Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

much closer to the beginning than the end.

McDonald's has done a terrific job of turning around. We're starting to see the beginnings of a sales resurgence in Europe, and that's exactly what we've been looking for.

(McDermott) stepped up. He?s come a long way since the beginning of the year. He was playing real tight at the beginning of the season, but he?s starting to relax a bit and it?s made a difference.

May the joys you share today be the beginning of a lifetime of great happiness and fulfilment.

Mayors are beginning to understand that this is a market, not physics. If you provide services and amenities that people appreciate, they'll move. ... As new construction prices get extremely expensive, people are looking for square footage and architectural style.

John Tavares

Maybe we're a little complacent at home right now. At the beginning of the season we tried to raise the bar, but here we are again, two straight home losses. I think the road is going to help us out.

Medical school is just the beginning of medical education for these young men and women. We want them to leave here and go on to be the best first-year residents they can ever be.

Me and Will (Thomas) got some early shots at the beginning of the game and we made most of them. If we can make shots at the beginning of the game it builds our confidence up. We just carried that confidence into the second half.

My kids have worked tremendously hard and deserve it. The hard work has paid off. We're beginning to gel.

Corey Brewer

Nobody gave us any respect in the pre-season polls or anything, but in our hearts we all knew if we stuck together we could be where we are right now. We can play. Don't think we can't play. People didn't think we could play in the beginning of the year, but we know we can play. We kind of just proved that we can.

Nobody expected us to be here from the beginning of the season. We had a heck of a run at the end of the season.

One of the things we always wanted from the beginning was to have more business involvement with the project.

One of the things that we've said repeatedly is that hopefully this is the beginning of a whole new wave.

Obviously we weren't pleased with our record at the beginning of the year, but we continually looked at the positives. We have improved every week since North Carolina.

Obviously, we thought from the beginning that the penalty was excessive. Hopefully, everybody understands what has happened and we can put closure on this issue.

Obviously with each win our guys are beginning to believe more and more. We want teams to know if they come into our place they are going to have their hands full.

Carmelo Anthony

Of course it was a disappointment at first, having that as one of my goals at the beginning of the season. But at the end of the day you and everybody else knows how the West was.

Miles Davis

Of course, because I was at the beginning of my career. For me, as a musician, to have a chance for an icon like Miles Davis to play on one of my songs was something unique and unbelievable.

Jonathan Demme

One thing that Neil and I talked about from the very beginning was making this movie feel like a dream -- literally a dream concert that takes you back in time and takes place in a dream location.

Ryan Miller

One thing we said at the beginning of the season was to work for the guy next to you. We demand that of each other and don't let each other down.

My confidence has really been boosted back up to where it should be. In the beginning of the season, I was kind of lost.

Meaghan Rath

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

We want to catch the child at the beginning of the decline.

Michael McKean

One piece that looked like it was doomed - we were going to shoot it in this hotel hallway, and it was just my character musing that maybe this was just the beginning of something, maybe we were on our way out of obscurity or something, and then we were setting up to do it - and we just had to get this other shot.

One of my friends introduced me to the idea of in-line skating. I laughed at the beginning but realized that if I could play hockey and tennis, why not skate too?

Obviously when things go horribly wrong at the beginning of your career, it's nice to know first of all that you're able to fix it and second of all than an organization gave you the opportunity to fix it.

Obviously, what their goal is - and it's been their goal from the beginning - is to liquidate the company.

Billy enforced it from the beginning and got it going. Now we have to maintain it. I can't say guys didn't gripe about it, but we're managing. It just means you have to spend a little more money on suits instead of jeans.

Everything priced the same was a great thing to do in the beginning of the market. Now it's a good time to move into a tiered market. This whole landscape is evolving. We will be more seeing more of a price differentiation between more desirable stuff and less desirable stuff.

Everyone's really made a strong effort to get better individually, and they're all learning what it takes to succeed at this level. We've made great strides from the beginning of the season, and I'm hoping these kids will use this year's experience and carry it on over into next year and future years.

Every team sets goals at the beginning of the season. Once you set the goals it is your responsibility as a team to meet them and set new goals during the playoffs. There is not a lot of room for error.

If our record is not indicative of years past at the beginning, I'm not going to worry so much because I've thrown us in the fire and said 'here we go'.

Tara VanDerveer

If somebody had said at the beginning of the year, or in December or January or February, that this team would go to the Elite Eight, I would have jumped for joy. But right at this second, I can't tell you that I'm jumping for joy.