Famous Quotes & Sayings

We started building back slowly and becoming that team we were before Christmas again, the No. 1 team in the nation. This weekend, especially, there was no doubt in our dressing room. We had no doubt. We knew it was ours for the taking, it was our tournament to lose.

With this event, we're trying to open the door to people so they understand the whole idea of becoming a host family. This is about getting families interested in other cultures.

Eric S. Raymond

Worse, by the early 1990s it was becoming clear that ten years of effort to commercialize proprietary Unix was ending in failure.

Jennifer Dunn

We're still in a long-term drought, but short-term-wise, yes, the drought conditions have been eased. You can tell everything is greening up, and the fire threat is becoming very low.

Alex Smith

We're still close, ... I know the scores sometimes don't show that, but I think we're close to becoming a competitive team in the league.

We're starting to show the world. Nevada in particular is really becoming a serious renewable energy state.

We're seeing escorted tours becoming more popular in other destinations, but for us, they are declining in Hawaii.

What we're seeing here is investors becoming increasingly nervous, awaiting the economic data tomorrow (Thursday). Profit warnings and future growth (concerns) are overshadowing the enthusiasm that we saw develop late yesterday -- it's a feeding process.

We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.

Saul Berman

We believe your grandchildren won't know what a TV is. Programs will become unrestricted by becoming more mobile, but programming will be freed as well from constraints.

The governments (in Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong) have reported cases, and we see in each of these areas, the case reports are decreasing and becoming more stable so we believe the epidemic may have peaked there.

Alan Arkin

I get a little upset, yeah, if a year goes by and I don't get a script. Thank God I have other interests that keep me from becoming a nervous wreck.

Abraham Verghese

I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.

Al Jarreau

I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

Billy Beane

I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and 'Moneyball''s one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

Barkhad Abdi

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

James A. Forbes

Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.

Ali Babacan

Turkey is on a road that will lead much faster to its becoming a country suiting its potential and riches.

Social concerns are increasingly becoming investing concerns, and all of Wall Street is starting to factor these issues into its investment decisions.

That's a good sign that we becoming more patient at the plate. Now, we just need to get those timely hits.

Every turning point has to start somewhere, and the evidence on the industrial sector is becoming overwhelming.

As a coach I've never thought in these terms. The world is doing it, more people are becoming professionals ...and there's got to be some incentive. But sometimes passion is compromised by dollars.

The Middle East now has in windfall profits the capability of becoming the research and development stimulator.

The Middle East is fascinating as a market opportunity because that's where the money is. These consumers have high disposable incomes and they're becoming more sophisticated about what's fashionable not just in European haute couture but mainstream American brands like Coach, Ralph Lauren and Juicy Couture.

The Internet certainly facilitated recruiting becoming something of a national phenomenon.

Their strategy is becoming more and more apparent.

David Berkowitz

The Internet is gradually becoming more of a standard way to shop. It's convenient to use, especially as people are more confident now of using their credit cards online. Web vendors are giving customers what they want like free shipping or the option to order online and pick up the goods at the store.

The Fed sees the possibility of labor markets becoming tight, which could push up costs at some point. At this point we haven't seen wage pressures but it's something the Fed is watching.

These people are not flavor-of-the-month types. The fact they are so involved now will be a factor in us not becoming isolationist.

These types of events help us get a better understanding of each other's culture. This community is becoming so diverse.

These teens have worked very hard this year. Their leadership will help reduce the statistic of 3,000 youth becoming new tobacco addicts each day in the U.S.

Nick Saban

This is kind of the beginning of maybe LSU becoming a dominant program in the future of college football, ... It's not really the end in terms of this game here.