Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Schweers

Regardless of who we're playing, we want to play as good as we can this time of year. We had a good practice (Monday), and we hope to be at our best (in the sectional).

Paul Bush

Regardless of whether you're looking at grapes, apples, cherries or any kind of fruit, you'll get the best color around here.

Rick Barnes

Regardless of what people are saying, N.C. State has not offered me the job. Texas is one of the best jobs in the country, and I'm happy here.

Kevin Marsh

Regardless of how I played, this was the best week of my life. It would have been the best week of my life if I had finished up on Wednesday, really. Being here for the first time you just want to soak up the experience as much as you can. But it also makes you hungry to get back, and prove that you really do belong.

Gloria Estefan

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

Laurieann Gibson

Recently, Lady Gaga was motivated to take the helm of the creative direction of her career and as such I decided to step away. I am extremely proud of her, and in stepping away I wish her all the best.

Jim Shannon

Rebounding and defense were big keys for us. They're much bigger than us, but we more than held our own on the boards. And we got after them on defense. It was our best defensive game of the year.

Bob Myers

Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.

David Pottruck

Recent trading volumes are propelling the company to its best quarter ever in terms of revenues and profits.

Thomas Tryon

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

David Dunkel

Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qualified prospects is declining due to the 150-hour rule instituted by most states. As a result, many hiring managers have more work than they can handle with current staffing levels and cannot find enough capable new hires.

John C. Wright

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Fernando Martin

Real Madrid cannot say it went off to look for him -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't interest us.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

P. James

Our recruits and officers obviously cannot practice high-speed chases on the streets of Newark. Yet sadly, they do happen, and our officers must train for them. By making use of modern technology, Newark's finest will be able to simulate and train for these incidents.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Kevin McCabe

Regardless of the operator, the Department of Homeland Security controls all security operations in the seaport. That's our job.

Mike Shaver

Organizations will be able to set up their own update system that uses the same client-side piece, so they can control what gets updated and when. And we are scaling our own infrastructure to deal with our growing user base.

Paul Murphy

Organizations ultimately exist as information and control processing tools, and outsourcing IT therefore diminishes overall organizational value.

Tom Shepard

Organizationally, it equates parks maintenance with traffic control and sewer maintenance,

Jim Baron

Parfait played solid, he played under control and very poised.

Bill Owens

Patients -- when they really have control over their lives and over their disease in some way -- I think are overall going to do better regardless of whether that comes from traditional treatments or a combination of western medicine plus other alternative approaches,

Josh Towers

(Pat) Hentgen used to tell me: 'You can't control wins and losses, you can control what you do'. That's why I think for a lot of veteran guys they understand how important it is to throw a lot of innings, to get 200-plus innings,

Tom Kelley

Pat Bledsoe wrestled well. He wrestled a pretty controlled match. Four or five different times, he was in on a single leg, and we covered each time.

Brian Billick

Passion, emotion and intensity are good, but they've always got to be under control.

Bill Ritter

People in government are not using that legitimate power of government to protect the environment.

Larry Campbell

Some people can put up with the pressure of being locked up in a maximum-security environment with a large number of prisoners, and some can't, ... You really don't know until you put them in that situation. I think his size will be a great help to him.

John Lynch

Our state's beautiful natural environment is part of why we all love and live in New Hampshire. It is also one of our state's most important economic assets.

Charles Stiles

Our focus and goal here is to provide a safer and more secure environment for our consumers, and restore some trust in the e-mail inbox.

John Butters

Overall, the preannouncement environment is still positive but if this round of warnings continues, that's a red flag,

Michael Robinson

Reruns is not located in a typical retail environment. People are expecting to see a lawyer's office, not a kids' shop, in that part of town.

Bill Hilf

Managing Linux in a mixed environment ... at Microsoft? A look inside the Linux/Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft.

B. F. Skinner

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Andrew Barrett

Well, as long as they're able to keep the pricing environment, ... If they can keep a moderate pricing environment in this competitive landscape that they're in, they can get that stock probably back up to 55, maybe even up to 60.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Our German factories must be able produce at prices appropriate for export.

Maurice Cheeks

Our turnovers obviously were a big factor in losing the game. We had 14 turnovers at halftime, but our offense went astray.

Junya Tanase

Rising tension (between Iran and the West) could have an impact on oil prices and that is a negative factor for the dollar.

Eric Nicoli

Piracy in all its forms has been the major factor in this reversal but not the only factor.

Pat Buchanan

Piece by piece, job by job, factory by factory, (American industry) is being carted off to foreign soil,

Gregg Popovich

Malik can play inside and out. He?s versatile. Not having him for Game 1 was a huge factor for us.

Dave Tippett

We needed for him to be good. We knew that fatigue was going to be a factor on our team and we needed him to give us a chance.

Wesley Moultrie

Our requirement would be that the tobacco firms in the U.S. maintain a high level of liquidity.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Greg Aiello

Passions run high this time of year. The main thing is, Pittsburgh won the game. It could've been worse.

Ron Vos

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

Jim Keller

Our low power, high performance technology is very well suited to that.

Tom Phillips

People I know in the administration have a very high regard for Nathan,

Kathleen Murray

People have to reschedule their weddings for many reasons. You don't want to be left high and dry.

Mark Waggoner

Supplies really aren't a problem. Consumption over the holidays is usually a little higher than normal but production has been keeping up.

Chris Simcox

President Bush, read my lips: secure our borders.

Joe Pojman

Our president is with us on these issues. Our governor, Rick Perry, is strongly with us on these issues. But they need our help.

Parris Chang

Our president can be seen in public for the first time.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Bob Ney

I will vote to impeach the president because he has shattered the trust of the American people.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

Mary Matalin

He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.

C. S. Lewis

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Brett Basanez

That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.

Scott Riggs

That's the risk when you come down here with no points.

John Barlow

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Bill Cosby

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Bill Cosby

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Andrew Scott

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Jack Purtell

I was a little worried going in, but we went in and we were the aggressor.

Bill Burr

Well probably the coolest show of that whole tour was in Germany. I had a chunk of material on [Adolf] Hitler, and I was worried about how they'd react, but they loved it.

William Morris

I was pretty worried about him for a while.

Byron Sanders

I was worried about them the whole time,

Bill Parcells

I think he kind of tweaked it a little bit. He's just not getting around. I'm getting a little worried about him to tell you the truth.

Roger Clemens

I don't know that we've ever even worried about that.

James Blake

I feel like I am getting better every week. I'm not worried about my ranking, I'm just worried about getting better.

Ron Gardenhire

But as I told you before, we're a little worried about this.

Carl Krauser

I don't think we have anything to be too worried about.