Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Anna Rozenich

Based on McDonald's business performance, shareholders have demonstrated continued confidence in McDonald's management and strategic direction,

Bill Harlow

Based on lessons learned from the Deutch matter,

Joan Miles

Based on information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, we had no reason to believe the ammonia would permeate the packaging, so we determined that the food was still suitable for human consumption.

Rod Shealy

At the end of the day, voters will judge him based on his excellent performance in office, not on speeding tickets.

John Lutz

Doctors are under significant pressure since 1991 to do as much or more based on fewer dollars.

Nancy Becker

could be based on a legally insufficient theory of law.

Meir Soloveichik

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

Cyril Beuzit

We've had an accumulation of hawkish comments from the ECB and the momentum behind the European economy is now quite strong. The picture remains quite negative for the bond markets.

James Mangold

Everybody had an idea about Joaquin and kind of his relationship, his darkness and the things he had done playing more cynical or dark roles, ... But this charisma when he gets behind the mike, the joy in him, the unmitigated joy you see in his face when he's watching Reese, and the love. These are things I feel we haven't seen before in his many roles.

Jerry Angelo

Everybody else saw him as a role back. But we saw him as a featured back and our money stood behind that assessment.

Kelly Gray

Everyone's really happy to just have a name finalized so that we can have it behind us.

Mike Connolly

Everyone wants to make the playoffs. A game like this is frustrating, but we've got to put it behind us.

A.J. Burnett

Every play they made behind me pumped me up even more and gave me the energy to keep going.

Robert Forster

Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.

Brent Bryant

Every solution also has drawbacks. Our goal is to work to find the most economic solution that prevents cattle theft and puts those who break the law behind bars.

Matthew Dowd

Every incumbent president in the last 25 years has been behind the opposition in the latter part of his first term -- the sky is not falling.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Sean Mallon

We don't really we buy into the Cinderella thing. This is why we came to Gonzaga, to get in this situation and play these kinds of games. We look at this is where we should be.

Steve Schneider

You have to look for something that the chain stores don't carry. Don't think that Wal-Mart will buy your product tomorrow. Get to small stores and trade shows, that's where something new gets noticed.

Ricky Shook

You have a kid that's wrestling a real good guy, you tell him hopefully you can win this match, but if you can't, you have to wrestle back hard, not only for yourself to extend your season, but for the team. From day one they see the banners in the gym and they understand. I tell them it's not always about you - it's about everybody on the team. We are a team. Somehow I seem to get everybody to buy into that.

Marquez Smith

The pitchers were throwing unbelievably and we were just trying to buy some runs any way we could.

Hubert Humphrey

To settle with the tobacco companies before we have all the facts, including the industry's self-proclaimed 'privileged' documents, is to buy the proverbial pig in a poke,

Jason Wu

There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.

Jeff Gladstein

The reigning theme has been the interest rate differentials that have propelled the dollar higher and the market thinks that theme won't be unwound any time soon. People are continuing to buy dollars on that theme.

Leanne Mrock

We had to go to Pennsylvania to buy them up there.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Masiela Lusha

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Bernie Sanders

Demagogues like [Donald] Trump come along. He says I know what the cause is. Remember, later, the cause was that Mexicans who are coming to this country, well, they were criminals or rapists. Now it is Muslims.

Bernie Sanders

We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major] country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.

Bernie Sanders

Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it.

Bernie Sanders

What this [presidency] campaign is about this bringing millions of people jobs in this country.

Bernie Sanders

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

Bernie Sanders

Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States. Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and creating 13 million jobs by doing away with tax loopholes that large corporations now enjoy by putting their money into the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. That is not a radical idea.

Bernie Sanders

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

Brian Littrell

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Richie Havens

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

Tim Vine

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.

Suzanne Collins

But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would’ve thought she’d murdered someone from the looks she got.

Suzanne Collins

As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.

Stephen Malkmus

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Stephen King

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.

Rosamunde Pilcher

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Bruce Armstrong

We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway.

Robert Brunn

We've had quite a few kids sick and a lot of rookies out there, so there were nerves going on. But I'm pleased with the play. Most of our matches were more even than the scores indicated.

Sally Brown

Every match from here on out will be tough and we will need to be ready to play. It will be interesting to see how we respond in these next few weeks.

Peter Morgan

At this point, there are well over 60,000 solutions saying they can help with SOX in some way. But few come prepackaged and few have everything that's needed.

John Urquhart

At this point, students in the cafeteria -- and there was quite a few of them -- went in pretty much all different directions.

Oscar Isaac

There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.

Jordan Casas

We had some big plays. But we ran some things for the first time tonight. We need to make a few adjustments. I thought we executed when we needed to.

Jason Chaffetz

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Scott Trost

Adair is a really quality player who is tough to defend. And they have good shooters on the perimeter.

Sibel Kekilli

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

Odalis Perez

Strike one, strike two. Good location - hitting spots. If you throw strikes, guys have to swing. That's what happened.

Jim Sullivan

Strictly speaking it's not that the stock market views good news as bad, directly.

Chris Squire

Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Shane Reid

St. Paul was a good fundamental team. Every time we would get close, they would hit a three-pointer to widen their lead.

Jerry Moore

Some things got loose last year, and that's my fault. I take responsibility for that. But I feel good about these players. I know what kind of kids we've got. I know what they want to accomplish.

Paul Ross

Some people have a talent and want to strut their stuff and show how good they are.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Dirk Benedict

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Joshua Bell

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

Tony Glover

Coo Coo was a tough man who worked hard at everything he did,

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Aleksandr Lebed

And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.

Mike Powell

And were that to happen, it would be the first operating loss in BA's history. It's something they would be working very hard to avoid,

Travis Bradberry

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Jennifer Hale

Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

James Coburn

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

Mike Wallace

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Tom Izzo

There's no reason we can't get the job done. We've got enough players to get it done.

Ken Whisenhunt

There's only one job out there right now.

Tony Blair

The timescale (for withdrawal) is when the job is done,

Ron Carey

What they are doing is intimidation. It is threats. That won't get the job done. That is a mistake,

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Zakk Wylde

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,