Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Polk

We're going to play the game somewhere. I'll let the athletic directors handle that. I ain't gonna tell you Smith-Wills is a better ballpark than the new one, but it's been good to us over the years. They've done everything we've asked. They put in a new (playing surface), they put in new lights. I think it's been great for the people down there.

Joel Coen

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.

Penelope Spheeris

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.

Douglas Sirk

When we first came to America, I bought a tiny piece of land far out in the country. But there was no place to live on it, only a shed.

James Gray

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

Walter Hill

What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago.

David Courtney

unless the nominating committee of our board of directors decides otherwise in accordance with our corporate governance guidelines.

Tony Ridder

unless and until its board of directors has approved a specific transaction.

Joel Coen

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.

Bob Romeo

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

Mike Turner

We've always tried to play all of the good teams. If we're going to be one of the good teams we've got to play the good teams.

Gene Johnson

We've always tried to have a good mix of stuff on our albums -- something that's fun, something that's very radio friendly, something that's going to touch someone's heart, maybe even something that's pop influenced. More than ever, on the 'Completely' album, we wanted to show more than one musical side of Diamond Rio.

John Mackey

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

John Carr

We've always said controllers are like runways -- it takes three to five years to make a good one,

Joe Hudak

We've always played well here. We're a good club, and I think we're trying to show we can play with other good clubs. We're certainly not intimidated.

Adam Ereli

We've always made clear that truces are good only insofar as they go, and that's really not very far.

Bob Francis

We're going to endure, I guess. I think we owe that to Jim to be there.

Keegan Bradley

Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.

James Blake

What I actually thought of then, ... was the tape that's replayed about five million times every time there's a rain delay here at the Open, when Jimmy Connors says, 'This is what they came for; this is what we'll give them.'

Boris Zhukov

We got up in the air, and Terry Gordy looks over and sees oil coming down the wing. The oil pressure drops. It turned out the mechanic left the oil cap off. Jimmy turns the thing around and got it on the ground before the engine locked up. We were lucky we didn't catch on fire.

Mark Snyder

We felt it was in our best interest to go with the guy who had the most recall to where Larry Kueck, our offensive coordinator, could get him on the side and say, 'Hey, Jimmy, you know, we're getting this, this and this,' and Jimmy would have some recall from past years. Bernie will definitely play, though.

Steve Gibson

We believe we're doing things the right way and in Steve McClaren we believe we have the manager who can deliver. There are good reasons why he was taken on by Jim Smith and Sir Alex Ferguson and why he's Sven-Goran Eriksson's No 2.

Brian Billick

We're going to be very supportive of Jim's looking and hopefully being able to procure a head coaching job. I think Jim would be outstanding. If indeed that doesn't happen, Jim will be back next year. Some of the speculation I've seen is just that, because Jim and I have already had discussions about some of the things we need to do.

Eric Murray

We're expecting Jim to be a leader on the track and off the track.

Chester W. Nimitz

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Chris Abani

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

Charles M. Schulz

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

Alex Steffen

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

Julianne Moore

I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening.

Gavid Hood

When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

Gavid Hood

My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

Elliot Ackerman

I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have served as an advisor to Afghan troops, and much of my war experience was seen through the lens of fighting that war alongside Afghan soldiers.

Elizabeth Thornton

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

Daniel Barber

After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

Steve Matlock

We've assembled a team of dedicated, energetic people whose experience and enthusiasm for this industry is unparalleled. With these talented leaders in place, La-Z-Boy is in for an exciting ride.

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

Bob Collins

We've asked all our section pros to put their program up on the Web site and I'm really, really excited the way they're starting to get involved. We're trying to create some awareness in the area and to get people to play. People always want to know, where do I go for a class? Where do I go if my kids want to learn? You can find it in there.

Paul Stamm

We've approached the other trusts and have gotten a verbal commitment, but they would like to be able to be the monies that put us over the top in the project. This has a great chance of being a reality and we really need $10 and $25 donations from people in the community.

Joe Hudak

We've always wanted to try to figure out ways to improve our attendance. There's no doubt it's a great advantage if you can have a lot of people in the stands cheering for you and cheering against your opponents.

Randy Honebrink

We've always tried to reduce the number of people getting bit by sharks through education and awareness. We try to get our safety tips out through our Web site and in publications.

Charlie Sands

We've always tried to have the thing that people want.

Tim Coghlin

We've always thought they were a very skilled team but they're even more skilled than people know. They skate really well, they swarm the puck, the protect they puck well. They all have exceptional puck skills, stick skills, and they compete.

Terry Lickona

We've always known there was a reason to keep all these original masters. We've never erased a single tape from any show we've ever done. We've just about run out of space to store these tapes, but they've turned out be gems. We're proud of these old shows and we think they deserve to be seen by new generations of fans and people that have been fans all along.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Kyle Whittingham

When we went to 12 games, everybody kind of went into panic mode because scheduling a game is not quite as easy as you might think. Usually, these games are scheduled five, six, seven years in advance.

Roger Hansen

When I was over there, I was quite surprised with how fast they adjusted because of their flexibility and their feet. I never saw a kid in pro ball with bad feet or bad hands. If you've got that, you can adjust from there.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

Courtney Barnett

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

Adrian Benepe

When I was a child growing up in the city, you never saw hawks. It's now quite common to see large birds of prey in New York City.

Harlan Watson

We're getting very close. I'm quite confident we will have a successful outcome.

Pat Robertson

We're getting tons of calls from people not quite knowing what to do,

Jessie McCartney

We're going to take this whole weekend certainly as a positive. I think as a whole we learned quite a bit and we're just building right now, taking each game as a building block.

John Rosemond

What happens is that the mother spends so much time with the child that the father's role ends up being a parenting aid.

Tanya Hilgendorf

We're getting lots of good information and are still putting things together, but our investigator spends half the day picking up dead bodies.

Dan Casey

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Josh McDowell

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

Lori Wilde

When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

Jim Hendry

Nobody is here at the park longer than Larry. And the pitchers recognize that. He spends countless hours trying to make them better mechanically and mentally.

John McNaughton

We set out to make a movie that let people think for themselves. Hollywood spends a lot of time and money trying to prevent that, but that's not the way I like to tell a story.

Sergey Galitsky

When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It's a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it.

James Lipton

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

Lou Barlow

When we approached our next sessions in my house, we decided to completely go for things we couldn't even perform live. We went for a studio approach, really layering and cutting things down.

Peter Horbury

We brought out the Ford 427 concept sedan a couple of years ago, at the same time Fusion development was under way in our styling studios. The reaction to the three-bar grille on the 427 was such a success we went back to the studios and changed Fusion's front end.

Nikki Rocco

What's so great is that this is a moderate budgeted film that's probably going to be the most profitable for the studio this year, ... There's no back-end participations in it and it only cost us $55 million to make. This is a franchise that we built from the ground floor.

Ron Meyer

Universal City plays an important role in our company and in Los Angeles. Now is the time to shape a vision not only for the continued vitality of our studio and theme park businesses but for the property itself.

Miyavi

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

Jason Hall

With the incredible 'Friends' television series and DVD phenomenon, many people have watched episodes countless times and have become experts, so it was natural to create an accessible and exciting videogame that could challenge their knowledge, ... Working together and leveraging cross-divisional Warner Bros. competencies has enabled the studio to design, create and distribute FRIENDS: THE ONE WITH ALL THE TRIVIA along with a repackaged ten season DVD box set, giving fans a chance to complete their collection and their 'Friends' experience with a fun quiz format including memorable clips and characters from the show.

Matisyahu

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.

Eric Frankel

We're proud to team with AOL on this first-of-its-kind broadband network. In the near future we will be adding more recent programs and other TV related content from our studio and other producers that you can't find anywhere else on the Web.

Ken Warwick

We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Joan Berry

We've asked for a meeting with the sheriff numerous times, and he never has any time or even the courtesy to return my phone calls. This is very upsetting to me.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

Andy Watson

We've always had a plan. As the years go along, you revise it every year, every six months or as needed. Every time there's a structure change, you have to update the plan, and with environmental changes.

Brian Cashman

We've always considered Roger a Yankee. If he decides to play, he'll give us the courtesy of an audience. We'll have to take a look at it when the time comes.