Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we're looking for here is for this to be the downtown for all of Charlotte County.

We're playing good softball. We just didn't get the hits when we needed it. We made one mistake defensively and it cost us but I'm not too disappointed. Port Charlotte is a good softball team.

The pent-up demand for the return of the NBA to Charlotte wasn't as strong as many of us anticipated it could be,

Cary Fukunaga

I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras.

We don't know where we'll end up in Charlotte County, but land is important. We're keeping our options open. Not all gifts come through.

(Port Charlotte is) an excellent team. One through nine, they're tough. To play them 3-0, I think, is a good accomplishment for the girls.

Port Charlotte did what they had to do to stay with us early. Their pitcher was doing just fine until the fifth.

Pat McCrory

One of our goals is to connect NASCAR and Charlotte the same way Hollywood is connected to the movies, the same way Pasadena is connected to the Rose Bowl, the same way Augusta is connected to The Masters." ()

Gavin Henson

I don't want Charlotte to do my legs, she can concentrate on her own. Mine are smoother than hers!.

I hate this a lot because I'm a native of Raleigh and I grew up watching the Glaxo tournament come through its infancy. But we do have Charlotte kids on our roster and they would prefer to play in Charlotte, and it's about the kids.

Howard Coble

I am delighted that our nominee, Charlotte Rumsey of Salisbury, was selected for this prestigious honor, ... Charlotte is being recognized for her 20 years of dedicated service through the Rowan County Department of Social Services as a foster parent to 40 children.

Richard Jefferson

He might not be happy, but he'd have to go there and play. I guess it would be like playing for Charlotte or playing for Toronto.

We talk a great deal in our program about having pride in wearing a Charlotte jersey. She will not only have the privilege of representing our university but there is also no greater honor than to represent your country.

Joel Madden

I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

I go back over it in my mind, do it probably too often. There's really nothing. We gave a good proposal. It was a different type of proposal than Charlotte was -- the difference between a downtown museum there and something out on the interstate here. I'm proud of the work we did. I stand by the proposal we made.

If that doesn't encourage people to come down and look for Charlotte Harbor, I don't know what will.

Robert Burns

We're trying to help the county get the workforce, ... If you have courses for student teachers in Charlotte County, they're more likely to stay in Charlotte County after they graduate.

We've been bulking up our administrative and executive layers in Charlotte. We want to shift more of the load to Charlotte because it is much closer to our members, who are mostly east of the Mississippi.

Alice Temperley

When it comes to shoes, I always think Charlotte Olympia, of course! Her footwear is always feminine and sexy and also just right for every occasion.

When you get out of the top 10 markets, it's really important how many other sports teams are in town. You want to move to a market with zero or one. Charlotte can definitely support two teams.

We are sending 20 guys to Charlotte and it's a good opportunity to see the facilities since the A-10 Championships will be held there.

Phil Jackson

We have a lot of players at that position and, obviously, we've got to make cuts soon. Our desire is to find a place for him and a good opportunity for him and Charlotte was a team that really and truly did want him.

We're delighted that Charlotte was able to maintain a normal operation. That helped maintain the integrity of much of the rest of our system.

We have some terrific employees in our Charlotte office, and they have done a good job for us over the years.

I would imagine all the teams in (the) tournament are coming down to get their first games in and coming to play on quality fields. All the teams competing should be in the same boat. Nobody's got 15 games under their belt. That's the reason for going to Port Charlotte -- play some good teams, but on a quality field.

We went through this a few years ago from Charlotte to New Orleans and a lot of the things are still fresh in our minds.

The one thing Charlotte has been lacking is a real tourism magnet. This provides it. This is the tipping point for Charlotte being the Hollywood of NASCAR.

Each win is always important. Regardless of who is in the lineup or who we are facing, we are expected to come out and compete and play hard. Charlotte handed it to us earlier this year, so we knew they were going to come to play. Everybody gets paid in this league.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.

They say that, given the improvements in Charlotte's situation and given her continuing improvement, the doctors should not have in their back pockets an open consent from the court to let Charlotte die regardless of the circumstances at the time and regardless of the views of her parents.

A lot of them think they have to go to Charlotte and Columbia for good-paying jobs, but there are opportunities here if they decide to stay.

Chris Carter

It's kind of a quiet community where everybody still knows each other. Everybody's still out walking the dogs on the street, which is rare in Charlotte any more.

The three favorites of the district, as I was told when I took the job, are Venice, Port Charlotte and Lakewood Ranch.