Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Colvin

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

Lou Holtz

Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Ben Saylor

I take the same approach every time. Early in the count I'm hoping they throw me a mistake and that's what I feel like happened in the first couple of at-bats. It's really important when another team makes a mistake, you've really got to bury them. You have to go right after them and make those mistakes hurt. I think our team did a good job of that.

Katrina Kaif

You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.

John Denham

What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.

Steve Gardner

He's a good hitter. You put it where a guy like him likes it you're going to pay the price. We didn't pitch him very well. Our approach was to work him away, work him off-speed and elevate the ball. We just didn't elevate it enough.

Jim LaBelle

He said he had the runway in sight ... and was going to circle to land. He thought he had enough visibility to make a visible approach to the runway.

David Edmunds

He said he had seen the horses before but was scared to approach them,

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Hanan Ashrawi

He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Jim Stack

Having lived it and been around people who have lived it, you understand what it takes to get to this level and stay at this level. A lot of guys don't have that same understanding of the day-in and day-out commitment it takes to play at this high of a level.

Peter Hughes

Her warmth and understanding, her vibrant energy and her commitment to education for all will be sadly missed.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Layne Langholf

Her hard work and commitment have opened up a lot of doors. We are going to miss her leadership and the fact that she played in over 100 varsity games.

Tyler Hansbrough

He left a really goofy voicemail. I can't really explain what he said. He just screamed into the phone.

Source Unknown

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Todd Pratt

He's dirty. There isn't much to explain when you see the numbers out there and how quickly he went through the lineup.

Jerry Kelly

He seemed like a wonderful guy. It's impossible to explain something like this and what may have gone wrong for him.

Jim Parkman

I think it's more harmful than it is good. Most defendants say, 'Put me up there, and I can explain everything away.' And that doesn't happen.

Mark Boudreaux

We take these issues very seriously. We realized that we needed to do a better job of explaining how the industry works.

Donna Karan

He was really the one man who was the voice of the designer. He understood us as designers, and then he could explain us to the consumer.

Pablo Picasso

I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understand the picture.

Ronald Utt

I am baffled. This is not incompetence. This is willful. That is the only way I can explain it.

Larry Garza

He never expressed anything to me about pain.

Ruth Campbell

I've heard girls that have expressed interest. When the girls played year-round, we had a lot of success.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Jay Sekulow

All of us who were supporting the White House on this expressed that we have a job here; this isn't a cakewalk,

Don Olsen

They expressed interest and we saw it as an opportunity to reduce debt.

John Boehner

They expressed frustration with the idea of granting those that are here illegally amnesty.

Hazel Blears

It was good. Everyone expressed their views and were free to say what they felt.

John Saul

Dictionary: Opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

Michael Davis

Super Millionaire' will take the format to a whole new level.

Marguerite Moreau

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

Phil Redman

Right now we are still in the convergence transition period, with a lot of different applications and operating systems out there that need to be put together. There's no standardized format for this yet -- it's like a puzzle where the pieces have been all shaken up and now they all need to be organized.

Ellie Kendrick

Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

Paolo Bacigalupi

The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Richard Thomas

I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.

Hari Kondabolu

I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

John Boyega

Hollywood has given me a great, warm hug.

Thomas Griffith

I think it's going very well. I think Judge Peters has given them a nice explanation.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Carlos Emmons

What do you think? Man, I could have played next week.

Joey Stanton

Within the next 10 years, probably all jails will become smoke-free.

Pete Carroll

Just my game-plan folders (are saved). I have a stack of those through the years. I'm not a big memorabilia guy. My office may look cluttered, but it's not from memorabilia.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Goldberg

Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Andrew Forman

We may just open our own transition office.

Charlie Leonard

He was in the office at 7 a.m. this morning.

Ryan Holmes

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

Richard M. Nixon

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Robert Byrd

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Ivanka Trump

There's an openness we can have with him.

Ronald Reagan

I urged the Soviet leader, Mr. Gorbachev, to send a new signal of openness to the world by tearing down that wall.

Dean Acosta

That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.

Daniel Greenstein

very taken by the openness to the approach.

George Barna

That suggests a lot of openness to more solid biblical discipling.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Conroy Hines

He is probably our go-to receiver right now. He's making plays. He doesn't do it right all the time, but when he has an opportunity to make a catch, he'll do it.

Greg Brenneman

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders. This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

John Campbell

I think it's an opportunity to have some new blood,

Scott White

I think they were pleased to have the opportunity to tell their story to a jury. That's really all you can do.

Tony Espinoza

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

Eugene Levy

I don't know whether (comics) have the opportunity to be as well-rounded, necessarily,

Bob Baffert

I've always wanted to go in on top of the race, but I've never had the guts. They've already shipped and won.

Brian Esip

I signed up one week and shipped out the next.

Jerry Costello

Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Wallace Stevens

It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Phil McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.