Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Adams

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that the ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch. I threw a ball in and jammed him the pitch before. I threw in a couple of times during his first at-bat. That's just the way it goes. I'm not trying to hit anybody in the head. Everybody I have been on the field with knows I play the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Jeremy Affeldt

The bottom line is I blew it. It was a routine double play. I can't look anybody in the eye right now. It was an embarrassment.

Gary Sheffield

The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?

Dale Mays

The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quieter when they saw us. Then James said something and gave them a look, and that's all it took. Everybody got quiet. I never knew anybody who was as respected by his peers. He didn't demand respect. He commanded it. The great ones have that. They have a presence.

Steve Duwel

The boys competition I think is a lot more of a level playing field. And I think the fact that we won last year was just a tribute to the boys stepping up and racing. I don't think anybody thought we were going to win that.

Kev Reynolds

Autumn is a fabulous time. The walking is great, the snows haven't really started to descend then, there's hardly anybody about, wildlife is abundant.

Lloyd Carr

At some point he will be considered with the very, very best offensive linemen that have ever played here and that's high praise. He is so talented athletically and he is so tough mentally. For anybody who was going to start a football team, Jake Long would be a great place to start.

Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer

Richard Savage

Prices are off after a big rise during Christmas and New Year. With uncertainty over the Venezuelan strike and OPEC's response, I would expect volatile trade over the next few days.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

Mallory Jansen

I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

Ian McGeechan

We are a little unsettled due to injuries and face an Edinburgh team in form - they have lost only once at home since Christmas 2004.

Augusten Burroughs

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

Calvin Coolidge

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

Chris Frantz

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Mark Shapiro

I think this industry got drunk on roller coasters. Big roller coasters simply do not get the return on investments that they used to.

Prince Royce

Most of my fans know I love video games. I say it in every interview, so they know. But one thing that I like doing is skateboarding, I like jet skiing, skydiving. It's like a huge roller coaster ride. Like forty seconds of free-falling. That's some of the stuff I love, daredevil stuff. I like horseback riding.

Tony Skinn

Being on the court is a whole lot easier than being on the bench. It's a roller coaster ride on the bench.

Dave Baseggio

We're learning how to win by doing the little things. The season is a roller coaster ride, and the key is not to get too high or too low. We're not where we want to be, but if we keep playing the way we've been playing, we'll be where we need to be.

Cody Pickett

It's been a roller coaster for me. I had to fight just to be around. I was told I was going to be here but on special teams. Then Tim was traded and I was No. 3. Now I might be No. 2.

Greg Koch

We are riding the temperature roller coaster here,

Randy Houser

My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

Joe Crede

When the fans are on me, they have every right to get on me, because I wasn't playing up to par. To me, I just kept getting more and more frustrated. It has been an up-and-down roller coaster for me in the Big Leagues.

Brian Giorgis

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

Jesse Moore

December 20th was the last time we had any appreciable rain. We had about a quarter-inch over the area. That wasn't enough to help that much.

Paul Dergarabedian

November and December are pound-for-pound just as important as the summer, ... You see about 20 percent of the gross for the year in about seven or eight weeks. And this year looks to me to be a strong finish to a year that has really had its ups and downs.

Vyacheslav Davidenko

Following a request from its sponsor (the ESA), the launch has been put back from December 26 to December 28.

Kevin Honea

We had a similar motorcycle fatality in that exact same spot on December 4. The tire tracks for the two were only about a foot apart. It is a negotiable, well-marked curve, however.

Kurt Kawafuchi

What it shows at the end of December is the economy is very strong.

Amy Hunsaker

We were just discussing in the locker room that now is not the time in the season to be giving up points. That was back in December and January. We talked about playing with confidence. I reminded them that they were the defending region champs.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Daniel Alfredsson

Obviously, it's going to get tougher, I think, in the second half because of the schedule and the Olympics. So, I think, right now, we're making the most of a good schedule for our team. I think we have only four road games in this month, and then December is tougher for us. But definitely after the Olympic break, we have a tougher schedule. But the way we're going now, I don't think we should slow down and we just have to keep pushing ourselves every night and keep trying to improve to be better.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Ma Huateng

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Robin Wright

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Antony Beevor

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

Adam McKay

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

Alison Lewis

You can never predict ratings. It's more about the association with these marquee entertainment events.

Mike Goodman

A statute like this is much more likely to come out of Europe, where the entertainment industry is not as powerful of a force.

Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brad Garrett

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

Celia Rivenbark

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

Demetri Martin

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

Conor McGregor

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Conor McGregor

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

Bram Stoker

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Eckhart Tolle

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises,

William Wordsworth

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Ayn Rand

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

John Grisham

We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Max Lucado

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Mason Cooley

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

William Moffitt

My understanding was that he was to plead guilty this afternoon.

Ed Smart

As hard as this has been for our family, the response has been overwhelming.

Clive Barnes

As hard as the nails on a crucifix.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Domanick Davis

As a running back, it's hard trying to be like someone else. You have to roll with the skills you have.

Joel Kinnaman

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Reggie Lee

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Dick Jauron

A very tough guy, hard working guy, loves the game, studies the game. He's very, very into football. It's important to him.

Chris Whitaker

Away from rugby if your head's not right then it makes it pretty hard to concentrate on rugby.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Eric Lindros

I've been really working on stick-handling with my head up,

Esteban Loaiza

I've been in the league for a long time. I just have to get it out of my head and think about Minnesota.

Molly Tarlov

I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn't make my life any easier. It's not really about your body. It's about what's going on inside, in your head and your heart.

Dan Peitz

I've never had a horse in the Kentucky Derby. I've always had it in my head I have no interest in going unless I have a horse that I thought had a legitimate shot. And I think this is a mile-and-a-quarter horse.

Chris Shelton

That's why I was shaking my head as I walked away.

Charles Dickens

The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.

Adam Stern

You shake your head and you're like, 'Is this really happening?

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Mr Bush

I've made my decision. We will stay on the offensive. We will stand with the people of Iraq and we will prevail,

Richard Engel

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

Cindy Sheehan

So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.

Scott McClellan

It would be wrong to suggest that he (Bush) was saying that there would still be substantial number of troops in Iraq after he is out of office. That is not he was asked. That is not what he was talking about.

Don Harper

This is a priority because of all the difficulties they're having in Iraq getting convoys from point A to point B.

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Evan Bayh

We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.

Craig Kilborn

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Adrienne Rich

A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.

Alexi Lalas

As long as we remember the stadium doesn't play the games, we should be all right.

Jay Johnson

The thing you have to remember with Travis is that really, this is his first year,

Carrie Smith

I've probably been to every one of them, but to tell you the truth, I can't remember when the first one was.

Ray Looze

This is a rarity. We'll remember this for the rest of our lives.

Russell Harris

This is the first sunny day I can remember in two months. Everything seems pretty stable now.

Mark Richard

This is something we will remember for ever.

Carl Sandburg

God, let me remember all good losers.

Kurt Byrd

Drug arrests are way up. Crime, if I remember correctly, is down in general.

David Marcus

The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it's a ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave.

John Bryan

The ride is set up to showcase South Carolina. We're trying to show off our state.

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Vlade Divac

but I couldn't find the ride that would take me there.

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Tracy Anderson

The trick this year is the '1080'. If you can't do that you won't get on the podium. Riders are airing much better.

David Robinson

This is all just a part of the roller-coaster ride of a winter we're having this year.

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

Stephany Smith

As a team, we just stay strong and focused. Usually, we get it done. We trust each other.

Ann Fisher

As long as we stay together, we will be alright,

Brian Clarke

As long as I stay in town I will be fine,

Kurt Kutay

Some only have a dung hut to stay in.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

Calvin Williams

I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.