Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gibbons

Ted (Lilly) has a bad back right now, something he felt the day after his last start (March 26). So we'll give him an extra day of rest and have Josh (Towers) start the second game and Lilly the third.

Proverb Proverb

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Robert Esche

Pressure isn't a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and let's you focus on the task at hand.

Russell Walters

Perhaps some people, for bad reasons, don't want to be monitored because they're not the most productive. Even good workers could take some offense to being monitored, as if maybe there is a lack of trust in what they're doing.

Frank Rijkaard

Samuel is a human being and he felt bad on the field. I was pleased with the reaction of his teammates. They all went to support him and encourage him to stay. The referee also did really well.

Jay Kim

Samsung's deal with Qualcomm will pave the way for the chipmaker to expand the chip foundry business, and is bad news for Taiwan foundry manufacturers.

Jon Raker

Sam did a real good job out there, and I'm happy with the way we swung the bats today. But (the errors) are frustrating for us and for our pitchers. We've had one bad defensive inning in all our losses.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Sanctions are a bad idea. We are not facing an imminent threat. We need to lower the pitch.

John Milton

Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bobby Shelton

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

Bob Taylor

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Mark Fogel

Basically in the fourth quarter the offense just seemed to really click, pretty much that was the difference.

Donald Rumsfeld

It's basically a sound principle. It's nothing new; it's been well understood ... My guess is it will continue to be used as little as possible, but that it will continue to be used.

Ben Affleck

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Olga Kurylenko

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.

Beth Daniel

We're talking an eight- to 10-minute drive from the closing ceremony to the golf course. So her heart raced at basically 290 beats per minute for about 15 minutes.

Vicki Crompton

Mark was inside, in a small bathroom by the entry,

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Chris Travers

You need to play a near-perfect game for a team like us to beat a team like St. Andrew's because they've got a lot of weapons.

Joe Collins

You really can't enjoy it too long. As we learned in our season opener, if you are not mentally prepared, you can get beat on any given day.

Ned Yost

You really can't count on scoring five runs off of Roger Clemens, but tonight, luckily, we did. Any time you can beat him, you've done something.

Kelvin Sampson

You may upset one team, but you don't sneak up on the next one. This team is not Cinderella. This team is the security guard at the back door. They'll beat you up.

Vince Spadea

You need a weapon to beat him or you have to out-tough him. That's his game, being tough.

Avi Greengart

You now have a very nice, seamless e-mail experience with BlackBerry. If you want to do just voice and e-mail, it's hard to beat a BlackBerry.

Ian Gold

You never want to lose. I don't know any guy out here who says, 'I want to go out and lose a game.' They beat us in the playoffs, and I look forward to getting out there and trying to get a win.

Stephen Ames

This is big. This is characterized as the fifth major. I beat the top players in the world.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Tom Sanvik

We have really played them tough in the past. We really need to just take care of the puck and stay out of the penalty box.

Max Azria

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

James Lardner

We have entrusted our health care system to for-profit companies.

Richard Lucas

We were throughout the storm. Our medical care has never been compromised.

Eddie Compass

We got 30,000 people out of the Superdome and we're going to take care of you.

Marilyn Jones

We want to do something for someone who has taken care of others her whole life.

DeShawn Stevenson

We weren't taking care of the ball. When we don't take care of the ball, we make it hard for ourselves.

Lindsay Whalen

We knew Detroit was in our path and we didn't care how we did it. We just wanted to go out, play hard and get the job done.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.

Jacoby Shaddix

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

O. J. Simpson

We had five feet of water. And now our house has a slant to it and it's not safe. So, we're going to rebuild.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Kelly Hu

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

Ben Gordon

I had four seconds this time as opposed to the 2 1/2 I had last time. I just tried to get into my rhythm and get a good shot up.

Dave Sellon

If you do the math, that works out to around 4:34 or 4:35 a guy, and to have four guys that can do that right now is pretty good.

Steve Hudson

If you had four houses share one porta-potty ... you saved $2,000 right there.

Brittney Thomas

If you pull out the first win, it's a whole new tournament because there are only four teams left. It's who wants to play for the championship.

Graham Dawe

If you are winning with four seconds to go, you do think you are going to do it. But that's the way it goes sometimes.

Tony Russa

If you look at last year, we had Scott playing and he had some really big hits, but overall he was really banged up, he wasn't the same the last two months, ... This year we lost four regulars, three of them are boppers, and the guys that took their place did a terrific job of handling the bat, so we played a little different game.

Fernando Lopez

In the survival studies conducted here, 80% of the rats with kidneys preserved in the HBS solution survived for more than seven days, whereas none of the same number of rats with kidneys preserved in the HTK solution survived more than four days.

Sharon Lewis

In the four years of our involvement with the development of this park, we have observed that no planning applications have been submitted for industrial purposes or so-called long-term career-oriented employment.

Woody Williams

In spring training, if you told us we'd be four up with seven to play, we'd all take it. So that's where we're at.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Homer Simpson

Owww look at me Marge, I'm making people Happy! I'm the magical man, from Happy Land, who lives in a gumdrop house on Lolly Pop Lane!!!!...... By the way I was being sarcastic...

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

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.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Chuck Palahniuk

People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

Ann Richards

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Rickey Henderson

Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

Red Skelton

People think I am dead because they haven’t seen me around for awhile. I’m not dead, I’m very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don’t smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.

Raymond Carver

That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.

Raymond Carver

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.

T. D. Jakes

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

T. S. Eliot

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Dan Brown

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..

David Foster Wallace

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

David Foster Wallace

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

David Foster Wallace

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

David Foster Wallace

We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.

David Starr Jordan

"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success."

David Simon

If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

David Platt

We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.

David Platt

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

Donald Barthelme

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Donald Sutherland

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

Don Kardong

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Colleen Hoover

It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.

Dolores Huerta

You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Dolly Parton

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

Dolly Parton

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Dear Abbey

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

A. J. Jacobs

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

A. A. Milne

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

Adam Gopnik

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

William Shakespeare

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.

William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

William Shakespeare

A little water clears us of this deed.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.