Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Martin

When you consider there were 991 teams from throughout the state, coming anywhere in the top five or ten is a great honor and we came in third. It says something about the quality of our kids.

Bobby Johnson

We were 30 miles from the Georgia line, so we were over there all the time, ... It was the same thing at Furman. We had more Georgia players than from anywhere else.

Nancy Friedman

Do not start a conversation with negative information. You won't go anywhere with it,

Retief Goosen

It's very much a driving course now. You have to drive it straight. In the past, you could drive it anywhere and get on the greens. Now every part of your game is getting tested.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.

David Bull

Serbia is now facing very difficult circumstances. Children and young people are perhaps the most endangered anywhere in Europe. Two-thirds of the people in Serbia are living at or below the poverty line.

Garth Jennings

It's just one of those odd things that you don't find anywhere else in the world.

J. J. Johnson

It's just such a tragedy. Not just on 121 but on 100, too. It seems like more people are killed by semis there than anywhere else. You just wonder: Do they really not realize people are stopped?

Karen Mateo

It's far too soon to draw any permanent conclusions based on these preliminary numbers. We continue to have a long-range outlook for the Free FM stations and expect it to take anywhere between 12 to 24 months to see how it all plays out.

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.

Ron Gardenhire

We won one game here. We didn't quit, we didn't lay down. We just didn't play great baseball here. The guys are trying. You're facing a team that's hungry.

Donald Hall

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Donald Hall

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

Donald Hall

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

Donald Hall

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Dusty Baker

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Duke Snider

He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

Alex Rodriguez

It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.

Paul Gregg

So we have every reason to believe that he'll be with the team when he recovers from his foot injury, early in the season.

Bill Gross

So, the lower inflation goes and the more and more investors believe that inflation will stay low, the better it is for the bond market.

John Edwards

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

Mark Rylance

So whoever you believe wrote the plays, they felt it was important to mask them, to mask the identity, the personality of the author.

Joanna Field

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

William Slemaker

Sometimes I feel like she might not be around. But I have to believe that she's alive.

Maureen Buice

One gentleman had what I believe was a single (red) rose. Someone had a teddy bear. There was one suspect who was particularly scary because he showed up with duct tape and rope.

Ruth Adams

Once you join the military you become a guardian of the United States, ... You are trained to believe the United States is worth defending.

Sarah Lowe

Now, it's not like a joke, but in a sense, it's something that we laugh about and can't believe that's what we went through.

Zach Piller

You've got to take something away. After the Pittsburgh game, there was nothing to build on there. This game, we showed we're going to fight. That's a Jeff Fisher-coached team, that's its mentality. Nobody gives us a chance in any game. What games are we going to be favored in this year? So we're going to fight you.

Jim Finlen

You've got to take everything as a learning experience and build on it. Hopefully the younger guys can see now what it takes to be competitive in the playoffs and what's going on in the rest of the state.

Guy Kawasaki

You say: "My goal is to build a world-class company." Investor thinks: "How about you ship and sell the first copy before we talk about world-class anything?

Jeff Lemire

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

James Koster

You start with the intent, and you build the building around that intent.

George Fox

You're not financing the mortgage insurance and you build equity faster.

Ron Campbell

You're looking at it as something that can help you for the future as much as it helps you immediately. It's more important to build the loyalty with the fans.

Ronnie Chan

You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.

David Healy

This is a young, up-and-coming team and there is hope for the future. Of course the last two results have been disappointing but there is plenty to build on.

Bob Iger

Disney's commitment to diversity, including building a best-in-class supplier base, is woven into our core values and prominent in the high quality entertainment we create for millions of people worldwide. We're proud to be recognized by SCMBDC with this honor.

Kofi Annan

devoted tireless efforts to building the state and nation and, in so doing, earned the respect of the population.

Dave Brennan

Corporations held back over the past few years while profits remained strong, so they're now investing in people and building capacity for continued growth.

Jarrod Kerr

Corporate spending, particularly in mining, has replaced household spending and home building as the principal driver of growth in the economy. It will also alleviate capacity constraints in the economy.

Ken Simonson

Contractors use a lot of diesel fuel to power bulldozers, trucks, and other heavy equipment. And many building materials industries, such as copper and steel, are energy intensive.

Naomi Compton

Council erroneously introduced impact fees in lieu of building permit fees in a resolution last year, and we wanted to change that so it could be legally enforced.

John Johnson

This one tonight I am going to vote for because this is what it's intended for ... to take a building that needs a lot of work and rejuvenate it,

John Parry

We should have been building gasoline supplies in February and March but instead we were drawing them out of tanks so we can clean them for ethanol.

Susan Etheridge

We are a secure facility; you cannot get into our building unless you are buzzed in. He came in with a group that was known to have access; naturally, we are going to look at what needs to be done differently.

Rick Mears

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Tom Lyons

We've had a good response so far it's our first day of collections, as you see we're on our way of filling a truck with practical things that people can use there.

Sen. Prentice

We'll have to shave down some requests. But we're really not too far from wrapping it up.

Katie Kirby

To sell 150,000 tickets so far is kind of unprecedented for us.

Mike Williamson

Every game on the trip so far we've played some good hockey.

Chris Reitsma

Every day's a battle. There's a lot of mental games going on as far as confidence.

Robert Iger

as the future as far as we are concerned.

Ryan Howard

As soon as I touched home plate I knew that question was coming. As far as hitting left-handers, I think it's a matter of seeing them down here. The more I see them the more things I can pick up and take into the season.

Bob Benjamin

At 7.55 inches so far this month, we could take that on.

Joschka Fischer

We are still far away from a solution; the rifts are still wide and deep,

Brian Tracy

Successful people are simply those with success habits.

Michelle Collins

Successful homeownership is not just putting people into homes, it's also making sure people keep their homes.

Rachel Zoe

Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

Cindy Funkhouser

Some people have done it in 3. Most people get it in 11 or 15.

Gary Davis

Some people go to church. We shoot. It's the same type of get-together. To us, this is our sport. This is what we like to do.

Alex Rocco

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

Mim Myren

Some people go for visits all throughout the week.

Gregory Jackson

Some people feel that there's some racism involved, ... I'm wondering myself.

Scott Bowles

Some people feel it?s better than Shadow Creek.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Adam Dunn

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

Michele Bachmann

A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.

Maureen Johnson

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

Marina Abramovic

It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.

Patricia Briggs

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

P. J. O'Rourke

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

Laura Miller

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

Mark Teixeira

We can't be perfect all the time and that's okay. In the heat of the battle, in the heat of the moment, you might say things or do things that aren't right, but at the same time, Christ forgives us. Christ will always forgive you.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Ama Ata Aidoo

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Michael Bennet

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

Melissa Rauch

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

Melinda Gates

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

Michele Bachmann

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

Michele Bachmann

Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.

Michele Bachmann

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

Michael Symon

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Eve

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.