Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Schon

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

Vicente Fox

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

We still haven't played a complete game on both sides of the ball. We're 5-1 right now, and that's scary. . . . The bottom line is we're finding ways to win. That's one thing about arena football; the games are going to be close.

The question is whether management's skills are transferable from one arena to the next, and that's hard to tell. You have to decide if this is a good extension or a reach; the bigger the stretch -- like Wasatch going into fixed income -- the longer you wait.

Jeff Greenfield

Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.

Chris Van Hollen

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

William Sloane Coffin

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Hideo Kojima

Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'

We are really trying to dip our toe into that arena more and more.

Todd Rundgren

I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.

We want to know what kinds of uses people think are appropriate around the arena and how they'd like them to look.

Robert Nozick

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

Trent Reznor

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

Tony Campolo

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

Michael Ignatieff

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

John Moyer

One thing about the Arena Football League, they know how to generate excitement. They have us opening the season at the same place where our season ended last year. It will be an electric atmosphere, and I, for one, can't wait.

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I was at the first state tournament in Lakeland in 1977, and except for the scoreboards, it looks the same as it did in 1977. They've done a lot of upgrades on the exhibition halls, but the arena has been neglected. It's showing its age, and that could be a negative.

I was surprised to see the St. Louis franchise go because I thought that St. Louis was a great arena football town and such a great sports city, so I was just really surprised to see them go,

My freshman year, we had a lot of losses. The arena was pretty empty.

One of the things I notice in a big arena is that it's very easy to lose the speed and power of the game. That's what makes the Coliseum so special. Everybody feels like they're a part of what's going on down on the court. It's very easy to get emotionally involved, and people want to feel that. They want to feel like they are part of something like that.

Tom Johnson

One important consideration is how the arena would link downtown -- how people can get from one venue to another venue and feel like it is all one linked area, where you feel comfortable as a pedestrian walking a couple of blocks,

Obviously, we think the process could be accelerated and the long-term future of the Penguins in Pittsburgh would be far more certain if the local leaders would get behind the existing arena funding plan.

But by the same token, I don't think that the arena itself will be enough of a destination so we have to have other things as part of the plan, too.

Basically, the idea is that the arena needs to be near an existing district rather than rely on creating its own district,

I'm also not going to cut my nose off to spite my face, because I also know that-without sounding egotistical-there are some people who bring the 20,000 or so fans into the arena to watch. And as much as I'm older, I think I'm kind of an exciting player at times.

Memphis has illustrated clearly that it is a boxing town and the FedEx Forum is one of the finest arenas in the country. We look forward to the Southern hospitality in June.

Nobody thought we were coming back. I'm sure nobody in the arena (did). I could hear people screaming and complaining, but you know what, these kids don't think they're going to lose.

Getting to the Arena is a huge step for our program.

Terry Stotts

Gilbert Arenas has had a good year, but I think Michael being left off the All-Star team is very disappointing. He's having the best year of his career. He's leading a team that hasn't been under .500 all year. He's scored in double figures every game. He's improved every part of his game. And I think it's a shame that he's not on the team.

From my view of things, that is where I want our program to be. And I still fully believe in the fact that keeping the arena configuration in the way that we did this year because you've got to take the necessary steps to get there.

From what I've seen, Sears is well underway to making itself into a more efficient and a more pleasant-to-shop retail establishment. It is likely to become a powerhouse in the mass-market arena and perhaps look a little bit like a combination of a large discount store and Kohl's.

Mark Gottfried

I don't think we're going to see a whole lot of people in this arena shoot the ball like Chris Lofton can shoot it. My goodness.