Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cobi Jones

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Bruce Sterling

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Jamie Zawinski

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

Beth Gibbons

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Betty Buckley

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Hankus Netsky

I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was corny and archaic and not pushed as something an up-and-coming musician wanted to learn. My mother wanted me to write Broadway shows.

Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

When we were young pain made us cry, but as we aged pain became bearable but the emotional pain took over.

M. Wolfe

We're so inundated with technological innovations we'll have an emotional reaction to that, a backlash.

Kenneth Fisher

Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.

Loretta Young

When we came to do the take, I did it my way. I played it with all the emotional abandon I possessed and loved every second of my performance.

Willie Davis

When we heard the verdict, it became a very emotional day for my client. When I left him, he was getting in the car with his brother and was still crying out of joy.

Suzy Merchant

We're going to have our hands full in the first round. I hope our emotional spirit comes back a little bit stronger than it was tonight.

Tommy Amaker

We're pleased - we're pleased for our school, pleased for our fans and our alums. I'm really pleased for our players. Thinking anything beyond that, it's a game for us right now. ... We have a game coming up here on Saturday (against Wisconsin). We always know a follow-up of an emotional win or loss is always critical. We're happy about the win tonight, but we certainly know there's a lot of basketball to be played.

Arthur Levitt

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

William Shakespeare

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

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.

Bob Morton

We've always known the destructive powers of hurricanes. The difference now is that we have that much more information. It's that much harder to ignore.

Curt Johnston

We've always done majority rule. You can't give veto power to one board member. That's a terrible choice. I think it's a real mistake and will create a lot more problems than it will solve.

Odell Thurman

When we were coming into the (scouting) combine, they asked who was the best back you played against, and I said (Williams) the whole time. He's going to be great. You look at him, and you might not think he's all that strong. But he's a power runner. It's the style he plays.

James Cameron

We're so scared of piracy right now that we're ready to pimp out our mothers. This whole day-and-date DVD release nonsense? Here's an answer: (Digital cinema is) one of the strongest reasons I've been pushing 3-D for the past few years because it offers a powerful experience which you can only have in the movie theater.

Allison Maire

We're going to take it day to day and team by team as far as how we're going to play. We have very good base runners and a lot of power this year. Hopefully when league play starts we'll be able to keep it going. Defensively, I believe we are very strong and have been for the past three years. We know what to do and when to do it. But we're even more disciplined this year.

Jeff Dohn

We're going to run some split back veer and power stuff. It's kind of a retro look for us.

James Lilley

We're going to pull the five powers -- Russia, South Korea, Japan, China, the U.S. -- together, not to corner the North Koreans, but to begin to present them with pretty strong options and requiring them to make a move.

John Tortorella

We're going to miss him. He's a main piece to our puzzle, offensively, defensively, on our power play, all the things. Having said that, we'll hope he comes back but if he doesn't we have to be concerned about bringing someone up and we have to keep on playing.

Kent Beck

The marketing of XP is very deliberate and conscious. Part of it is in co-opting the power of the media; I make sure I'm newsworthy from time to time. Part is in co-opting some of my publisher's ad budget.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

Matthew Perry

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

Shawn Chacon

When it came time to go out and pitch, I realized why I was here,

Robby Wine

We're going to solidify a lineup. There was a lot of things that went on last weekend. We just wanted to see what guys were made of. We realized that some of the freshmen weren't quite ready yet, and I think in the same aspect, we have some older guys that maybe started wondering where they stand with the team.

Katie Featherston

I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.

Robert Morgan

When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.

Keith Richard

When we got the news about Charlie, we sat there, looking at each other and thinking, 'OK, what now? We realized we may not totally agree on everything, but there are too many plusses to our relationship.

Steve Squyres

When we first touched down at Gusev Crater on the night of January 4, 2004, the Columbia Hills seemed impossibly far away. It was a necessary place for us to get to, though, because as we looked across the plains we quickly realized these plains were made of basaltic lava. This was stuff that was interesting but did not tell us what we really sought to know about Gusev Crater, and that is whether there had been water here. So in order to find something, in order to find something different, we had to make that mile-and-a-half drive.

Lori Leveen

We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

Jeret Peterson

When we were all down and out, having the worst time of our lives -- we were cold and we were miserable -- Emily was bawling, but she still had a smile on her face. Emily is one of the most positive people I know.

Kevin Preston

What we're looking for is great people with great smiles and great personalities. We've found a lot of great people, already. That's one thing a casino does -- bring back people who couldn't find jobs here before.

Aaron Boone

When we came in here after the game, there were smiles on our faces, This was one of the best games I've ever played in.

William Hazlitt

What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How different from the common art of self-tormenting!

Deb Gaines

We are getting close (to where we need to be). We are improving from week to week. I enjoy seeing them smile and reaching them (as a coach). They have all stepped up this year and we have a couple of captains who are very passionate.

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 Jay Lerner

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Joe Becerra

We've a young team. We've got to be happy that we're still up at the top after seven games.

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.

DeLoss Dodds

We've always wanted to keep him in the top five in the country, where he belongs.

Evan Lysacek

We've always had great depth in our men. Certainly we have it this year. And what I think is so wonderful about the top four is that each one has a completely different style.

Mike Pelfrey

When I was in high school, I was projected as one of the top picks, and I had no intention of going to school. But, I had a bad senior year and I fell. Looking back, if I had gone (pro) out of high school, I would not have made it. I wasn't mature enough. ... Going to college was the best thing I ever did.

Dale Jr

We're making some great ground on these tracks. This is the best opportunity I've had as a driver and the team is really capable from top to bottom.

Jerry Stackhouse

We're spoiled. We're at a point now where we expect to win them all. We're among the top teams in the Western Conference, if not the top team. We expect to win all the time.

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.

Jeff Laing

We're going to try and steal two or three games from some of the teams that we lost to in the first half. And hold serve against teams we did beat, which should put us in that top four. And that's a good place to be.