Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Palm

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

Peter Power

The political question that needs to be answered is: is it better to go ahead with the meeting if you are unsure of the result or postpone for a couple of weeks and have a greater chance of a result.

Scott Brockman

(The pilot) contacted the tower, did a fly-by in which (air traffic controllers) inspected the gear, found the other landing gear was intact and made the decision at that point to go ahead and land the aircraft.

Dan Ahrens

The overall industry is a boom industry. It has demographics and favorable growth prospects on its side, ... Valuations may get ahead of themselves sometimes but that's only a concern for the short term.

Tom Schrader

The payroll data Friday is going to be the big swing factor. Ahead of that, I would expect that we could drift a little higher, but nothing too substantial.

Nick Woodman

My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

John Lilly

We probably are a little bit ahead of where we usually are at this time.

John Coleman

We previously expected trading during the first half of 2006 to be difficult. We are pleased that the first seven weeks have been ahead of our original expectations.

Karen Mullins

We preach being ahead in counts. It's frustrating, that every day in practice we hit our spots, then we come out here, and there's no transfer. Some of that is youth, but we have to be able to do it between the white lines.

William Fichtner

I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.

Esme Bianco

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

Phil Gee

The pilot was taken off-duty. He certainly didn't go anywhere near an aircraft.

Becky G

For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.

Dennis Crowley

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

Vincent Lo

Connections and relationships are important everywhere, anywhere - of course in China, because the rule of law it is not as strong as in the West, so a lot would rely on personal relationships.

Wole Soyinka

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

Gore Vidal

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

Elizabeth Warren

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Craig Dawson

We played a hard match tonight, but things just did not go our way. Tonight's match was a good tune-up for us in our preparation for the College Squash Association Team Championship.

Michael Johnson

We play a schedule of 30 to 35 games, and we've been told we're comparable to some small colleges and community colleges. We have to make cuts because so many players turn out. All of our guys have solid backgrounds in high school or community college ball.

Ban Ki-moon

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

Derek Bok

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

Leslie Huntington

When a player makes that transition from high school to college, you never know what to expect from them.

Roger Morris

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

Jane McGonigal

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

Claire Danes

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Jamie Shea

The point we made last night is that we will go for the head as much as the feet in this operation.

Scott Maxham

We played well in spurts and were tough defensively. We started moving our feet in the third period and that's when we got our goal. We were a little slower than we normally are. We've got some guys who are tired or a little sick (but) in the third period they picked it up.

George Porter

When I get away from home for too long I start to get crazy, so I need to get back, ... We have to get back just to get our feet in the mud, in that crawfish juice, or something.

Larry Rohr

When you're standing next to a vehicle traveling 70 miles per hour and you're only two feet away, it's very dangerous.

Natalia Makarova

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

Jennifer Garner

Yeah, I'm willing to do anything, ... This next week, they're hanging me out of a helicopter 200 feet in the air, so 'Thriller' was nothing.

Bob Hill

We could never plant our feet defensively and get a stop. Most of the time, when it really hurt us, it was the second shots. We'd get them to miss and then we just couldn't get the rebound.

Reese Witherspoon

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

Mark Simon

We'll lose it most definitely, ... It likes water, but it can't take three feet of it.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Denise Boos

We played well in spurts. As a team, we really need to work on maintaining our focus and intensity.

Tim Floyd

We probably played the way our preseason prognostications were. We're not that bad. They were really focused on defense. They didn't let us do anything.

Bridget Grall

We are not focusing on the past at all. We are only looking to what the future may hold.

Tim Martin

We had a practice on Saturday and the focus was good. I know all this is weighing on the inside, but it's not showing.

Norman Black

We had a nice streak going but we lost our focus a little bit.

Alan Cohen

As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.

Steven Sinofsky

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

Sophia Amoruso

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

Vladimir Putin

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Lee Myung-bak

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.

Kerry Wood

With the time frame it's going to take, I'm glad we did it when we did it. So we should be ready for spring training, and ready to go.

Laura Stromberg

We are disappointed with the time frame and we are losing valuable time.

Randy Edsall

We'll have a better idea of the time frame after (the doctor) goes in. It could be two weeks, it could be three weeks. I don't know.

Abdullah Gul

We want to start negotiations, and we are working for this but within the framework of the realities,

Ray Krauss

The other two are protection of biodiversity and preservation of the local ranching economy. We have a guiding framework that's helping managers plan for their individual parcels with all those goals in mind.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Steve Buscemi

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

Charles Manson

When I go on the mountain and I say "Do it!", it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me!

Vincent Simeone

When a tree gets transplanted, its growth slows down because it's in shock.

Matt Winkler

When a team gets into a slump, it seems everyone does. Fortunately, Jake and Jordan stepped up.

Francia Raisa

I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.

Roger Clemens

We played with heavy hearts, ... I don't know if I could've done what Paul O'Neill did.

Mark Ronson

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

Carlos Garcia

Typically we'll see the results of a heavy snowfall the next season.

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Halle Berry

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

Joe Arbona

You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.

Rob Portman

We've got some heavy lifting over the next three months,

William Shakespeare

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

Wislawa Szymborska

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Paul Haggis

In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.

Rich McCoppin

We played well. We were a little short on pitching near the end." ()

David Hare

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Andy Duncan

We had nearly 100%of people saying they were proud to work at C4 and more than 95% said we were going in the right direction. It's staggering,

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Mike Hooper

When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.

Curtis Jackson

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

Dick Cheney

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Catherine Fisher

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

Scott Taylor

This is much better suited for him. He's become quicker and a lot more technically sound.

Gary Sheffield

That would be devastating to me. I should be able to come back quicker than if it was a hamstring. I'm going to get the anti-inflammatories and see how I feel tomorrow.

Bobby Lewis

That way you get them in quicker and out quicker.

Billy Burke

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Valerie Brown

The quicker we get a rail option, the better off we'll be because rail will get us off the roads,

Tom DeLay

We all know what this is about. The quicker it's over the better.

Steve Wright

Our supplies are drying up quicker than expected.

Kenny Anderson

I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get over the top.

Daunte Culpepper

When you're throwing things and spitting on people, it's distasteful.

Carl Erskine

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

George Johnson

There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,

Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Franz Kafka

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

Ben Mendelsohn

Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be.

Ozzie Guillen

To me he wasn't throwing good, ... So that's why I went to go get him right away.

Joe Mauer

He's just touching up. He was a up a little bit, but he was throwing hard.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Janet Jackson

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Cathy Guisewite

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

Ed Koch

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Ariel Winter

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

Cat Deeley

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.