Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Moyle

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

Dan Bartram

Lucy came out ready to play. But it was a good, balanced effort for us.

John Winters

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Mike Stock

(Lewis) wants to win so bad. He felt like he had to take over the game himself. But the reason we were here is that we've been much more balanced offensively lately.

Jack Bicknell

Last year, we really just put it all on his shoulders. This year, we're not going to do that. We've got to be more balanced with the quarterbacks, the receivers, and of course, the running backs. They all have to kind of pick up the slack.

John Fontanella

Several market makers have given oversight responsibilities to their marketing organizations. That way the cost and benefit will be recognized, giving the company a balanced view of progress.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, there is no royal road to a balanced budget. If there is, I have never discovered it in all the time I have been dealing with the millions of little figures that come to us in what looks like an unexpurgated mail-order catalog but what we call the budget of the United States, which contains some 1,100 pages.

Julian Illingworth

My game has become much more consistent, and I have become a lot more powerful and strong around the court. I was a lot skinnier when I was a freshman and so I was really fast and quick, but it was more of a scramble around the court. Now I am more balanced and in control.

Steve Kimbro

Neoga is a very good team. They take a lot of pride in their defense just as we do. They are very balanced and very interchangeable. They can shoot from the perimeter or post up. They are very athletic. They remind me of a typical Teutopolis or Effingham St. Anthony team.

Bruce Bochy

We're not content with how it ended last year. The brand of ball we played, we'd like to improve on that. We've got a lot of work to do and things to cover this spring.

Donovan Nelson

Mandy has done a good job of being near the strike zone. She was throwing good enough pitches to get them to chase. Now, the detriment to us is when we have good opportunities to get outs, we hang a ball and they get a get a base hit and score two. That happened a couple of times tonight.

Mick Nunez

Mandeville is a good club and we didn't do what we needed to win the ball game. When you make errors and walk people, you aren't going to be successful. We let Mandeville stay around.

Fred Jones

Like I said earlier, I don't know how to explain it. It's something we have to turn around. We're putting ourselves behind the eight ball at the start of the game and it's not working for us. We have to figure out something.

Rex Grossman

Like I said after the game, he's going to catch the ball 99 out of 100 times. He'll pick his game up. He talked to me a little bit after the game and apologized and I just said, 'Don't worry about it, you're a great receiver.' I know he's going to make the play.

Kazeronnie Mak

Life is like a crystal ball of fortune.When it falls into pieces, the people try to grab it, someone grabs more, someone grabs less, someone grabs none. And how much have you grabbed yet ?

Ben Beakes

Luckily we have a supply of paper ballots we use for absentee voting. We were able to use the ballots as backup.

Doug Schauer

Luke (Enos) was going to get the ball and we were going to flatten out and create. We weren't going to take a shot until six seconds or less. Luke was going to make the play and he found John cutting.

Dale Murphy

Luke Appling helped me hit the ball on a line and not commit too early.

Robert Kazinsky

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Malorie Blackman

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

Auggie Tantillo

Manipulated currency, non-performing loans made by Chinese state-run banks, intellectual property theft and other state-sponsored subsidies are the driving forces behind the job-destroying US trade deficit with China.

Andy Roberts

Like all the other territories, Jamaica is well behind in its preparation and there is a lot of work to be done.

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set it us back. On the next shift they scored another one to put us behind the 8-ball.

Jared Dudley

Making the Sweet 16 is a dream come true. Now we need to put it behind us and get ready for the next game.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Make no mistake. We face a very difficult job once we get the pomp behind us tomorrow,

Joel Edgerton

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Shaun Alexander

Mack Strong is the difference between us and the Philadelphia Eagles. We can get behind him and run all day.

Mike Gill

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Randy Rutledge

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.

Henry Bibby

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Kit Bond

Let me be clear: The National Guard is being fully active, not only in the work they are doing overseas but in their homeland defense activities.

Marcus Johnson

Lots of time we'd come down and make one call, then the defense would be something we didn't expect and we'd have to make another call. It gets tough but we just need to get better at it.

Jerry Moore

Last year was a struggle in a lot of ways, ... Defense really hurt us last year. We're used to some pretty tough defenses, and that wasn't the case.

Raheem Brock

Last year, the defense was young and inexperienced and the linebackers moved around in different positions. Everybody's used to playing where they're at and we're communicating well.

Dennis Fowler

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today,

Lonnie Lawrence

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

Ernie Irvan

Man, I remember those nasty turns, and how hard it was to judge them. That's what made it so difficult, and the reason the drivers are always so competitive. I always said if you could win at Stockton, you could win anywhere.

Jojo Moyes

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Jerrold Nadler

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

Steven Wieting

Many of the understandable sources of recovery have been expended in the first half of 2002, leaving growth drivers into 2003 a mystery.

John Gifford

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Mel Martinez

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Semiconductor makers are bottoming out because of strong demand. Any good news is likely to drive shares higher.

Rajiv Dutta

Seller success is going to, in turn, drive seller volume. That will, in turn, help the vibrancy of the marketplace and eBay's financials.

Jorma Ollila

Mobile can drive Internet usage, so we all will benefit. The pie is growing, and everybody can get his or her slice.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Money earned by men would not always reach to their wives and children.

Jay Wright

Now that we've got a good thing going here, I'm happier that it worked out that way. Everyone feels they earned it. You kind of know who your friends are. There was plenty of time for people to show whether they were loyal to the program or not.

John Chavis

Obviously I think enough of (Mayo) to be a starter. That's what we've done, and he's earned that. I feel good about him playing.

Becky Flynn

I feel like we're very well prepared (for districts). In the last week, we lost to three very tough teams (St. Basil, Villa Maria, Downingtown) and got two big wins (over Nazareth) back to back. I feel like the girls have earned a lot of respect.

Steve Hutchinson

Frankly, we get sick of hearing it. You'd think we'd earned respect. All we can do is keep winning.

Amy Pettibone

When there's instant success, there is this expectation that (making it that far) is the norm and that we're always going to be there. What a lot of people don't realize is that the region is a lot tougher than before. Every team that has made it this far has earned it.

Jacquie Fernandes

I have a spot on the team. Right now, I guess you could say I am a walk-on. But I will be treated just like any other player on the team. As far as a scholarship goes, he likes to reward players who work hard. Every player that has stayed with the program has earned a scholarship.

Troy Percival

I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point.

Brooke Smith

She was in a position that wasn't really ideal, but she's earned what she's gotten. She's talented and smart and she works really hard.

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Ann Stevenson

Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 500.

Mark McClellan

Many people were expecting significant reduction in retiree coverage, which just hasn't happened.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional and that's all I'm saying. NASCAR can do what they want with it. By no means did I purposely wreck Dale Jarrett. I was shocked and surprised and when he later ran into us. I wasn't expecting it.

Jonathan Clark

My kids out there were playing okay, but in their minds, the numbers they?re shooting are nothing like what they were expecting to shoot,

Sean Sutton

My focus all week has been on our players. They didn't come to Oklahoma State expecting this to happen. It's been hard on them. But I have a responsibility to them and to this school. I try to keep that in my mind as much as possible and keep a positive outlook.

Henry Gomez

On ebay, the packages people are receiving are expected. They(consumers) have contacted a seller, have been bidding on the item and there's feedback, so usually you're expecting a package. You usually have some sense of what you're getting.

Billy Knight

(Monday) will be the soft opening of a break-out year. I've been hearing a lot of positive things from the community. They're expecting a lot and we're ready to give it to them.

Ashley Haynes

Now we are going in there expecting to win. We are not just going out there playing not to lose. We are going out there playing to win the game.

Robert Jarvik

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Rohit Shetty

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

Mark Williams

Luckily, we have 10 or 12 who are going to have to step up more, which is important. Obviously, we have a lot of finals experience in our side, and it's important for them to step up.

Diego Klattenhoff

Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.

Estelle

Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.

Dan Fee

Lynn Swann doesn't have any experience and he doesn't have any policy proposals for the future, so he's left with attacks.

Nishi Silva

Life experience provides us feedback of our lives.On the other hand,trying to become an experienced person puts you in danger.We should let our selves get experience by the time only when your life is ready to provide it on the right time with the right people.

Jerry Sloan

Let them experience a day off in there, and see if they can keep themselves ready. It's important to see if any of them try to take the third game off.

John Foxe

Last year was our first opportunity (to be on MNF) in quite some time. Hopefully, we'll learn from that and understand what's at stake there. The whole world is watching. There's no question all of your peers are watching. It's something that guys should gear up for, and I think we'll learn from that experience last year.

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.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Laurence Steinberg

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

Steve Mullins

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Jennifer Ebelhar

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

E. Hicks

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Ned Yost

Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.

Tim Giel

Last year, we had only six kids wrestle at the section tournament. This year, we have 11 kids entered.

Andy Coulombe

Last year when we came, we had some kids who went two-and-out, but this year every kid won a match.

Tom Chiappetta

When you put that mix together, we got our own little world here.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Omar Vizquel

On the road, it's going to be a mixed feeling. But at home, he'll get the support.

Richard Shelby

because they all go into the mix of the economy.

Paul Fernandez

She used to rely a lot on her power. Now she has a variety of pitches she can mix in.

Nathalie Dechy

She served very well and mixed her game. I had a lot of opportunities but simply couldnt take the lead,

Reginald Knowles

Town officials can piggyback for some mix on some adjacent town roads.

Zygmunt Bauman

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

Vint Cerf

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

Ruben Jr

We want to make sure that he doesn't get on the mound until he's physically fit.

Joe Garagiola

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Mike Mussina

This was only the third time I've been to the mound since I had three weeks off,

Phil Garner

He wants to and I want him to, ... I think he'd just like to know where he stands. He needs to be on the mound to see where he is.

Jason Bradbury

(Sophomore) Gil South worked his tail off on the mound today. But we just can't seem to get him any run support.

Jon Garland

Sometimes my sinker is better when I'm tired, ... Sometimes a long layoff and not being on the mound makes me too strong and takes away from the movement of the ball.

Jason Giambi

For being so young, he was just so poised. I just remember his mound presence for someone who was 23. He went out there and was dominating.

Scott Erickson

It's 10 times better today than it was yesterday. Hopefully, I can be back on the mound by Friday.

Jeff Bagwell

I want him on the mound tomorrow night.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Jim Fuller

Megan was also another one that kind of got run to death.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Jerome Groover

We had been working with them all summer. Mostly, we wanted to work on their speed. They know what they need to run. They have to run a 14.5 if they think they are going to state.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Russ Witzig

I can't say enough about Brandon. He wrestled really well today, and all season long.

Keith Willis

on paper, we'll be okay, but we can't play the season on paper.

Dan Grunfeld

If we keep working, anything can happen. We want to be in New York and we're going to try to make that happen. The season is still going. That's the important part.

Cate Blanchett

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

Penny Hardaway

I feel great. I can't wait for the season to start.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Andrew Strauss

If we can get 370-plus I think we are very much in the game. I think there will be a result. If we keep working as we have done all season I think we can win it.

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

Mike Bender

We worked a lot on his tempo and staying solid at the top, not hinging too much,

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Mo Johnston

He's been very solid in the preseason and training and everything that he's done.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Trevor Carritt

Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.

John Milton

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray / Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still.

David Cook

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

Tom Roy

That is because the spray is a live-form of the flu,

John Aragon

He threw a temper tantrum with a spray can.

Josh Duhamel

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

Dick Cheney

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Zach Duke

You'd like to have that veteran presence. But I think if we are being successful, there is no such thing as too much youth.

Dick Durbin

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Clay Walker

We're a veteran line. We should get it done.

Craig Ferguson

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Carl von Clausewitz

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Barbara Bush

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

Arthur Koestler

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Tommy Amaker

We're an older, veteran team. Sometimes, that can work in your favor.