Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buck Showalter

We hope he can help us in the big leagues. It's very unconventional, but if you describe all the attributes that successful knuckleballers have up here, R.A. would fit into that. He's a strike-thrower, competitive, no-ego and he's willing to do what it takes.

Albert Claude

We know that the cell has possessed these attributes and biological devices and has continued to use them for billions of cell generations and years.

Those who had attributes that were closer to being Caucasian were deemed more acceptable.

LenDale White

I say he is a future Biletnikoff winner. He is big, strong and fast. He has all the attributes and I think he showed last year just a glimpse of what he's capable of doing. His time is coming.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother.

Bernie Mac

Fear is not one of my attributes.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Ken Kercheval

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

Marcia Muller

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives.

Tina Brown

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

Duke of Wellington

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

I helped the company set up plants all over the region. In doing so, I made a lot of good contacts and learned a great deal about economic development. I think one of my main attributes is that I am not in any way politically connected in this area. I have no hidden agendas, no favors to return. I can bring a fresh set of eyes and ears to the position. All I am wanting to do is make sure the economy here flourishes, jobs are kept here and more are developed.

I really like his character. I think he's a real solid kid. All the attributes you'd say a boy scout has, he has. I don't even know if he's a boy scout, but he's honest, he's trustworthy and he's easy to talk to.

Vin Diesel

I had never played a real-life character. All the characters that I'd played before were fictitious. So I'd spent all this time creating the affectations and amassing all of the attributes and characteristics and mannerisms, and then Jackie came to the set the first day of filming. I kicked everyone else out of my trailer, and we started to talk. He told me, in his own words, just for him and I, what the whole story was about for him and what that trial meant to him. After that meeting, all of the work that had gone into building the mannerisms and attributes seemed secondary. The most important element was to understand and believe in his cause.

Dusty Rhodes

I just think that Mark has got the attributes it would really take to lead the city - fresh leadership and a new viewpoint, ... puts him in good stead with the suburban folks.

Clients are in the same position as agencies. They are looking for a person who has all of the attributes but can also roll up their sleeves and do the work.

Shawn Stockman

His attributes and what he's done in the music industry is something that we look up to, and we hope to be able to do the same, ... We hope to be able to be around as long as Elton, still creating beautiful music for the world to listen to.

Children are going to learn about the wonderful contributions, the boldness and the attributes it takes for an individual to become a legend. In order for a student to be able to be academically successful, the basis of that is being able to read.

Dwayne's our general; he makes the entire defense go. He's got all the physical attributes to be successful at the position. More importantly, he's got great instincts, the mental makeup and personality to be our middle linebacker and defensive captain.

Dwayne's our general; he makes the entire defense go, ... He's got all the physical attributes to be successful at the position. More importantly, he's got great instincts, the mental makeup and personality to be our middle linebacker and defensive captain.

At the end of the day, we're looking to find 22 or 23 guys who want a jersey, who want a spot on the team, ... So, whatever their skill sets are, whatever their physical attributes are, whatever they do to be effective hockey players, we recommend them to do that.

Consumers want their content portable, and the 79 percent increase in shipments of mobile disk drives into consumer devices in 2005 over 2004 is evidence of this dynamic. IDC attributes this growth to a combination of innovative disk drive designs and effective integration of HDD technology into consumer devices by companies like Toshiba.

Crystal is a great player, ... She is one of the best shooters in the league. Unfortunately she broke her pink finger and she hasn't been shooting the ball as well since, but you have consider her other attributes just as much, and those are her great defense, her rebounding and just being intelligent on the court. She brings a lot to the table.

Crystal is a great player, ... She is one of the best shooters in the league. Unfortunately she broke her pink finger and she hasn't been shooting the ball as well since, but you have consider her other attributes just as much, and those are her great defense, her rebounding and just being intelligent on the court. She brings a lot to the table.

Mark Shapiro

We are very pleased to have Ellis rejoin the Indians organization. A professional of his caliber represents the values and attributes that the organization is seeking to instill in its young players.

We have experience on offense up front. We have nine starters back on offense and experience all the way through. Running the football will be one of our attributes and our passing game should be improved from a year ago.

This unforeseen resurgence of a category pronounced dead back in 2004 is attributable to several factors, but value and digital media attributes lead the pack.

Mark Shapiro

The best option is when a player picks it up himself by his level of performance. He genuinely has a passion for the game and plays on a daily basis like he enjoys it. That is representative of the attributes we want in our players.

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

Luke Young

Gary Neville has been the best right-back in the Premier League for the last eight years or so and he is someone that you know you can rely on. He is always steady and doesn't do anything silly. He is a great player and I would like to have the same attributes as him.

Garmin shares many of the same great attributes as Segway. Both companies are innovative technology and design leaders that build versatile, powerful, and fun to use products -- so offering them in tandem makes the 'Find Your Way With Segway' offer very compelling.

Gallo is a front-court player who can play inside and out. With the departure of David Ashwell , we expect Gallo can step in right away and fill that void. He is a very charismatic person. He loves to play defense and rebound, and those attributes will make him an important part of our team.

Michael Shermer

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.