Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

John Thorn

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

John Thorn

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

John Thorn

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

John Thorn

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

John Thorn

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

John Thorn

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

John Rocker

I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

Marcus Giles

Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

Curtis Sumpter

That's what we came here for, ... We wanted to help put Villanova back on the map. We wanted to be a part of something special.

Kelly Mathews

That's why they're No. 1 in the state. We came out hot hitting our jump shots, but we knew they would make their run. Once they get a lead, it's tough to catch them.

Ryan Potulny

That's not at all true. We had the deal started before that announcement even came out. That had nothing to do with it.

Liz Shimek

That's just something that kind of comes with the package. As a freshman, I came in and said one of my rules was to rebound. But that's what it's about here, everyone doing what they can do to win.

Henry Uhegwu

That's how we want to play. We know they can score, and we know we can score. So we just want to play at our pace. Things just came together tonight.

Greg Williams

That Murphy is everything we thought he would be, ... does a good job, but in the end, we came out on top.

Jamie Thompson

You never want to forget where you came from, and for this team, remembering November is a very important thing because we were not doing well, we were not having fun and we were not playing good hockey. To turn it around like we have is very nice, but we still have to remember that in November, we were a terrible hockey team and we have to remember the reasons why we were a terrible hockey team. It's because we weren't doing the little things that we're doing now.

Sepp Blatter

The only way to fight this is to do exactly what we have done when it came to violence. We have to take away the points because it happens in those leagues where the money is sufficient so, even if you gave a fine of $100,000, it would be paid the next day. That does not change the attitude, so you have to go into a sporting sanction.

Ric Garcia

Douglas came out fired up and we couldn't meet their energy level. Nicole had two fouls early and we sent her to the bench. And we struggled with their 1-3-1 (defensive scheme).

Lynn Hobbs

Susan was wonderful and we really miss her a lot. We feel glad she was with us for seven or eight years. But people want to move on and up.

Martin Rees

Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have planets, there is unlikely to be time for life to get started. The surface is 40,000C and, as a result, the colouring will be extremely blue.

Dave Walker

My parents raised eight kids, and I'm No. 8.

Caitlin Moran

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

Maria Sharapova

I'm so excited to be here, to be one of the top eight girls, ... It's great to be playing where the (Los Angeles) Lakers play. You just feel the excitement. I know I went out there and played my game. I was on.

Jon Zofkie

I'm hoping to place this year. It's the first time I'm ever going down there, but anything can happen. I hope to place in the top eight so I can be a state placer.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

Steve Fisher

That was huge. We turned it over 24 times in our last game and eight times in a 10-possession stretch. Without a doubt, it makes a big, big, big difference.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Billy Wagner

Sometimes it's good to just be thrown into the fire, Did he even know it?

Mark Johnson

Sometimes it's good being the underdogs. We don't mind that role.

Don Baylor

Sometimes it's a real good thing. But once you get it out, the next day it has to be over. Over. If it's not, if it festers, then you can't repair it.

Karen McCabe

Rubin and Doherty play really well together and have done some good things this year. They started to shadow Danielle in the second period and Jessi played even better.

Andy McDonald

Ryan did a good job getting it started. I thought we had really good puck movement on that, and it wound up not being a pretty goal, but we'll take it.

Holly Ismail

Samantha is such an unselfish player. That's what makes a good player great ù making everyone around her better.

O. Singh

I've played pretty good for the last two years. I'm just trying to win tournaments, plodding along, and here I am.

Andrew Brunette

I've played on teams where there were more (injuries). But I don't know if it was so many key players and players that were having good years.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Donald Cargill

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Dwyane Wade

I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for.

Colin Meloy

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

Bill Freeman

The plasmapheresis is something I wouldn't wish on anyone,