Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed.

Chris Wooding

I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.

Dennis Miller

I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school?

Tom Allen

One adjective - kind - is repeated by all who knew Peter. Peter was also a devoted husband, father, grandfather and son.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Robert Thomson

disproportionate amount for the use of one mild adjective in a single piece of commentary in the sports pages.

Dick Schaap

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Alan Trammel

That was -- pick an adjective -- brilliant, outstanding. He was on the plate and he stayed ahead of the hitters. He's had seven outings for us, and six of them have been good ones, but this one might have been his best.

Gore Vidal

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

Bob Kurtz

I was looking for something to do this summer, and I enjoy baseball a lot. Baseball and radio are a nice combination.

John Hart

Jon is young, but he has the qualities that you look for in a leader, ... He has the respect of everyone in the organization, the business department, the baseball people, the veteran scouts. He's going to be a great leader.

Mike Black

John has been one of our leaders this year. He stays steady from a 38 to a 40 all year. Our number two is Drew Waldrop, who is averaging a 39 or 40. He is just joining us back from the baseball team.

Richard Lapchick

I think in general, where he has had the influence, baseball has done well. Where he hasn't had as much influence, at the team level, there's a lot of room for growth there.

Paul DePodesta

It became clear to us that the inefficiency in decision-making in baseball was vast.

Alan Trammel

Guerrero is not human. He is an incredible baseball player. There is now way you can pitch to him.

Brad Arnsberg

The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?'

Jim Tracy

He's been terrific. He looks to me like a very good baseball player and a very good number two hitter.

Mike Conrad

He's a tough kid. He's a competitor. You know, the baseball gods just weren't with us tonight.

Bill Clarke

He didn't go to work that day figuring he was going to get killed.

Sam Hunt

I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

Jeff Hawkins

Guys are figuring out their roles. My key role is not turning over the ball. When I come in the game and come out, we shouldn't be worse off than where we started.

Charlie Whitehurst

I think we're more methodical right now. We're still figuring this thing out. We're only four games in. ... When it all gels, I think we'll be all right.

Dennis Hutchinson

He has become good at figuring out how much he can get out of them without losing them.

Larry Horn

In the patent world, the user of a product is responsible for figuring out which intellectual property obligations they have and how to meet them. They become vulnerable if infringing a patent under which they are not licensed.

Jeff Skilling

It's really a question of figuring out what makes sense.

Matthew Burns

It's a lot of figuring out stuff. It can be difficult, but I guess I like the challenge.

Jeff Zucker

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Robert Reed

Katrina, in some sense, helped that process be a little quicker.

Pat Callahan

Just to release a rock record with very little help from MTV, and with just touring and radio, I think it's awesome. I think it did a lot better than any of us expected. But we're a touring band. That's where our roots are and we love touring. It's a lot of fun.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Gerald Shields

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying. We need to have a life-long learning mentality.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Amanda Voorhis

We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.

Jamie Russell

He was learning a lot from his dad.

William Ellery Channing

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Cobbett

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

William Golding

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

Rich Aurilia

I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.

Brian Sabean

He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough.

Mark Mulder

There's a lot of pitchers who've got it. That's an out pitch for them. It's a big pitch.

Mike Reagan

Didn't throw a strike. (Miller) was all over the place.I don't think I have seen an inning like that inning in the first inning. Our pitchers didn't get it done today.

Chuck Hernandez

I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.

Jeff Blauser

Our pitchers have pitched well from our starters to our bullpen. We have a tight pitch-count program here and every one of the pitchers has pitched well. I am proud of them.

Alex Rodriguez

We need to just take what the pitchers give us.

Kate Robinson

Yeah, I would like more pitching time, but our (starting) pitchers are doing well, so wherever I'm needed, wherever there's an opening.

Rick Magnante

We need to give some of our pitchers work.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

Lynn Margulis

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

Kingsley Amis

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

Jimmy Carter

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Brian Eno

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Chuck Palahniuk

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.