Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Belichick

We've always tried to coach and abide by the NFL rules, whatever they are,

Jamie Kennedy

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

Don Hamilton

We know we have to abide by the law, but this is still a tough thing to do. I know it's progress, but it's hard for a small community like ours.

Eric Schwartz

We want Russia in the WTO, but they must first abide by the rules and obligations.

Peter Young

We accept their assurances they are concerned about what happened and also their assurances they will abide by the media accreditation rules.

Daniel Hernandez

Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of people abide by the regulations. But there have been occasions where people have taken advantage of the loophole, (the fact) that we haven't had it spelled out.

Ken Ramsey

One of the clear-cut rules for employees is to follow a chain of command, ... Pat has trouble dealing with authority when he has to abide by it.

Tom Gray

If we have regulations, we have to abide by them,

Allen Iverson

When they start talking about suspending me and hurting what we're trying to do here as a basketball team, then I don't have (a) choice but to abide by it,

Cheryl Hines

I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

Charlie Munger

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Mike Jarvis

With three minutes to go, I told my assistant to ask that ref why he made that call.

Fred Thompson

We've got assistants to assistants to assistants to deputies to assistants to deputies to assistants, ... Who in the world is accountable for what? Mr. Richardson apparently thinks all you have to do is appoint a new czar.

Bryan Williams

We've tried to bring fun back to the game and the girls have latched on to us. We (Williams and assistant coach Tracy Ross) are seeing a lot of good things from these players.

Billy Sherwood

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

Eli Roth

Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it." I was like: "Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this?" I was prepping Hostel.

Brian Blessed

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

John Madden

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

George Hood

We're going to let our attorneys review the ruling and see what we can do to get our port built. Obviously, there are more hurdles we have to jump.

Carter Phillips

We are pleased to welcome these two accomplished attorneys to the firm. Bill and Jim both have impressive track records handling the increasingly complex regulatory and litigation issues that are critical to our client base. I look forward to their contributions to the continued growth and success of our energy practice.

Leonard Peltier

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

Louise Slaughter

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

Ronnie Musgrove

Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.

David Margulies

He is not going to give up, ... So Anna Nicole and her bevy of contingency-fee attorneys should not be counting their money just yet.

Drayton McLane

We took some real risks when we allowed Jeff to participate in the World Series. And our attorneys advised us there were risks. We felt we were well within the contract to allow him to do so. We felt we owed him the right and our fans the right to see him in the World Series if we got there.

Byron Dorgan

I don't know whether Ken Lay is going to testify. What I do know is that his attorneys have told us that we should prepare for a hearing in which he will testify,

Gregory Craig

have more access to attorneys and other Americans who support him throughout this ordeal.

O. Winston

We've always said it's about us, and it's about us getting better, ... We've got a lot of confidence right now. We're playing well, the defense is playing unbelievable, and I want to get back out there and keep that going.

George Campbell

We've always made it a point to be strong from the goal out. Defense is always a priority, but these kids have offensive talent that can't be denied.

Chuck D.

We've always got a chip on our shoulder, they always say the offense has to pull us through. But in order to win games in the playoffs, we knew our defense had to step up.

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.

Jamie Mayne

When we went up there, they beat us by like 27, so I was pleased with the way we played. This week we concentrated on defense and being in their face and never giving them an open look.

Jermaine Spencer

When we went in the locker room, we said we weren't pushing. We weren't getting as hard after them as we should. In the second half, we brought the fight to them. Instead of backing down and letting them do what they want to do, we made them step up and play -- play defense and make tougher shots.

Cody Franson

When it come down to it on most nights it is about the player and the teams that work the hardest and not so much a chess match of strategy. Composure is key to playing defense and you cannot allow others to get under your skin and throw you off your game.

Fred Miller

We're making key hits and playing tight enough defense to win some close games. I think we'll get more confident with our hitting as we go.

Al Wilson

We're making game-changing plays. We've got a defense full of playmakers. We feel like if we play our game, we're always going to have somebody in the right spot.

Bob Krabbe

We're most disturbed by the company's issuing notices of furlough to people they just got done recalling. We think that it shows a callous disregard for these individuals and their lives.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

Calvin Trillin

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Catherine Rossi

We're saying that we're disturbed by the numbers we are seeing.

Louise Slaughter

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

Elliot Mintz

The producers of the film will be granting an assassin's dream. It will also send out a message to other disturbed people that there is a fast track to international fame.

Roger Williams

He had a disturbed night but he is still very alert, very sedated on the ventilator. He remains critically ill but fairly stable.

Michael Callahan

I am disturbed by the testimony that a plant that appears to be good for the ratepayers of Entergy will back away because they don't get the rate (arrangement) they want.

Zev Yaroslavsky

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers but much more by the Dodgers.

Robert Barry

We remain confident GM will offer some assistance to Delphi, but bankruptcy risk cannot be ignored. We think GM would find it hard to justify not offering its struggling, former captive supplier, Delphi, some form of assistance.

Ignacio Bunye

We respect the views of the former general, appreciate his sense of nationalism and share his concerns about the plight of our people. But this quixotic declaration is pathetic and unfortunate.

Fidel Castro

What has the former football star done to be looking so good?

Mark Leahy

What's kind of neat is they're honoring Walter Chrysler with this and we're honoring Henry Ford, two former pioneers. We're trying to inspire the pioneers of today.

Robert Reich

We're going to have to have a massive program to get these people permanent housing, ideally near or in their former communities, to get them jobs, to help restart businesses and to provide transportation,

Candice Millard

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

Maajid Nawaz

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

Zhang Guobao

The outcome of evaluation on the oil and gas resources was better than former data.

Adam Ereli

We've asked the government of Libya to identify the source of the interference and resolve the problem. And we'll be continuing to investigate it.

Franco Harris

We've always been very close. But right now I feel there needs to be a change in the direction from where our national administration has taken us and where the Republicans in state government want to take us.

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.

Jonathan Moyo

When I was in government it was routine for these CIO agents and their factional counterparts in government and ZANU PF politicians to abuse me as a scapegoat for anything they were unable to explain or defend.

Jim Hall

When I was in government I always paid close attention to whistleblowers. While sometimes people consider them a thorn in the side, many times they're very conscientious individuals who are trying to do their job.

John Clippinger

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

Will Self

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

Nicholas Burns

We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.

Ron Redmond

We reminded the government of Chad that it has the primary responsibility for ensuring the security of refugee camps on its territory.

Rick Segal

When we were there, our influence on where things were going was dramatically higher because of the lack of an open-source community, standards bodies, and the inability of developers at-large to communicate. Those days are so over, it's frightening.

Caroline Lawrence

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

Steve Nash

When I was in my last year in high school, I decided I wanted to try to make it in the NBA. So I went to college and figured out I could do it. Once I figured out I could play in the NBA, I also figured I could be an All-Star. I knew I could do it.

Dennis Jones

When I was in high school, we would load up out-of-state hunters in a 1955 International pickup truck and tell them to hang on. We would bring them back after the hunt, dustier than heck and they would give us some cash.

Deb Vercauteren

When I was in high school, we had track for five weeks my senior year. That was all for women's sports. So, we've come a long way from having almost nothing.

Miles Teller

When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.

Adam Derek Scott

When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.

John Goodman

When I was in high school playing against those guys I really didn't feel friendly towards them at all. I tried to make myself think I hated Unionville at the time, and there was definitely a lot of trash talking. You run into those guys all the time. It's pretty important to have those bragging rights so you can walk with your head a little higher. But now that I'm out of school and you see those guys there's no hate there. I have a lot of respect for them.

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.

Russell Crowe

What holds South Sydney back can be attributed to lack of funding, but it also is possibly attributed to too many cooks spoil the broth.

Rob Smith

We're getting an indication of what the future holds for us. We're not going into this thing blind.

Granth Sahib

The One, who holds all creatures in His Hands, is never separated from them; He is with them all. Abandon your clever devices, and grasp hold of His Support. In an instant, you shall be saved.

Mikhail Kamynin

The plot behind this terror attack is obvious - to agitate the situation in a country that holds a leading position in the Arab world and to undermine the situation in the Middle East as a whole.

Diane Wood

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Jonathan Schwartz

Until today, the thought was that a move to an industry-standard platform meant a move toward hot, inefficient servers, with weak management and a hodgepodge of system components. We're here to call an end to that era. The move away from proprietary systems now holds the promise of increasing performance, decreasing power bills and consolidating data center creep - and Sun's legendary innovation puts us at the forefront of driving and claiming that opportunity.

Brene Brown

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Kim Jee-woon

Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.

George Jackson

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Frederick Saunders

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Kurt Vonnegut

in nonsense is strength

Bertrand Russel

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

C. L. R. James

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

Carl Jung

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

Carolyn Wells

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.