Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

We want to take this and teach our athletes that there is a bigger picture. We are thankful we still have a gym and a football field. We are trying to get the kids to learn a life lesson.

Ian Gray

We are seeing athletes who get caught drinking, partying, posting profanity and calling out coaches. Student-athletes feel it's spying ... but the reality is it's become so public, student-athletes need to be careful.

John Guppy

We are proud and delighted to work with Chicago's educational and recreational leaders within the Latin American community. We are determined in our goals to help create a better environment for many gifted students and athletes through our Foundation and community programs so that they can enjoy a better and more productive life. The Hispanic community and the Mexican American community in particular have greatly supported us for nine years and we are happy to be able to give back.

Donna Orender

We strive to do all that we can to help emphasize the importance of sports and athletics for women and young people. National Girls and Women in Sports Day recognizes female athletes that came before us, and encourages future generations of girls to make physical fitness a regular part of their lives.

Maggie Dixon

West Point graduates love everything that has to do with West Point. As much as it is male-dominated in terms of numbers, there is a great respect for female athletes and the females who go through here.

Roberta Anthes

We started off well - I'd like to build off of that. I see no reason why these athletes can't do better. We've had good performances off of base work. In a perfect world, we have a lot of room to improve.

John Papa

We have a special group of athletes on our team this year with a strong nucleus of athletes that compete to the best of their abilities every single meet.

Scott Jackson

Whenever you have people in the community knowing that all the professional athletes are interested in the community and not just here part-time, that they care, I think it helps. And I think it helps that the Devil Rays are here for Spring Training and the regular season.

Scott Cowen

We want our athletes to carry the torch, face, and name of Tulane University during this difficult time.

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Chris Bosh

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

Jean Bruyere

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Janis Serrano

We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.

Tim Zagat

Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Bill Belichick

We're not polishing fine china here.

Jim Litchfield

We're in a playoff situation, and we had to win this game. We didn't win, and we go home.

Rick Carlisle

We're in a must-win situation every night. We have to win games. It's important to be a playoff team. We have a string of years and we want to keep that going.

John LaFontaine

We want to play (tonight) as if it's a playoff game.

Mark Parrish

We're going to need everything out of Ricky ? and all of us ? to make a playoff run.

Baron Davis

We're just trying to get a win at this point. Can't talk about playoffs when you're losing.

Jose Lima

This win is like winning a playoff game. We're a young team, we stuck together and took it like a man. It's tough to stay tough, but we did it.

Chris Osgood

We ran into a team that's really good. Nowadays, when the playoffs start, there's no underdogs.

Kevin Morooney

She's been doing well and her spirits are up. We'll see how she reacts when playoffs begin.

Jay Lasley

When the playoffs start, it's a whole new season.

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Caitlin Thomas

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

Alexandre Dumas

It is only the dead who do not return.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Dean Koontz

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Matthew Faltys

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

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.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.