Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lincoln Steffens

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

Microsoft did a whole bunch more things wrong after the consent decree. A breakup is not as preposterous today as it was back then.

Mike and I still talk about all of us going down to the Tennessee Grill on Saturday mornings for breakfast if we had enough money. And then we'd go scout Serra on Saturday afternoon.

Who knows, it could have been Hillary Clinton herself, doing a Freudian slip during a commercial break on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,'

Will Hunting: Does this break the patient-doctor code?Sean Maguire: Only if you grab my ass.

Will Hunting: Does this break the patient-doctor code? Sean Maguire: Only if you grab my ass.

When teams win district titles, a lot of them hate that 10-day break before the playoffs. That's why they play warm-up games. This is the same thing. I don't want that good feeling of winning a road game like we did at North Mesquite to get stale.

We need to protect the quarterback better, and our quarterback has to make sure he gets his drops down and learns to step up in the pocket as the protection breaks down. We need to get rolling and have some success.

We haven't seen as many of those break through deals the past two weeks, and next week is going to be more of the same. But there's a lot more strength in the biotech market than the last two week's run on the sector would indicate.

Jason Giambi

We just couldn't seem to get the big hit to break open games.

Eric Davis

We just couldn't break that four, five, six point barrier.

Robert Crippen

You don't break frontiers going into space by all of a sudden a big door opens and you walk through. You've got to take steps. Scott took the steps required for us to be able to fly into space.

You don't break connection with the person, but they just entered a different life space.

Johnny Damon

You kind of just sit back and smile and say, 'Whatever you want to do, you're not going to break me or my character. I'm very happy with the person that I am, the way I play this game.

You just saw the story of our season. Dominate, dominate, dominate and we break down at the 18-yard line.

William Henderson

You break it down to fundamentals and little increments to people and you see the lights turn on. Hopefully they stay on, ... That's the one thing right now -- I'm wondering where the lights are (in this locker room), and they seem still to be on.

You can definitely say, 'great player' of Gilbert now. He does what great ones do, in practice, after practice, in the games. You can definitely say it now. Look at the way he leads, which has to be important. I missed a three-pointer on the break and he said, 'Shoot it every time.' I had a pretty tough first half, but the way he talked to me and stayed with me meant a lot.

You can break the speeding laws to get a dying person to the hospital. What the Bush administration did was much broader and systematic ... .

Larry Sabato

You can be sure this will be cited in future years when other Cabinet nominees are not confirmed. Once you break the taboo, it's broken for all time.

Winter break was the perfect opportunity to get to know the team in a different light. We not only built our team on the ice, but off the ice as well.

Winning tonight was big, I think that secured our championship a bit, ... Unless I come out and break next week, I've got it.

The alternative is to shut down the school, ... And we don't think that's fair to the kids, because those days would have to be made up at Christmas break or in July.

Bruce Bochy

That was the right call. Brian did what you want to do, which is break up a double play. But you have to be able to touch home plate.

That was unbelievable what Lamar did out there. Nothing he does surprises me anymore. He's one tough runner. You get him one-on-one on a safety and he's going to break some tackles.

That was the difference. We had runners at second and third with nobody out and didn't score. We just came off spring break and our girls were flat.

That was real important for us to get going. It was slow going there for a while. We needed to break out and have a run and put some points on the board. That really helped.

That way we get two peaks: one for spring break and one for Easter. It makes March worse, but the March/April combination is better because of two peak travel periods.

The 17,000 level isn't only the highest in more than five years, but it's also technical resistance. It won't be easy to break through (this level) and this created overall cautious sentiment.

That was a kind of a grind it out Christmas break game. That's a tough, physical team.

That was a great shot. But before you get a great shot like that there's usually a breakdown somewhere.

That was a great effort from our kids in the second half. We hoped our pressure would finally break them and I think it did.

That was a game with two very different halves. We were too passive before the break but we ran hard in the second half. I'm very happy with those three points.

That was a real killer. That broke our back. If we get that rebound and come down and score, it's a two-point game and it's anybody's game. But they get a lucky break and go six up, and with a team like that which can control the ball, that's a killer.