Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dontrelle Willis

I did it twice in the bullpen, as well, ... It's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that. I thought I was horrible. They definitely saw something that I didn't.

Kevin Porter

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Charles Greene

I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold my house and brought my family down, ... The idea was to make journalism a little better in Latin America.

Joanne Harris

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Marjane Satrapi

If the majority of people were right, we'd be living in paradise. But we are not living in paradise, we are living in hell. What does it mean? That means the majority of people are wrong. So I never believed what people told me.

Steve Barnett

If you had told me two years ago that we'd have that kind of increase, I wouldn't have believed it, ... It's been phenomenal. They're a great bunch of kids and have worked extremely hard.

Agnus Berenato

If you look at the shooting, the fact that we got 70 shots was amazing. I think that's a sign that they believed they could make the shot and a good majority of them went in and out.

Wes Kooistra

In this particular building it was believed that the window structure met the requirements as a secure perimeter. Obviously, after what happened on Saturday night, it did not. It was breached and we're looking at changes right now.

Jason Molina

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

John Bradley

That's hard starting your first game flying. You've got all of the distractions, and a lot of rookies haven't had a chance to fly out to a game and experience something like that. This is the time the veterans are going to have to step up, especially the first away game.

Chip Ambres

You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.

Timmy Bailey

You take it one day at a time (and) you thank God for what you have that day. Now I have a chance to do something I love.

Joe Glenn

You take a chance on hoping that the kids will practice fundamentals in tackling.

John Gibbons

You're never satisfied of course. But I look at the big picture, some of the things that have happened, things that might have happened, have a chance to happen and I feel good.

Tom Glavine

You're looking at a game of more and more power pitchers, and quite honestly, you got to figure those guys are more susceptible to getting hurt. It'll be interesting to see how many of those guys are able to pitch long enough to even come close to having a chance to do it.

John Calvert

you're just a collection of particles that have come together by chance and by natural selection.

Alando Tucker

You never know what's going to happen in the Big Ten. We have to close out as strong as we can. There's still a possibility for us to get a Big Ten championship, depending on how things go. We just have to do everything we can to put ourselves in position to hopefully have a chance to win.

Tom Davies

You never know how guys are going to progress. I just hope he's scratching the surface. He has a chance to be a good player. I'd kind of like it to be now.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

John Abizaid

We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi people,

Rick Riordan

Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.

Calvin Lowry

In the roles that I do play in, there are a lot of opportunities for a person to make plays. Every time I do step out there and try to return a punt, I am trying to return it for a touchdown. Sometimes, I do get myself in trouble by trying to do too much, but that's just the fight and hunger I have to win the game.

Frank Zappa

In a fight between you and the world, pick the world

Larry Hawkins

If you ever once let this insect get established here, then you're going to be fighting it forever more.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Terry Allmon

No, we didn't shoot well in the second half. But that was mostly North picking up the pressure. They're good. They're just a really good team with a super coach.

Roberto Bettega

Now is a different time, is a different game, a different business. We are very good team. And when I say team I mean the management of this club.

Reba McEntire

Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Bobby Bowden

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

Dusty Baker

At this point, it's hard to imagine him not pitching forever.

Terri Lemos

(Diver) Ryan Jones qualified for State in El Dorado last weekend. So Cody is working hard so he can qualify for State.

Rob Sanderson

DirecTV is having a hard time getting compensated appropriately for what they've delivered,

Mark Greenberg

Could they be a little more aggressive? Yes. Should they be a lot more aggressive? It's hard to say.

Patty Griffin

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Paul Arden

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Robert Allenby

Towels are the worst. They're hard to sign and the strings get stuck on the pen. Then the next one you sign is smudged.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Tom Stoppard

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.

Martin Luther

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Mason Cooley

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Adolfo Cambiaso

Memo is unbelievable, the way he is fit. I don't think I'll be playing that long, for sure. I hope I quit before that. I'll be around polo and horses and things like that, but not playing.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope