Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Robredo

In Monte Carlo, I noticed a strain in the abdominal region. I began playing doubles here in Barcelona but had to give up because I couldn't serve without pain, but the rest helped to clear it up.

In a way, it's the same story. The goal is to put Russia in a better bargaining position.

Jim Carter

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

I mean, I believe very strongly in the fundamental of oil drilling, and the oil drillers are perhaps the most spectacular stocks of this year. They're still up; they were up yesterday, and they're near their all-time highs, and that's because the world uses 200 million barrels of oil more than it drills. The companies that own the equipment to drill are going to be utilized more and the rates are going up.

I just went flying into the safety seat bar and fell to the ground.

Xavier Malisse

I'm really happy I can play like this after only two or three matches for the year. I barely made a mistake in the first set.

I'm real proud of the fact all three of our seniors were able to wrestle in the district. I think they raised the bar from where it was and where we want to go. Hopefully, we'll have this many moving on to state next year.

Felipe Alou

I'm looking forward to him being here tomorrow. It was nice to see not-quite-everyone out there. I don't know why Barry isn't here. I heard 'personal matters' like everyone else.

I'm just trying to make solid contact right there, and I got a slider over the plate and put the barrel on it.

I'm looking at this wall, and it isn't even on the list of repairs. When we say that we cut the referendum (amount) to the point of bare necessities, we mean it.

Design engineers are going to design the roadway to minimize impacts. Some people might say, my home or barn or business is directly under that line. Well, once the designers start, they might be able to design it to where that home or business or barn is not taken or impacted in that way.

David and Josh have set the bar for Lions basketball. They have worked hard all season long and gave it all they had tonight.

Daniel is our best cover guy, bar none. He played corner for us last year, and we put him on their top receiver tonight, and he pretty much locked him up.

Dollar for dollar, we're the best bargain they have.

Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.

Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away

Sathya Baba

Dogs may bark and jackals howl; but Truth moves Majestically forward.

Consumers right now are bargain hunters, and that's what Wal-Mart is talking about. If you're offering a bargain and the consumer thinks it will go away, you'll get the consumer to buy, but there is no impulse buying going on.

Consumers are driving the sugar-free segment and we are giving them the choice. But our brands are still treats, it is not about having a bar of chocolate for dinner.

Conditions indicate that motorists may see slight increases in retail gasoline prices within the next few days. Typically, pump prices in Texas move lower during this time of year due to a decrease in demand, but with crude oil trading around $63 a barrel that has yet to happen.

Conditions at Pimlico and Laurel continue to progress in a positive manner. Today's news at Bowie does not change our plans to try to clear Barn 5 at Pimlico next week after test results are returned.

Thomas Sowell

Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

Considering 70 percent of people who use popular e-mail devices also carry a mobile phone, the opportunity for us to provide one device and solution that perfectly addresses both the voice and data experiences is tremendous, ... In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile e-mail market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate e-mail inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

Jam Master Jay

Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.

The Nigerians indicated capacity could be back on line next week. That's could, not will, and the reality is we could be missing those half million barrels for some time yet.

Bud Collins

The next time Barbie played they had towels ready to hold around her.

You throw $5 million into a program like that, and it barely pays for the secretaries.

Joe Bastardi

The Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun.

Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? / And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.

The offer Barcelona made for him was ridiculous.

Omar Vizquel

Everybody behind Barry is going to be a little busy. I'm glad Mo is healthy, and he's going to have a lot of fun driving those guys home.

Everybody bark 'aye' if they support the bill,

That's pretty exciting. I feel honored, almost, because Barry Sanders is one of the guys I always looked up to as a running back.