Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Chuck D.

Last year's team was probably the first team I had that really played together as a complete team and believed that they were never out of a game.

Derrick Turnbow

Last year we were up here for exhibition games and I was still hoping to be on the team. A year later, it's a totally different situation. I would have never believed it would happen.

Tim Callahan

Many school systems are going to continue having to do more with less when they believed the improving economy was going to lift that burden from them.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Guardia was a good friend of Mr. Crawford, yes. And he believed Mr. Guardia to be a fine, upstanding person.

Leslie Huntington

One of the things we always talk about is that the game is never over until we say it's over. The team believed that and hung in there and created some breaks that led to the win.

Jim Fehrenbach

Obviously, when it comes with the stock market, the economy and everything else, it's an enormously important position, and I think it relieved people to see (Bush) appoint someone who is believed to be the best person for the job.

Neil Smith

Of course, some of us are radicals and anarchists, and I've always believed in making your enemies' worst nightmares come true if you possibly can.

Ned Bittner

No one believed we could get to this game. This is where I believed we could get to, because we've improved a lot.

Tom Bailey

Like Freddie Barnes (last year's All-Area standout now at Bowling Green), Trent is a great athlete,

Jason Snelling

Mac Publishing covers the entire Mac Industry, and tonight we put them in the same room for a worthy cause. Companies in the Mac community often compete fiercely. The same competitive, fun spirit comes with them to the bowling alley. No matter who takes home the trophy, the real winners are the kids at Marshall.

Brian McCarthy

Licensees are gearing up to flood the market with Super Bowl merchandise featuring the two teams.

Britt Beemer

La-Z-Boy hasn't done much with football since that one campaign and I thought that was a mistake. They haven't made that connection with every Super Bowl and I think that is a mistake.

Grant Wistrom

Last year, the only reason we weren't in the Super Bowl was because of our defense. This year, we wanted to be part of the solution and not the cause of the problem.

Robert Hansen

Many of our customers use the Super Bowl as an excuse to upgrade their home entertainment centers, whether they?re watching the game or not. We seem to be doing well enough without the Patriots? help.

Kevin Evanto

Seattle has enjoyed a great reputation the last few years and Pittsburgh is on the verge of that and the Super Bowl is a great conduit for that.

Barry Alvarez

So, I thought we had a chance to be a nice football team. Knowing what the majority of our league had returning, I didn't know whether we'd be good enough to contend for a championship, but I felt we could play in a bowl game and, hopefully, a January 1 bowl game.

Joe Greene

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

Cynthia Nixon

Miranda: I just got Brady to sleep. Dr. Leeds: Now, do you sing to him? Miranda: Only if he's been bad.

Phil Simms

Of course Steve McNair is not going to get paid like Tom Brady and Michael Vick, but so what? But he should get his, and it shouldn't crush the football team.

Tyrone Nix

Of course nobody can be Brad but Brad himself. We'll see that firsthand Friday.

Dave Roberts

We had Brad on the ropes, but he battled out there and competed. When you have a chance to put him away, you have to before he gets comfortable and settled in. He pretty much dominated once he got settled in.

Taron Egerton

I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

Jordy Lipsey

If Brad thought the whistle had blown, he wouldn't have made the shot. Brad's not that type of player to do something like that.

Gary Pinkel

Getting his 2,000 yards passing, 1,000 rushing, all that stuff?s great, ... but Brad will ultimately be judged by winning football games, and he understands that.

Kate Klise

For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.

Todd Harrell

I guess if Brad hadn't been wearing his seatbelt, he'd probably be dead now. He's going to be all right.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Todd Fox

Man, four state placers and the school's first top 10 finish. It's a head coach's dream come true and speaks to my great coaching staff.

Terrell Buckley

Life is not fair. You're one game away from a championship one year, the next year they let him go somewhere else. His coaching didn't change. You never want to be where you've proved you can win but there are still questions.

Elaine MacDonald

Life coaching has received a lot of press recently; it seems you can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine without reading a quote from a life coach.

Ron Dickerson

So far, the people have been great and it's been very enjoyable. I've got a good coaching staff, everybody's on the same page and that makes a big difference.

Joe Glenn

Mike is a veteran coach, and he has been at it a long time. Mike also has a good support group. We have 120 years together on our coaching staff collectively. The right hand and left hand pretty much know what each other are doing. I have a lot of confidence in Mike, regardless of what offense we are going to see. Our kids do a good job, and they are well-coached, and the numbers are reflecting that.

Cliff Thompson

My junior year, we played Fort Thomas in the championship game, and that was a lot of fun. I really enjoy the tournament even more now. Even if I wasn't coaching in it, I'd be there watching it.

Dave Magarity

My lasting memory of her will be as one of the great communicators with young people that I've ever been around in my coaching career. It's tragic. My lasting memory will be of her smile. We just had so much fun.

Rob Scheidt

One thing we want to do is eliminate the big play. I think our coaching staff and players understand (Madera) is going to score their points. We just can't give up the big plays like we did last year.

Jim Duggan

My first head coaching job in high school stands out because it is where I really grasped the power of what a 'team' could do that talented individuals could not do alone.

Mamata Banerjee

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Bob Blecher

Last year was the first time Patrice had to be a leader on the field. This year, being a senior and one of the area's elite players, I think she's more willing to take on that responsibility.

Shawn Williams

I feel like they accomplished something great. (They're) still in the Sweet 16. (They're) with us. They're a top, elite team.

Dumarsais Simeus

From what I heard on the radio all day, with the prospect of Preval being president, the elite is already lining up and getting ready to derail him and keep him from governing.

Dan Glickman

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Dana Goodyear

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

Chris Bosh

To be a part of the world's elite instead of the just league's elite is a little more special.

Gloria Reuben

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Youssou N'Dour

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Sam Wyche

Lucky enough that Mike Mularkey was in a position to make a pity hire, and I think everyone knows that's what it is, and he put me back in here.

Blaise Pascal

Love has its reasons that Reason knows not

Howard Davidowitz

Sears is a shaken-up company, and who knows when it will recover, ... are wonderful.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral. We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Gilad knows very well that the whole thing was unilateral, ... We had to pick up the pieces after they left without them even telling us when they were going to leave.

Darren Dopp

Mr. Weld knows less about solving strikes than he does about running trade schools.

Gerhard Kocher

Medicine knows no limits, expecially not its own.

Tim Carroll

One of the things I realized about doing this show with Keith is he knows as much about music as I do.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Joy Austin

The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Julie Warner

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

James Franco

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Marc Morial

She was singular in the role that she played, and she can't be replaced.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

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 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.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.