Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ginger Mullins

Those photo albums where in the laundry room, and that's where (investigators) said the fire started. Everything else inside that room was burned beyond recognition, just like most things everywhere else in the house. How those photo albums survived, I have no idea.

Bobby Moynihan

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

Barry Gibb

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

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.

Michael Lewis

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Michael Lewis

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

Michael Lewis

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

Michael Lewis

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Michael Lewis

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

Michael Lewis

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Matt Long

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Trilby Lundberg

The gasoline price has broken records repeatedly in 2005, but until September 9 it did not exceed the true all-time high.

Will Rogers

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Kathy Sierra

It was actually a little platform they had built for tourists or people who come to see the place, ... We sang to some people there people from everywhere. Everybody liked it. A few people cried. It was real emotional.

Woody Smith

We built that 10-1 lead and then we kind of stopped playing. But we had a really good game offensively.

Jay Suskind

We built on a relief rally, ... From an economic standpoint, things picked up after the price rise in oil dropped. It showed the resilience of the economy.

Pavle Jovanovic

We built it with three straight months of work and 20,000 pounds of steel from a South Jersey rail yard.

Peter Dunbar

We built a lot of trails in a very short time. It was the perfect petrie dish to examine whether people are healthier because of their proximity to a walking trail. Has this huge development in Collingwood created an improved environment for community living?

Alice Waters

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Martin Corry

We have shown our improvement at Twickenham, and we've built a very strong team philosophy at Twickenham.

Brendon Ayanbadejo

The fan votes are really great, but to get the players and coaches, then you know you have the respect of the league. There are a lot more important things. It's a personal goal, and if I make it, it would be the icing on the cake.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Eli Manning

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Charles Buxton

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.