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.

Geoffrey Robertson

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.

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.

Jonathan Mayers

We've always tried to reflect people's diverse music collections. We don't want to dismiss our core in any way, but . . . as great as Widespread Panic has been to us and has been a really big part of what we've done, we can't have Widespread Panic every single year.

Wayne Chrebet

We've always taken great pride in going to other people's stadiums and sticking it to them. We have a great opportunity this week to not only show ourselves, but show everybody with a national game, that were certainly better than a 2-4 team.

Joe Balogh

We've always said that you can't win the league in the first round of the season but you can lose it. I think that is the great part of playing in the NCC.

Jon Gruden

We've always said Chris is going to get better with opportunities to get better. He's got a pizzazz about him on game day that I'm real comfortable with. He's charismatic and clutch. He's shown great resolve and toughness.

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 Browning

We've always had expectations that we were going to be a great football team. And I think we're on our way.

Kevin Cato

We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Eric Thurston

When we were there at the beginning of the year, they handed it to us pretty good. We have to make sure we come out, play well and play smart. We have to be very strong in our own end. Defensive zone coverage is going to be key.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

Susan Vreeland

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

Mark Schonfeld

When it came to entering mutual-fund orders, Bear Stearns essentially handed the keys to the system over to the hedge funds.

Andy Reid

You don't let it be a distraction. That is not what you do. There are going to be things that happen and you don't focus on those things. You focus on getting the football team ready to play and you handle the other things up front the way we do it.

Thomas Steg

We remain highly concerned about those still in the hands of the hostage-takers,

Marty DeJarnette

We're going to try and pick up (the defensive intensity) and see how they handle it. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but that's what we do.

Dean Baker

We've backed ourselves into a very dangerous situation. The economy is dependent on everyone consuming like crazy. If everyone heard my diatribe and said, 'Yeah, we better start saving,' the economy would go into a recession.

William Doherty

We've asked for this for a long time. Starting this summer, I want to see you all on it. I know I'll be riding.

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.

Scott Walker

We've always had the rallying cry of, 'Hey, nobody out there thinks we can do it,' and that was fun. We've never really had a star player, and there's never really been a case of 'So-and-so didn't produce and that's why we're losing.' So it might take a little adjustment, but I think we're definitely a lot better team with him.

Natalie Purcell

We've always had good second halves, but we always start slow. It was nice to have a good first half.

Jim Hendry

We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.

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.

James Loney

When we were released I was sure I could jump right back into ordinary life and that's what I wanted the most, but I'm afraid no such luck. When I can get through an ordinary day without shaking legs and a pounding heart, I think that will be a sign that I can start to tell my story.

Morris Peterson

When we were off to our 1-15 start I think that's when they did the poll.

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.

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Leonard Alfred George Strong

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

Louis Freeh

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

John Logan

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

Mike Hargrove

The old truism that you live and die with your pitching has been borne out the last two nights, and really the whole series. We got two really well pitched games, which we won, and (Tuesday) night was something I'd like to forget. We'll take it. If you take two out of three from the White Sox, that's pretty special.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

John Podhoretz

The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

J. L. Austin

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.