Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Wayne King

We can't keep them down forever. Even though they're struggling right now, they're going to swing the bats through the course of the season.

Kalen Pimentel

We just didn't swing the bats the way we should and we lost. We'll be out watching Hawaii tomorrow and we'll be pulling for them.

John Cohen

We came out focused and had some really good at bats out of every player today. I thought we hit it hard, which we've been doing but we found the holes today.

Doug Schreiber

Today was a big game because I told the guys we either were winning the series or settling for a tie. We swung the bats a lot better today.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to look at the positives. Randy pitched well, our pitchers are pitching well, our bats were better tonight and we just have to make plays.

Joe Caruso

Usually we're slow coming out of the gates with the bats. Today we came out swinging the bats early and that was definitely big. It seemed like we were more comfortable in the box. I think playing at home helped - we haven't played a lot of home games.

Lance Berkman

We've done a nice job at the plate. There's going to be ups and downs and you just have to try to enjoy the times we're swinging the bats well. The last three games we've done a good job competing and putting up runs.

Bruce Bochy

We haven't swung the bats well here, or even on the road, it's fair to say.

Gilbert Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Kirk Walters

We can't let them dictate the tempo. Their offense doesn't take any chances. They are very patient, and they run their stuff extremely well.

Johnny Damon

We had opportunities; we just couldn't capitalize. That's the most aggravating thing about this game. When you're not hitting and scoring runs, it dictates how well your season goes.

Jose Simon

We can at least try to dictate the agenda.

Scott Bardall

We have a team that needs to dictate tempo. We?re not big, we?re not quick, we?re not going to overpower you with talent. What we have to do is do two or three fundamental things well.

Mitt Romney

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

Zakk Wylde

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

Thurston Moore

We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves.

Marshall Faulk

Without a doubt. It's just weird when you hear the ones called out and I still take that step to go because it's always been like that for me. Now I have to hear formations and personnel that dictate when I'm in the game. But it's fine. It's a process.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Mike Conrad

Timely hitting has been our nemesis in this tournament.

Bill Doba

We've had enough hitting. The kids are tired of hitting each other.

Johnny Smith

We just went back to the fundamentals of hitting this year. It's just making contact. We're not trying to hit home runs.

John Neal

I thought he was going to make it, because I was late and he'd been hitting everything. He kicked his legs out and kinda jumped into me.

Lt. Sanders

Just keep hitting them, that's how we make a dent.

Bernhard Langer

I'm still in shock. I started hitting double-crosses out here and you can't do that. I didn't hit another fairway the rest of the round.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Lyle Overbay

That was typical Bagwell. You're never safe, even if he hasn't seen live pitching for two years or two months.

Joe Torre

with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.

Dave Littlefield

We need to preserve our starting pitching depth.

Greg Bee

We have a way to go to become competitive at the plate. On the positive side, our pitching was good. Unfortunately, we wasted two quality starting performances.

Ozzie Guillen

From the first day of the playoffs the pitching always has been good.

Bobby Cox

I don't think it's anything at all serious, but there's no sense in pitching him.

Clint Hurdle

For me, where I'm really going with it right now is he's just not pitching well right now.

Brandon Claussen

He was pitching great, ... He doesn't need any more runs than that.

Thomas Murphy

I come because I do pitching lessons. I come to watch and to be a better pitcher.

Bill Hader

My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'

Kevin Na

I was thinking, I can make a three-shot swing here, ... I can make eagle, or he makes bogey, and that's at least a two-shot swing.

Kosuke Fukudome

My swing was much better today than it has been.

Dan Jenkins

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

Greg Walker

When he was on opposing teams, we actually used his swing to teach off of. Some of the things he does, we talked about for two years ... so we know his swing pretty good.

Nelson Castleberry

He can swing it like that if he is patient.

Buddy Bell

I don't know what to say. We didn't swing the bats.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Ray Giacoletti

We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

John Gibbons

I'm just going to go with Reed. I like the way Reed's swinging it,

David Eckstein

You can't go up there swinging if (the pitcher) has just made an out or he's had a tough inning before,