Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Knight

Refining problems are behind the higher prices today, which have pushed Gulf Coast cash prices extremely high

Woody Allen

Recently there has been a lot of controversy between the countries, and I would hope that now the two countries could put all that behind them and start to build on what really has been a great friendship,

Damon Galgut

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Javier Aguirre

Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.

John Hughs

President Bush's speech relieved some fears that war is imminent, it boosted the overseas markets and gave us a little short-covering rally at the open, but I'm not that impressed. There's nothing behind it,

Jim Folkman

Our reputation is behind this. We want to make sure that when a house reaches a certain standard that it does perform at that level.

Chris Baca

Our players play a physical type of game. Some teams aren't used to that and don't like it, and feel we are playing dirty. But they were pushing our players from behind and knocked down a few.

Mike Beaumont

Patrick pitched well. He just didn't have anything behind him.

Kenny Gray

Payne had moments where he struggled with his control, but he pitched well. He had good defense behind him and that was good enough to get the win.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Shami Chakrabarti

reflect on the culture of intolerance that he may be promoting in his party and the country as a whole.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

Referendums are not held in an unstable country with unstable society.

King Abdullah

reject any country to have nuclear weapons, especially in the Middle East region.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

Philip Reeker

Our policy toward Iran has not changed. The president has said we will be looking for indications that countries do want to change. But ... we've had long-standing concerns.

Eric Stuckey

Parking itself is a very speculative revenue source. We have been hesitant to count on that as too much of a funding source.

John Tesh

Pat, the last election was decided by voters who listed 'moral values' as their primary concern. What do you think this means for the country and should we try to mend fences with the liberals?

Andy Emanuel

Our morale is still high. We enjoy each others' company, and that counts for a lot.

Mike Holmgren

Statistics can be misleading. The only stat that counts is the score at the end of the game.

African Proverb

Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given

Wavell Hinds

It feels nice and it is a privilege to don the maroon outfit in such a great milestone game and I hope I can take heart from the experience of such an opportunity and make every game that counts after a meaningful one.

Mark Teague

It counts down the time until the steady don't walk comes up. This is another way for people crossing the road to know how much time they have.

Chuck Hagel

John's a realist. John counts pretty well ... John's a very effective leader and politician, and mathematically you just can't get there.

Alessandro Piero

I don't have anything to prove. I don't think I will be judged by this game. I'm hoping the rest of the season counts more, mostly the league.

Ron Hill

He knows the league. He's been around the league for 12 years. That's a quality I think counts for something. He's been around some good programs. You look at the success of those teams, he's had his fingerprints on them. I think he's a good hire for the Vikings.

Stephen Rodrick

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

David Joy

Part of the reason we see inflation rising next year is the dollar. Clearly, there is upward pressure on prices because of the falling dollar.

Robert Parker

Parts of them have fallen and the rest of them have the potential to fall as well,

Blake Powers

Our line has done a great job of protecting me and we've got some really talented receivers on this team. I try not to think much about all of the numbers. I'm just trying to get better every week, and if I can do that everything else will fall in place.

Frank Mauro

People in the middle are sort of treading water. People at the lower end are still falling behind.

Frank Griswold

Such thinking -- in which the responsibility for repentance, restoration and healing falls exclusively on one side of a disagreement -- is not the way of reconciliation laid out for us by the Scripture.

David Walton

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

Scott Favre

starting to get 50-, 60-mph winds, and the phones are going in and out. Tell Brett everything's OK. A tree did fall on my aunt's house, which is right by Mom's, but everyone's OK.

John Davidson

Some of that risk has been taken off the table. That can be seen in the falling price of oil and a rise in equities.

Kristen Barry

Some games my shots are off. But if I keep shooting, I know they'll fall in.

Mike Schepp

I think the tournament has looked pretty impressive to the NCAA in that regard.

Michael Metz

It is an impressive showing for the market again,

Bruce Bochy

That was an impressive at-bat. He fouled one off his knee and he battled, then he got one he could handle.

Jack McCarthy

It doesn't always look impressive the way we play sometimes but we play with what we have.

Mike Bianco

Lance pitched great. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.

John Reid

He's a very impressive young man who can play in various roles, so there is some keen interest there,

John Collins

I don't think I've ever had so many impressive people say so many impressive things.

Mack Brown

I was pleased with the young quarterbacks. They've got a lot of work to do. I thought the most impressive thing was their poise.

Dale Davis

If we make it there, the most impressive thing about that list is that most of those teams went on to win it.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

John Hedgecoth

We think that this strikes the right balance.

John Wilhelm

Strikes are always a possibility. But we are not a strike-happy union. I look at strikes as a failure.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Reggie Lewis

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

Maria Sharapova

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

Brandon Sing

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did today.

David Peterson

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did,

Matt Kuchar

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.