Famous Quotes & Sayings

After an Olympic year, and this is typical when the whole Olympic team goes out, the number of gymnasts is not as big. But we have at least six exciting juniors who will be seniors next year. We will keep our system, we will do periodic training camps and we'll take them to bigger competitions.

Craig Thompson

After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.

Some people were concerned after the revisions yesterday and were maybe looking for bigger increases in the core (today) and there's a little bit of rallying, but it's very, very minor.

Some people weigh it in grains with a gun powder scale. I have a scale that does gramsthe biggest piece was a two gram piece, looking at it, it's no bigger that the size of a bb.

So we're making great steps in order to enhance our presence there. . . . We want a bigger share of those huge markets which represent 38 per cent of the world's population.

Spam is a bigger growth driver than many investors realize. It is getting to a point where corporations are willing to pay up to do something about it.

Pat Metheny

No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.

Now I have seniority! Maybe I'll get a bigger trash can.

Once we get our goals going, then we start to get rolling. We know that Jacksonville has come back from bigger leads than 2-0, but we felt like, once we took that lead into the first half, we were good to go.

Once we get in division (play), every day is bigger than the last day. Every game matters.

Ashley Bell

(Defense) is what we rely on. We know we're not the fastest team, we know we're not the tallest team. So with teams bigger than us, we have to get our defense together.

Defense is what keeps us in games. We're just scrappy. We have to lead the state in floor burns. We don't have the biggest kids in the world. But they're athletes. They're quicker than most of the bigger post players we've played and they're quick enough to contest every shot.

Gus Van Sant

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Competition is a much bigger factor than they're acknowledging in the press release.

Companies need to get bigger so they can be competitive because there is no real pricing power.

Dan Gable

Coach Gable is the spokesman for wrestling in the United States and there?s no bigger name in the sport than his, ... It was significant for our program to get the kind of exposure we need to present to the wrestling community not only on the local level but all over the country.

Companies use language that's worked in the past, so prospectuses become bigger and bigger mountains of words,

Cody's by no means peaked. I just see a young man who's going to grow and get bigger and better. He's got a lot in front of him.

Despite the Democratic National Convention, the biggest story of the week has been energy prices. That's prevented the market from seeing a bigger rally off these oversold conditions.

They realized that if they are going to survive the competitive shakeout over the next couple of years, they're going to have to find a bigger partner.

They're never on TV. Every year they go to the NIT. They look forward to going to the NIT. I was looking for bigger things.

Mike Fratello

They're missing three starters, and they played a great game. They played bigger than we did. They worked harder than we did. They deserved to win. They executed better.

They have managed the company extremely well. We are not of the opinion that bigger is better. We don't expect it to go out and enlarge its footprint to expand its retail presence.

Mats Sundin

There's bigger issues right now. That other stuff hasn't crossed my mind.

There's definitely a lot bigger story lines than some rookie kid making his debut. It's nice that there's not a ton of pressure.

There's complacency in the market. In my experience, the correction (tends to be) a bigger one the longer you go without one.

There's certainly variables you look at, the biggest being past history. If they've had problems in the past, the bigger guys, those are the ones we'd like to participate.

There's a lot to be said about this university and this department. This helps us tell it on a bigger stage. And if this means more support for our programs, that's terrific.

There is that. And the timing issue is the single most difficult one that there is. The way we got to this time period is by considering all the other ones and deciding they all had bigger problems than this one did.

At first, there were not even 300 volunteers. They just kept hoping every year that it would get bigger and bigger, and it did.

At a small tournament like this, eight or nine teams, you've got to place everybody and you really need to get people in the finals. The bigger the tournament, the more the (third and fourth) places count.

At face value, Patrick shares should start higher. The question is whether the new Toll entity gets a re-rating in the market after the acquisition on synergy benefits, or whether debt levels will be a bigger concern.

Andrea M. Ghez

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.