Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Sandoval

Our relays will be very good. We expect our 4 x 4 to qualify for finals. The sprint medley and mile relays should be in contention for a medal.

Jack Roush

Pat was the man of the hour today. Pat was able to put him in contention with two tires and had it where it would work. So the tires did a great job.

Steve Jobs

PDF is the richest content on the Web, and we're going to view it native,

David Zaslav

People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not twice but enough that, behaviorally, they start to feel like, 'That's my channel.'

Lewis Thomas

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

David Card

Sports content is a very successful part of the Web, ... and ESPN is right up there.

Geoffrey Harper

Our contention is that they kept telling us that they couldn't pay us because they haven't gotten payment. They said that they intended to end to the contract, and then we stopped providing our services.

Ted Ake

Most real-money customers are content to be slow to buy. They don't feel like the market's going to get away from them on the upside.

Karen Finley

I will be looking at the FCC content restrictions on Howard Stern,

Gerald Cohen

Part of the program may include relief for states ... so the drag may not be as large from the state side. You definitely will see some drag from the states, offsetting the stimulus from the federal side, but it won't be enough to totally offset the federal side.

Jennifer Joyce

Paul has been training very well. He's been very consistent. He's rushing towards that breakthrough performance. There's definitely more to come from him this season.

Ian Millward

Paul has been out of the game for 12 months with his knee but he has played the last three under-21 matches and he will definitely be in the 17. It's reward for the great effort he has made in getting back.

Jay Cutler

Part of me definitely wants to go because it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The other part of me wants to stay in Nashville and get together with some people who helped me get to this point.

Stephanie Reichert

Our offense was definitely on. We were hitting really well, and we had really timely hitting.

Nate Salley

Our offense is hard to stop. You can definitely tell a difference from last year.

Matt Murphy

Our No. 1 goal was to make the tournament. We're a little disappointed to be 10-10, but we did have to win five of our last seven to get in, so there's definitely some excitement about getting there.

Tim Busen

Our kids wrestled great tonight, just like they were supposed to. The kids knew they had to step up tonight and they did. They've definitely worked hard.

Marisa Miller

Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it's something that, when I'm not traveling as much, I'll definitely get back into.

Pat Buchanan

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

Jean Todt

I think we already did one step forward with the engine. I think we've understood quite a lot of things. That's why the factory has been working quite hard and it's been positive.

Nicholas Kristof

If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak-willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger.

Valentino Rossi

I have a fantastic relationship with this factory and my team crew, who have worked so hard to make the M1 as competitive as it is now, and it just made sense to stay with Yamaha for another year.

Kyle MacLachlan

My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington... yes, I am that nerdy.

Hans Olsen

The only good spot today was factory orders.

Lionel Barber

The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the night. Reporters spent days, sometimes weeks, on a single story.

Wayne Kramer

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

Todd Bridges

The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Lynne Sipiora

Our population has been lowered because we have seen such a mild winter. We thought we were just going to slide into summer, but I guess the weather says otherwise.

Marc Levitan

Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that's not going to happen.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Kendall Gielow

I was just getting open shots. I took them when they were there and hoped they went in. And I guess they did.

Dan Wheldon

I was kind of surprised (because) I was under the impression they were going to do it with younger kids. But I guess they want to do whatever it takes to win.

Christopher Hill

I think they know our position and I guess we know their position because I don't think anything has changed.

Tom Izzo

It is a win-win-win. I guess on paper, if he goes, it looks like it's a lose for me. It's a lose if you look at the small picture, but a real win if you look at the big picture. The potential of maybe having three first-round picks is pretty impressive.

Johnny Damon

That would be nice. I guess we'll see what happens. I'm not too worried about it.

Rajon Rondo

That's what got me a starting role last year. Whoever's got the hot hand for Florida, I guess that's who I'll be checking.

Justin Verlander

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

Stan Heath

Steven has a humorous side to him that you wouldn't expect. I see more of it this season. Life is more normal for him in some ways. He's opening up slowly.

Joanna Lumley

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Karen Leathem

I think it's sort of a trademark quality of New Orleans that people can usually find humor in the worst situations.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Ed Peterson

I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.

Stephen J. Cannell

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Justin Turner

Jamaal is real a humorous and entertaining guy.

Bruce Allen

Really, what took place is he missed so much of training camp,

Alan Hevesi

Part of our mission in this project is to restore some of that confidence, ... But, that's going to take some pain.

Brad Gair

Our number one mission is to get people into something safe, sanitary, private, and out of public shelters as soon as we can.

Steve Smith

Our mission is to work prisoners in a businesslike manner. If you work in a businesslike manner, you have to make a profit.

Brian Morrison

Our mission is to make people as comfortable as possible as they're undergoing the treatment process.

Jan Chovanec

Our mission is to be ready 150 percent for the NCAA.

Sofia Iwobi

Some? I didn't miss some, I missed about all of them.

Bryan Whitman

Our commanders have addressed that issue. The mission remains what it is each and every day.

Stacie Temple

Really, Missouri has some pretty strong identification requirements in place as it is.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

Erich Merkle

Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.

O. J. Simpson

I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they don't.

Harland Braun

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

Tela Mange

We don't know what parts are going to be implemented or how we are going to do it yet.

Annie Dillard

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

Margaret Atwood

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

Patricia Briggs

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

Maurice Sendak

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

Shiri Appleby

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Barry Mann

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Cecil Taylor

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

Cecil Taylor

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Cecil Taylor

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Anton Rubinstein

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Eddie Van Halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Haim Saban

Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes," I instructed Vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. "Is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?" "It's not very deep. Trust me, we'll clear it." "Looks deep to me. This is a Neon we're talking about, not a Hummer.

Bill Engvall

Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

C. S. Lewis

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Bill Bryson

Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.