Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Let your life be your argument.

Folarin Campbell

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Mike Petersen

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

Joanne McCallie

LSU did a great job. We took care of their zone pretty easily, but then they played a lot of man and did a good job with it. I'm not pleased with our team's toughness. We really need to be strong on the court. It was a good lesson for us, but not at all the kind of basketball we play.

S. Walker

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

Garrick Phillips

Lynden is a good basketball team. There is no question they were better than us. That certainly wasn't the best effort we had.

Ben Braun

Leon and I have talked a lot about his future and his options. He just had the best season of his basketball career, which is a credit to his work ethic and perseverance. I trust that Leon will ultimately make a great decision.

Jim Tildsley

Lowell is a very, very good basketball team and they pushed us to the limit. Both teams played extremely well and I'm very happy with the way we hung in and executed at the end of the game.

Dickey Nutt

Lorenzo will still be a valued member of our basketball family, and we will support him 100 percent in his desire to obtain his college degree.

Thornton Wilder

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Joe Cook

So few communities have the opportunity to take a blank canvas of land and create a core for its residents,

Turkish Proverb

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

Johnny Rutherford

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check,

Edgar Mitchell

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

Steve Meyers

I feel like they need to come back and demonstrate some prudence, and better management, before we write them a blank check.

David Keene

From now on, this administration will find it difficult to muster support on the right without explaining why it should be forthcoming. The days of the blank check have ended.

Oleh Rybachuk

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.

Joyce Blazier

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

Tammy Smith

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

Sgt. Maynard

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Ramon Sanchez

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Zack Nixon

We know we are in for some tough competition. But, today we showed that if we play our ?A'-game, we can compete with anybody.

Rick LeBeau

Like athletes, you have to be completely dedicated to compete at this elite level.

Simon Maughan

Macquarie prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. Macquarie in effect is run as a series of competing businesses. At times the management encourages different teams to compete for the same assets. They see it as healthy.

Cindy Snead

Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a lot easier for us to compete because we will have maturity and experience.

Nancy Clark

Many of the people that I counsel sleep through breakfast, spend lunch money on junk -- or eat nothing. And then they try to compete and they are running on empty.

Dan Hartleb

Minnesota is always a quality club. They have very good pitching and are solid defensively. They are similar to us, but they do have a little more experience than us. Yet, I expect us to be able to compete very well with them.

Tim Corbin

Much like David, Wade was a proven player right away. He's about as competitive a guy as you will face. I haven't seen him since we played them last year, but that doesn't matter. That kid knows how to pitch, he knows how to compete and he's a winner.

Gary Tague

(McNicol) has run to compete at meets this year. He was tough tonight.

Dwight Howard

Maybe we're not mentally ready for a playoff series right now. But physically, I think we can compete with any team.

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Laurence Steinberg

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

Steve Mullins

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Jennifer Ebelhar

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

E. Hicks

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Ned Yost

Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.

Tim Giel

Last year, we had only six kids wrestle at the section tournament. This year, we have 11 kids entered.

Andy Coulombe

Last year when we came, we had some kids who went two-and-out, but this year every kid won a match.

Steven Jackson

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

Frank Haith

Obviously we're disappointed. But we've got to get ourselves emotionally ready to come back. That's what this league is all about. This league is that good.

Rocky Nelson

Now we are ready to open our Middlesex League season. This worked out well and this is where I thought we would be.

Dennis Eckersley

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

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Bill Belichick

There are only three teams in the league that have a better record than they do.

Byron Scott

(NBA commissioner David) Stern and the league put us all in a bind. We understand the situation. We're going to play another year in Oklahoma City, and then after that we have no idea what's going to happen.

Mat Sprague

I would have rather had a league title for the school and the kids, but it's an accomplishment I'm proud of.

Ebenezer Ekuban

I'm at a loss for words. I've been in the league seven years and I've never experienced anything like it before.

Mallory Ortberg

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

Rob Sheffield

Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.

Robert Brown

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

Jennifer Moore

No one likes being sued, especially in a situation where it is completely baseless.

Richard Madeley

On Liam Gallagher: He likes Judy, he's got a soft spot for her.

Timothy Noah

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes compliment.

Mike Manley

I wish we didn't have to do this. This is the most distasteful part of the job. Nobody likes it. It's never fun.

Roy Brown

She's the kind of student we want at this University. She's a role model whether she likes it or not.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Mo Ibrahim

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Ayad Allawi

major negligence on the part of some members of the multinational forces.

D. James

Major market indexes are going to remain in a range, ... I don't see a big trigger on the upside.

Jaren Jackson

Major is not a big scorer but he can play defense.

Kathy Jordan

Many students major in things, and when they go to work they say, 'This isn't quite what I thought it was'.

Jeff Burns

One of our major points is promoting four-hour rounds or less. Our members really like that.

Ang Lee

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Jim Ford

Now, we've also got new major fundraising efforts.

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Kathy Miles

So he wrote on a little yellow piece of paper, 'Les Miles.'

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

Kathay Lovell

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property.

Alexander Wang

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Joe Kines

I did a poor job. That's my fault. That's not the players job, that's my fault.

Tommy Taylor

One of the players said that we couldn't make anything and (Republic was) making everything.

Larry Brown

I wish this would get over. It's really about the players and us getting better.

Jody Bronson

I was pleased with the way a lot of our players performed.

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Mike Sanford

Leon is playing better and better every week.

Shaun McGinn

So he started playing every day and, since then, he's been doing very well.

Jim Tressel

Maurice is going to be playing tailback on our scout team.

Willie Thornton

Obviously. we're playing better. We're still not where we want to be. We're still a work in progress.

Kimo Oelhoffen

My apologies to him. It's unfortunate it happened, but that's the risk we all take playing this game.

Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

George Robertson

When the nation's very survival is at stake, there is no room for playing politics,

Rashard Lewis

I feel like we weren't playing hard. We were just kind of going through the motions.

Steve Rothchild

I feel like we're playing better right now. We just have to take things one at a time right now.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

The world [is] now seeing might is right.

Dick Cheney

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

Al Neuharth

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

Arne Jacobsen

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

Dennis Lehane

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

Bill Maher

I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

Bob Barker

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Eddie Izzard

In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.

Carl Andre

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.