Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desiree Rogers

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.

Francisco Goya

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Trent Reznor

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

Tony Campolo

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

Chris Van Hollen

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

Neal Schon

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

Vicente Fox

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

Damian Harrell

We still haven't played a complete game on both sides of the ball. We're 5-1 right now, and that's scary. . . . The bottom line is we're finding ways to win. That's one thing about arena football; the games are going to be close.

William Sloane Coffin

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Brad Pitt

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Charles Soule

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Foster Friess

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

Ethan Zuckerman

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Edward Carpenter

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Cullen Hightower

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Damien Rice

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

Vera Farmiga

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Danny Yatom

The peace process will be in a deep freeze.

Brady Corbet

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.

Ranbir Kapoor

There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

Nick Clegg

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

Colum McCann

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Don Everly

I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

Kerri Burke

We played 12 girls tonight and that lead never changed. That shows you how deep you are.

Charles Hazlewood

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Lindsay Williams

We prepared really well for this game. We have been looking forward to it all season. Last time they got a lot of points off offense rebounds and we worked on stopping that.

Troy Gentile

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Tatiana Navka

We did well for today and we're looking forward to the Olympics.

Maria Lefler

We had a nice win Saturday. We're looking forward to getting back into league.

Reggie Miller

When were on Lifetime working together, Cheryl gave me a lot of insight. It was then that I starting thinking that this was something I could do sometime down the line ... This is an opportunity I'm really looking forward to.

Paul Lancaster

When you're starting one senior and the rest underclassmen, it's something to look forward to. This year was a pleasant surprise.

David Noel

We still feel like this is a big-time game. We've been looking forward to this all season.

Donny Osmond

Tom Hanks is a good friend and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing the hero scientist Robert Langdon.

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Patrick Anderson

The only sliver of a silver lining is that the tourism industry has held its own.

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Don Cooper

You knew who was the boss. That's a refreshing thing now. Here in Chicago, the inmates don't run the asylum. They're held accountable. They know what the rules are.

Walt Smith

We got to play a lot of people, including our 20 freshmen, and they held their own. They usually run the other team's plays in practice, so they are still picking up what we run.

Doug Pritchard

Those who had held them and were guarding them were not present in the location where they were found.

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Amanda Hill

We are looking for improvement. All of our swimmers have improved throughout the season.

Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

Maurice Cheeks

We've got some young players that played well last year and I want to see if they've improved this year,

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Goran Persson

We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose.

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Rich Bahner

We're still playing young, but we've improved a lot these last two weeks.

Terry Hoeppner

We're a work in progress right now, but we've improved from week to week,

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Tony Fernandes

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

Brian Russell

We had an offer to sell the team to a Texas businessman for between $75,000-$100,000 during the past two weeks. We have until Jan. 15 to notify the league where we will operate next season. I don't have any plans to sell the team.

Lee Gilmour

We're not even in the same league as Warner Robins,

Bob Uecker

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

Jerry Porter

We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.

Jim Gantt

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

Rocky Nelson

We needed to change. Everything we do is to try and get ready for Middlesex League competition.

Chad Pennington

We'll miss Kevin. But that's what the league is all about. Sometimes players have to move on.

Brandon Rush

We were just talking about that in the locker room, about how league play is different, and we're stepping up.

Jennifer Peppin

We did sweep the plane and we did find the handgun, and it was a loaded handgun. Once we got that we turned it over to the state police in Boston.

Brandon Flowers

We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

Terry Fleming

We have a very successful team and we are loaded with talent.

Scott Hartman

West and Bozeman look really loaded up. They have a lot of depth.

Larry Coker

You can't take everybody, for whatever reason, be it you're loaded at that position or whatever it might be. They've got players who could play for about anybody. That's the thing that you see, that they have talent. That's Florida.

Jay Hopson

Mississippi was loaded this year. We're tickled to death.

Russell Jones

Linemen come in and get their trucks loaded up and away they go.

Andrew Stacy

We have to play well. Batavia is very good. They are loaded year in and year out.

Janice Hahn

I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Ron Artest

We play like a team, ... Sometimes I may not score. I was not looking to score. The buckets came.

Ansel Elgort

I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.

Charles Foley

We are not looking for a repeat of anything of the magnitude of this weekend.

David Taylor

we are not in the market to be looking for a manager.

Jeff Ross

If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.

Ramon Ang

We're looking at $ 300 million. That's our target.

Wayne Carl

We're looking at 10-hour days, every day, from the contractors.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Greg Hill

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

Peter Hillyard

We are not going to plunge to $500 or $400. The market is going to stay within a price range of $540 and $650.

Charles Alexander

We did spot an opportunity in property at a time when the market was neglecting the sector.

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Nostradamus

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Rich Marcello

We probably have another 18 months or so until we get it done.

Tanya Chaplin

We'll run through a lot of things that we're going to do at nationals and find out if there are any glitches in the system. That way we can fine-tune. We'll have a month before the national championship and we can get everything in place before we actually run the NCAA Championship.

Audrie Pattenn

Three months may seem like a long time, but really, it's not enough time.

Bill Ryden

We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.

Melina Kanakaredes

When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

Dennis Ross

The problem is going to be within a month or two after disengagement there will be two completely different expectations as to what comes next.

Zach Galligan

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Randy Martin

We plan to be open by summer 2006.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

E. Hicks

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Stephen Frears

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Mike Birbiglia

When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag.

Paul Simpson

We are not in a position where we have to let players go and we have let Livingston know that.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Joanne Bracker

We're at the end of the season now, so we're going to regroup with the players we have.

Wes Welker

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Bill Parcells

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Colin Lee

There are not a lot of players who want to come here,

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Heather O'Reilly

Our journey has taken 21 players but our goal is still the same, to win the World Cup.

Kirk Cheney

We got to 22 points in a hurry, and then how many two-footers did we miss? It's all about a team effort, and who's going to step up. And we had some players do that for us tonight.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Mimi Kennedy

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Bill Richardson

to know my administration is doing everything it can to protect them.

Charles Clarke

We must protect the traditions of tolerance that we have established in this country,

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Carl Jung

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Ludwig von Mises

The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

Paula Beall

We were just enthralled by the quality of the space that we could see through the storefront windows,

Norman Edelman

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Charles McClelland

The quality of play is much improved." ()

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Simon Cowell

You know what happened, she went, she went to a zoo, and a tiger, and I'm serious, scratched her.

Kurt Vonnegut

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Robert Irwin

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.

Carson Kressley

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Elias Canetti

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Scott Podsednik

There are a lot of things that went right for us this year. We start from scratch now.

Gerard Way

I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.

Ernest Bramah

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Frank Scelfo

We had Tristan (Smith), solid but not great; we had Bush, solid but not great; we had Carl (Davis), solid but not great.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Katie Uhlaender

In my training runs, I threw down solid yesterday.

Hubie Brown

In my opinion, they are the favorite, and they are a solid favorite.

Martin Schulz

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Steve Ron

We're at least two years away from starting construction.

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Eden Sher

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Rob Jordan

We're starting to get a little more notice.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Michelle Beall

We have the chemistry, with all the talent we have we just have to put it all together.

Liz Campbell

We're really thrilled we have the talent here in the valley, now.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Edgar Degas

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Ben Affleck

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Anton Chekhov

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Shawn Horcoff

We never give up. We wear a lot of teams down.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.

Michelle Reinig

We could never have done it. Two of them were in the water when we got there and one was on top of the ice.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.