Famous Quotes & Sayings

I got my predicted grades at school this year and I've told them I aim to keep up that standard while I'm away.

Matt Baker

I got hit on my left leg, and my hips got opened up a little bit, so the ball sailed. I was aiming to throw outside to Mike because the defender was inside. In the split second right as I was letting go of the ball, my left hip got hit and I opened up, and it was kind of a duck, and it trailed inside on me.

China will, along with various parties, continue its support to the diplomatic efforts aiming at an early and appropriate solution to this issue within the framework of the IAEA.

China to reduce capital lending in the domestic market. Aiming to create structural changes to present economy by deleveraging from exports and focus on increasing domestic consumption...

Imagine walking through the park and aiming your camera phone at a data tag on a statue. It directs your phone's browser to a Web page about a historic building that used to stand there, or a concert that played there last summer, complete with video clips.

Michael Wright

I'm aiming to make it a double. I've won at Liverpool in Australia and now I'll try to do it at Royal Liverpool in Britain.

Herbie Hancock

I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about life, not about musicians.

I'm aiming 20 feet left of the pin and I hit it 20 feet right of the green. That was the one that killed me because I had a little bit of momentum.

I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.

Since the overall World Cup title is what we aim for, it is good to win our first technical race of the year. Bobby and I really like the hill and conditions. We had a very good race.

Jim Gerlach

Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

If we can get them to come back better than when they left that's great. We are going to aim to win, but if we get substantial improvement in every player, I would be happy and I would say we were successful.

I have got total belief in this team. Sunday's game will tell us where we are. We want to win the championship, it was one of our aims for the season, and I have full confidence in the way the team is playing the game.

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words.

Tiger Woods

I did not play well at all, ... I had a two-way miss this week. You can't aim a two-way miss even if those fairways are 300 yards wide. If you get it hitting both ways, it's tough to play.

I don't give a monkey's whether anyone remembers who I am from the TV and I'm certainly not a celebrity, ... That's not why I got into this. I'm here to do business and I aim to be a success.

James Corden

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.

Diana Wynne Jones

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Andy Duncan

This won't be another digital repeats channel -- More4 aims to make a significant public service contribution in its own right,

Walid Jumblatt

This statement is the start of a suspicious campaign on the horizon in more than one place, and it aims to target the national and patriotic constants and drag the country to problems.

Olly Murs

My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

Todd Haynes

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

Adam Michnik

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Ban Ki-moon

Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

Sathya Baba

When any educational or medical institution is established, the sole aim is to make a business out of it. There are only a few who are ready to set up such institutions to provide free facilities for the poor.

We have listened keenly to our customers and refined the cars to boost our competitiveness on both sides of the Atlantic. We already have a winning concept, so the aim was fine-tuning rather than making major changes. More sophisticated lines and materials and a better driving experience without compromising on demands concerning safety and power trains with good environmental properties.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Vaclav Klaus

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

We are really struggling to get nutritious food. Our aim is to get more nutritious food for children in our area.

Michael Dell

We are particularly interested in early-stage companies with products and services which have the potential to create breakthroughs in the evolving Internet age, with an aim to integrate those products and services into Dell's business and drive our future growth.

Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.

William Tecumseh Sherman

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.