Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

The governor's comments speak for themselves. He came to Harrisburg to get things done, and through leadership, diplomacy and compromise, he has. A little frankness is always refreshing, I think.

The governor feels just as strongly now as she did when this issue came up last year. The federal government needs to properly fund Amtrak. Raising the fees is simply an effort to offset federal cuts, which is not fair to the states.

The government may have overstated the dire circumstances going in. But when they actually came to prosecute the case, it didn't seem as dire or as strong a case when they came to the courthouse.

When you get new people constantly into an area, they are not sure of themselves. They don't know what the past is, and I don't think they care that much. They came here for the future.

When you figure it out, most of their points in the first half came from us, with the turnovers and the (free throws). They were unconscious with their (free throws), ... I think we capitalized on their mistakes more in the second half, and we played with more composure.

When you feel like you gave the game away early and then came back at the end and then don't do the things you learned since you were a little kid to tie the game or go ahead, it's just disappointing.

When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. Records mean nothing. It doesn't matter who's playing well, who's not playing well. It's who comes out and wants to win it. Northridge came out and wanted to win it. We just happened to want it more in the fourth quarter and we did things right in the fourth quarter.

When you play Harrison and they get an early lead, it is hard to come back. I thought we played well. We just came up short.

There are interpretive panels that detail the events surrounding the Scott case, how it came to trial, how the trial was conducted and the aftermath.

We love this. We love to be in the spotlight. That's what we came here to do.

David White

When you look at the overall thing, 3,000 kids came here, 3,000 kids were delivered home safely that day. Was there some confusion? With registration the way it is, you can understand why.

When you look at the last two games, we didn't play good basketball. Give Indiana credit, they did. But tonight we came out and handled them and the score shows it.

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

When you get to this point, you have to play all four quarters. We were making a charge and I told the guys this would have to be the hardest final five minutes they have ever played. We just came up a little short.

The price index came in higher and that kind of confirms expectations for at least two more rate hikes from the Fed.

The players knew their assignments. (Central Michigan) came out and made plays. We didn't.

Richard Davis

The players had heard me talk about how nice this market is going to be for them, and they got to see it firsthand. It woke up the players' eyes. We came away with a renewed sense of urgency.

The players are very confident after playing and having the success we had last year. We came up just short of our goal and I'm excited about this year.

What kept us going was our defense came up with some big plays. We had good field position and all those factors worked together for us.

We were talking about (Steel), and it just came together at the hospital. She ended up going into labor right before the Cincinnati-Pittsburgh game so we thought the whole thing was fortuitous, so that clinched the deal.

We were surprised because (news about) the report came not from the (East Timor) government but from another party. As yet, we haven't seen it.

We've got to do better than that one inning. We've got to get an out when they give us one with the bunt. But we righted the ship, (Danny) Farquhar came in and got a couple of big outs and Chad (Beck) did what he's supposed to do in the ninth.

Mark E. Smith

We've got to do a better job of getting in the shooting lanes and clearing guys out in front. Three of those came from shots from the point. That's something we have to work on, and take away from their game.

Bengie Molina

We've got to come in and do our thing. We're not just any player on the team. We came here knowing what we need to do.

We've got to be happy with our third period and how we came together down the stretch. But we've got to be embarrassed about the first two periods.

Chad Greenway

We've just got to come together. We have to play Iowa football. We didn't do that, but give the credit to Iowa State. They came out ready to go. They're obviously a very talented team and they had a lot of weapons and shut us down.

We've hung on in a couple of games lately. We came through at the end.

Gerard Butler

Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.

Gerard Butler

I remember when 'Grease' came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, and literally I'd be screaming at her, 'Do it. Just do it!'.

Helen Hunt Jackson

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

David Souter

The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.

Carole Bouquet

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.