Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Winter

We would string together two or three baskets and look like we were going to tie it up, but then they would force a turnover or get and easy basket and keep us at bay. They always seemed to have an answer.

Tim Wulfemeyer

With the intrusion, and maybe rightly so, of legal concerns, medical concerns, business concerns, maybe some of that might be changing sports journalism a little bit - and maybe should change. The sports reporters of today - the good ones, anyway, working for good news organizations - shouldn't be held to any less stringent professional and ethical standards than any other journalist.

Charles Baudelaire

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Michael Specter

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Paul Franklin

We are pleased to add Tower Semiconductor to our list of qualified vendors. We have set stringent qualification standards for all of our wafer suppliers and Tower has passed on all levels.

David Olson

We believe that our application of terahertz technologies can provide a breakthrough in detection and identification of chemicals for homeland-security applications. Our work will further the application of terahertz spectroscopy and transmitters to meet stringent field requirements and applications.

Rick Carlisle

We're in a must-win situation every night. We have to win games. It's important to be a playoff team. We have a string of years and we want to keep that going.

Carl Edwards

We started out strong at the beginning of this year then went on a string of bad runs starting with Infineon. That really hurt us in the points. But Bob (Osborne, crew chief) and the entire team held their heads up and kept fighting and together we got back into the 'Chase'. Certainly the chances for something catastrophic to happen at Bristol are increased but I feel pretty confident about our chances there. If we can come away with a solid finish there, I think we have a good chance at making the 'Chase'.

Bryan Colangelo

With the improvement of our team over the last couple of years, hopefully there's renewed interest in this market, ... I believe that there's also a common thread now with ownership being Robert Sarver, (his) having grown up here and having gone to the university. It seems to make a lot of sense that the organization has a relationship not only with the university but the city of Tucson.

Robert Brown

Where is the thread now? Off again! / The old trick! only I discern - / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.

Madeleine Albright

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Carl Jung

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Aldous Huxley

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Tori Kelly

Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I do. If soul counts as a genre, I would also say that's the common thread throughout everything I do. There's rock and soul influence, too. The pop element comes at the very end and making the song catchy so people will remember it.

Kate Thompson

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Janet Maslin

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Bill Frist

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

Billy Graham

We've always needed God from the very beginning of this nation but today we need Him especially. We're facing a new kind of enemy. We're involved in a new kind of warfare and we need the help of the Spirit of God. The Bible's words are our hope. . . .

Todd Walker

When it comes down to who's playing second, it's going to be their own opinion. I can't put words in anybody's mouth. It's whatever they want. I just have to make it tough on them, to do the best I can this month.

Lonnie Nasatir

When we got word she was placed on the commission as a representative of the Nation of Islam, we were clearly concerned. This is a body aimed at eradicating hate. In Mr. Farrakhan's words over the years, he's actually espoused hate.

Mike Downs

We wrote several key words on the blackboard before the game, but the most important one was 'confidence. It's confidence in their shooting. I told the kids that they're the best shooting team in the state of Washington. They showed that in the first half.

Dan Hubbard

We found more than 100 sites that were registered using various combinations of the words 'katrina' and 'donate' or 'disaster' in the last two days.

Brian Lapointe

We believe we've already seen regional extinctions of corals--in other words, a shrinking of the area where corals can now survive in Florida and elsewhere--as a result of nutrient inputs through various forms of pollution.

Bruce Raynor

unless the labor movement grows to increase workers' standard of living, that has got to be our fundamental purpose. We have to put the resources where the words are.

Source Unknown

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

Mahmud Abbas

We reject these words and we do not accept what Sharon said yesterday. No one has any right to cancel issues from negotiations between us and them.