Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kattwinkel

This is despite a 53% decrease in the U.S. SIDS rate since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 1992 that babies be placed to sleep on their backs, ... This reduced rate reflects nearly 3,000 fewer infant deaths per year, or over 15,000 fewer deaths since the original back-to-sleep recommendation.

Ki Hong Lee

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Thomas Jensen

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Carmen Miranda

I have a huge disdain for those artists who say that they don't need a prize to have their talent recognized. If I were a real actress (I'm only an entertainer) I'd do my best to win an Oscar knowing that the Academy is a serious institution of people who really understand about it.

Jordan Levin

If 'Catcher in the Rye' were released today, academy members would look at the book and consider it a dime-store paperback. The academy is totally out of step with the viewing public. Every report I heard this morning listed the same old boring shows.

Morris Chestnut

I can't say that we went through the academy because we weren't being tested and we knew we had a job, but we did set some fires and put them out.

Gary LeVox

Because we're out there just beating the street and on tour and working so hard, you forget that award shows are even coming up because it's just about giving back to the fans. To see all your hard work pay off and have the academy nominate you and your peers think enough of you to have your name put in a category is just awesome.

Kate Winslet

Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Brad Ausmus

your hands get cold, your feet get cold, but if you can't find a way to keep your mind off that stuff in a World Series, you probably shouldn't be in it.

Babe Ruth

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Babe Ruth

Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

Jim Stoyle

We're happy to be 6-5. We've turned the corner. The thing is, we were 2-5 at one time (after having) lost four in a row and were frustrated. We were searching for some identity. The kids turned it around. That's what is unique about baseball that you can't do with basketball. You have to do get after it the next day.

Charles Kernot

Somebody who can bridge the sort of BEE-related divide, that would clearly be very good.

Martin Luther

If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

Gary Porter

We're not caught up in rumors. We don't know what the plan is. We'll cross that bridge if it comes. Obviously, his grades are good enough for him to go on to college.

Kofi Annan

Now we turn to a new task: to implement what has been agreed, and keep working to bridge differences that remain,

Lee Breuer

I feel that people who would think it goes too far don't understand what the intent is. One has to build a bridge to the present.

Eugene Delacroix

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

Gene Roddenberry

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

Ilie Nastase

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

Allie Rowe

One of my goals was to bridge the gap between students and athletes. My dad has been really involved with the ACS; I have a couple cancer survivors in my family, and I lost my grandpa to leukemia. I thought starting the relays would be a really bring a cool thing to do and bring students together.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

David Rose

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Peter Chernin

From our perspective it created a unique and wonderful opportunity.

Jose Andres Puerta

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

Bruce Huff

I don't know if I've created a monster. I don't know where this is going to do.

Michael J. Saylor

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

Patrick Fitzgerald

The indictment states that a joint venture was created and that this joint venture was in fact a sham.

Samuel Johnson

The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Mary Humstone

Being enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places is an honorific designation. It means the site has been studied and deemed significant in American history and culture.

Eric Lander

We're living through a historic revolution in biology.

Charles Flynn

It's on the National Historic Register. It's a significant historic property.

Ed Talley

It's an historic road and a piece of history passed over the road. It's known nothing but history.

Polybius

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Pat Brisson

Savior is a big word. No one's a savior of the league at this point.

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Nate Robinson

He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

Johnny Oates

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Joe DiMaggio

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

P. G. Wodehouse

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Nicki Minaj

How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Tony McCoy

I don't like missing links on my CV. I really want to win the National more than anything else but you know what the race is like. Anything can happen." ()

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Thelma Underberg

I don't know how many we'll get, but the ones that sign the pledge are the ones who will have the support from the majority of the people in South Dakota, I'm quite sure.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

John Hotard

Miami is a major point, and this is a major disruption.

Capt. McSwain

It flowed very well today. We haven't really seen any major backlog.

Deirdre O'Kane

When you're independent and not attached to a major media organisation, they just look at you as if to say, 'Who are you again?'

Justin Doellman

I think I look ridiculous. But we're doing it for him; we're not doing it for the look. We're doing it to support him and to let him know he was a big part of our team and that it was a major loss.

Cardinal Zen

I can confidently say these are not major problems. They can be overcome.