Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Koch

He came to see me a few weeks ago, and I said, 'You're not doing it exactly the way I did it,' ... 'You're talking as though it was the four other boroughs against Manhattan.' ... I said 'There are plenty of middle-class people living in Manhattan.' He changed the tone then, so that it became more of a message about the middle class.

He came to compete today. We had our backs up against the wall in the conference. We needed this and they knew it. They came out and got it today.

He came out and made some shots against us. We've got to do a better job of guarding and a better job of finding people and we didn't do that tonight.

We can look at lineups and whatever, and we know that they have a great team . . . great offensive skill out there. I think we really just clamp down against them.

Marty Schottenheimer

We can legislate against that as long as it's officiated with common sense.

We can have a strong finish to the season if we play each game with the intensity and teamwork that was exhibited against McCook.

We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't.

Daniela Hantuchova

This was one of the best matches I've played against her. I tried to step it up a little bit, went for my shots and be aggressive, but at same time be a little smarter.

Carlos Guillen

This was one of the best games we've had pitched against us.

This was one of Lindsay's best games. She really was bringing some heat, and against a good-hitting team like Fairfield, that's an exceptional job.

Rasheed Wallace

This wasn't any kind of statement -- you make statements in the playoffs. This was just playing a game against a very good team.

Oprah Winfrey

This was not the first attack, oh no, because he has a long record of sex crimes against children dating back 25 years and yet he was out walking the streets.

Jose Contreras

Today, I was ready from the get- go. I was ready from the start today. I wasn't ready from the first inning against Cleveland.

Today, it appears there may be as many as 100 lawyers and legal assistants working at your expense to defend the president against a mountain of charges and allegations about his personal behavior,

Dan Wheeler

Today is the first game of many. It definitely gets your juices going. I don't care even if it is a spring training game, you still get those butterflies and those competitive juices that flow through you every time you take the mound and compete against other players.

Today isn't a nice day for us. We lost playing against a team that played very well from the beginning. They skated so fast. We had some chances in the second period, but they won.

We feel honored to be a part of this meet. Breast cancer has touched many lives and we want to help in the fight against this disease. Although Florida and Alabama are rivals in the Southeastern Conference, on Jan. 20, the teams will be unified as they try to make a difference by raising breast cancer awareness.

Whatever the verdict later rendered against him or others of his co-accused, it's his humanitarian right

Whatever the person wrote in their journal was not against the law.

Whatever it is, they have our number. For whatever reason, we don't get the breaks against Texas.

Whatever is transpiring in the market, especially this week, is against the backdrop of extra negative sentiment, so the market is prone to react to bad news.

Charlie Hodgson

Whatever he touches turns to gold. For me, it's a fantastic opportunity to play against him.

Whatever happens, happens. If we did make a move like that, I would support my teammate. I wouldn't go against somebody who was on my team. I would make it work some kind of way because that's the type of person I am.

William Butler Yeats

What do you think of when alone at night?Do not the things your mothers spoke about,Before they took the candle from the bedside,Rush up into the mind and master it,Till you believe in them against your will?

John Roberts

What makes you think liberals are against that philosophy?

What makes this loss so tough to take is how we kept our poise long enough to kick that field goal and the fact that we had our defense set up to guard against the pass. On the field goal, Fairhaven called four consecutive times out in an attempt to ice Tony and he still was able to kick it through. And on that final pass, we had three guys around the receiver. Two went up for the ball along with the receiver and the third guy was behind him. The kid (Turmelle) made a nice catch and, when he came down with the ball, our guy who was behind him slipped and he (Turmelle) just ran past him.

There is a strong social bias against such findings because many people want to believe obesity is due to an individual's lack of control on some personal, mental level, but we now think viruses may be a factor.

There is a growing recognition among organizations that stateless provisioning is a promising approach to dramatically improving the management of large pools of servers. It loads orders of magnitude faster, guards against having the wrong versions, and is much more effortless. And repurposing can occur on-demand as service and business demands change and resource allocation must be adjusted.

There is no excuse for what happened against Florida. Nobody should be able to play bump-and-run coverage against us like that.

There is no evidence of new work on military capabilities or plans against this enemy before September 11.

We try to put them in situations where they can take their talent and maximize it. We try to get them out of their comfort zone, playing against older, bigger players, so they have to use their minds as well as their skill to succeed. It doesn't matter what sport you play in, there are always going to be kids who are talented when they're young but they never face any adversity. Sometimes, the coaches take from the kids ? say a coach who has a guy that can score five goals a game but doesn't involve his teammates ? down the road, that's a disservice to player. There's a whole different element to being an elite athlete.

We try to flip on the switch too much. We think we can just turn it on. We've got to flip the switch on when the game starts. We can't feel like we can turn it on when our backs are against the wall and come back.

Jake Woods

We've been watching each other play for years now. It would be cool to go against each other and see what happened.