Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Faldo

It's all about playing in the heat of the battle. You can do well in a major but you can jostle through and avoid the real pressure. To be in there leading, going home Friday and Saturday with the lead, it's a different ball game. We'll find out about Luke. On paper he's got the lot, but I honestly feel there are very few who would jump straight in without doing your time out there. Most past champions have all had seven to 10 years of paying their dues. It's like any major profession, like qualifying as a doctor.

It provides a mechanism whereby Revenue might learn about tax avoidance schemes quicker than they might otherwise.

Maurice Allais

It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role.

Andy Pettitte

It's unbelievable, a freak accident. I saw the ball the whole way. I thought I could avoid it, but it kept breaking into the inside of my knee.

Alex Ebert

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

James Baker

It's not that I believe he's trying to avoid it,

It's no secret that he does not like primaries and he's going to work up until the end to try to avoid one at all cost." ()

For every megawatt of Entergy New Orleans transmission, we avoided about half our purchased power costs.

There will be casualties, ... but we will avoid any harm that may befall the hostages.

There will always be those who will avoid paying and then we have to go back to the courts.

Bob Berg

There were clearly more people and more activity. Some regulars came in Wednesday and said we'll see you Monday. They wanted to avoid the crowds.

There is no way to avoid the birds in the air, but the pilots can avoid being where the birds are.

There may have been people who wanted to see it (at Miller's theater), but he may have been trying to avoid offending another group by showing it. Under freedom of speech, private individuals have the right not to carry messages. If he found it objectionable, it's his freedom of speech right to decline to carry it.

You're taught to avoid everything on the road, and this is just the opposite.

Your safety's in question no matter where you are. You just learn to avoid the alleys.

You're always going to have a few bumps and bruises this time of year. We're as healthy as any team. We've been pretty lucky to avoid that big injury. Knock on wood.

John Palfrey

You need to avoid any one entity having too much control over the ecosystem.

You of course want to be very sensitive to the children. So to the extent that we can avoid calling them, we will. But if it?s necessary in order to give them a just result, and give them back what?s left of their family, we?re going to do it.

You never want to go to that hearing if you don't have to. It's a lot easier to go into spring training when you can avoid that confrontation. That's an ugly part about baseball.

You probably want to avoid the water. When you've got those types of winds and tides and swells, I'd give caution a lot of thought.

This is a sad and tragic situation for this child and his family and I offer sympathy to them. This unfortunate situation could have been avoided with proper crime prevention measures in the proper storage of the firearm.

This is expected to be one of the worse hurricane seasons, and so far they're right and we're only halfway through it. All you have to do is pose the question: What if you had another monster storm in another few weeks, just as things are starting to come back on line? I don't know how you would avoid recession in that environment.

This is a tough one for us. It's the last home game for the seniors, a chance to end the losing streak to Indiana, and we had a chance to be the five seed (and avoid a Thursday game in the Big Ten Tournament). Now we just have to focus on playing good basketball in the Big Ten Tournament.

This is a time to be very diversified and avoid taking chances. Sometimes being a spectator is not a bad idea.

Kurt Fuller

I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy.

He ran a lot at 2, so we just gave him some time off. We wanted to avoid some of the tougher spots and to see if he likes the grass.

Governments have to take tobacco seriously. The key message is that it is possible to avoid up to three million deaths a year.

Government officials should also be cautious about their comments or remarks to avoid hurting teachers' feelings.

Steve Carell

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

If even one family can avoid getting that phone call, in the middle of the night, because of this legislation, it would be well worth it.

Murray Bartlett

I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.

I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.

Jeff Lindsay

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.