Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Jeff Banks

It almost got away from us. But we didn't give up just because we were behind. That's the best part.

Alex Rodriguez

It almost feels like we're in their shoes.

Mark Sweeney

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn't know where it was going. But in a game? He'd get killed. It's one thing to play catch. It's another thing to pitch.

Jerry Sloan

Greg didn't burn any bridges, ... Greg and I fought almost every day (but) I apologized to Greg more than anyone I've ever coached.

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Hallmark Card: "I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like you're still here.

Greg Behrendt

I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.

Steve Nash

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

Joanne Callahan

KDHAP is for people who have been in public housing. If they are qualified, we will help them find a place for up to 18 months. ... Their KDHAP voucher is good anywhere in the U.S.

Carroll McCray

I was a little more encouraged with Charlie today. Today was kind of a test day. We thought it would be anywhere from play him to scope him on Thursday, but he has responded a lot better than we possibly thought he would when the injury happened." ()

Marie Zdechlik

I went to work for Climax in 1947. I didn't have a car, but things were simple, you could walk anywhere it was so small.

Beverly Sills

There are no short cuts to anywhere worth going.

Sam Williams

I didn't apply anywhere else I like the close-knit feel of it here. And they also have the best chemistry program in the state.

Brian Gibson

I don't come in with the desire to change anything particular or with a special vision to go anywhere different from where we've been. I want to build on the excellence on what's been there. I'm looking forward to building on what we've had.

Brian Sullivan

We can give them a voucher and say you can go anywhere you want to go, and we will support 100 percent fair market value rent for up to 18 months from the date of the hurricane. The big presumption is that where they want to go has housing available.

Aliasghar Soltaniyeh

We can enrich uranium anywhere in Iran, with a vast country.

Richard Knabb

Our best estimate of the track possibilities are that anywhere from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle could expect the center to be approaching them by the middle of the weekend.

Roger Tamraz

I was introduced to the president, ... He asked me what I did in life, and I explained my project.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society

Tom Foley

Joe is a guy who is extremely prepared and extremely positive. He's a guy about relationships and about the team. If a player comes and asks him to sit down and have a few pops, he'll say, 'Let's do it.' He's a teacher who is prepared when he teaches and wants us to be prepared and get it right.

Ermias Belay

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

Kyle Macy

I think it's about a mutual respect. At the same time, the coach may have high expectations and may put some extra demands on him. But you don't ask him to do anything you don't think he's capable of. I always try to go by the line that no one player is more important than the team.

John Remington

I think it is about both. Not only does it help the financial situation, but it sends an appropriate message to employees that they're not the only ones being asked to bite the bullet.

Paul Jewell

I always ask for 100% effort, and that's what I got out of my players on Monday.

Connie Maute

He wanders about as if he's sighted. People ask us, 'Is he blind?' We say, no, he just doesn't have any eyes.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Kaley Cuoco

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Rick Adelman

Kenny came up huge in the end. He was the guy they were leaving open and he hit that one shot with a little bit of luck, then the second one was dead center and he hit the free throws.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent, ... But if he's 95 percent that's good enough. He is feeling good. . . . It's just a matter of at one time locating his fastball and feeling a little bit better.

Mike Gray

Jobs and employers are not increasing their salaries by 21 percent or 16 percent why don't you do us a favor why don't you forgo your salaries so you can feel the bite as much as we do.

David Begleiter

I think it's a bit of a negotiating stance.

Alison Goldfrapp

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Graeme Souness

I think it's a bit harsh on him but the chairman is a big boy,

Mark Warner

I think I took him a little bit by surprise in the meeting, ... He said, 'Boy, that's pretty cool. It's not real often you get a day named after you.'

Willie Randolph

He knows his body, he knows what he has to do to get ready. He might not have been on the field a lot (in Florida), but I trust him. And when he tells me he s ready to go, I give him the ball.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Michael Vick

Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.

Bruce Arena

I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.

Josh Scobey

We're on special teams, and that's our job. Get our team in great field position so they can score, and keep the other team from scoring.

Peter Bell

We're now on a level playing field with diesel.

Ron Gardenhire

When he was on the field, he knew what was going on. He was always in the game. ... I had a lot of fun with Denny. I probably knew him as well as anybody.

Romeo Crennel

We've got to take it from the paper and put it on the field. That's where the test comes in.

Steve Spurrier

I thought we could make a field goal there.

Josh Beckett

Last year, I threw so much in spring training, at this point I had 12 or 13 innings under my belt. It was ridiculous. I'm excited. I threw 60 pitches already, how many more do I have to have? Seventy-five or 80 in my next start, and from there I can go to 100, really.

Tim Kessel

They have a more natural motion. It doesn't put a strain on the arm. They can pitch 18 innings in a week.

Paul G. Thomas

After the first two innings we played pretty decent. But it takes all seven.

Jonathan Agnew

Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series

Joe Girardi

We just need to get a lot of innings in for a lot of people. We'll start setting up for the season after this round.

Eddie Guardado

I could have been in one, but I threw nine innings the night before.

Meghan Quinn

We have seven innings to execute. We just need to relax and play the way we know how.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Hector Elizondo

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

Kim Carnes

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

Barry Hyman

The market is exhibiting the typical end-of-year patterns of low volume, lackluster trading and little volatility.

John Davis

abused by male students because of their low self-esteem.

Lev Grossman

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Ben Chandler

I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy.

Charlie Coe

He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.

Steve Hutchinson

What else is he supposed to say, 'We're going to try and lose? Every player is supposed to think his team is going to win.

Steve Shingledecker

I think it's so well deserving. From his sophomore year to his senior year, the work he put in to become an all-state player is tremendous.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Ken Hitchcock

He's a young player in his first series. He got welcomed in a big way. He'll be back.

Tim Ruskell

He is a selfless player who understands what it takes to win in this league.

Floyd Reese

He may round out into a player and end up playing for 10 years, and that could make us look pretty dumb,

Ron Atkinson

There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Tim King

The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,

E. Hicks

That put us right back in a position where we can do something.

E. B. White

It is the position that stops all the big plays,

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Pope Francis

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Kim Priez

It's very controversial and we don't have a position on it.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Danny Sheaffer

I don't know what we can do about it. I'm ready for suggestions. You got any?

Daryn Colledge

I am excited. I'm ready to get out of here.

Seth Greenberg

He'll come back when he's ready to come back.

Will Smith

If you're always ready, you don't have to get ready.

Will Smith

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

Craig Abrahamson

I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match.

Ricardo Rincon

I'll do whatever it takes to get ready for the season. I like it here.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Sarah Vowell

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

Sara Teasdale

Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.

Sara Teasdale

The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadows I catch my breath and sing - My heart is fresh and fearless And over-brimmed with spring.

Sara Teasdale

I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.

Wallace Stevens

The grackles sing avant the spring Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly. They sing right puissantly.

Willa Cather

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

Virginia Woolf

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Samuel Butler

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.