Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

William Scott

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Whitey Herzog

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Steve McKinney

I would never plant anything like that. I don't have $30,000 to throw away. ... It would have been a lot funnier if we'd have won.

Ned Yost

When things aren't going you're way, funny things happen, and it's not much funnier than that.

Margaret Cho

This show is a lot funnier and more outrageous. There are lots more jokes.

Joe Arpaio

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'

Fred Willard

In several TV shows I've done, I'm trying to think of what - just say something here, we need something funnier here.

Charles Owens

Jerry spoke with Hughes (Jr.) several times a day, usually at 2 or 3 a.m., when Hughes called him. They never met in person.

Lee Edwards

We've been saying for weeks that we though Hugh was a difference-maker,

Joel Edgerton

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.

Rohan Chand

I just really want to work with Hugh Jackman because he's Wolverine. That would be so awesome.

Sebastian Coe

Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.

Lauren Malone

Hugh loves her work. This photograph has opened up a window of opportunities for her -- no pun intended.

Danny Walker

He's a man. A man with a hugh heart.

Shawn Amos

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Kurt Thomas

We clamped down on him. We took him out of his game.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Janet Fitch

My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.

Marina Abramovic

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.