Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Mason

The nervousness never lasted more than a second because he was so congenial and comfortable. He made more stars on his show, probably, than anybody in the whole history of show business.

J. D. Hayworth

The natural rate of unemployment is between 6 and 7 percent. At 4.7 percent pretty much anybody in the country that wants a job can get a job.

The Nationals have a good bunch of guys and I enjoyed my time in Washington. Anybody that knows me realize that my family comes first and I want to be close to them during the season.

After that loss in our gym, some doubt did creep in my mind if we could win another one or not. But the kids wouldn't let anybody get down and we all just kept each other up and working hard.

After watching tape Friday night and after four days, there's been a lot of improvement since the first day that we were out here. We've got a lot of guys working hard and a lot of guys making some steps. We've still got a lot more that we want to accomplish, but I'm pleased so far with what's taken place through five days. So far we're healthy, too. We haven't lost anybody in five days, which is important.

(Against Shea) we were competitive for a half. Now we'll play Central in the first game of the year and you'd better buckle it up because Central is probably as good as anybody we're going to play.

The last couple of years, we've had such good talent in this area. We can't get them all. Over half our roster is from around here, and I wouldn't trade any of the ladies we have for anybody else.

The last three or four games we have come out of the box pretty fast. Hopefully we can keep it up. The teams will get better and we can't take anybody lightly.

The last thing I'm going to do is run around town trying to tell anybody that darts is going to be the next poker, ... but darts had a lot to recommend it to American television. It fits into that intersection of American popular culture and sports and regular life, which poker has readily occupied. So there are some similarities.

The mere fact that someone says, 'we're optimistic' and then a month later the stock price goes down doesn't mean that people have tried to mislead anybody else, ... If you purport to tell people what you know about the future but you mislead them by leaving important things out, that can well be the sin of omission. But you have to look at what, precisely, people say and what, precisely, is left out.

Martti Ahtisaari

The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.

The message we are trying to get out is to be conscious of different points of view and people's different experience. Our overall position is we don't want anybody abusing a resource - that we would object to.

Their size is a concern, especially because of the predicament we're in. Speed, too. (Goodwin and Sweeney) are as quick as anybody we have.

Mike Campbell

(Their pitching is) as good as anybody in our league. And they're two-deep. That strength in pitching is as good as anything we've seen this year.

John Brady

Their two guards could start for anybody in our league. We're going to have to do a very good job of making our team concerned with where they are, what set they're in, who is setting the screen and what we're going to do to disrupt them, because the other three players really rely on those two guards playing well.

The Fed officials are talking very optimistically. Uniformly they were out there, on the tape yesterday and in interviews, saying that they are expecting a second-half recovery and looking for signs of a bottom sometime, very soon in the economy. So, you are going to have to watch the news very carefully going forward. I don't think anybody really knows. But if you listen to the Fed, you have maybe one more rate cut and then an improving economy.

The family is having a hard time. It's the hardest thing I've ever seen anybody go through.

The consumer is slowing down gradually, so anybody dealing with a customer is going to find that it's a lot more competitive.

I'm not sure if anybody is real familiar with military ballistics, ... I saw a lot of children that had partial amputations.

Cecilia Munoz

I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all very aware that this is history in the making, and the country will be transformed by it.

John Novak

I'm not sure anybody can really determine what the economic impact will be at this point.

I'm not ready to knock anybody out of the box, but Jimmy's a vital part of our plans. You've got to have a guy who can sling the ball around.

I'm not planning to update anybody until we are very close to the end.

I'm not saying we wore anybody down, but I know we're in pretty good shape. And I thought we started to control the line of scrimmage late third quarter and especially the fourth quarter.

I'm not naive, ... Right now anybody seeing the city of New Orleans would say, 'My God, that's the farthest place from where I'd want to be.'

Jack Roush

I'm going to say that Carl Edwards -- I predict -- is the driver of the decade for not only Roush Racing but for all of Nextel Cup racing, ... I cant imagine anybody coming into the business in their first full year and being able to win four times, and won in the Busch car for the first time this year.

Kamerion Wimbley

I'm going to make time for anybody that has a first-round pick.

Roy H. Williams

I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this week and I'm not letting anybody bother me with any junk if it doesn't do anything with Kansas basketball, my players, great places to eat or rivers to spit in.

I'm getting my two under jerseys right now from the trainer to write a nice little something that's been playing in my mind since that day happened in Kansas City, ... I won't tell what it is to anybody but everyone will see it if something special happens.

I'm going to write a little something that I've been planning in my mind since that day it happened in Kansas City. I won't tell what it is to anybody but you'll see it if something special happens.

I'm going to be driven by the evidence, ... I wouldn't want to speculate how far up, what I haven't heard anybody suggest, that this was some sort of rouge operation by one individual operating outside the control or direction of the Libyan external security organization.

O. Henry

I'm not going to say what the contract is, but it made me shudder. It's a lot of money. We've made him an offer which is probably as good an offer as anybody in this country - maybe other than Chelsea - would make.

I'm not going to rule out anybody at this point.