Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Stengel

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

William Garrison

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

Maverick Golden

I loved the thrill of the race. I didn't lose very often. I won 35 out of 36 races in 1964. Drag News Magazine called me 'the Babe Ruth of drag racing' in January 1965. I was undefeated for two years or more.

Dick Cook

Ed and John are the Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth of animation. They both possess the balance that is needed, John being the creative fountain and Ed being not only the technological genius but a managerial one as well.

Bobby Crosby

It's impressive. Since I've been here he's started out slow. This year he's come out racking. I'm happy because I'm going to get pitches to hit. I'm hitting in front of Babe Ruth. I haven't seen that many balls hit that hard. I was standing on second base (on homer No. 2) and I thought it was doing to be a double. How that got out is beyond me.

Mike Lucibello's

I started in that league so I always helped out there. We've grown tremendously and I'm very proud of that. In this area, Babe Ruth has become the steppingstone to high school baseball.

Torii Hunter

They can say what they want, but there's no way they would launch an investigation unless Barry Bonds was not about to break Babe Ruth's record.

Laura Schlessinger

Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

P. C. Cast

But you don't belong here! You're dead!" I sobbed against his chest. "Zo, babe, this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you.

Denise Ainsworth

Katie and (catcher Eryn) Richardson did a great job. Katie was hitting her spots and Eryn kept them off balance with the pitch selection.

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Jim Nelson

This was a good win. We got out to an early lead and were able to keep it for the balance of the game.

Frank Taylor

He's a balanced gorgeous horse. He looks just like Forestry.

Charles Johnson

He's a guy of high moral integrity, and a guy who I believe in, quite frankly. ... I think it's unfortunate that a balanced story has not been told.

Henry Chan

Historically, you never knew what you were investing in Korea as the balance sheet was unclear. You go into a secondhand kind of a car market and you don't know what you were buying, so the natural thing to do is you paid a discount to everything you looked at.

Steve Cook

Historically when weve gone into a program like this, weve had engine developments that start right off the bat. Instead were saying, lets focus our new propulsion development on much smaller-scale efforts. Lets also have back up plans in case it doesnt work out. Its a balanced risk versus reward that weve laid out here.

John Davidson

I think it's good even to stay invested. We tend to like technology. But if you like technology, you're going to have lots of volatility because that sector is much more volatile than the other sectors. If you don't like the volatility, then it's good probably to balance that with something else, some other sector.

Jill Sales

I think it's cool how she's well balanced between hockey and school. I just think it's neat how someone can excel at both.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Ed Steadham

Keystone was a very important part of our business. We build helicopters, they did the completion that finished our helicopters. We knew the company and were impressed with the company. The marriage has enhanced the both of us.

Bob Cortelyou

Kiev will be the latest destination in Delta's expansion into the key business and leisure markets of Eastern Europe. Delta will be the only U.S. carrier to serve Kiev, and business travelers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as friends and family of Ukrainian heritage in the United States, will look forward to this new non-stop service between New York-JFK and Kiev.

Peter Warrick

Kit and I talked about this a long time ago. He said it would be a great system for the both of us. I never really thought it would happen. Then, once I got here (for a visit), Kit told me about the coach and how he is such a great guy. Here I am.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Shawn Trent

Kids don't want to come off the field, but we try not to start them on both sides because they get too tired. and we aren't getting as much out of them (in the late stages of a game).

Greg Moore

I wouldn't say all the pressure is on them - we're both going into the game with the same goal. If they feel like they have more pressure because they are the home team and they are in front of their home crowd, then so be it.

Fabio Capello

I would not say we lost two points but that we gained one. Both sides tried to win. The result was fair.

Mike Davis

James came to Indiana to do both sports, so ultimately the decision is his. He had a great football season, and I am really proud of him. He has a bright future ahead, and we want to do whatever is necessary to help him reach his goals.

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

Peter Nowak

L.A. didn't win the game tonight -- we lost this game because we didn't fight, we didn't run, we were too predictable and not creative enough, ... We weren't hungry for those three points.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Anne Dudley

I think being studio-literate helps, because obviously I'm not intimidated by the studio, and I never have been. I've always thought it was another part of the creative process.

James Shelton

It gets creative with all the customer wants.

Two Chainz

I enjoy being in control, having a lot of creative control.

Howard Lee

We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.

Ron Bailey

We look for creative ways to get them in step with fitness.

Christopher Molineux

Humans are creatures of waste, so it is our duty to minimize our consumption and to ensure that we, as individuals are worthy of the waste that is created. A dull whining paranoiac who is a model of thrift but of little else is more symbolic of waste than an interesting and creative materialist.

Sathya Baba

Peace - It can come only from the Fountain of Peace within.

Don Anderson

I had the idea a long time ago. Bill's just a fountain of information, a living encyclopedia.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

John Aubrey

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

Bill Donabedian

Every marketing person will tell you that you can't be everything to everyone. But with Fountain Square, you kind of have to be.

Toba Beta

Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge.

William Cowper

Some men make gain a fountain whence proceedsA stream of liberal and heroic deeds.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Vincent Creel

He is going to be looked on as a genius for that.

Brad Pitt

He'll go for years on pulling off a prank, ... His genius in that one was not pulling a prank on me.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Zinedine Zidane

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

Henry Adams

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Jerry Slocum

John has been a work in progress the last two weeks. We need him.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Michel de Montaigne

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Jim Butcher

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

Lou Holtz

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Tony Lazzeri

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Reggie Jackson

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.