Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Ellis

Our position dictates toughness. It's an honor to be a Carson linebacker.

Chris Nolen

Our last four opponents have had to play our game. If we can do that again, and dictate tempo, we'll be fine. We don't want to get in a track meet with them.

Brian McInerney

Right now our flood threat is ... dictated by what kind of snow pack is in the mountains.

Dave Stewart

I will keep it tight for the first round, take a good look at him and take it from there. I intend to outbox him; I like to dictate the pace and to keep things sharp.

Eric Chavez

Just a week ago, we couldn't find a hit. Hitting is really going to dictate how well we do the next month.

John Mayall

I write songs about real things, ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

David Lowry

I think it's really important for us to set a good tone for the end of the season, really come out and execute our game plan, dictate the tempo of the game, ... I think one of the things we have this year is that we are all perfectionists and we are all trying to get that perfect game going and we haven't had that yet.

Robert Cochran

Lindale is very well coached, they have good athletes, good size, they're smart and do what it takes to stay in games. We hope our press will dictate the pace of the game.

Dan Egan

I think he's letting the marketplace kind of dictate the pace.

Thomas Poore

People have been waiting since 1992 for students to be in the hallways of John Paul II High School. That is exciting to me.

Randy Bachman

People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

Garth Illingworth

Suddenly whole new programs open up, things you can do that you could never do before. It'd be great scientifically, it'd be great for the nation, for educators, for students, and it'd be just great for the public at large, because Hubble is so exciting for people.

John Oliver

Some of my students have gone off to be involved in these space missions. They work on it for four or five years, then wait four or five years more for it to come back. It's so exciting if it works, and so disappointing if it doesn't.

Jeff Dohn

Some of the younger kids are nervous and the older kids are trying to lead them the right way. Every season is exciting because of the different personalities. Hopefully we'll find our way and find what we do best.

Gov. Carcieri

RISC is the hope for taking the state back. It's exciting because it is long overdue.

John Patrick Shanley

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

Joe Sakic

Pierre's done a good job filling holes. We're going to have a talented team, an exciting team. We're looking forward to the challenge.

Katie Nelson

I was about to cry. It's exciting that I got first. I would have been thrilled to be in the top three.

Louis Hinnant

People look forward to having underdogs come up and win. Fortunately for us, that didn't happen.

Dave Hobbs

Steve is just the kind of forward we have been looking for, he has all the qualities needed we need.

Carol Blazejowski

Our strategy going forward was to re-invent our team.

Ron Agor

Overall, Mayor Baptiste had done a great job as our mayor. I look forward to his reelection for four more years.

Lawrie McKinna

Overall I am just happy to get the win. Now we are looking forward to next week going to Perth.

Eric Bernotas

Right now, yes, it is a little hard to swallow. But I'll find the positive in all this to propel me forward and gain strength from it and come out stronger the next time.

Maurice Cheeks

Pierce thrives in those situations. He looks forward to his team being down so he can take the big shots and make the big shots.

Sasha Abraham

Playing them will be something we'll look forward to. We have a healthy rivalry, and they're a fun team to play.

La'Roi Glover

Plain and simple, this is just a great program, ... This new RAC Room will give kids even a greater reason to come in off the streets to hang out with their friends. I'm looking forward to meeting the kids and helping to unveil the new room.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Eric Chavez

Regardless of what happened today, we've got to sweep. We'd need a miracle going for us to sweep them, but you never know. It was a miracle last year with Boston.

Micky Arison

Pat told me what had happened before practice Friday, and I stayed to watch. It looked like any other practice I've ever seen him run.

Stuart Sternberg

Other than what happened on the field, it couldn't have been a more successful home opener.

Dustin Pedroia

Right when I swung, I was like, 'Oh, my God!' because it was the worst pain ever. I knew right away that I'd done something. It's frustrating because it happened on my very first swing.

Brian McCann

Right place, right time. It was a whirlwind; it all just happened so fast.

Donald Rumsfeld

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know

Mark Mann

(Pitching coach) Vern Ruhle doesn't want him to throw too many pitches in an inning. That's what happened last time out. There was no physical problem.

M. Wolfe

I'm hoping this is going to help me get through what happened 45 years ago.

Ivan Ljubicic

We never lost hope. It happened to us before, and we managed to come back. When we got the feel on the return I knew everything was possible.

David Perkins

Parramatta are only looking at under-15s, unless there is someone exceptional,

Atul Lele

Patrick shares are going to be up near A$8 because that is what the market was looking for before it was blocked. When it got shot down by the regulator everyone was disappointed, but upwards of A$8 is what is needed.

Patti Lovemark

Part of the problem with that is if you're looking at very young students, you're not going to see that big gap.

Darin Erstad

Sure, we know we can get it done, but we feel that way anyway. We have to keep looking forward.

Jack Warner

Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.

Robert Cox

Red-light violations in the first year are typically decreased by 50 percent. That is the primary reason for us looking into something like this.

David Bennett

I was just looking to see if they were going for two.

Roy Williams

I was just, ... looking into his eyes.

E. Hicks

I was just looking for a pitch to hit.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Linda McCarthy

I did not know Mick personally but he was part of the town.

Nick Cave

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

Dale Romans

I wouldn't have taken it personally even if he was. I've got more important things to worry about than what he does with his horse.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Ryan Giggs

Records are not important to me at this stage and I don't consciously think about them, but they are something I will be able to look back on proudly when I have finished.

Julie Futch

Our school has never done anything like this. We've established something to be proud of at Auburn Riverside.

Bill Shankly

Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

Big Sean

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

John Torchetti

I was just proud of our whole team. This is a team win if I have ever seen one. From the goalie out, we competed.

Sammy Day

That was a tough loss. But they battled back and I was proud of them.

Catherine Young

That streak is really important to us. We are proud of it and want to keep it going as long as we can.

Stacy Dent

That's awesome. I am so proud of all of you.

Ron Hassler

I was proud of how we competed, but they were able to take us out of some of the things we like to run.

Randy Jepson

Our season was a real struggle all year long. Nothing went our way all year, but this weekend we didn't give up.

Keri Nichols

We've talked all season about free-throw shooting. We talk about shooting with confidence.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

David Dellucci

That was the worst part of the season that stands out.

Bobby Lamb

It had nothing to do with our season because we had an outstanding year.

John Butters

It has been a pretty strong season for earnings.

Dennis Dacus

Lisbon will be a 10-win team before the season is over.

Gary Sheffield

It doesn't matter. I look at it like this, the start of the season I'll do what I've always done. That's it.

Alan Trammel

I still think Carlos will play before the season is over.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Jev stroked his chin. "Do I look like a summer fling?

Becca Fitzpatrick

She looked up, her face pink as a Christmas ham. “You ever try chasing down a car?” she gasped. “I’ll one-up you. I gave Scott my hot dog and asked if he’d go to Summer Solstice with me.” “What does the hot dog have to do with anything?” “I said he’d be a wiener if he didn’t go with me.” Vee wheezed laughter. “I’d have run harder had I known I’d get to see you call him a wiener.

Barry Lopez

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

Carrie Brownstein

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Carl Sagan

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans...

Carl Sagan

We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species - might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds.

Bill Bryson

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Bill Bryson

Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad--old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings--every bit of it.