Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Stump

Our fans are pretty loyal. In the beginning, we had to play a lot of shows to, like, one kid at a time. Those kids stuck with us and have been incredibly supportive. They have a lot more ownership of us than other bands, they can have Fall Out Boy. That's how we feel.

Overall, it was a pretty good quarter given the concerns that existed at the beginning of the summer. Overall, the summer turned out to be stronger than Wall Street investors had been anticipating.

Overall, I thought we had good effort. We have quite a few coming back next year, and hopefully, they're not satisfied with this. We have to use this as motivation, and we'll begin getting ready for next year (today) because that's where it all starts.

Overall, I thought it was a great performance. The most satisfying thing for me was the attitude. They scored a goal and we kept playing hard. I don't know if, at the beginning of the year, we would have been able to turn around those things.

Overall, (2005) was a great year for San Francisco and we're at the beginning of what we perceive to be a strong rebound period.

Our work with students no longer begins when they're starting kindergarten, ... It starts much earlier than that. It's also true our work with kids doesn't end with graduation. It continues well beyond that.

Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.

out of touch with the priorities of the business community. Interestingly, as the election grows closer, the mayor is scurrying to begin projects which have long been neglected. The South Terminal pier reconstruction is one project that he should begin immediately.

Seve Ballesteros

I'm here because golf is my sport and I like to compete, ... Just by being here I'm already beginning to win.

I'm helping with the grieving process, ... That's what we do. It will help pull people together. This is more important than anything I've ever created. The work is painful, but I have not been this inspired since I began my career. This is what I'm supposed to be doing and I've just put my heart in it.

I think this signifies that a plan and a process to notify homeowners is finally in place that everyone is satisfied with. We can now begin the rebuilding process.

We've told them from the beginning that if disclosure of fees was in this bill they passed, we would probably sue. And here we are.

We now know which route we are going to use and any utilities in the way can be moved beginning today.

We never receive any formal funding for infrastructure. That's why the lack of tuition revenue bonds has been so painful. In the end we were just begging for money to repair the infrastructure.

We need a new Supreme Court where only constitutionalists need apply, ... A court that will respect both states' rights and human rights and will begin to undo the damage done this nation by judicial aggressions, beginning with that abomination they call 'Roe v. Wade.'

Sergey Lavrov

We need a new beginning and not an old ending,

We'll be able to do a film from beginning to end in the studio.

I think they've done a great job, just learning the philosophy of the program. At the beginning of the season, we wanted to get 30 wins, and we still have a legitimate shot at that.

John Madden

I think they caught us at the end of a long trip. We didn't really have our legs in the third period, but we stuck with it and overcame a little bit of adversity. At the beginning of the (season) I think we would have collapsed a little bit.

Richard Petty

I think they called it 'sucking up' to begin with. They finally had to come up with another name.

Kofi Annan

I think they are beginning to wake up. I will be able to make that judgement, let's say, by the end of Wednesday,

I think the women's business is much tougher than anything else they have been in. It doesn't seem like a natural extension to me. They have begun to get a better selection of merchandise and the business is getting better, but they don't have a real track record here yet.

It is beginning to look as though there has been a real improvement in the labor market at the start of this year.

It is beginning to dawn on users that this is a matter of long-term ethical responsibility. We need to preserve our heritage and make sure that when the great things are done by various politicians, representatives and civil servants we will be able to, in 30 to 50 years, actually read the material.

I think the rally just ran out of gas. You're right at the beginning of the earnings reporting, and all the good news is priced in, and buyers are getting a little tired. I think it's time for a little pullback. After we see a little consolidation, then we can go higher again.

I think there are some signs out there that the economy is beginning to slow. That's going to keep the Fed on the sidelines at least through May and it's also eventually working its way into the markets.

Tessa Jowell

Just as forever those who lost their lives will be remembered as part of the Olympics and the Olympic dream that will take us through to 2012, so too will the fortitude, solidarity, strength and resilience of London and Londoners see us through the next seven years until the games begin in 2012.

Heywood Broun

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Allen Iverson

Just getting back into the game and making it a game is all heart. It feels bad, though, because we don't give that effort in the beginning and then we start showing the heart when we're about to get blown out. You have to play like that in the beginning and get stronger as the game goes on.

Japanese investors have just started kicking in offshore investment at the beginning of the new fiscal year. They will do so more and more from now on, weighing down the yen.

January sales were better than we expected at the beginning of the month. We expected them to be down 15 to 20 percent.

Jane is slowly coming back. She is trying to get her legs back under her. When you have mono, it makes you real tired. Jane just began practicing last week, and we are slowly working her back in.

Rick Hendrick

Jim Hunter (NASCAR vice president) walked in our pits and said we're going to check the tire pressures, ... What I didn't understand in the beginning was if you blow a tire and hit the wall and your pressures were too low, we're going to take points. And I thought, 'well how are you going to check pressures in a right front after the wreck?' So then we were told they were coming through checking them and if your pressures were too low that they could take points.