Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Colvin

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

B.J. Upton

I was always brought up to be patient at the plate. That's the approach I've always taken to hitting. That may be why he said that -- I take a lot of pitches. I might strike out 100 or however many times a year, but my walks to strikeouts about evens out.

Rick Forney

Kenton's been around. He's matured. He'll tell you his approach has changed. He's always had an excellent basketball IQ. It's just that everything else has come together for him.

Brad Buckman

Kenton and I went to a Final Four as freshmen, and now we have a Big 12 championship. We have to approach every remaining game like we did tonight and see if we can get back to the Final Four.

Lou Holtz

Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Paul Gallico

Jack Dempsey was a picture book fighter. By all the sons of Mars, he looked the part. He had dark eyes, blue-black hair, and the most beautifully proportioned body ever seen in any ring. He had the wide but sharply sloping shoulders of the puncher, a slim waist, and fine, symmetrical legs. His weaving, shuffling style of approach was drama in itself and suggested the stalking of a jungle animal. He had a smoldering truculence on his face and hatred in his eyes.

David Rowland

Just like the spa is a pampering of your body, spa food and the approach that I make is ... from a similar angle. A burger and fries would not be appropriate. It's something we all crave, but after you've done it, you feel sort of weighted down.

Eric Munson

Just watching him and how he approaches the game and how he handles the pitchers, it really helps me out just to watch him and see how he goes about it.

Richard Shoemaker

We're obviously very pleased to have yet another Nobel Prize awarded to someone in our department.

Van Huyssteen

We have to be careful not to undo things that are good. The decision was taken and I was part of it. The Test has been awarded to the Leopards and one would need a compelling reason to take it away again.

John Hayes

I have concern with the number of minority contracts being awarded and the county and the city holding departments accountable for it.

Dennis Clarke

In the past ten years, Cummings Foundation has awarded nearly 0,000 in scholarships to outstanding Winchester graduates alone. The awards were originally funded by a million grant from Cummings Properties, and through memorial gifts, to perpetuate them in future years.

Jim Hill

In the 13 years that the recycling grants have been presented, we've awarded 245 grants, totaling more than $20 million.

William Jenkins

In the last several years, the federal government has awarded some $11 billion in grants to federal, state and local authorities to improve emergency preparedness, response and recovery capabilities.

Charles Foley

If there are any changes to the project itself, the scope, the cost, we always bring those issues up because we want to understand why the project has changed from the time when we awarded the money.

Michael Ross

I hesitate to call it landmark. Other people have called it landmark ... but it is one of the first times that a jury has found in favor of a morbidly obese person based on disability and awarded significant compensation.

Aung Suu

I hold her, and her nonviolent struggle for democracy, in high regard, ... It is people like her who should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, as opposed to presidents and other statesmen whose job it is, after all, to uphold peace, freedom and order.

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Stephanie Macumber

Judge Nichols denied the motion, finding that Redding did, based on the totality of the circumstance, have reasonable suspicion to detain the car and driver, based on the cracked windshield. This was further supported by the evidence presented.

Neil Schon

Journey for so many years has been based around the song, which is fine, but at some time in my career I want to be a household name.

Sean McHugh

Job offers are extended in order as people return their interest forms, ... In terms of those numbers, it's in the course of business. It would be based on ongoing needs.

Marty Turco

I think inspiration was at its peak tonight just based on being down 0-3 and knowing that we could be doing a lot better.

Charles Coleman

It came down to without support of the organization, we could not move forward. That was what I based my decision on.

Justin Duberman

Jaime will sign an NHL contract this summer. He doesn't have anything signed yet but it's not an issue.

Carlo Ancelotti

I would say it's impossible because I have a contract with Milan which I'm trying to respect.

Robert Goldstein

I take pride in putting together contracts and providing a full range of services. I tell all my members, 'Distinguish yourself with services.' I'm not worried about it at all.

Bill Duffy

It can only be categorized as par for the course in the N.B.A.. It's been a wild year. Antonio is under contract so he really doesn't have a whole lot of latitude right now.

John Antil

He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help you. Right now is if I had a contract with him, I'd be thinking about using him more.

Andy Pafko

He just put the contract on the table and said, 'Would you mind signing?'

Willie Randolph

He'll be here in a couple days -- it might even be tomorrow, ... There's nothing in his contract about it. We just told him we wanted him back. We want him to come back and help us.

Adriano Galliani

has a contract until 2007, but I'd like to negotiate for another year. We'll retire his Number 3 jersey when he retires, but keep it in storage for when his son grows up.

Ray Yeakley

Guys who are now testing positive for hepatitis C more than likely contracted it in the 1980s or late 1970s when it wasn't understood what hepatitis C was.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

J. C. Chandor

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Lucas Glover

Just the experience is going to be great, just being there and walking around.

Chris Traulsen

I think it's a good long-term investment. They've got a ton of experience between Mason Hawkins and Stanley Cates, and the managers have significant portions of their own net worth in the Longleaf funds. They have every incentive to do right by their shareholders.

Willie Anderson

I think it's a different feel for our fans. In years past we have been packing it up at this time of the season. I think our fans have been caving it in, too. It's a new experience for everybody.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Sandra Bullock

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Sol Wachtler

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

Mary McGinnis

I really wanted to thank them for their valuable public service, I was really quite surprised. Writing isn't my big skill.

Hector Garcia

I'd like to go back into another sector other than hospitality,

Jason Schenker

The manufacturing sector seems to be on a very solid footing.

Markus Steinbeis

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

William Hummer

The services sector is showing some inflationary pressure, and wages are starting to climb.

Lynn Reaser

This is another sign that the manufacturing sector is positioned for an upswing in the third quarter.

Robert Brady

There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.

Marco Rubio

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

Jon Burnham

I still like the tech sector very much,

Richard D. James

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Rob Brown

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

Reid Hoffman

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

William J. Clinton

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Tori Amos

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.