Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

We've always wanted to improve our bullpen, but until this year we weren't able to get the pieces we wanted. It's been frustrating. . . . It's not easy to spend the bulk of the game battling for a lead and then seeing it get away. . . . Now we have some depth. We have some quality arms.

Ted Young

We've always wanted to get out and run the floor, and if you get an easy one, great, but be patient and get the best shot available.

Linda Lightfoot

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

Kyle Whittingham

When we went to 12 games, everybody kind of went into panic mode because scheduling a game is not quite as easy as you might think. Usually, these games are scheduled five, six, seven years in advance.

James Nesbitt

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

John Bingham

We're getting to drastic options. We don't have any easy ones left.

Rick Stansbury

We're going to play a very good team that has one of the best front courts in this league. It won't be very easy for us.

James Smith

We're going to get to a number like 3.8 percent in the next four months. Jobs are plentiful and easy to get. The economy is strong, no two ways about it.

Kent Beck

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

Chris Kraus

When we came in as freshmen, we had hopes and dreams, but to be here right now is just amazing. We're just enjoying every minute of it, but we're also preparing for the Final Four.

Ivanka Trump

We broke up a month ago. But we're very good friends. Prior to that, I was in another long-term relationship. For now, I'm just enjoying being single.

Mike Maroth

We're doing everything it takes to win. I'm definitely enjoying going to the ballpark every day.

Phil Jackson

We're exploring life without Shaq, ... and enjoying it, too.

Zach Keene

We're focused, but yet we're still enjoying the moment. No matter how many times you've been there, it's still something special.

Monica Lewinsky

I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

Brennan Brown

We are progressing. I am excited about the fact that we are improving every match. What else can you ask for as long as the kids are getting better and enjoying the process? It's a young, inexperienced team, but the more matches we play, the better we are getting.

Rick Reynolds

We're in a lodge. We're not in a tent. It's a way to relax at night. A little television indoors doesn't take away from my experience enjoying the scenery here.

Steve Richardson

We've basically been forced into the paper ballot situation, it's not something we want to do.

Brendan Shanahan

When we were playing with the lead, it forced them to open up a little bit. The onus is on us to break the trap.

Colin Farrell

When we were kind of forced (by real life sniper murders in the Washington area that were too close to the film's plot) to pull the picture in October (from its Nov. 15 date), he wasn't nearly as big a star as he is today after 'Daredevil' and 'The Recruit.' He's become this hot guy.

Tim Shaw

When we were forced to come back on the field really quick, you would see it -- we were pretty tired.

Nia Vardalos

Tom will play a man who is forced into a career change when he least expects it.

Clare Short

We remain concerned that refugees in Macedonia are being forced onto planes and buses. This is unacceptable. We understand Macedonian concerns and will provide support to Macedonia, provided it complies with international rights and norms in its treatment of refugees.

Tom Lamb

Weymouth forced us to throw the ball and Nick did a great job. He also had two drops that would've been touchdowns. In two games he's thrown 30 passes and only one wasn't a good one.

John Hamilton

We bring sort of a venture mindset, but structured in a way to help entrepreneurs that don't want to give up control and don't want to be forced to sell their businesses.

Debbie Stabenow

We believe we need to tackle this problem with the same sense of urgency felt by our seniors who are forced to choose between medicine and food.

Tom O'Neill

What Hollywood has done is push the responsibility for funding movies onto the creative people who make them.

Dave Navarro

We're going to have the hottest chicks in Hollywood here,

Robert Earl

We're going to bring Hollywood to Vegas, and we're going to have a must-see attraction.

Chloe Sevigny

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you.

Chloe Sevigny

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.

Charlize Theron

People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.

Billy Wilder

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Billy Wilder

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Madhur Bhandarkar

While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.

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.

John Hoch

When we were up seven at halftime, coach told us to keep playing our game. We knew we had to keep rolling and in the second half we just shot lights out.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Dave Klingel

When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't have to face Meade. We didn't play well against them during the season and we knew they would be a tough team to face early in the tournament.

R. Ingram

When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to prove it. We've come a long way and it's great to be back to .500 and to know we'll get a home game in the tournament.

John Tesh

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Paul Jewell

We've asked again but with the price they're asking, it's silly money as they don't want to sell him.

Daron Malakian

When we were a club band, we always used to say, 'Man, if we ever see success, we'd like to open doors for other people, to push the boundaries and fully contribute something to art, to music, that is going to help it evolve instead of doing stuff for the sake of money or doing stuff for the sake of being popular.

Rev. Donaldson

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

Luis Suarez

When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.

Chelan Simmons

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.

Ice Cube

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

John Woo

When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.

Stjepan Hauser

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Jonathan Potter

You don't lose money by appealing to fans.

Jill Malko

We've asked her to do things that she didn't anticipate. She has played all these roles because of all the injuries. But she's the type of player that can play anywhere on the field and that's pretty hard to find.

Al Groh

We've asked a lot of him being a young player. ... He's been asked to come in and play a major role in a hurry, but he's a very mature kid and he takes coaching terrifically.

Rachel Tucker

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

Bob Nardelli

Tom Taylor brings decades of company and retail experience to his new role. He has touched virtually every part of company and has in-depth knowledge of stores, products, associates, suppliers and customers. Tom has served in numerous leadership roles that have directly influenced merchandising and marketing efforts.

Tom Beckett

Tom's a wonderful person and outstanding role model. We value what he's done (but) we felt it was the right time to begin new leadership.

Gernot Erler

We remain in talks about what should be decided there, and what the role of the United Nations should be.

Harry Reid

We respectfully request that you reconvene hearings as soon as possible to take these witnesses sworn testimony about their roles in the Cheney energy task force and the recent run-up in American fuel prices,

Katie Featherston

I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.

Kathy Bates

The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Fred Matua

We're going to take what they're saying and just go with it. We believe that we're the best. They believe that they're the best. What we say over here is, 'The fourth shall set us free. The truth will be told.' Let's go play.

Jeb Bush

We're going to prosecute now that the law has been changed, ... We're going to prosecute a case worker who, for whatever reason, as an investigator did not tell the truth and put the child potentially in harm's way by that action.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Michael Leunig

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,

Walt Whitman

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Chris Crutcher

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Jean Marais

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Jim Butler

What happens now is that the reckoning begins. Two decades of concealing the truth and lying are coming to an end.

Eric Alterman

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

Rob Pike

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.

Robert Farmer

I found them in the proverbial old trunk, ... One of them may be the oldest phone directory in town. It's just a single sheet of paper with typed numbers on it.

John Payne

(Long) told us he was running for full term when we typed it in.

Janet Weiss

I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Anna Ginsberg

I thought it was creative and it tasted so good. I ran upstairs and typed it up.

Tom Wolfe

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Geraldine McCaughrean

My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.