Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our players, if the effort isn't there, will see a much different side to Wayne Gretzky than the gentleman the public knows. He'll have no problem doing that.

Richard Stallman

part of the long-term effort to liberate cyberspace.

Doc Rivers

Paul gave a superhuman effort for us to get back in this game. You'd rather have a balance, but I'd take 40 from Paul.

Peace is not a state of nature. It is an effort done by the living.

Bjarne Stroustrup

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Betty Cuthbert

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth

We are all just really excited to get back on track. This program has a huge tradition of success and some of us feel like we let that tradition down last year. There is a renewed level of energy and effort to go out there and prove ourselves.

Robin Hobb

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

We're still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts

We're not happy with our effort tonight. We've got to be better.

Were not happy with our effort tonight but you've got to get your head back up and win a game tomorrow night. We've got to be better.

We've tried to focus not so much on an individual effort but a team effort. Our passing was really good and it paid off.

Typically a person will play six to eight different games in a day, and normally there are two or three different types of games being played at the same time. It?s a tradition. If you are going to come at 11 a.m. and end up leaving at 2 in the morning, you are making time for this. People make an effort to come.

Robert Wright

Today's investment is another step in our effort to seek out new platforms for NBC programming and content,

We needed this win badly. I can't say enough about the effort tonight. They showed they had a little more heart than I even thought they had.

We are not talking about DOD taking over federal response efforts to a catastrophe from start to finish,

We are not redeploying units/personnel for the hurricane relief efforts as all the units/personnel here are required for the ongoing security and stability operations happening here in Iraq,

We have an obligation to make efforts to see if we can reach agreements, but we don't have to come into any agreement.

We had excellent efforts and we ran a smart race for the mid-80 temperatures.

Gerhard Richter

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

Hu Jintao

We are willing to make unremitting efforts together with the DPRK to push forward the traditional friendship under the new circumstance,

We have a lot of crews up there and are making every effort to protect those structures. It's right in their backyard.

We can't help you unless you make an effort to help yourself.

We can't hang onto this win for too long. We had a great game, but if we don't get the same effort the next game, it's not going to help us in the long run.

We have to value possessions a little more (against CBA). It's going to take an uncommon effort just to play with them.

We just didn't play well. We settled for jump shots. We didn't get to the free-throw line. We played hard, but we didn't play well. The effort was there.

Dwight Howard

We just didn't give up. We were down 29, even though that's a big deficit, you know you never throw in the towel. We made sure we gave a better effort in the second half and try and come back and win the game.

We just didn't come out with any energy whatsoever. It wasn't one or two guys, it was most of the team. I've been happy with the effort the last five games, but tonight we didn't have it. We're not that good a team that we can just show up and win. We went through the motions tonight.

Teemu Selanne

We played pretty disciplined, even though they tried to frustrate us. It was a pretty solid effort all the way around.

We had our chances. I'm really proud of our effort and I thought all we needed to do was make a few plays and we just couldn't.

We were hitting on 11 cylinders. They got after it tonight. We got a little better. What a great effort by Molen.

We had a lot of guys take second. It was a total team effort to win the championship. We have tough individuals.

We had a lot of good performances offensively. It was quite a challenging weekend for us, and I was just really thrilled that they put in that much effort and played as well as they did.