Famous Quotes & Sayings

Far better a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Andy Roddick

Fernando came out playing lights-out in the first couple of sets, and I just stuck around and found a way. It was that one game when I broke in the second set. I made a couple good shots and it turned into a riot.

Sidney Crosby

Every time we played them this year, it has been brought up. I'm not going to lie, it was something that was lingering. It was nice to finally close that up.

Everything we do online we want to be participatory. We don't want to just broadcast GE's messages. We want to involve the consumers in our advertising, particularly the online advertising.

Pixie Lott

Every year since I was very small, my family - Mum, Dad, sister Charlie-Ann and brother Stephen - and I have been holidaying in Carvoeiro in the Algarve, so that has very fond memories for me.

Marisol Nichols

Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

Earl Boykins

Everything is just fine. I'm comfortable. When I first broke it, I told everyone, 'When the playoffs come, I'll be ready.' A lot of guys were skeptical because I haven't played in a while. But I knew what it took to be ready.

There's room in this movement for everybody. 50 percent of the people that came out today were young people and that's very encouraging. That shows us that we not only have a sense of resilience, but I see the torch of leadership being passed to young brothers and sisters in a new generation who are rising to the occasion out of their own rights. And the momentum of this day will be felt in communities throughout the nation.

There's plenty of gas, but everybody and his brother went and filled up everything from SUVs to go-karts.

There's only room for one con man in this town. It's still on Broadway (now with Jonathan Pryce) and playing to full houses.

Chris Davis

There was a lot of damage and power lines down. There were three fires at the same time, so they wanted some back up in case any more broke out.

There was a herd mentality to stampede and get on board. That brought the markets to a certain fever pitch.

There was a discussion of names. It was mainly our suggesting names to him and talking about names to him. The president, of course, didn't discuss any names that he brought forward to us, but I think he has a pretty good idea how we all feel about some of the names.

There was a connection right away. Everyone brought something different. We just needed to grow and we did.

As the government privatization program gains momentum, IFC will be placing greater emphasis on the broader infrastructure sector including electricity, ports and logistics.

As the broadband digital space develops, it's important for rules of the road to be clearly established.

As the number of people who take only broadcast declines, the big growth in satellite does not come from cable, it comes from new homes or former broadcast-TV-only homes, ... Last year, cable lost between 400,000 and 500,000 customers, but satellite gained about 3.2 million.

As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.

Gary Shapiro

As soon as the broadcast signal is out there, we will start selling those HDTV sets.

Phil Garner

Astacio did a good job today. A real good job today. Astacio kept them down and he kept us in the ballgame, and then we broke it open. ... We've been saying it all along, if we take care of business, we don't have to worry about the other teams.

A site near the Bronx Psychiatric Center is under consideration, but no decisions have been made. We don't comment on real estate transactions until they're done.

Jim Tressel

As I said the last few times people have brought up the subject, my hope would be that he would have an opportunity to go over to NFL Europe and make a comeback.

At our last meeting, we brought out the stickler with the county as to what to call it (the walkway). We just want to keep people out of the street.

Maya Angelou

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

Mark Johnson

At that point, I liked Laura, but I hadn't really thought about dating her until she brought up all the reasons we couldn't. I'm a litigator. I wanted to knock these five arguments down.

At the Big Brown Mine (in Freestone County), we have large equipment and vehicles - but fewer people - so the danger is with equipment accidents.

Condoleezza Rice

at a Broadway show and shopping for shoes,

Matt Smith

at 7:30 tonight. ''At halftime, we're going to sit down with the three big offseason acquisitions on defense -- linebackers Monty Beisel and Chad Brown plus cornerback Duane Starks.

Ray Allen

At the end of the day, what brought me back here was my players, the guys I've played with. That meant more to me than anything.

At the interoperability session, we will be showing a browser helper object that works with Microsoft Explorer as a plug-in.

At the end of the day, Brown was quite explicit that he was not going to try and cut taxes, and the elbow room he has would be spent on education.

At this age, most of my friends have had a voice change. I probably would not be able to broadcast all the games. But after 50 years, I think it still sounds the same.

Coming back South has brought back many memories of the culture you don't see in the North. People are extremely polite and helpful here.