Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rickey Henderson

He can steal as many bases as he wants to. The question is whether he wants to.

Mark Riggin

This was one our better performances. We swung the bats well, ran the bases well and made the plays defensively. It was a great effort by the kids today, we really needed this win today.

Tim Johnson

It indicates this BRAC Commission will be quite independent in making its determinations about which bases to close and which to keep open,

Tom Graham

I think the key for us is maturity. It was a big jump for our freshman going from Pony League to high school baseball. You have a shorter distance between the bases and from the mound to home in Pony. But our young guys did carry a the load for us, or they wouldn't have been there.

Paul Johnson

I think it's really more a tribute to what the Naval Academy's all about. We're fortunate here in San Diego that we have some military bases and a lot of people are stationed in the area, and hopefully they're proud of what's going on at the academy.

Nick Swisher

Last year, I was horrible with the bases loaded. I was like, 'Oh, man, oh, man,' I'd get jittery. Now, I'm not the guy who's in trouble, it's the guy on the mound who's in trouble.

Sidney Ponson

I'm gonna try to lose a little bit, because I'm gonna be running the bases more here, need a little more flexibility and quickness. I have to learn how to do it anyway. I never did it in my life. It's a part of the game and I have to know it.

Matt Holm

The issue is when we got on we were taking bases today and we weren't able to score. That's how we've won. We've hit the ball, and we didn't do it today. You can't win them all.

Bob Uecker

The highlight of my career? In '67 with St. Louis, I walked with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run in an inter-squad game in spring training.

David Rosenberg

Katrina's effects are being felt nationally-on the nation's transportation arteries, supply chains, chemical plants, airlines, leisure/hotels, gasoline prices everywhere and retailing. The commercial impact is widespread.

Ivor Heerden

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.

Ronald Bourget

There is no chemical evidence, no physiological expert listed to indicate steroid usage and its effects.

Jalal Talabani

We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.

Firman Gani

This was not from explosive materials, but from chemicals at the laboratory, maybe mixed with gas.

David Wu

In short, chemistry and chemical engineering contribute in critical ways to the economic strength, security, and well being of the nation.

James Woolsey

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

Michael Shannon

Children are being exposed to large amounts of pesticides daily throughout their diet -- cumulatively, over the first 5, 10, 15, 20 years of their lives, when they are trying to have their brains, their kidneys, and their liver become perfectly functioning organs, ... These chemicals can interrupt this process.

Jo Handelsman

If there are all these different kinds of bacteria, there must be all kinds of chemicals that they're making.

Sirio Maccioni

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

Michael R. Bloomberg

It gives you a good visual, ... You can put a picture in the paper of a big cruise ship. We can talk about the food on a cruise ship.

Wes Craven

Everyone from Tom Cruise to Jude Law was talked about for this role - and not everyone was available, and some we couldn't afford.

John Barker

After the kick I was like, 'Thank God I got that over with,' ... Now I can just cruise the rest of the way.

David Rodgers

People cruise around with their kids and their grandchildren - it's a family-type event.

Ella Maillart

No sooner had I left to cruise the Mediterranean than the following question preoccupied me: How far does one kill a journey by making it become real?

Doug McCuistion

After a six-month cruise and 300 million mile (480 million km) journey we're finally there. But the first thing we have to do is get into orbit. It's not an easy task.

Morten Anderson

I've seen him a lot during the years, ... usually during those kicker competitions in Hawaii or Fort Lauderdale. We were even on a cruise together a long time ago. I was single. I think he was engaged. I can't remember what we talked about.

Bob Basso

The work on a cruise ship is extremely difficult if you aren't a third-world employee. If an American is unhappy with their job, they'll tell you to take this job and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Carlos Mencia

Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

Champ Bailey

I was a little shocked with the recovery I made so fast. I didn't think I'd be able to do anything today. I thought maybe tomorrow, but not today.

Mahmud Abbas

If the preparations can be finalised, there is nothing to prevent this meeting.

Nina Simmons

You can put some procedures in place to try to prevent it - but if you're one of those schools that has that tradition, it's going to happen.

Dikembe Mutombo

The goal, by 2015, is to prevent this catastrophe,

Joel Fuhrman

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Ben Bernanke

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Roger Smith

That?s good. It prevents the big earthquakes from coming.

M. Wolfe

Killing me doesn't punish me, it punishes my family,

Stella Young

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

William J. Brennan

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

Ujjwal Nikam

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Samuel Johnson

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

William Ralph Inge

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Walter Savage Landor

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

Toby Hall

I'm safe, and it was strike three. So there it is.

Steve Friswell

They can't come to work when they feel like it and strike when they feel like it.

Brian Giles

They were one strike away from a sweep. You never know what that can do to a team.

Terry Wilczek

They want to be a big-play offense. It's a high-risk offense, but they're having some success with it. They want to strike with the big play.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.