Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zack Nixon

We know we are in for some tough competition. But, today we showed that if we play our ?A'-game, we can compete with anybody.

Rick LeBeau

Like athletes, you have to be completely dedicated to compete at this elite level.

Simon Maughan

Macquarie prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit. Macquarie in effect is run as a series of competing businesses. At times the management encourages different teams to compete for the same assets. They see it as healthy.

Cindy Snead

Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a lot easier for us to compete because we will have maturity and experience.

Nancy Clark

Many of the people that I counsel sleep through breakfast, spend lunch money on junk -- or eat nothing. And then they try to compete and they are running on empty.

Dan Hartleb

Minnesota is always a quality club. They have very good pitching and are solid defensively. They are similar to us, but they do have a little more experience than us. Yet, I expect us to be able to compete very well with them.

Tim Corbin

Much like David, Wade was a proven player right away. He's about as competitive a guy as you will face. I haven't seen him since we played them last year, but that doesn't matter. That kid knows how to pitch, he knows how to compete and he's a winner.

Gary Tague

(McNicol) has run to compete at meets this year. He was tough tonight.

Dwight Howard

Maybe we're not mentally ready for a playoff series right now. But physically, I think we can compete with any team.

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Isabella Rossellini

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles.

Malorie Blackman

I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

Gary Walker

Man, I remember there was a fight involving about 30 players my rookie year, and I was scared to death I was going to be fined $7,500. My paycheck wouldn't have covered it. I got off with a warning, though.

John Nichols

Last year when I took this course, we had to cover the front of our masks with duct tape,

Glenn Cooper

LEAP is intended to help low-income residents pay their bills, not cover the whole amount. Of course, for the poorest of the poor, those with little or no income, we try to cover as much as possible.

Jackie Speier

Seniors and the disabled will soon have new health coverage options now that the Governor has signed SB 375 into law,

Shannon Currier

Mike will be a very good cover corner(back). He has good speed and comes from an outstanding high school program.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But ""mousquetaire"" is a might poor way to spell muskeeter.

Jay Roberson

Mourning doves are ground feeders. They also are sight feeders, picking up visible seeds. They don't scratch or dig. When snow covers a field, they have a hard time foraging.

Boris Yeltsin

Let us do everything to...ensure that those tragic events never happen in our land again.

Jack Warner

Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year.

LaClaire Carter

My legs were really tight today, so I didn't run all my events. I saw what I can improve, and I need to work on my start in the 60.

Larry Jacoby

Memory plays a very powerful role in how we see and interpret the world, even in situations where we are completely unaware of the events that gave rise to these memories.

Dan Gilroy

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

Dennis Hastert

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Edgar Allan Poe

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Tiger Woods

I feel like I'm playing better. The things that I've worked on have really, really started to solidify. I've put together some good events this summer.

Nancy Wood

If all goes well there, we'll do more events like that that will be open to the public.

Dule Hill

My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world.

Rick Crawford

I found the fastest groove, but the truck was a handful.

Michigan State

On the field, he's the fastest kid I've seen in person. I wish I hadn't seen him in person.

Todd Bodine

I'm a little surprised. I was struggling earlier. It's hard not to make a mistake. I was hoping to at least back up my time from the first run, but we'll take it. We're here for fun, but if we're not the fastest we're mad.

Wayne Gretzky

I don't know what the record is for scoring the fastest goal on your first shift, but that's got to be up there. That's a great way to start your NHL career.

Paul Watson

Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.

Shane Koyczan

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Lee Smolin

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Matt Richardson

We just didn't hit it. She may be the fastest pitcher we've seen so far.

Algernon Swinburne

Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.

David Irons

Lou overrode it. Kenny never saw the field. And it was over from there.

W. S. Gilbert

So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the visual field than in the left.

Shaun Alexander

Mike likes all things to be done on the field.

Lars Tiffany

Mike is a tenacious competitor. He has a field general personality and truly understands the importance of hard work and team chemistry.

Wilfred Owen

Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.

Bruce Allen

Matt showed a lot, not only kicking field goals, but in kickoffs.

Monte Kohler

Mays won't come off the field. He's not a pure passer, but he does OK.

Jane Johnson

Maybe we'll do a field evaluation, but on the whole, the soils look very good for the development.

Alfred Reft

Mau was so fired up tonight -- he was a spark plug in the middle. He did a good job, hustling, getting digs. He'll have to take the (libero) jersey.

Billy Donovan

Obviously, something upset him. Whether it was staged or something -- he seemed genuinely upset about it -- I don't know. He's as fired up and enthusiastic as any player out there.

Gerry Hunsicker

I can't honestly tell you there has been a time in recent years where I've been this fired up, this excited. It's like I'm, well, 28 or 29 again,

Rodney Jones

I was fired up, so I just kept shooting. I pulled a three and kept going. I didn't think I could miss. I don't know why I missed that last shot though.

B.J. Ryan

I was fired up. It's Opening Day. Every Opening Day is great. New team. Expectations are high. You want to go out there and prove yourself.

Pat Morelli

I was fired up. I told them to go out and play with intensity and that's what they did.

Shingo Takatsu

I was surprised a little bit, ... But as a player you want to go in that situation. I got fired up.

Wyclef Jean

I would be writing so many songs in my head while I'm making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That's why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place got stuck up.

Rebecca Lobo

She's just as fired up. She probably still thinks she never commits a foul.

Kay Granger

Seventy-five percent of the airports will meet the deadline, ... Most airports can make it. For those who can't, what is the solution for them? This is the solution.

J. J. Johnson

Mr. Duncan will be meeting with our investigators tomorrow.

John Ashbrook

Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.

Michael Brown

meeting the needs as they are communicated to us.

Sabrina Carpenter

My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Joe Gottfried

None of this was a reaction to the situation with the University of Mississippi. Our meeting with him as the result of it being the end of the season.

Alexander Bunegin

Next Sunday, I go to the camp, I meet her and that was it. We stick together until today.

Mike Castle

Obviously, they need some votes. Otherwise, they would not meet with us for 45 minutes.

Phil Esposito

When you're an athlete, you meet a lot of people.

Mike Schulze

I don't know that we've seen it. But the NCAA surveys everybody. I'm not surprised they surveyed the officials about us.

Eric Devendorf

I don't know where we're going, but you've got to look up. The NCAA tournament obviously is in jeopardy. If we want to be there, then we've just got to play.

Ollie Gelston

You know as well as I do, if he makes the NCAA Tournament next year as the coach, it will all be forgotten.

Terri Mitchell

We are never going to give up and we're never going t look at the score and give ourselves a reason for not playing hard. We're playing to get into the NCAA tournament.

Claire Coggins

We are disappointed because there are some teams that are 14-16 (that got into the NCAA Tournament), and it doesn't seem right, but that's the way it goes, and we are really proud to get to play in the (W)NIT, and that we get to play at home.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all. We won the SEC tournament, and now we want to win the NCAA tournament.

Mike Nardi

We're ready to go and we're prepared for the NCAA Tournament.

Gary Roberts

The potential here is significant. The NCAA is at some risk.

Rahshon Clark

To feel like we're set for the NCAA Tournament, we have to win every single game. If we don't, we're going to feel like we're on the bubble, and we don't want to be in that position.

Jim Elam

We need to know how to save a penny once in a while or write a check. You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to do that.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Benjamin Franklin

...Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion...

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

Claire Messud

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

Eric Epstein

We've all got to play by the same rules, and I think the senator wants to tilt the playing field. And I think what he did (with respect to Penn State) is what's wrong with Harrisburg.

Kelly Rutherford

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

Ambrose Bierce

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

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.

Trevor Graham

We get to go out there and get a preview of what all the other teams are going to do before the end-of-the-season tournament.

Leelee Sobieski

There're previews for it in the movie theater.

Deepak Chopra

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

Elizabeth Baker

I don't have other salespeople in here wondering what's going in and out. I keep track of what's selling.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

Carol Foreman

We're not going to get everything we want and the track will not get everything it wants. There's going to be compromise.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Carl Lewis

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.