Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Maxey

When we went up 4-2, at that point we should've closed it out. We kind of let them get the ball rolling. They played hard. They're a little deeper than us and they had a little more pop in their step at the end. Believe me, I was a little nervous.

Brad Blew

When it came time for our kids to play to win, we came through and did a good job. We've won a lot of games at the line and we feel that's one of our strengths. When we can get the lead and put it in deep freeze late, we feel good about our chances.

Margaret Johnston

To my delight, instead of the usual unkempt, gum-chewing, tobacco-scented, tired and bored woman in a bad part of town, I was greeted by a lovely, clean, organized and educated lady with a deep and true love of children.

Debbie Ryan

We're mired in a slump right now and we're digging a pretty deep hole. And the first rule of holes is to stop digging. But that's all we keep doing right now is keep digging and digging and digging.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Duncan Robertson

We remain deeply concerned for the future of our business and the livelihood of thousands of our staff and subcontractors.

Ned Walker

We remain deeply concerned about any interest rate relief that allows another carrier to artificially mask its obligations, potentially paying nothing at all for many years, receive all of the benefits and ultimately leave the taxpayer to foot the bill.

Randy Gumbley

We're starting to gel. We're pretty solid right now and we're deeper than we have been for a long time. The kids are working hard and I think we're only going to get better.

Jack Purtell

We're starting a stretch of games against the kind of teams we would play deeper in the tournament. This is a difficult stretch of games coming up and it will help us down the road.

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Louis Michel

We remember the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia. But millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts. These are silent tsunamis.

Craig Fugate

We're slowing the process down. A large-scale disaster will occur and there will be another hue and cry about why we were not able to get the aid faster.

Gene Hall

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

John Metcalf

We're going to respond to the Gulf within 72 hours. After a disaster, if you can get people rescued within 72 hours; they are far better off as far as getting them rescued without additional injury or illness or loss of life.

Andy Kopplin

What this information shows, I think, is this was the most expensive natural disaster in American history.

Mike Browning

W hen we called to get info on one disaster we were hung up on six times, without anybody saying, what would you like to know, what are you calling for?' we didn't get a single answer .

David Wilkins

When we are facing what appears to be more and more the worst natural disaster in our country's history, many of these other issues we have been discussing suddenly pale in comparison.

Tommy Thompson

Weyauwega is a microcosm of how to handle a disaster. This was an example of an emergency situation that would have been a disaster save for the fact we moved quickly and, I believe, correctly.

Jon von

We've always stood up well in comparison with our competitors in technical tests but users disliked that they had to pay $39 and that we had ads. We decided to eliminate these obstacles in order to attract users.

Dixie Carter

When we first met, I was so impressed with him. But Hal took a dislike to me, just like his character in the play. Probably my Southern politeness, which he thought was kind of phony. It was only near the end of the shoot, when I was sick as a dog with the flu and I stopped trying to charm him, that he got over that dislike, and we started to laugh together.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Brad Feld

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about our bodies, but we need to focus on what we love - maybe it's a great smile, strong legs or curly hair?

Julian Fellowes

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

Bryant Gumbel

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

Kris Janowski

We've always said that fear is the main problem. And that needs to be allayed.

Sean Cotter

We've always felt Heidi was a real good hitter, and she's definitely a feared hitter in the conference, but it just seemed like she just wasn't able to put it together for long stretches. And this year she's just been in a really good place, I think, both physically and mentally.

John Stossel

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

Jack Purtell

We respect everyone and fear no one. We like to keep that kind of attitude.

Mario Little

We respected him, but we (weren't) in fear of him.

Cody Acree

We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to give those that were most fearful about the outlook for chip stocks less reason to be concerned.

Katie Featherston

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

Kathryn Joosten

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Kenneth Fisher

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.

Vince Green

We've always had a successful business here, but you have periods of financial difficulty, and we don't deny that. I've always taken care of my obligations. Sooner or later, we take care of our obligations.

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Dennis Hastert

Tomorrow we will pass a pharmaceutical plan that takes care of the neediest in our society, ... Older Americans deserve financial security and health security.

Jim Pennekamp

We remain supportive of the project. There's been a significant amount already spent... (Shaw has) performed admirably in all this. The challenge is moving forward with a financial plan.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

Ben Carlson

What we're looking at right now (with rising insurance costs) has upset the apple cart, and they're putting their nose to the grindstone and taking on some financial responsibility they haven't had to do in the past.

David Cole

What they're really looking at is the long-term implications of this. In the past, there was a decidedly short-term mentality, and basically what (GM) would say is we'll settle so we can meet our quarterly profit projections. That's different today. The financial community is concerned about the short-term return?but what they're focused on is the long-term profitability.

Michael Clarke

What a fantastic outpouring of support during a time when everyone was being asked to provide financial support to hurricane and tsunami victims as well.

Geoff Paddock

We felt it was important as we recover from some tough financial times and we begin to add back from the $11 million cuts that we went through 3 years ago to reward some of the teachers, the custodians, the staff, the bus drivers, secretaries and so forth.

Barry Russell

We're starting to find a way to win by finding a way to get on base however possible. Sometimes it seems like we find a way to try to lose and we need to overcome that.

Michael Brown

We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.

John Fletcher

When we approached Packaging Automation, I must admit I wasn't sure they could deliver on time. However they delivered an excellent product, modified to pack this specific line, on time - with a totally professional service from start to finish.

Thomas Pickering

We believe we have developed a relationship with Russia that can sustain controversy, differences and difficulties, however sharp they may become,

Joseph Carroll

The perfect home is your home ... whatever it is and however you choose to make it so. You are surrounded by the things you like ... things that make you comfortable. It's as simple as that.

Mark Oaten

We still want to try to seek consensus, however two sticking points have emerged for us.

Jeff Shaffer

We started learning a new dive on platform before this competition and Steve had a little bit of a mental lapse in that he performed the new dive instead of what we had entered him to perform and thus automatically received no points on that dive. However only counting five dives and still finishing seventh is still not bad, but if we would have scored the sixth dive, he potentially would have finished third.

Marguerite Gardiner

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Helen Sharman

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

Mary Pierce

When I was out with my injury, I didn't know if I was going to be able to play again or not, ... There was just kind of this little voice inside of me that said, 'You know, you're not done. Now's not the time to retire. You still have some great things to accomplish in tennis.'

Rose Johnson

When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.

Phil Jackson

We remind our players that this is something that was a special night in a heated situation but it's not going to be a steady diet for us. The onus on Kobe is to stay inside the team offense. The onus on the players is to pick it up a little bit better.

Lance Smith

We're making progress. We've started painting the inside and things are really coming together.

Bobby Brown

We're so used to seeing beauty outside all around us here. I want everyone to come in and see the beauty inside these artists' souls.

Bryan Hilferty

We're going to operate simultaneously throughout the entire eastern and southern part of the country so we get inside the decision cycle; so we hit them before they can hit innocent men, women and children,

Gary Clausen

We're going to open it up and consider candidates from inside the building and outside.

Adrian Alaniz

We're going to do whatever needs to be done to help us win. The adrenaline was pumping inside me, and all I wanted to do is get guys out.

Kathryn Schulz

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

Jacques Rogge

We remain with our zero tolerance policy, so that the fight against doping remains the very first priority of the International Olympic Committee.

Jim Wicklund

We remain positive based on economic activity and E&P spending; we're also positive on 2007 but see some risk to E&P spending given the potential squeeze on returns (with) a possible moderation in commodity prices in '07. Visibility remains too good to worry too early, however.

Scott Wilson

We're going to take as long as it takes. Our people are very good at human remains recovery and we're having some inclement weather now that we're taking precautions against.

John Shaughnessy

What we're seeing happening is the best of all worlds. The economy is strong yet inflation remains quiescent. The earnings outlook remains reasonably good. Given those things, the money continues to flow into the market from both domestic and foreign sources.

Jess Blackburn

What he is saying is that $80 billion remains a viable and reachable goal. He's not being as specific as to the timeline.

Stephen McCausland

What sparked this? A lot of work remains before we have any answers, and some of those answers we may never get.

George Hamlin

United certainly made a lot of cost reductions. But whether they really had a metamorphosis to compete without the help of a bankruptcy court remains to be seen.

Rebel Talbert

Unfortunately it looks like we have had human intervention but whether that's accidental or deliberate remains to be seen.

Lara Rhame

U.S. treasury yields are rising and we've seen that support the dollar across the board. The dollar remains strong on the back of solid U.S. economic data and expectations that the 10-year yield is going to continue to go higher.

Marc Shaiman

We're making fun of people who pick ridiculous targets to blame anything about what's going on in their lives, so Canada was just the perfect, ridiculous, innocuous choice for a target.

Anne Sullivan

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Don Smith

We're going to make it through this. But it's just ridiculous to be paying these high prices.

Miriam Toews

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

China Mieville

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Cheryl Strayed

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

Cher

It's a dirty job being ridiculous, but I'll do it

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.