Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard LeVine

The outstanding performance by the Investments Office in the past year has matched a record of achievement over time that has earned (Chief Investment Officer) David Swensen and his colleagues the highest possible praise and admiration from their peers,

Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Elliott Abrams

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

Dale T. Mortensen

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

Brian Thomas

We played well and to earn a berth to the state tournament is an outstanding achievement for this team. We've had an outstanding season and we deserve to be in the state tournament.

Kyle Whittingham

We prepared very well for them. I thought we would play well, but I didn't think that we would win like this. They're the 10th-ranked defense in the country and we put up over 500 yards on them. They're a very good football team and we were able to dominate them. It's quite an achievement for us.

Virginia Postrel

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.

Virat Kohli

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Lamar Alexander

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Yayoi Kusama

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

Bryan Whitman

The overall level of (Afghan and NATO) security forces in the country is growing.

Charles Stross

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

Bart Chilton

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

Ben Elliot

I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.

Bryan Way

The overall kicking game, kickoffs as well as punting, helped us out tremendously. To pin them back like we did gave the defense an opportunity to put more pressure on them.

Lloyd Hulit

We played well from the start of the first game. We were eager to play and we played with passion from the start. I was very pleased with our pitching and our defense was solid.

Farris Lowery

We played well - especially in the second quarter. We just try to take what the defense will give us and our girls have done a nice job of finding the open person.

James Davis

We played well despite what they were trying to do. That's all we can ask, man. They want you to be in a man-to-man defense to run the Princeton offense with back-door screens. We had success with them with a zone defense. That really was the difference in the game.

Adam Holt

We played well defensively tonight. We also rebounded well and shot pretty good from the floor. It has been our defense and rebounding that has been getting it done for us this year.

Mike Maynard

We played well as a team, and our defense supported our pitchers.

Missy Sharer

We played nice defense in the second half. We did a good job rebounding and limited them to only one shot.

Gary Meyer

We play very good defense and we're a very good rebounding team. Those are our redeeming qualities.

Don Meyers

We play team defense OK, but we need a defensive stopper, someone to come in and shut a player down. Luke played really hard today, and did some nice things defensively. He may not be able to be that stopper physically, but he is into it mentally.

Dennis Christopher

I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.

Steve Adlard

We played a great first half and dominated play and possession and frustrated them in everything they tried to. I don't think they got into flow of game. Obviously with no shots on goal it gives indication.

John Adshead

We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight.

Scott Skiles

We pretty much got dominated all over the place. It was a full-on rout. We've been an unpredictable group, there's no question about that. We've had an up-and-down year in regard to our focus. Some nights we look great and some nights we don't. Tonight was unfortunately a don't.

Scott Skiles

We pretty much got dominated all over the place.

John McNichols

We pretty much dominated from the team's scoring aspect, and benefited on some events that only the D-1 schools were scored.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Alan J. Heeger

Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.

Scott Skiles

We have had games like that where we haven't been sharp. I was hopeful that we were going to come out and play well. We pretty much got dominated all over the place.

David Swacker

The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.

Mark Richt

We played a great football team. They executed beautifully.

Kyle Whittingham

We played about 55 minutes of very good football,

Joe Gibbs

When are we going to start getting it done? I don't know. I know we're here for the long haul. So, at some point, we've got to start getting it done if we're going to win football games.

Joe Jurevicius

What we have to do is realize we have potential here and we do have a special football team here,

John Eastman

We are going to treat it as a normal week just like any other game. Obviously, our kids know it's homecoming, but as a football team, we haven't even talked about it.

Larry Coker

We're not going to be intimidated going into Clemson, South Carolina. We're going to take a good football team there and we're going to play well there.

Larry Blakeney

We had some guys who made plays on offense. But we had 15 or so negative plays. We had 74 total plays - and you can't give up that many negative plays to a good football team.

Lawrie Sanchez

Tommy said that international football just isn't for him,

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Paul McHale

We prepared well. We were not passive. We were not slow.

Pearl Cleage

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

Timothy Brown

We can't go without water. We have to be prepared for anything.

William Williams

Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Michael Michele

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Charlton Heston

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

Damien Chazelle

As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

David Buckley

When the universe was very young it was smooth and had a uniform distribution but now it is quite clumpy,

Vikram Chatwal

My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Ken Dixon

We're kind of blase about 'just ride the bus,' but you don't realize how tough it is. It's quite a trip, especially if you have kids.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Richard Corso

We play more of a team offense. She's not going to know who's going to go off.

Kerry Loughran

We play a team game. That?s how we win championships.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Matt Gordon

We did what we had to do to win. They (Lincoln) are a tough team - they play real hard. I give them credit.

Jonathan Toews

When you see him up close, you see all the little things he does and as a teammate it is appreciated.

Dick Cheney

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

Romeo Crennel

We still have a long way to go, ... We're going to be competitive with this team at some point. When that is, I don't know.

Mark Teixeira

We still feel like this is a team that can compete. Unfortunately, this was our start, and we've got to turn it around.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Samuel Butler

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Shaquille O'Neal

It matters in a fatherly way.

Junior Seau

We did what we had to do. Getting a win was key.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Brad Halsey

We didn't play well and we didn't win the ballgame. That's what happens. I really don't know what else to say about it.

Vicente Fox

We are going to win this battle. We'll see who is tougher, we'll see who is more stubborn,

Dear Abbey

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Sharon Allen

We're just going to try and win another game.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Henry Ford

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

Seth Rogen

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

John Bytheway

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.