Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mackey Sasser

The bottom line is, their pitchers were better than our hitters tonight. We had our chance but we couldn't get the job done. It's the same old thing we've seen all year. We have a runner at third base with less than two outs and we can't him in.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Rob Parish

Normally we wouldn't race two times in three days, but we wanted to cover our bases and preview the course.

Tom Woodruff

(Cody) didn't run the bases really well, but we we'll take what he did at the plate and what he did on defense any day. That was a good trade off.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Jess Blackburn

As far as their marketing goes, that's marketing. We continue to have a very solid relationship with Intel and nothing has changed in that respect. We probably are their largest customer; we shipped 10 million systems in the fourth quarter. I don't think any supplier is going to ignore a customer that is building that many systems and using that many of their parts in them.

Robert Moeller

The building was put up for sale, ... and I had a thought that maybe we ought to consider trying to buy it. And then a couple of other people expressed the same thought to me.

Andrew Fox

The building is heated hydronically, entirely by hydro-air, ... We built the heating system around 11 primary water-to-air heat exchangers that range in capacity from 3,500 to 18,500 cfm per unit.

Tom Marsh

(Developers) are probably going to have to build part of McEwen. There may be some questions from surrounding folks about building McEwen to the interstate, but that may be a little excessive.

Mark Dewalt

A one-room country school is not just about education. It builds pride in the community.

Jim Barker

The signing of these two key members of our football team is further evidence of the commitment this organization has to building continuity.

Rich Manning

The team played with much better rhythm and purpose during the last game. Some of the rust looked like it was coming off. I was pleased with the progress. We have several players returning next fall and we have high expectations for the level of soccer that we should be performing at. Hopefully, we'll build on this during the coming weeks.

Jeffrey Hunter

The Mountains to Sea Trail is an important link in a planned 5,000-mile trail system here in the Southeast. Participants in the volunteer vacation will help to take us one step closer to building out this great trail system for future generations.

Bob Thompson

The most logical explanation is that the scale of what we were actually able to observe on TV on Sept. 11 - planes crashing into buildings, buildings collapsing - were so visceral and immediate,

Richard Harmon

Our customer is one that wants to live the Big Event.

Ken Golden

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Bill Miller

The start of production and the first shipment to a customer represent significant milestones for MED. There is still much to do but we look forward to 2006 with confidence.

Maria Gonzalez

The skiers would come in here and it'd be really busy. Now it's just local customers and no tourists.

Jacob Arabo

Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer satisfaction is guaranteed.

Dan Ryan

This really is a new application driven by the customer base.

David Porter

We decided that for this holiday season we should be involved in some type of offering. We know our customers match up with his fans.

Dave Andrews

We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.

Peter Pawlak

Customers can download these patches just as they would a Microsoft patch.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Michael Strahan

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Auguste Comte

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Burt Rutan

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

Al Gore

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

Charles Colson

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Blake Edwards

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.