Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Foulkes

Kenny Laag was super on that mound, but Andy Reid was the man. He got ahead of a lot of hitters. He took charge out there. It was a big start for a senior, and he really stepped up and shined.

Todd Fairbourne

Jackie threw one heck of a game. She hit her spot 90-95 percent of the time and pitched ahead of the count.

Kim Clijsters

I think it's a compliment but, you know, I've got a tough match ahead of me, ... I'm not really thinking too much about being the favorite because I know what I have to do out there to win my matches.

Jay Wright

I think it changed the game. I think he was way ahead of his time. He caught the country by surprise the year he went to the Final Four. I think even after years he had all that success going to the Final Four, I think that it still took all of us a long time to catch up.

Felipe Lopez

He likes to get ahead of guys. For infielders, it keeps us on our toes. He keeps the game moving.

Chuck Grassley

He is putting the good of country and party ahead of his own personal ambitions.

Joel Bertsch

He learned from the guy ahead of him. He's a real smart kid, he makes good decisions, he's got a strong arm, he's a great leader and a real good field guy. The guys believe in him.

Hilton Armstrong

He knows what's going to happen before it happens. It's like playing a game of chess with him. He can see a couple moves ahead and orchestrate the game.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan usually refrains from saying anything market moving ahead of speeches before Congress,

Tom Brokaw

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

Tamsin Greig

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year, ... Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bob Johnson

Hopefully, we can have one large one instead of several smaller ones.

Aaron Gryder

He was standing fine. His first step was down instead of in front.

Jamie Kennedy

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Jon M. Chu

I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

Napoleon Hill

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

Orhan Pamuk

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Matthew Fox

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Julian Baggini

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Nicole Polizzi

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

Mark Billingham

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Richard Louv

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Richard Le Gallienne

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Ugo Betti

There is no forgiveness in nature.

David Nicholls

As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

Nick Carter

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!

Izabel Goulart

I've never been to Thailand and I've only heard good things about it. I really want to make my way there.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.