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.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible.

Alberto Bernal

Kirchner and his group want to do their own thing and they're clearing the road for that.

Brian Billick

Jamal clearly had that rhythm -- good, tough, physical running -- and he got stronger as he went, which is typical of what you see.

Colin Trevorrow

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

David Wilkins

I would submit to you that showing of good faith is there. It doesn't get any clearer than that -- the commerce department's recent decision to slash the tariffs, to render a decision that would result in the elimination of tariffs probably as early as January.

Alexa Mennen

I would say we played down to Clear Lake. We are a lot better than that, and we can't do that. Iowa Falls will be tough.

Bruce Gordon

Katrina has been an attention-getting experience for this administration, ... It's clear that the administration has not had (black and poor people) as high on their priority list as they should have.

Charles Ramsey

just to clear up a few issues. There was some information that we still needed. We're going to now evaluate all that.

Mike Aberlich

Just talking about (the discounts), it was clear that if we were going to come with an employee pricing program, we had to make it better, and/or when we started talking about it we needed to do it in a different way.

John Bunting

I was looking at the scoreboard all night, ... You can really get mesmerized by that thing. It goes on and the fireworks continue to go off (after each score). I thought at one point they might run out of fireworks. That's a big number and, basically, I'm numb at this point.

Paul Quesnel

Kiss is getting its flour supplies from NFM today and our operations will continue as normal. I've been told that NFM workers have gone back to work and negotiations are to continue.

J. Hoover

Kids have a tendency to rest on what they do well and it's human nature to continue to work on the things that you do well. But this summer, I saw him working on the things that he needs to work on to be effective at the next level. I have no doubt that he'll contribute as a freshman. He's highly competitive and he knows what he'll have to do to compete.

Patterson Hood

I write a lot of songs (about the South) and will continue to, but we wanted to do a record that wasn't so specific in the geography. We're from the South, but that's not all we can do.

Tom Davis

Keeping our staff intact enables us to continue to recruit as well as teach.

Charlotte Ronson

Just watching the people on the streets of N.Y. is inspiring; there are so many styles and unique points of view. Fashion is very much inspired by the streets, has always been, and I'm sure it will continue to do so.

Darren Sharper

Just not panicking, just feeling as though you can continue to play each game week by week and really keep grinding it out. You never know, because the season's so long. Teams are going to drop games, so you never really know how you're going to be in position.

Lofa Tatupu

Just that success only comes one way -- that's through hard work. Just continue to try to improve on getting better and it'll happen.

Dave Wannstedt

Joe's a good player for us and Joe will continue to be a good player for us, but we need to threaten people,

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

Pat Kelly

I think you normally have a lot of moves, but for short periods of time. Generally you don't send your top prospects. But because of need, we've had to, and they've done a great job.

Eric Lindros

I thought we hung in there and got great goaltending again, ... It wasn't our most spectacular (win), but generally a good effort.

Samah Haggag

Late payments generally have the highest negative impact on a score.

Manish Shah

Unless we have six months of a healthy market, generally the IPO window does not open up. At this point, it doesn't look very favorable.

Conrad Burns

We look at them and tally them to see what a trend is on an issue, but we don't generally respond to mass e-mails, ... But if somebody takes the time to write us a letter, we really want to respond to them.

David Liss

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Patrick Byrne

I can generally tell what a guy is saying at home from what his spouse says after a glass of wine or three,