Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Ginter

I would think (general manager Billy Beane) doesn't want to pay someone $1 million to play at Triple-A, but my wife and I talked for about two days about it and we couldn't leave that money on the table. I have to provide for my family. The way I view it, it puts pressure on them -- if they don't want to pay me $1 million, maybe they can pick up part of it and move me somewhere else.

Brian Turner

Joey told my dad (Chamberlain coach Billy Turner) that he was bringing his cousin back down. We just thought it was all talk, or that if he did bring him then the kid wasn't really going to be an impact player.

Billy Wagner

I think it's a great idea. I think it's good for baseball, I really do. I just think it's not good for Billy Wagner.

Al Harrington

(Hawks GM) Billy Knight told me I'm not going anywhere, so mentally that's where I'm at now. I'm not thinking about it at all. He said if there's something that comes along, something that he's thinking about doing, I'll be the first to know before he does it.

Gabe Kapler

I think it's always an issue. Billy definitely is one of those guys who plays hurt consistently and plays well.

Caron Butler

I think that was real big. I was bleeding and they wiped me up real quick and stopped the bleeding for about eight seconds and I was able to get my free throws. I went back (for stitches) and Billy just came in and played great basketball. He picked it up where I left off.

Billy Connolly

I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.

John Updike

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

Larry Rothschild

He's a young guy. It's like Billy Martin said -- if you tell him 10 times, tell him 11. Hopefully, that's the one that catches. He's gotten better and better at a lot of things. Obviously, there's room for improvement in concentration and not getting distracted by things. That's something we'll keep striving for. A lot of pitchers face that. Hopefully, we'll get through that.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Nigel Lythgoe

Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

James Williams

He just sort of surveys things, ... Sometimes, he'll tell the director something. But he's pretty quiet. And I think that's a good role for him.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Aaron Johnson

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Dan Gilroy

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.

Steve Dunn

Jacob threw 84 pitches and gave up one earned run. He's one of those pitchers we're looking at, who can come in and solidify that third spot.

Greg Mattison

Joe can also go to end, so I look at it as seven and a half. They've earned (the right to rotate) so far, but you can lose that right and they understand that.

Teresa Kerry

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Patrick McEnroe

He is the leader. He's been around long enough that he's earned that right. I love his effort, and I love his intensity.

Coy Tow

He is someone who has earned the right to be president. He also teaches those seminars. He's a great guy with solid leadership skills.

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

Ken Hitchcock

He's earned a right to be a prime time player for us. (Sim) has just come out and earned his spot.

Jeff Flowers

He should be 6-0; he's given up three earned runs in three games. That's tough, in high school, to still lose.

Ron Brown

I think you'll feel like you earned it more. Instead of two teams meeting one night for one game -- that part doesn't feel like much of a tournament. For the most part, it's a good move and it's one they needed to make.

Charles Keating

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

Ellen DeGeneres

Seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things, winning an Emmy is not important,

Sherri Shepherd

I'm not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I'm tired of looking at people who don't look like me.

Jon Cryer

I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.

Alan Alda

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

Amanda Eliasch

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

Allison Williams

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

George Herbert Mead

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.

Matt Kuchar

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

Jamie Clayton

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

Anton LaVey

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

Jordan Haines

We met people from all over the world: Bangladesh, India, Sweden and Russia. We were treated so well.

Sunny Murray

We met at the right time - we needed each other in a sense.

Warren Beaulah

We may just have to let him wear No. 44. I told him before the season that I have a lot of expectations for him. He hasn't quite met them.

John Gibbons

He was outstanding. I still don't know why the Mets got rid of him.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Richard C. Armitage

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Rob Brown

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres...

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.