Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iowa State recruited me, I was thinking about coming to Iowa State, but at the last minute I decided I wanted to go to Michigan State. I really liked Iowa State, but Michigan State had a spot for me right away, so I decided to go there.

Stacy Schiff

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'

I had a feeling this was coming three years ago. This is the most ridiculous situation. He says one thing, then he says another. First it's about the money, then it's not about the money. Then it's the relationship. We've had a very good relationship for all these years. He hasn't felt that there was a good relationship between he and me, but I have never expressed an ill feeling. It's his feeling. I don't get it, I just don't get it. He's ruthless.

Curt Schilling

I had a feeling coming into this game, that if they watched my last start, which a lot of teams do,

Julian Peterson

I had a lot of emotion from missing a lot of games last year, just the emotion of coming back. Was I coming back at the same level I left at?(He was) a little anxious, a little nervous. Then, after awhile, it was just football.

If you don't have anything for a girl you are recruiting to look at (it can be difficult). I can start looking at some more local girls now and hopefully intrigue them into coming here.

Bill Clinton

If we want to keep crime coming down, we need to instill trust in our criminal justice system.

B. F. Skinner

If Washington spells out the funding parameters, do you want to run the possibility of having a governor decide we're going to put it all in construction (training)? Is that how we want to have the system managed, or do we want to have the money coming down, and projects decided by local governing boards?

If unemployment sticks at about 6.0 percent and starts coming down, the Fed will probably feel it has to start tightening fairly soon.

If you had the commander-in-chief in your backyard, wouldn't you try to get right to the source to find out when the war was going to end, when the soldiers were coming home? Times change, but people don't,

If you have coordinators coming in and out, it's going to be hard for guys relationship-wise to get to know them.

If you aren't coming up with enough of an improvement in performance, there's really no reason to proceed with it.

Terry Teachout

If you're looking for light entertainment, you can't get much lighter than 'Bye Bye Birdie,' a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n' roll to small-town America.

If you're downloading something from Napster, everything you're downloading now is coming in the Windows media format,

Steve Staunton

If you look at the younger level, we are quite strong in that department with what is coming through, so it depends on who catches the eye.

Jon Favreau

If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.

If you look at the momentum that the economy has had coming into the year 2000 and if you look at the very small effect that tightening has had so far on the economy I think there is a distinct possibility that we could see four tightening moves, all a quarter of a percentage point,

Tiger Woods

If you knock it in there, it's not coming out,

Nick Collison

If you look at our team, we're really young and everybody is coming back. We can be really good, so I'd definitely be interested in staying. But in the NBA it's all about what kind of deal it is and job opportunities.

Ty Pennington

If you lose the sounds coming out of New Orleans, you lose part of the American language. I realize we're just a TV show, but we feel we have a real obligation to let these people know we haven't forgotten about them, that we'll do whatever we can to make things right.

Mike Nichols

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

James Augustine

If you look down our bench, they're doing what we expected. Sometimes they have limited minutes, but they do a good job of coming through when we need it. They've done a good job of knowing their roles.

Felix Sabates

If you've got $20 million coming in and $30 million going out, sooner or later your wife's going to say, 'Hey, what are you doing?'

In the war of rates vs. oil, one would have to say that oil is winning out. Concerns of further rate increases are coming to fruition, yet the market has continued to push higher. Energy prices have fallen quickly and have taken out several trading support levels.

In the U.S., there are worries there may be a big overshoot (in rates). Earnings are coming in better than expected though so in the long term we are positive on equities.

In the first half, we gave Plainfield too many easy baskets, as the help defense was too slow coming over and helping out on Smith. Smith's a very good player and moves around to get open. We did a much better job in the second half of containing Smith.

In the first half, they kind of played into what we were trying to do. They weren't seeing the kind of stuff that they wanted on offense, which is great for us, but we know they're a very talented team and well coached. Coming out in the second half, we knew it was going to be different.

John Tortorella

I don't know how we're going to react coming in off of this. That's my concern.

I don't know if the gas prices and interest rates will knock consumer confidence down in coming months, ... I think they're more likely to hold it where it is now, which is good, but not great.

Michael Vick

I don't know. It would help but I feel like we've got all the right pieces here to be successful and to win football games. I don't know where this Terrell Owens talk is coming from but I'm focused on what we've got in place right now.

I don't know -- it's like, 'I'm coming for that Number One Spot,' ... Somehow that's how I've always been, and I just tapped into it.

I didn't think we wrestled as a team very well. But then, Polk was much better than I thought coming into the match.

Marat Safin

I didn't expect to win. It was a big surprise. Especially with the draw, I couldn't really think I would make even a set. I was coming out to play a few games and make sure I was moving okay and get back the rhythm.