Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Guy Moszkowski

We've anticipated some of that. There is going to be some uncertainty again surrounding when the equity underwriting calendar's going to look better and all the other businesses.

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.

Graeme Smith

We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

Christian Winthrop

We've always maintained that the whole premise of her candidacy has been silly. Ms. McFarland is not a serious candidate and once again she's proved it.

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.

Katie McMahon

We've always competed against D-I teams in our division. Now we're playing big name East Coast schools and we're getting more recognition. However, the team is not eligible for the playoffs for another two years.

Robbie Loomis

When we win again with Petty Enterprises, that's going to be a great day, and a lot of emotions will be flowing.

Jeff Brown

We've asked Yahoo to use their filtering to prevent piracy, not for profit. We tried to discuss it with Yahoo.

Ben Sherwood

We've asked Tony to stay with 'GMA' through the end of November so that he can participate in our 30th anniversary celebrations. He has generously agreed,

Ken Warwick

We've asked this question ourselves time and time again.

Elliot Diringer

We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.

Bill Stenger

We've asked them to slow down and think this thing through a little bit better.

Kathi Moore

We've asked them to give us the details on the spill, what happened, how it happened, what caused it, what they've done to contain and control it.

Tom Slater

We've asked them repeatedly to produce a lease. A lease shows that there will be a continuity of care, that they'll be there, and not just on a month-to-month basis.

William Daley

We've asked the lawyers to work overnight to draft some documents, and we'll be back in the morning.

Kevin Rampe

We've asked the jury so much, and they've given so much more, ... We're very excited about the jury's selection.

Robert Hathaway

We've assured the King family we will give it our best efforts to review the case and resolve it for their family.

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.

Josh Sims

We've always known that we can play with some of the best teams in the league and score.

Mark Fredrickson

We've always had a policy of qualifying and buying the very best technology that we can put in our systems. We intend to continue to buy disk drives from IBM, contingent on their ability to meet our standards.

Jeff Hathaway

We've always done what was best for our basketball programs and all of our programs. You have to decide what it is you need, where you're going to put it. These are projects that take some time.

Diane Sollee

When we were saying it doesn't matter in the '60s and '70s and '80s, we didn't have the experience of enough kids in a culture when families were breaking down. It was just our best guess.

Odell Thurman

When we were coming into the (scouting) combine, they asked who was the best back you played against, and I said (Williams) the whole time. He's going to be great. You look at him, and you might not think he's all that strong. But he's a power runner. It's the style he plays.

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

Chelsea Peretti

When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

Kathi Moore

We've asked them to give us the details on the spill, what happened, how it happened, what caused it, what they've done to contain and control it.

Randy Fletcher

When we went to the zone, we played well. I don't like to go to the zone, but we've been playing it and playing it fairly well. The one time we went to sleep and they came right up and hit a three. But, we sucked it up and caused some bad shots.

John Sulston

When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.

Toni Atkins

What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.

Bob Hofman

We gutted it out. We had a poor first half. But we played a lot better in the second half. We really picked up on defense and caused a lot of turnovers.

Mark Davis

Union Pacific apologizes for the inconveniences caused to Texarkana. Our hearts go out to the family that lost a person as a result of the derailment.

Kevin Browne

Usually, history suggests that the others would have to match their pricing to be competitive with the given market. Discount airlines in the past have caused that to take place, and I don't see any reason that this wouldn't cause the same adjustment within the marketplace.

William Comanor

U.S. Steel was a continual drag on the economy for the next 50 years and caused substantial harm,

Dean Foster

We expended so much energy to get ourselves back in the game that we started pressing ourselves a little too much at the end. We forced up a lot of shots at the end, but give them credit. They came at hard defensively and caused us to do some things we're not used to doing today.

Doug Campbell

We've always wanted to see what it was like and visit some friends here. It's a lot of fun, and luckily the weather has been great.

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.

Ian Forrester

When it comes down to racing like this, ... you have to ignore all friendship and just get down to business.

Mike Carter

When I talk to friends about Western Kentucky University, I brag about how good they have been.

Boris Yeltsin

We remain friends, ... in a very friendly atmosphere.

Jose Gutierrez

Whenever my old girl would catch me with a new one, I'd tell her she was just a friend - but she was really a new honey. Lying just, I don't know. It seemed like the nicer way to go.

Lisa Whiting

What 15-year-old hasn't felt like that at one time or another? With all the evidence, I can't believe they're willing to call this a simple runaway based on one page in her dairy and something a friend said. She was mad because she couldn't go to a winter formal dance with her friends.

Mary Matalin

What he did was not an irrational thing. This was a very close friend this happened to. Everyone was shaken up about it. When I spoke to him, it was all about Harry, worrying about him.

Layton Aliviado

We both came out of San Bernardino (Calif.) so they kind of knew each other from there and they're friends. It's going to be good to play them. We kind of know them and they're a good team so we just have to be on our toes.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Alan Alda

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Charles Frazier

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

Laura Carmichael

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Benjamin Spock

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Arthur Hertzberg

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

Bayard Rustin

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

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.

Tiger Woods

When we were taking the carts back to the tee, ... I couldn't hear anything. In my left ear, I'm half deaf, people whistling and screaming, and then my right ear, I'm half deaf. It was electric, it was loud, people were really into it. J. D. brings huge galleries everywhere he goes.

Cedric Redmond

When we were going into the locker room at halftime, we heard some fans saying that we're going to fall apart in the second half. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen.

Dan Donegan

When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

Omar Sy

When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

Barbara Boxer

To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.

Don Alexander

Tom Welter (the OSAA executive director) told me they were getting a hearings officer ready to go (today) if an appeal is filed.

Tyrone Marshall

We're more aware of each other now. Guys are looking out for each other. We're doing more things together. That definitely relieves some of the stress and heartache that we've been having over the past couple of weeks. Being able to come out here and play soccer is a step in the right direction. Doug is still in our minds and our hearts.

David Scurto

We're making excellent progress. It was a very informative meeting and it was good for us to be able to hear from residents that live in both the north and south ends of the city. It was very interesting to hear what they had to say.

Barry Russell

We're starting to find a way to win by finding a way to get on base however possible. Sometimes it seems like we find a way to try to lose and we need to overcome that.

Edward Norton

We're so hung up on this notion that we have some obligation to help the struggling black man, you know. Cut him some slack until he can overcome these historical injustices. It's crap. I mean, Christ, Lincoln freed the slaves, like, what? 130 years ago. How long does it take to get your act together?

David Benelli

What they told me ... is they feel they were justified in their actions and they were using the amount of force necessary to overcome the situation.

John Walters

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

William Rice

University Web development sits in between a generally conservative fiscally-minded administration and an extremely Web-savvy student body. The best university Web sites have been able to overcome this gap and provide a wide range of information and tools, such as online registration, to their students and perhaps even more importantly their perspective students.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Paule Marshall

We started getting a lot of guys involved and more touches and we scored goals, but just not enough to overcome giving up 18.

Herb Sendek

When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year.

Russel Honore

Worse things have happened to America. We're going to overcome this, too. It's not our fault. The storm came and flooded the city.

Steve Matlock

We've assembled a team of dedicated, energetic people whose experience and enthusiasm for this industry is unparalleled. With these talented leaders in place, La-Z-Boy is in for an exciting ride.

Susan Dunn

We've asked the congregation a lot of different things during this period, getting opinions, because we want the whole body to be working toward the same goals. And we believe that the church should get outside its walls and reach out into the community and meet needs of people that live around the church and in the same town, as well as other places beyond our boundaries.

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.

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.

Randy Honebrink

We've always tried to reduce the number of people getting bit by sharks through education and awareness. We try to get our safety tips out through our Web site and in publications.

Charlie Sands

We've always tried to have the thing that people want.

Tim Coghlin

We've always thought they were a very skilled team but they're even more skilled than people know. They skate really well, they swarm the puck, the protect they puck well. They all have exceptional puck skills, stick skills, and they compete.

Terry Lickona

We've always known there was a reason to keep all these original masters. We've never erased a single tape from any show we've ever done. We've just about run out of space to store these tapes, but they've turned out be gems. We're proud of these old shows and we think they deserve to be seen by new generations of fans and people that have been fans all along.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

We believe we can get an outcome that will be satisfying for the March 6 meeting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Chris Christie

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

John Tyler Bonner

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

Gretchen Rubin

If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run.

Bill Nighy

When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.

Bernard Haisch

Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

Jane Fonda

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Katie Montgomery

We've barely had enough to go five-on-five, but we're ready to be aggressive and do whatever it takes to win. We've beaten tough teams this season. We know how to double-team and help each other out. We just have to be focused and work hard.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

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.

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.

Todd Walker

When it comes down to who's playing second, it's going to be their own opinion. I can't put words in anybody's mouth. It's whatever they want. I just have to make it tough on them, to do the best I can this month.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Jared Voss

Tony is an all-day tough kid. We have a lot of confidence in him to get out of those tough situations. I'm not surprised he came through today.

Barbara Boxer

To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Ozzie Guillen

When we were really struggling, you didn't see guys get two hits in a game. Any time someone got one hit, one walk -- nobody could put it together. Tonight when we were hitting the ball, one guy got three hits, one had two RBIs, one had two hits, all of a sudden you don't need nine guys to get a hit -- just two or three to get a hit at the right time.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Natalie Cole

When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

Philippe Petit

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

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.

Rose Johnson

When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.

Larry Shaw

We respect everybody we compete against. Everyone here had to qualify. You don't walk through.

Dan Hawkins

We're so much about that. What I've tried to do a little bit, and part of this is for my own good because I'm very much like that, is to be able to walk away from the locker room after the game and go, 'All right. We won!'

Mike Hargrove

We're sitting there in the middle of the game and all of a sudden a rat walked into our dugout. It must have been about six or seven inches long. It took a while for someone from the grounds crew to come get it, put it in a box and take it away.