Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Packer

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

Cristie Kerr

There are so many great golfers out on tour now. Just take a look at how many first-time winners we've had this year, ... You can't just think of Annika as the biggest challenge anymore though you still need to be mindful when she's out there.

Laurence J. Peter

Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.

I think the market ought to be satisfied with the idea that at least there's not going to be anymore tightening. You know, it's only a couple months ago that people were saying the Fed was going to tighten all through the fall. So now that it looks like they're not, people are saying, wow, maybe they'll ease now. But I think that is quite a way off, probably some time next year.

I think the market is clearly getting used to the idea that the Federal Reserve is going to raise rates. I don't think it's a question anymore of whether they do it in March or not. If they don't do it in March, they (will) do it in April. The real question now is how much do they do it (and) when they do it.

I think the home-plate umpire made a bad call on the balk because the batter had asked for time. And I think that threw Kristen off because she had just given up back-to-back doubles and she didn't need anymore problems.

We just have to get more fire in our game. We're used to jumping out on teams and getting the lead, but now we don't jump out on teams and get leads anymore and that kind of hurts us. We're not finishing very strong, and we just have to play better basketball.

We're primed and prepared to grow. No one is saying the budget is what we'd like it to be, but we're not in a budget crisis anymore so the opportunity is there.

Goldie Hawn

There aren't many romantic comedies anymore that star just a female lead without being paired with a male lead,

I thought we played very well tonight, and the key thing is that we battled. I don't think we could ask anymore of them (players) tonight; it could have gone either way. When it gets to sudden death like that you win some and you lose some, and we were very close to nipping a win down here over the #2 team...very close.

Jonny Gomes

He says that I would have passed in my sleep. I'm not sleeping anymore the rest of my life.

If it gets to the point where the equipment doesn't work anymore you gotta buy a whole new system down the line, where these guys are maintaining the equipment day in, and day out.

Mike Shannon

I got an e-mail from a guy in Hong Kong, ... I get 'em from Afghanistan. I have farmers who come up to me - people who live on the East Coast, the West Coast; they come up to me - and they say, 'I'm so pleased I don't have to drive my tractor anymore up onto hill No. 7 to listen to the game. I can get it on the Internet.'

Barry Bonds

If it makes them happy to go out of their way to destroy me or whatever they want to try to do, go right ahead. It doesn't bother me. You can't hurt me anymore than you've already hurt me. You can't hurt my family anymore than you've already hurt them.

He's got way too much invested in that company. He can't get rid of the options, so he shouldn't buy anymore (company stock).

I guess I just had to fail so much that I just didn't care anymore before I could start hitting a little bit. I got way under a ball and it floated out, and that made the rest of the day a lot easier.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I don't gamble anymore since I had a kid. I have fun in Vegas. I see shows, Cirque du Soleil. Don Rickles was in town last time I was there. I'll have lunch with George Wallace. I just look in the Weekly calendar and see who's performing, and inevitably, we all meet up late night at one of the casinos. Jesus, I sound boring.

Blake McIver Ewing

I'm not hiding who I am anymore - not pretending I'm something I'm not.

Billy Collins

I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.

Maajid Nawaz

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

Diana Ross

People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.

The only thing I don't want to do anymore is run her on firm ground.

Andie MacDowell

I wouldn't wear really short dresses anymore - just don't feel comfortable in them.

Bella Freud

I love the way people dress at the races. I love people dressed to the nines during the day. That formal kind of daywear doesn't really exist anymore except at the races. Also I love the tuffs and the working classes being so hand in glove and relying on each other to make the thing happen.

Alex Lifeson

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

Douglas Adams

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

The good news is, there are a number of success stories -- major bottlenecks we identified in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Denver, Colorado, and in Houston, Texas, that aren't on our ranking anymore thanks to improvement projects.

Luc Besson

There are a few directors that I really loved who made like five, six great movies, but are still shooting and they're not good anymore and I'm sad.

Ken Schrader

When the day comes that one of these kids bumps me out, I'm going to run the next best thing I can find at whatever level that is. I'm going to keep doing it until I can't climb into the car anymore or (until) my buddies can't lift me in.

Brian Billick

We overcame it, so that's the lesson to impart to my guys. Not that they need to bring anymore intensity and focus to the game. Don't get caught up in the circumstances of the other team. That message was lived in reverse for us last year.

Winning's kind of like a drug, it's addictive. The girls are really excited and are enjoying it. As far as playing hard, I don't worry about it anymore with these girls because they're going to keep playing hard in order to keep winning.

Ryan White

We were noticing an increase in these problems. We couldn't go to freshman orientation anymore and tell parents there were no problems with the old system.