Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Taylor

Tonight we brought our hiking boots, ... Tomorrow and every day for the next five months, we need to climb this mountain. It's not going to be easy, and it's not going to be quick, but we can get to the summit.

Alejandro Toledo

Tonight Peruvians celebrate the triumph of democracy, ... I swear, brothers and sisters, I will never let you down.

Rick Adelman

Tonight, Kobe hit the big shot in the corner which he does all the time. And Kwame Brown got too many second-chance points and tip-ins because we were forced to help on guys. I think we played hard but not good enough.

We all have sympathy on the individual level, but we have a remarkably broken system. This highlights the fact that people are exploiting the system. We have someone here who pledged to return home and then ignored U.S. immigration law.

Stephen Jay Gould

[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo . You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.

Brian Sabean

The reason the moves were made, ... was we think the players we brought in will give us a better chance to win now. If what they do bodes well for next year, fine.

The reason that the press corps in Washington is so exercised about this is, in part, the secrecy that Vice President Cheney has brought around his entire operation from day one as vice president.

John Baker

The organization has a much broader outreach than it had in the earlier years.

Michael Copps

The order is far from ideal, ... We take the dramatic step of reclassifying DSL in order to spur broadband deployment and to help consumers. I want to test that proposition a year from now.

There is some fear that they might perhaps, on some issues like abortion, carry out a kind of Catholic jurisprudence rather than reflecting a broader point of view.

Susanna Kearsley

The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people.

The recent changes have not been easy. But after making some difficult decisions, we wanted to find somebody who brought a new level of intensity and fresh vision toward the organization.

The other day, I brought up (video of) Silva this year and Silva last year. And he's night and day with his delivery.

Teju Cole

The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading.

John Glenn

There is not anything like a broken hip or anything like that, and if you have trouble sleeping at night, why it's no problem because there's another one coming up in 45 minutes.

The red ink was a one-month record in February, and the records are likely to continue to be broken this year. The spending side of the budget ledger remains out of control, despite some effort to constrain these expenditures.

Two brothers in two weeks. I don't dare go outside.

umbrella sense of real personal treatment, real customer service and spanning a broad financial arena.

Larry Coker

We had a great day today. We didn't have a full contingent of coaches. Guys burned the midnight oil and spent the extra effort. We feel like we brought in a tremendous class.

We had a good season. I'm proud of the guys. They came together. We had mixtures of some solid seniors and brought some freshmen and sophomores up. We got good experience all year, and the future's very bright.

The Russian-U.S. relationship is so important and so broad that it could not be damaged by the Kosovo situation,

Buster Keaton

I've simply been brought up being knocked down.

Torii Hunter

I've patterned my game after him. He's like a big brother to me.

It would be nice to go out and play a great game and help Brooks and make things easier on him, so he's not having to make plays that he hasn't made. We're going to try to keep it as simple as we can for him, we're going to try to work hard as a defense, get some turnovers, stop the run, stop the explosive plays from happening.

It would be minimal. In a broad perspective, we shouldn't really be looking for a tremendous slowdown.

Charles Schumer

It was the very extreme wing of the president's party, and that brought about the withdrawal, ... If the president continues to listen to that extreme wing on judicial nominations or everything else, it can only spell trouble for his presidency and for America.

It was the third or fourth play of the game. We ran a zone play up the middle. I broke outside and somebody caught me at about the 9 yard line. Florida State's defense is fast - they can all run.

It was the president and his staff that brought all the resources of the federal government to bear. Can we do better? Absolutely. Will we do better? Absolutely.

Nomar Garciaparra

It was the place where I saw my first major league game. It brought back a lot of childhood memories. There was feeling that I got by going there.

Andrew Hargadon

It was the perfect invention. It was simple to implement the technology, but it brought an old idea (auctions) into a new domain (the Internet).

It was ugly -- 12 turnovers in the first quarter. I don't know if we got into the holiday fudge early or what, but it brought back visions of last year. I give (Reynolds) credit -- they played well. We also helped them, though.

Michael Ballack

It was very tough at the start. The first goal broke the tension and we played well after that.

It was very humiliating because I felt like people thought that I had actually broken the law.