Famous Quotes & Sayings

We played really well from beginning to end. We hung in early, and then in the second half we increased our pressure and cruised coming down the stretch.

Julie Gerberding

Well, we're just at the beginning of the flu season, so we can't predict whether this is going to be a serious year or not, ... We have 20 million more doses of flu vaccine to get out there, and our goal is to get those doses to the people who need it the most before the season really speeds up.

We must understand that we are at the beginning of the creation of a new European economy in the context of a rapidly changing global economy. The stagnation in some of the central economies isn't the really interesting story at the moment -- the interesting story is the success of the radical reform policies initiated by Estonia a decade ago and recently reinvigorated by Slovakia. Over time, the success of these reforms, and the new growth opportunities they are creating, will influence all the other European economies.

We hate that team. I think it started at the beginning of the year. I'm not going to say they're dirty, but they push the limits in how hard they play. They spanked us a few times earlier in the year. It was sweet revenge. We got the last laugh.

Suzanne Yoculan

We had a lot of ups and downs today. We had some 9.9s and some low scores. You could tell it was the beginning of the season. The landings are still difficult and they do not have the confidence that they need to have. But that's just because it's the beginning of the season. Today's performance was a significant improvement from last week.

I was not nervous at the beginning of this tournament. I didn't know what to expect, but my players have been so supportive of me.

My big concern now is, we can't let a situation where we had a nice win on the road be the highlight of the season. Beginning today, we need to refocus on what we're all about and that's the last seven games, and trying to get better in practice every day.

Liam Hemsworth

My character's kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they're more or less brother and sister than anything. They're best friends. They've been keeping each other alive. It's a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.

Most of our big bidders don't to get into a bidding war in the beginning of the auction. They want to stay back and get it at the end for a good price.

Kevin McCarthy

Most demand weakness seems concentrated in the consumer markets, but we are beginning to hear rumblings of commercial spending cutbacks as well.

Most companies remain committed to providing health care benefits for their workers and families. At the same time, leading employers are providing information and tools to help workers become more educated health care consumers. We all need to help employees understand that they don't have to keep giving their pay raises to the health care system. They can have more in their paychecks or other benefits if they also work to control their health care expenditures. Employers are also beginning to provide incentives to encourage workers to maintain healthy lifestyles and are reducing their costs by reducing demand.

Most communications chip companies have grown two to three times their sustainable growth rate over the past few quarters because everyone was building up inventories. There was a shortage mentality, and suddenly everyone is beginning to say there is no shortage anymore, so I don't have to over-order.

Mike did a great job in the beginning with the run, so then they started loading the box up, ... And then it really opened up in the second quarter, where we had things open downfield.

Michael Glover didn't look like he was going to be that great at the beginning of the season but he's dropped a ton of time.

Ted Forrest

We need to raise the alarm. We're losing ground. We need to stop this deterioration. We are seeing the beginning of what could be a reverse of the positive trend of 2005.

We haven't really thought about it a lot. The beginning of February when the Olympics started, we all had a bit of melancholy to us because we were over it but then, it was right there in our faces again.

We haven't really put in low scores that we need to. We talked about it yesterday as a group and it was nice for him to put one in the sixties. Hopefully this will be the beginning of him continuing to lead us and continuing to shoot under par.

You kids that made it through this program are the real superstars here today. This is a new beginning for you folks. You people can do whatever you put your hearts and minds to.

You can clearly see that the Heineken brand is beginning to grow. It grew twice as fast in the second half of the year as the first half, which means that measures the company took are having an effect on sales.

You can clearly see that the Heineken brand is beginning to grow.

Ingmar Bergman

Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade.

That would be the beginning of a human influenza epidemic but we are not there yet.

That was what we looked at from the very beginning, what was going to happen at 60, 71, 89 and 215. We got the pins because our guys went out there and wrestled with a lot of heart, came from behind and showed a lot of character.

That was the whole idea I had with Adrian. I think he is now beginning to see the big picture.

That was the beginning of Wrigley Field merging with Wrigleyville. Before 1984, this wasn't a weekend destination point and a place where people would socialize after games. There were some small corner taverns that people happened upon and that was it.

That was the beginning of my comic collecting.

Joan Rivers

That was the beginning of a very good run.

That was the beginning of a series of cases in Texas that really started shifting the state into a position of not being so much of a plaintiff's haven for class actions.

That was the beginning of a pretty significant trend in Texas that moved away from the state being a good place for class actions.

That was quite a thrill and not something I anticipated in the beginning, by any means. You walk in, you see the shirts, you see their pictures and you don't see them anymore.

That wasn't the same team we played at the beginning of the year. But hitting it like that, we were going to make a game of it no matter who showed up.

Louis Orr

That's the kind of guy that Stan goes a great job guarding. Until Stan comes back, our guys have to take up the slack. We've got to play better defense from beginning to end.

Tommy Tuberville

That's the problem with the voting. We vote at the beginning of the year and don't (change) votes at the end of the year. I would hope in the future we would pick the four best teams at the end of the year and play them off and have a true national champion.