Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Beane

It's not always possible in our situation to get your perfect guy. As always we're going to make any improvements we can, whatever it is. If Sandy Koufax wanted to come to pitch for us, I don't think I'd say, 'No Sandy, we need a right-handed bat, you'll have to come back later.' It's just the nature of our situation.

Steve Parris

Sandy Koufax pitched what, seven years? But look what he did those seven years.

Bob Uecker

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Richard Louv

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Richard Le Gallienne

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Ugo Betti

There is no forgiveness in nature.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

William Gibson

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

Richard Rohr

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.

Mike Frosco

His out pitch is a fastball. You have to have a third pitch at this level.

Brian Giles

We're one pitch away from being swept -- that's a big two-game swing,

John Flaherty

He's been pitching better, but tomorrow is going to be a big one. You don't want to say 'must win,' but we need this one tomorrow. Hopefully, he'll come out on top of his game.

Adam Everett

He was throwing every pitch for a strike, and he threw it at the right spot.

Buck Showalter

He had a blister that was heating up in the sixth inning. Hopefully, he'll get to the point where he can go another inning, but between the blister and his pitch count, we wanted to be careful.

Jason Varitek

He executed his pitches real well. If he pitches like that, he's going to win a lot of games.

Woody Williams

Other than two pitches, most of them were pretty much pitches I threw where I wanted to throw,

Rayner Noble

If you don't pitch, you're not going to win, and we didn't pitch well at all.

A.J. Pierzynski

In the end, our pitching was amazing. I don't know if you'll ever see it again.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.

Jacques Chirac

I'll try as much as possible to be,

K.K. Paul

I promise you that we will have a speedy investigation and get the bombers and give them the sternest possible punishment.

Jonathan Winters

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.

Dionny Reynolds

In situations like this, it got to be three people.

Jose Vidro

I haven't had an MRI yet, so I don't know what the situation is.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

Rod Smith

This is all you work for, to be in this situation and win. And we didn't get it done.

Dave Twardzik

All it takes is that one team to like you. But for most guys, unless they're a superstar, they really have to go to a situation that's the right fit.

John Tortorella

Sure I am (concerned). We're in a tough situation here. I'm not going to sit here and (lie) to you.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Abraham Nunez

You've got to do whatever you can to win. Whatever you have is whatever it takes.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Larry Coker

With Olsen, whatever he does, it's like, 'Wow,'

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.

Giuliana Rancic

We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.