Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Maurstad

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

Mark Twain

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain

Jeff Sherman

Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.

Mark Shapiro

Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys.

Mark Hyman

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Mike Gundy

Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch.

Al Way

Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.

Cary Thompson

Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.

Dave Esquer

Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.

Reed Tuckson

Regardless of who you are or what group you're in, there is a significant gap between the care you deserve and the care you receive.

Tony Robichaux

Regardless of what happens Tuesday (tonight), we're not going to carry it into the weekend. When this one's over, we'll immediately start thinking about and getting ready for the weekend.

Peter Schmidt

Regardless of the quality or sophistication of rivals, the 207 will be another successful car and it will be the top selling car in the segment.

Vince Carter

Regardless of our seeding, as long as we're playing well and rolling into the playoffs, that's what we care about. We're just looking at whoever we play, we have to be prepared.

Vitali Klitschko

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Tim Griffin

Record-high fuel costs, industry overcapacity, and the growth of low-cost carriers and the fares they are able to offer are negatively impacting the financial performance of many of the flights we currently operate,

Greg Mason

Reggie has just had a remarkable career and continues to give us a solid offensive presence that makes us a lot better.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Henry Johnson

Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in common, the uncommon way they cared about our community.

Ariel Sharon

Regardless of the job Shimon picks, it is crystal clear he will be a full and central partner in the diplomatic process.

Sandra Hughes

Record high gas prices won't keep Americans from traveling this holiday. Despite gas prices that are nearly 50 cents per gallon higher than they were a year ago, record numbers of travelers will hit the highways.

James Bennetts

Price of Herald three cents daily. Five cents Sunday. Bennett.

Bill Owens

Our parking lot has had license plates from surrounding states. ... It's had regional appeal, ... I think it's been wonderfully successful in every aspect, and it has generated significant economic impact for us here in the center and downtown.

William Hague

Our relationship with the United States is central to our foreign policy and ought to be one of a deep and enduring partnership.

David Cole

Parrish is rich in history. Part of the goal in creating a new community center is to have a shared history, so that everyone can feel a part of that story . . . it will be a place where everyone can come together.

Michael Brown

Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.

Gary Glenn

Patriotic Americans should observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving for this stunning and historic reversal of half a century of misinformation and judicial distortion of the document that protects our religious freedoms.

Phil Harper

Patients always have their option to choose either ambulatory surgical center or the hospital for outpatient care. Their surgeon would work with the patient in determining where to schedule the procedure.

Roger Enrico

Recent changes in the home video market got us and others in our industry by surprise,

Will Whitehorn

Recent acquisitions coupled with further structural changes being made to the group, will provide a good platform from which to generate further growth in the next financial year.

Scott Reed

Regions is a big contributor to this community, and there have been some changes in the community. We just feel like this would be the time to reassert ourselves.

Todd Boyd

particular culture and, until that culture is changed, you're not going to see any drastic changes in overall representation.

Mario Pescante

Parliament doesn't intend making changes to the law,

Al Coates

Particularly in the first period, he made two or three key saves that if one or two go in, maybe changes the outcome of the game. He was really good, especially when he needed to be.

Bill Daly

Our league has never qualified individual records over our 90-year history, despite many significant changes in the rules and the way the game was played. (That's) including varying lengths of schedule and different rules for regular-season overtime.

Alexander Bennett

Our mission is to restore the site to that condition, in 1746. That clearly means some fairly major changes to the site.

Alice Lichtenstein

People need to make fundamental changes - they don't have to be drastic.

Chris Parker

Reform is needed, especially in the U.S., to curb the excessive litigation costs .

Alex Saitta

Relative to surrounding school districts our starting pay is lower than most, but the cost of living in Pickens is less too. It's not how much you make, but how much you have in your pocket after you pay all your bills.

Kelly Wilson

Our recent success has a lot to do with the cost of prescription drugs. People are looking for alternatives, healthier ones that aren't as expensive. We help people get back to the roots of everything. Nowadays everything is so chemically enhanced. People don't know what they are getting. But with us you do.

Helen Clark

Our rates are disturbing and will deliver poor health long-term to many of our people at a very high cost to the taxpayer.

Takuma Sato

Our qualifying positions cost us the result, ... but we tried a very different strategy today to try to make up some places.

Lino Spiteri

Partisan party considerations and public funds and cost should not mix.

S. Walker

Pay issues can cost up to about $8 million a year and that would leave very little, if any, for incentive programs and educational programs. The mistake we made was on the benefits.

Steve Miskin

Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff.

Bob Warren

Our offensive line did a great job for their first game. We have just one returning player on our offensive line. Defensively, we didn't have any big mistakes that cost us.

Rick George

People often times have their deliveries stolen. Things like prescription medicine and so forth. We provide a spot for only $2 to have the item delivered securely instead of sitting in someone's mailbox or on the front porch.

Warren Spector

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Charles McCarry

Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.

Charles Corp

I'm immensely proud of the way the Schwab team pulled together in 2005 and delivered such outstanding performance.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

Doug Young

I'm so blessed. I was thankful to God that he delivered my prayers.

Ricky Hatton

I have been very pleased with Dennis Hobson, ... We spoke to many people about the prospect of working with them and Dennis delivered. He put his money where his mouth is and delivered the fight.

Timothy Roemer

has talked about well-intentioned reform but has not delivered it.

Alex Rodriguez

I felt like if we could have delivered the knockout punch there, it could have been a long night for them,

John Hutton

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Michael Chapman

Our new 32-bit processors promise to be some of the fastest, smallest, and most energy-efficient available. We researched many options for getting them to market, and are excited about delivering these innovative cores with the proven, well-respected people at CAST.

Patrick Cescau

Our savings programs are delivering well and, together with an improved mix, they have enabled us to fully offset the impact of higher input costs,

Cynthia Carroll

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

Jonathan Schwartz

That's the next wave of innovation not the Web page but delivering services through the Internet. This is not your father's Internet.

David Blunkett

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

Mary Gill

I don't think our school police officers should be delivering mail when it's something that we can receive via the Internet. They have more important things to do.

Maria Cantwell

He's played this leadership role for (Sens.) Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, delivering for them, slamming down programs that I think would be effective and the people of Washington state want,

Viktor Yushchenko

I have heard a lot of stories and legends on how this poison has been delivered, where it has been produced, which secret services were used for delivering it in Ukraine,

Michael Leunig

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.

Alan Alda

Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.

Timothy Roemer

Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not when it comes to protecting our people. We can do better. We must do better than that.

Martin Scorsese

He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time.

Charles Vest

We must have excellence, but we must also have accessibility to that excellence.

William Blake

Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.

Dave Ramsey

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Dave Ramsey

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

Aristotle

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Gary Williams

Our passing was excellent in the second half and we really executed. I was really proud of our team play, and we have to play that way down the stretch.

Chuck D.

Paul's worked extremely hard and has shown excellent play in practice and in scrimmages. Paul will probably get that opportunity at another time.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked. It is the first trophy I have won and the first as a new group so, hopefully, there will be more. When the second goal went away, I knew that was us on the way.

Gordon Strachan

Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked.

Chris Collins

Some of that comes from offseason training. They do an excellent job in the weight room,

Chris Schuster

Our pitching staff has been excellent all year.

Jared Ingersol

Our pitchers did an excellent job of throwing strikes and getting outs when we needed them.

Todd Wilkinson

Our pitchers did an excellent job. I am very pleased. We made several adjustments in trying to pitch to their outstanding hitters. We did a good job of that.

Howard Archer

Our Sunday lunches have been an excellent flagship because that is often many people's first experience of our menus.

Brian O'Connor

Our offensive execution was really good, and I think that was the story of the game.

Todd Bradshaw

Our offensive execution started rolling in the second half. We were able to run a few more of our sets with our main players and get control.

Bill Belichick

Overall, there are still a number of things we can do better. We had problems with penalties in the first half, no question about that. We weren't as sharp as we need to be in execution or in terms of assignments.

Barry Diller

Results for the quarter and year are better than good; superb execution is the reason.

Rick Barnes

I think they know I'm upset because I think they know how much I want execution. It's always disappointing when you don't execute.

Kyle Lohse

That was terrible execution at that time. Things weren't going my way, and that capped it off right there.

Doc Rivers

I was really happy with our young guys. I was really using it (the game) to try to teach execution to the young guys.

Leonard Hamilton

I was proud of the way that we maintained our intensity. It's obvious that the guys learned a lot from our lack of execution our last time out.

Brian Rafalski

I think some of the execution isn't there. We're looking for too much and making things more difficult.

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Dan Brooks

People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Paul Horsnell

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Tim McGillivray

Some of our schools are more full than others, so you can't always place them at their neighborhood school.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Peter Schnorr

Our goal is to get a full day -- 10 hours -- of active, pen-down writing.

Richard Clarke

Our goal is by the third week in October to open the full 20.9 miles of road for travel.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Kevin Daugherty

Our free-throw shooting has really improved over the last month.

Joseph Wood

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Mike Ortner

Lindsey has improved each time out and has been very consistent. She'll be tested. Hopefully, she can come up big for us, and make some game-changing saves.

Jim Oberdorf

I think she is great. She has improved a thousand percent.

Richard C. Armitage

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

George Gwozdecky

I thought he did well. We didn't put a lot of pressure on him after the first period but he made some big saves.

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Grace Hightower

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Abraham Zapruder

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Dick DeGuerin

It is important to us to get this over with as quickly as possible.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Mark Rosenker

We're trying to do this as quickly as possible, as safely as possible.

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

Mark Vitner

I think they would be responding to all the talk of outsourcing and all the talk in the headlines.

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Champ Bailey

I think we're tough when we do things like that. We were responding to some things they like to do. We're active.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Stanley Brand

I'm not going to get into responding to these things.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Victor Borge

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Pat Listach

He just did what he does. He mixes his speeds up.

John Donnelly

He's a different kind of guy. He's a slasher. (Dave) was more of a speed guy. But we'll take another Fischer.

Rich Miano

He's got to be one of the strongest safeties in the nation. He's got the strength and the speed and the quickness.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Brad Dancer

He doesn't talk about it. He's a tough guy. You can see it in his speed and some of his movement.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

Clifford Geertz

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Bob Ney

It taught us that we didn't have a cohesive structure in place,

Luke Zeller

Rebounding has been one of the big things we have worked on all season. It has been a total team effort.

Mark Ellis

Sure, we had a lot of injuries. But a lot of teams have injuries. We can't use it as an excuse.

James Allen

Some of the teams have been pretty tough.

Ray Collins

Our team is one of the most competitive teams in the nation.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jon Heacock

I think this team as a whole, have an understanding. They have had to play in this conference, and they know what's happening.

Bill Simmons

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

Bill Shankly

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.

Bill Shankly

This city has two great teams – Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

C. S. Lewis

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.