Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're on par to win the nomination with flying colors. It remains to be seen what kind of showing Jim Gilchrist is going to make. ... He's talked about one issue and this is a fairly sophisticated district.

David Pierce

I am, by nature, a fairly shy person, and one of the things I had to learn was, when you're on a popular show and people feel they know you, what used to pass for shyness can be perceived as rude. I do feel more vulnerable, but people are always nice. Nobody ever comes up and throws food on me and says the show is crap.

Gretchen Wilson

I am still nervous when I travel because it is fairly new to me, ... You know, I didn't grow up traveling around the world.

Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.

He has a fairly nervous wait I would think.

George Carlin

He had a sort of pain that was fairly evident.

Rider is a real good team. I thought we wrestled fairly well for the most part, but we didn't do as well in some areas.

Given the news of last week the mayor thought it was fairly timely to be able to release it and use it as an opportunity to reinforce the message that sexual harassment - or any kind of harassment in the workplace - is not going to be tolerated.

For Moises to take himself out the lineup tells you it's a fairly significant injury.

The conventional wisdom was, people were fairly safe if they were not involved in the drug trade. But once we learned people were being kidnapped for ransom, and given the numbers involved, we thought it important to notice that.

Richard Harris

Up front played fairly solid, but not sound. I want to get them sound and solid.

James Peterson

Out of all those variables that people talk about, you can really narrow that down to a fairly small list.

On the valley floor, it's probably compacted about six inches and that's fairly significant.

Thomas Haden Church

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

Our kids threw fairly well. They were just hitting the ball.

Our guys are fairly sophisticated soccer-wise, but do we match up physically? That's going to be the big question.

Nate is fairly well known by a lot of the other players. So we are hoping that kids will say, 'If he's playing there, maybe I can.' Kind of the herd mentality.

Nationally, half the people served by vouchers are off of them within five years, so there's been a fairly healthy turnover. But now, housing authorities are squeezed, and we can't keep pace.

Markets have already priced in a fairly sizeable production cut.

Mike Bryan

I thought we were fairly sharp. We haven't been practicing too much this week because we've been resting...This bodes well for Indian Wells.

I thought we were a little slow getting it going. Once we got it going with Reno Gilbert, we played fairly well.

Michael Specter

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

I thought we, all things considered, maintained our focus fairly well. Especially in that first game as we didn't get into any ruts.

I think we got a group with really good size and athleticism. These are big guys who can move. They've all got quick feet and are fairly agile.

Brian Billick

I think we've done things fairly intelligently. We've rebuilt without drastically slipping back at any one point.

I think a week of profit taking is fairly healthy after the kind of run we've seen.

I think this morning's share price fall is all to do with Wall Street because the profit result was fairly well telegraphed and in line with expectations.

I was fairly impressed. We couldn't do anything, and he was still out there in the sixth inning and still getting people out.

Thomas Leonard

I think she's probably getting away fairly leniently. She never showed any sympathy.

Tyler Cowen

I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.

States with a life only policy do fairly well economically.

Gerald Massey

Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses.

From the outside, it may look like a fairly seamless operation, ... but the truth is, that's not true.