Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Hubbell

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

Bobby Rahal

As anybody will tell you that's ever driven one of those races, so many things can happen. Just staying out of everyone's way is half the battle.

Jim Coleman

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

Marcus Allen

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

Nomar Garciaparra

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

Jim Evans

Back in those days, you didn't have to go to an umpire school to be hired in pro ball. League presidents could hire whomever they wanted.

Mary Lou Retton

Back in my day, they picked the top few, and since I was first at the U.S. Championships and first at the Trials I knew I was going.

John Zimmerman

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Carly Patterson

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

Gotthold Lessing

A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers.

Clinton Portis

Southeast Jerome in Heaven. I'm here in heaven with all my friends.

Herb Caen

One day if I do go to heaven... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Leslie Howard

Terrible lot of nonsense... heaven help me if I ever read the book.

Bhagavad Gita

The unsuccessful yogi is reborn, after attaining heaven and living there for many years, in the house of the pure and prosperous.

Ben Nicholson

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Al Franken

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Baltasar Gracian

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Desiderius Erasmus

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Rodman Philbrick

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Ron Scott

As a kindergarten teacher, I feel secure having her here. These kids are young, and they rely on her.

Al Martin

People up here liked the quieter versions. But kids would like the rock 'n' roll version.

Harold Chitwood

Our shots would not go down and we were down by 10 at the half. In the second half, they were too much for us. They were quicker than us and they had a lot of kids to keep running at us.

Hal Sparks

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

Jimmy Tubbs

Other kids were taking shots, they were just not making them.

Justin Trudeau

People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.

Brooks Bollinger

No question about it, this program needed this so bad. Especially for the young kids to point this program in the right direction.

John McKinney

Normally we have 40 to 50 kids competing.

Dennis Kucinich

the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Argus Hamilton

Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Ayelet Waldman

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Atticus Shaffer

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

Brian Sandoval

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brian K. Vaughan

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Craig Moore

That part doesn't really worry me ? it's making sure I'm fit.

Craig Hedric

So, we can make sure everyone is protected. The defendant, society, and other patients.

Kevin Mammano

I wanted to be sure we were in.

Chris Harrell

Sometimes, when I go back home, they don't see us as much of a threat. I always take that as an insult. I come back, and I make sure to tell my teammates about that.

Allen Tucker

The weather this year sure has been a challenge.

Holly Roberts

The whistle blew, I sure thought so. We can't take it back now, though.

Les Wright

you're going to have to unwind from that, and that's something we weren't sure we really wanted to do.

William Davies

And though I'm sure I see those eyes, I'm not so sure a body's there!

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.