Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Richardson

Let's look at the past 20 years - maybe you had a lot of catching up to do. You're looking backwards as your reason for not getting a settlement this time.

Todd France

Let's just look forward and not backwards and see how we can get it done now, versus why we haven't been able to see eye to eye thus far.

Alan Hunter

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backwards market. In most markets jobs come first and then housing. In Florida and particularly Lee County, the retirees come first and then the jobs and retail.

Alan Hunter

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backward market. In most markets, jobs come first and then housing. In Florida and particularly Lee County, the retirees come first and then the jobs and retail.

Larry Eustachy

Obviously, we're not there yet. We took a step backwards (Wednesday), as far as playing hard, and that all comes back to the coach.

William Cowper

My God, till I received thy stroke, / How like a beast was I! / So unaccustomed to the yoke, / So backward to comply.

Frank Rossi

I feel like we took a couple of steps backward in the direction of our season. But we still have a couple of weeks left. There's still a long way to go between now and the state tournament and I'm confident the kids can come back and play the way we are capable of playing.

Mitch Leigh

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'

Meggie Ford

If we do this it means 100 players every week would not get a game and I think that would be a backward step.

Tom Woodruff

We're not being productive with runners on base. That's the bottom line. When we get runners on base, no one is stepping up and making the big hit for us. That's what you've got to do in close games.

Bob Kirby

Madison looked very comfortable shooting. The bottom line is that if we can get that third wheel in the scorebook each week, we could be tough down the stretch.

Adan Dualle

Let the Government get to the bottom of the matter and leave no stone unturned.

David Yost

Look, these people are not street-level dealers. This is not the bottom of the food chain.

Steven Camarota

Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it. That's the bottom line.

Skip Rimer

Much of the Midwest is at the bottom of the rankings because the Midwest is heavy in manufacturing, and that sector simply hasn't done well over the years. Manufacturing is seeing some growth but isn't creating jobs like other sectors.

Anonymous Toast

May the ships at sea never be bottoms up

Al Horford

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villanova was tough. They were city kids. But we're going to play our game no matter who the other team has.

Tom Kettman

(Media) comparing us to this team and that team, we're not looking into any of that comparison stuff. The bottom line is, we've got to stay focused, keep wrestling the way we've been wrestling all season.

Tom Bailey

Like Freddie Barnes (last year's All-Area standout now at Bowling Green), Trent is a great athlete,

Jason Snelling

Mac Publishing covers the entire Mac Industry, and tonight we put them in the same room for a worthy cause. Companies in the Mac community often compete fiercely. The same competitive, fun spirit comes with them to the bowling alley. No matter who takes home the trophy, the real winners are the kids at Marshall.

Brian McCarthy

Licensees are gearing up to flood the market with Super Bowl merchandise featuring the two teams.

Britt Beemer

La-Z-Boy hasn't done much with football since that one campaign and I thought that was a mistake. They haven't made that connection with every Super Bowl and I think that is a mistake.

Grant Wistrom

Last year, the only reason we weren't in the Super Bowl was because of our defense. This year, we wanted to be part of the solution and not the cause of the problem.

Robert Hansen

Many of our customers use the Super Bowl as an excuse to upgrade their home entertainment centers, whether they?re watching the game or not. We seem to be doing well enough without the Patriots? help.

Kevin Evanto

Seattle has enjoyed a great reputation the last few years and Pittsburgh is on the verge of that and the Super Bowl is a great conduit for that.

Barry Alvarez

So, I thought we had a chance to be a nice football team. Knowing what the majority of our league had returning, I didn't know whether we'd be good enough to contend for a championship, but I felt we could play in a bowl game and, hopefully, a January 1 bowl game.

Joe Greene

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

Isabella Rossellini

I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.

Kurt Andersen

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Gary Griffin

We're not being as effective as she wants us to be, ... Why would I continue to dedicate my resources to something she wants the sheriff to do?

Bill Cowher

Like anything else, it will grow with time and as we continue to go through ups and downs. I'm always there for him, and he'll always know how I feel. We have a very trusting relationship.

Austin Brooks

Like I said from day one, I'm just going to stay humble. I know that hard work pays off. It's just one of those things where I feel like hard work did pay off, but I'm still going to continue to work hard. I'm just going to continue to do the things I do, on the court and off the court.

Rosevelt Colvin

Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that.

Angela Clark

Mac's Place was packed after the concert. That was awesome. People just wanted to continue to listen to great music.

Lionel Anderson

Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.

Edward Hale

Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand.

Craig Smith

Last year was probably the youngest team we had in six or seven years. We're a real veteran team this year and we're looking forward to this season.

James Reed

Last year, to be honest, I wasn't as happy, ... I didn't play that much last year. I was depressed, well, not depressed. It was frustrating. Now I look forward to the games. I look forward to practice. I look forward to - if I mess up, going in there and doing it better.

Joby Scroggs

Last year's game was just a battle. It was a tough, hard fought game and we're looking forward to another one - no doubt.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas needs to move forward on this quickly ... because the issues are still out there.

James Lilley

Lee Teng-hui is a remarkable man. And as a talented politician he moved the island forward by increasing democracy, and mostly he opened up trade routes with China.

Shane Pearsall

Led by Cindy...(these) Games have been a huge step forward for high-performance sport in our country.

Darrent Williams

Monday is like the worst day of all time. You party all weekend and then reality hits. Gotta go back to work. The only good thing about the whole day is 'Monday Night Football.' If you can't look forward to that, what else is there?

Chris Mullin

Much appreciated. It's a celebration of the past, but I look forward to it. I get to see a lot of people that were instrumental in my development and, to this day, are still a part of my life.

Roy Williams

Let's be honest, we made shots. When you make shots, the whole game looks prettier.

Paul Maguire

Let's be honest, this is a game where The Citadel gets a nice paycheck.

Werner Erhard

Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more importantthan something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.

Reggie Torbor

Luckily we all can play a lot of positions or we'd be in trouble right now. But we can't send the commissioner a letter and say, 'We've got some people hurt. Let us play Wednesday.' The game is going to go on.

Gregg Bahen

Lucky for us, games are played on the field. It was a physical game and our kids are going to be sore tomorrow, but, without a doubt, they'll be happy tomorrow.

Craig Faire

Mackenzie played phenomenal here. She really stepped up her game.

Bussy Adam

(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.

Matt Strophy

Mackenzie got the game ball. This was her first game back from an MCL/ACL tear in August.

Jena Torres

Let's just say we've had a lot of five-inning games this year.

Jim Epperly

Sending a team to the free-throw line 43 times is not something you want to do.

Josh Blaisdell

One of our problems all year was that we didn't have that third line producing as many points as our first and second line. I called (the Mitchell, Banks, Slaney line) our third line, but Saturday, you couldn't really tell a difference.

Steve Ellis

New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.

H. Hart

When the offensive line is playing well, I don't think it really matters.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Basil Bunting

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Elizabeth Edwards

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Edward Heath

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

D. James

We won. That's all that matters to me.

Gilbert Arenas

I'm an All-Star in my mind, and I'm an All-Star to this city, my peers and this organization. So that's all that matters to me.

Alonzo Jackson

I don't even think like that, ... Why wouldn't you want me? I went out there and did what I had to do today. That's all that really matters to me right now.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Philip Dick

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Husnu Ozyegin

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Henry Thomas

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

America Ferrera

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

George Lancaster

We got out of our sets. We were staying with them and winning on half-court sets. We got away from what got us where we were.

Mike Brey

Let's see if we can put two together. That's the only step we can think about taking right now.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

John Roe

Getting united as a team was step one. We know we have to keep working on the skill.

Trey Johnson

Getting 'discovered' is something that made us step up our game.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

Gene Luen Yang

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

Trey Parker

I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

Tyra Banks

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Bill Bixby

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Charlotte Ross

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

Beverly Johnson

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.