Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Peter Boal

The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.

Kirk Ferentz

Ball security and pass protection -- two things we really needed last year -- he gave us.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Sammy Teel

Ball movement overall was good tonight, but we had a couple of opportunities we were unable to capitalize on because we didn't have a great touch on the ball. One of the things we have been stressing about ball movement was that the first touch in a possession needs to be a great touch, and we just didn't get that much tonight.

Jim Furyk

Ball just didn't go in the hole as well as it could have on the back side. And on the front side, I got the ball in the hole super. It was flip-flopped yesterday.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

Dave Rader

Coming out of last spring, we had a lot of confidence in John Parker and what he could do. If Brodie could not have gone the distance, we could have won a lot of games with John Parker.

Kyle Shiloh

Coming out of high school, this is what you want to do win championships.

Michael Allen

Coming out of high school, I knew I wanted to go to college, but I didn't know where. I didn't want to go to a small school because I like the big atmosphere. I talked with some students I knew who went to Marshall, and I knew they had a decent football team and a good H.E.L.P. program to help students, so I decided to come to Marshall.

Kammron Taylor

Coming out in the second half, we didn't match their energy. That cost us.

Chris Mennis

The most temperature-sensitive products are the gas and the heating oil and that's what's moving the market.

Debra Moore

The way gas is today, wooh! ... Maybe you should ride the bus.

Ethan Harris

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy, ... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.)

David Carter

The price of gas was still around $2.75 in Murphysboro, and in Carbondale it was $2.99, ... In Carterville it was $3.59, and with my Sam's discount, I'm paying $2.96 before it goes up.

Jeff Lenard

As the price of gas climbs, people's values decline.

Michael Rose

There's still a lot of gas in storage.

Irv DeGraw

What's going on is the market running out of gas at the end of the week.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Kenneth Fisher

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Wes Walz

Randy complements our line. He sees the ice really well. When the puck comes around the wall, he's got a good set of hands. He can get a lot of loose pucks out to Gabby.

Matt Miller

Ralph is a good and honorable man and we recognize all the good he has done. But we also recognize that it is time to move forward.

Ted McIntyre

Rawlings threw really well. That was really good to see. She pitched strong and really looked comfortable out there.

Robert Friedland

Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.

Tetsu Emori

Production in the Gulf has risen dramatically and refinery input has also risen, these are good selling factors.

David Hemmings

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

Guillaume Duchesne

Profits have been good and are lifting stocks.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Wayne Coyne

People think its more high-tech than it really is with all the video and all that. It's still held together with duct tape.

Ian Stacker

The team has to be held accountable for wresting back the momentum.

Chris Witty

Once you're a medalist, you always want to be a medalist. Regardless of how you're feeling, you want to put it altogether. I think I held together pretty well. But physically, it just wasn't there.

Teresa Sheehey

Right now we don't have a meeting room in the building, so some of our programs have to be held off site. For example, our summer reading programs have to be held at the Hilltop Center.

Mark Twain

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Brian Cashman

Quite frankly, he can do some things more than the individual who held that position the previous years.

Will Whitticker

I've still got a lot of things I've got to improve. For the most part I held up.

Lupita Nyong'o

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

Lynn Cothren

I see why people think it should be held at Ebenezer. But one thing Mrs. King was about was change. She was not so drenched in history that she could not change.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Mother Maribel

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Al Lang

It was unacceptable play on our part. When we get down there, we have to score six points instead of three.

James Garner

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Mike Morse

I've been through a lot worse. I need to get at-bats, play every day, instead of being up there just sitting around. I look at it in a positive way. I need to show them I belong.

Troy Sunderland

That's why we really felt, if the other two kids could get to nationals, we could surprise some people and as a team do some things. Now, instead of going with 10, we'll have to do it with eight.

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Andy Warhol

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Jay Campos

We want to find out where we're at in the regular season, instead of waiting for the playoffs.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

John Muckler

You had to get rid of the other stuff before he started playing well.

Robert Monaco

Women are playing more, and playing more intensely,

John Harris

This was pretty timely because we are getting toward the end of the year and I had not been playing very well,

Kris Doorey

We could be better than 18-11 at this point, but we could be worse. We have been playing pretty well lately.

Matt Moore

We're going to be on a high, our first away game, playing a big-time school like Louisville. We'll be ready. It's going to be loud, and things aren't going to go our way sometimes; we're just going to have to battle.

Craig Swartout

The most quiet 20 points I've ever seen.

Gray Davis

Some polls have had us 20 points behind,

Maria Sharapova

It was tough. I couldn't put two points together. I was tired from my previous match, and now I need some time off.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

John Moody

What we try to do is not shut out any points of view.

Art Hogan

We were up more than 100 points yesterday, so you're seeing a reaction to that today,

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Mike Conner

I probably should play him more. He's averaging two points every 30 seconds he's in there.

Michael Allen

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Mike Foster

It's going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

Bobby Knight

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Karen Ostrov

It does work, but it takes time. It's not a quick fix.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

Laurie Bowlin

That quick set they have is impressive. I don't know how you would stop it.

Jason Bacashihua

It was 1-1 going into the third. We were doing great. Then they got two quick ones and we could not recover. But we will turn this thing around.

Danny Morrison

It was a big win for us. We wanted a quick start to put them away early.

Kerry Collins

I've got to make decisions. I've got to make quick decisions. I can't manufacture something.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Brad Fairchild

Roy ran real well. Running that time with a 20-minute rest after the 400 is pretty impressive.

Dr. Seuss

Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam,

Chris Davis

I showed him how to do it, how to work in TV. There's a formula. Richard ran with it.

Andrew Benson

We ran water through it once to see if it worked and then shut it off. It hasn't run since. We're actually going to go about trying to put it on eBay.

Carmelo Anthony

We ran pretty well (Monday night). I don't think we ran as well as we wanted to. But we ran pretty well.

Roger Allen

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday). I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

Roger Allen

We ran out of regular unleaded today (Monday), ... I will not be able to get another truck until Tuesday morning, but we still have the super unleaded gasoline.

Ricky Ledee

Everything was different, and the way they ran the team was totally different.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lance Armstrong

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

Michael Robotham

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Jennifer Morrison

I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!

James A. Michener

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

John Gibbons

That's what this team does. This team is dangerous. They've got so much speed, they can do anything.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.