Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jim Gilligan

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

Tom Reich

Not withstanding his protestations from time to time, Jerry is and has been one of the elite power sources in baseball for decades. And that is even truer now.

Todd Pridy

Teddy pitched exceptionally strong. Our errors did come back and hurt us. Otherwise it was a good baseball game. It came down to who played the cleanest defensively and we did not.

Lanny Davis

Tell it early, tell it all and tell it yourself. The rules are the same whether you're a president, a corporate CEO or a baseball player.

Jim Nelson

Sometimes it's difficult. What you need to do when you're playing the game of baseball is have a short memory. You've just got to play this pitch, this moment . . . You can't control anything else.

Milton Bradley

Some people, that's all their life is ? is baseball ... how many hits they get, how many runs they drive in, how many plays they make, ... They're working for a plaque. I'm not working for a plaque. I'm working to put food on my table.

S. Walker

Rotisserie baseball may be the most ridiculous duplication of effort in the history of human beings, but that's hardly a concern.

Marcus Giles

Running away with it is the last thing we need to do. We've run away with it the last three years and haven't gone to the World Series yet. I think we get a little too caught up in winning the division. We always want to pat ourselves on the back ... for winning 13 in a row. Let's see how many World Series we can win in a row, or even get to.

Simon Cowell

I find Paula patronizing. It's as simple as that. Paula is more damaging than I am to these contestants because a lot of people just shouldn't be singing for a living.

David Scheffer

It is extremely damaging to U.S. national interests.

Christine Gregoire

That would be seen as a confrontation; it would be hugely damaging to the relationship.

Maajid Nawaz

Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

David Gergen

You can slice and dice this thing any way you want, but I still think it's politically damaging for the administration.

Pat Conroy

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

Josh Rosenberg

Seeing a mixed performance year come on the heels of another difficult year in 2004, a record number of funds felt the pressure or succumbed to the fate of poor performance.

Anthony Crescenzi

Right now we have to take a step back and say how much further can we go with this news. Where fed funds are now, at 6.5 percent, makes it somewhat difficult for the (bond) market to trade higher or lower in yield.

Ernie Els

Right now, the putt on the 72nd hole, that's the putt I'm going to be thinking about. I hit such a good second shot and had such a difficult putt. If I'd known how difficult it was from there, I'd have hit it past the pin, which I tried to do in the playoff. I had my chances, though.

Gerard Warren

(Preparation is) not really difficult when you go and look at the things that they used in the preseason. That's what we're going to try and key off of.

Richard LeVine

President Tilghman has handled a very difficult situation in an exemplary manner,

Eddie Jones

Saracens have got some very good players. They have had a difficult season but there is now a real togetherness in the squad.

Paul Cordes

saw people in difficult situations, but they were smiling.

Mark Short

Saving and protecting American lives is difficult to place a dollar value on. But here, the lessons that are learned will protect American lives.

Roger Williams

Quite what will happen over the next 24 hours is difficult to say,

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Hal Vogel

The three of them, together, have really been straightening out all the messes that existed.

Paul Tracy

The whole thing got messed up when Dominguez crashed,

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Ranaan Gissin

This is not the time to mess with us.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Eude Brito

That's good. I'll give him three sliders in a row, right down the middle. You can't mess around with Bobby. If you do, he's going to take you deep.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Robert Gottlieb

The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

John Bogle

The scandal is not what's illegal. It's what's legal.

Darby Stanchfield

My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina.

St. Jerome

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Michael Kinsley

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

John Cusack

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

Ginny Brown-Waite

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

Mike Pence

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Atticus Ross

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

Derrick Bell

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Dean Koontz

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.