Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Eric Schmidt

Bagley did a good job of controlling the ball and slowing the game down for the first five minutes. They played a defense that we haven't seen yet this year and it took some time for us to get organized.

Brock Berryhill

As long as you can stop the running game, you have a chance. They can throw for 400 yards, but if they can't run the ball, you have a good chance. Someone's going to drop the ball or you'll get a knockdown on third down. Stopping the run comes first. As long as we can do that, we'll be successful.

Geno Auriemma

As long as we play defense like that and keep people in the 50s we'll be all right. Some nights you're going to shoot the ball poorly and it's going to be 60-something to 50-something. Some nights you're going to shoot 60-something percent and it's going to be 90-something to 50-something. But you've got to be able to play with the game on the line, which I think we showed (Saturday).

Johnny Damon

Normally, our bats will get us back in it, but that didn't happen today.

Allison Merzon

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

Rick Daniels

We saw the kids playing in mud and they had bats and were making mud pies out of them.

Stephen Hansen

We scored some runs in the first and got our bats going.

Jeff Tageant

(Lee) threw his fastball well. They swung the bats well still but Lee did a good job.

Regis Senko

Bats are insect dependent, so their food source is gone until you have another source of food.

Jonathan Epstein

Bats are critical to wildlife habitats, ... They're very important for insect control, seed dispersal, and pollination.

Charlie Montoyo

I expect us to start swinging the bats pretty good. I'm confident we're going to start swinging the bats better.

Jay Payton

I expect a lot of at bats and a lot of work. I know that play will dictate how many at bats I will get.

Dawn Olivieri

I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job.

Brian France

We are going to look at the Chase when the season clears, but my sense of it is that it isn't going to be anything more than a small adjustment.

G. H. Hardy

We will be trying to chase down leads or find any evidence that we can find.

Mitt Romney

She's gone down the liberal road, and I've gone down the conservative road, ... You've seen the jobs being chased away from your state, and we've seen jobs grow in our state.

Mariano Rivera

I can?t put myself in that situation. New Yorkers would chase me all over New York State. Ten or $12 million (per year) ... what?s the difference?

Jeff Parsons

Kohler was huge for us in the early going. They went to a 1-3-1 with a chaser on Frank and Welsh so they were leaving Nate open on the perimeter. I told him he would have to step up and make some shots and he did. He obviously does not play like a freshman.

Dave Cassaw

I was really happy that it was our defense that keyed (the victory). Obviously, Chase made some big plays, and other guys did, too, but the (defense) was big.

Todd Martin

We told the kids we weren't going to play any zone, no gimmicks. We wanted to chase Scott (Kin) and Justin (Frey) all over the floor. We did a nice job.

Amara Packwood

He has a jealousy problem. He's knocked a man down before, and he chased an ex-boyfriend out of the field.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Cilla Black

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Elize Du Toit

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

Jay Brooks

We desperately need ways of detecting early lung cancers.

Marc Williams

That's where the fields come in - to be able to host a tournament and get in the revenue and help out with the little things,

Clarence Day

The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.

Brian Sun

While the firm may have historically done some work for Mr. Ovitz, neither the firm nor Mr. Fields was involved in any way in the Anita Busch matter.

Alexi Lalas

Maurice has been a revelation, on and off the field,

Ann Aguirre

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

W. S. Gilbert

When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli in the two visual fields disappeared. The differences remained, however, when the secondary task was of a non-linguistic nature.

Jean Houston

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

Christina Rossetti

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

Jay Inslee

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Dave Grant

Our shape is good and we're going to wrestle hard. It's great to have the tournament (at home).

Dennis Hashiguchi

Our setting wasn't too good but the rest was OK.

Steve Thompson

Our set pieces went well and we scored some nice tries.it was a good all-round effort,

Bob Ferguson

Our senior twisted his knee and our little sophomore (Reed) has stepped up and done a good job.

Mark Fowler

Our seniors got us off to a good start.

Pat Morelli

Our defensemen didn't have that good of a night. It's very out of (character) for them. They were pressing too much.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

James Garner

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Troy Sunderland

That's why we really felt, if the other two kids could get to nationals, we could surprise some people and as a team do some things. Now, instead of going with 10, we'll have to do it with eight.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Jay Campos

We want to find out where we're at in the regular season, instead of waiting for the playoffs.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

John Connell

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

James Tobin

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Trey Blue

We've matured over the year and they've been doing it all the time for us.

Craig Swartout

We've come a long way. I don't want to sound braggadocio, but the team has matured so much since then.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools are without number.

Joe Wurzelbacher

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

John Shields

We have a parking problem in Nyack, particularly at night, ... We've come up with a number of ideas. One of them is to have valet parking village-wide.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Tom McKenna

He stepped up to the plate and took this like a man.

Patton Oswalt

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Pete Hughes

Seeing him get the victory at 103 made me want it just as much.

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing us on TV. We're on TV so much, it's ridiculous.

Reggie Bush

I'm sick of seeing it on TV. I'm sure they are.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jim Lett

You're starting to be real competitive, aren't you?

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Bob Henricks

We are at a better starting place than Sweetwater was.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Ringo Starr

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Torin Francis

Right about now, it's all or nothing. We know we had to get two starting tonight.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jane Jacobs

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.