyi

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

Kyle Shewfelt

I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.

Karla Souza

I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

Jamie Foxx

With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Elizabeth Taylor

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Ashley Scott

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

David Gibbs

We started so slow and they started so fast. We can't put our offense in that kind of hole.

Bob Marquardt

We struggled to get into our offense a little bit.

Corky Card

We struggled on offense with our spacing and timing.

Aaron Harang

With the offense we have, all you have to worry about is (making) your pitches. We know the offense is going to score.

Adam Kennedy

We didn't play very well. We played well in a couple, but not so well otherwise. Our offense just didn't really get going.

Shane Jones

We served real tough. It made it so they (Box Elder) couldn't get into their offense whole lot.

Charlie Whitehurst

When you're playing a running offense like they have, you've got to score as much as you can and as often as you can. We scored early, and they didn't respond for a while.

Clay Jordan

We worked on this offense all summer with Tony Jones, but he went out with an injury,

Adewale Ogunleye

We didn't show up. The offense played great.