Famous Quotes & Sayings

He wanted to negotiate a selling price not just for the car but also for all of the trophies and the memorabilia associated with the car and we came up with a deal.

He wanted to continue as assistant manager, but we had to put the good of the club first, and to that end he took over the youth set up; I felt he had all the qualities needed to make it a success.

He wanted some sort of deal from the district attorney's office for his cooperation, and he wanted an attorney to assist him in working through this negotiation. The sheriff and I unsuccessfully tried to get him a public defender assigned as soon as possible because of the urgency of the situation.

Antonio Tarver

He was beat by a better fighter. Period. I am one of the best fighters in the world. Give me my credit. You all thought I would be one-punch happy but I passed my test. I did my homework. I took nothing for granted. I wasn't assured of victory until they raised my hand.

Jim Jordan

He did his best, and cleverly, to imply that he's sympathetic to Roe and its value as precedent. But we'd be foolish to take his testimony as an assurance that he's supportive of the right to choice or even the more fundamental right to privacy.

He can shoot the ball just as well as anyone. He's got a lot of offensive talents. His brilliance combined with his willingness to learn has been an asset to our program. His numbers have improved, and I expect him to pick it up more during the postseason.

He cannot erase that, whether he's innocent or not -- and I assume he is, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

He definitely has assumed the leadership role on and off the field. He took control of things this summer.

He cruised through the first like they weren't even here. Then all of a sudden, here comes the second and he was struggling getting his curve over. I was warming up some people, because I told my assistants if he can't get his curve over, we're screwed. He's the type of pitcher who has to work some of his off-speed stuff. If he can't get it across, it's going to be a long night for us.

He certainly made big plays. He recognizes that he?s the guy who can make them. He has a great work ethic and I think he?s more assertive going after the football. We must have had 25 seven-on-seven (games) and you could see his confidence level rise. He expects to get the job done.

Brian Mulroney

He certainly made an important mark on Canadian journalism. I viewed him as a highly principled journalist with well developed views on the world. He was unafraid to assert them and, of course, to defend them.

He coached at the highest level as an assistant under Jim Calhoun, he took over a program and learned how to become a head coach, and then he came to the Ivy League -- and it really helps to know how to recruit and how it works in this league. His background was impeccable. He was a front-runner from day one.

He knew I was not willing to assist him,

He knew I had head-coaching aspirations. You can't be the second assistant all your life.

He is such an asset to our delegation. He is the go-to person for all of these issues.

He'll be a huge asset for USF. He has great size, is technically very gifted and brings a great work ethic to their program.

Eddie Jordan

He is really embracing the role that we assigned him as the defensive captain.

Dick Cheney

He legally and irrevocably assigned them and he receives no tax benefit from them,

John Thompson

He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job.

He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.

(Hastings) is starting to assert himself on the offensive end. I turned to my coaching staff and told them that one big shot would get us over the hump and Chris was the one that hit the shot.

Dag Hammarskjold

has no impact on most of the people outside the General Assembly and this building.

has issued instructions to provide any medical assistance necessary -- and that includes teams of doctors that will be arriving.

Mark Regev

has expressed concerns about the situation to the government of Egypt, and we've been assured the current situation is temporary.

Hampton University is poised to offer any assistance necessary to the faculty, staff and students at our sister schools,

Harrah's Entertainment is working in conjunction with us in this removal and is furnishing marine engineers, structural engineers and other experts to assist in the demolition of these barges, ... They have been most cooperative.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Ted Allen

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Stephen Sondheim

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

Seth Shostak

It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because 'typical' is just another way of saying 'most probable.'

Sidney Blumenthal

What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.

Steve Stockman

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.