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.

Victor Conte

A professional baseball player, ... can drive a Mack truck through the loopholes in the current anti-doping program being administered.

Adrian Burgos

The story of Latinos in baseball, to a large degree was started in Tampa. There was some in Key West, but it really began to flourish in Tampa.

Ron Gardenhire

The story has always been with him that he's a sloppy practice guy, but a good game guy. He's gotten better at his practice now, and a lot of people talked to him about that, working on some drills. He's grown up a little bit and made his presence known this year in camp.

Ross Vecchio

The soccer side will be heavily involved in camps. Baseball will have an everyday presence.

H. Hunt

The sports hall in Chicago is a great facility, and Joe is an icon in the Italian-American community there. Chicago is such a great baseball town, so it made perfect sense to bring the items to the city.

Brian Giles

(The sweep) was disappointing, but only because we know we can play better baseball than that.

Jeff Davis

The third inning was a good offensive inning for us. It really set the tone and helped us settle in.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

Tamba Hali

That was 1994. But I'm trying to bring her over now. My sister, too.

Sorin Cerin

Rain drops are not the ones who bring the clouds.

Alan Graf

Profitability is improving, ... By operating each of the FDX subsidiaries independently to compete in distinct market segments, we bring the most appropriate services and cost structure to each customer segment.

Peter Gregg

Producing crops, especially in the fruit industry, is very dependent on migrant labor and we need to have a legalized work force to help bring in the crop.

Robert Warzycha

Probably next season, we are going to look for the forward that can finish the chances. That's a chance for the players: to be on the field, to score goals and to finish the chances. And if you're not scoring the goals, what's the solution? You have to bring in somebody that will.

Mark Buehrle

One day, I'll hopefully pitch here in St. Louis. I love Chicago right now, and if they signed me to a lifetime deal, I'd sign it. But if I get the opportunity to put that (Cardinals) uniform on for at least one game, I'll do it.

Arne Duncan

This grant is really an investment in our collective future. It will help create great new schools in Chicago that will produce the kind of students who can one day grow up and lead companies like Abbott.

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Jack Foley

You can't do the level we are doing by just having these niche demographics of strictly gay or female. You can see in the suburbs of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago where you have lots of straights and married couples going.

Mike Richter

We are a polite people. You'll find Chicago to be a very friendly town. There won't be anything physical, but you can expect a little verbal harassment coming your way.

Dan Henning

We knew Chicago was a good team going in there. We didn't know it was as good as it is on defense. We made a couple of errors, and they got ahead. That's the way they like to play.

Ed Shimon

To have a storm that actually stays together from all the way west of Kansas City to just south of Chicago is highly unusual.

Jeanie Simpson

You have to be a Chicago driver. We have a pattern.

Thomas Middleditch

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Matthew Johnson

Denver is the fourth fastest growing restaurant market in the U.S., and the Rocky Mountain region's online population is growing dramatically every year. Denver is a community who want immediately useful information. Permission-based email is the ideal way for dining hospitality providers to reach them.

Stephen Browning

A physical office does not correlate to programs and services. We have many regions in our community where we provide thousands of dollars of services without an office.

Emily Johnson

A number of people have been touched by Community Compact efforts.

Alex Azar

Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.

Kathryn Reith

An important piece to the success of the ones that have been done is because it includes community investment.

Jeff Corey

are the types of tragedies that impact entire communities.

Danny Saenz

A positive response has occurred and we hope to continue to work together with the community to have a nicer place to live.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Astro Teller

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

John Hudson

realize the great things that are happening in Jefferson County, and specifically at Atherton High School.

Darren Shan

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

AnnaSophia Robb

Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.

Dan Kallaugher

Princeton did a great job capitalizing on the mistakes we made and that was a big reason why they were able to win.

Howie Hewitt

(Proctor) is 100 percent every pitch, every at bat. He's a great guy to have at the plate in that situation.

Chris Ullman

Privacy issues are of great importance to the president.

David McCandless

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Brian De Palma

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

Brendan Shanahan

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

Clive Barker

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Anne Rice

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Anne Rice

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

Danny Elfman

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

David Carson

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

Ashley Wagner

The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.

Seth Davis

There's only one icon like Steve Alford in Indiana. And that's who I think it's going to be.

Tom Hollander

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

Sonam Kapoor

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

Mick Fleetwood

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

Denise Miller

One of the issues is that our icons are not yet our icons.

Ted Turner

She's not yet an icon. But she's approaching icon status.

Mike Darnell

Having a true New York icon like Regis ring in the New Year from Times Square is something that we are already celebrating.

Robert Stack

These are icons to be treasured.

James Billington

We have 119 million items in 460 different languages,

Kelli Calloway

The dresses, shoes and purses can all be loaned and don't have to be donated. It doesn't have to be a permanent donation. Whoever wants to loan items can get everything back dry-cleaned.

Paul Parker

These items can become missiles and they can stop storm drainage,

Fred Reid

I've got a checklist with 3,200 items on it. At any time, 150 of them are burning.

Lykke Li

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

Chad Hedrick

We should be talking about other people. We should be talking about Joey and I, because we've already been standing up there on the podium.

Steve Nash

Obviously, I'm going to miss Joe a lot. He wanted to try something else. What can you say? You wish him the best.

Bob Lilley

Joey and J.J. matched up well up front. We were unlucky not to get a second and third.

Al Horford

Joe was all over the place. He was terrific.

Bobby Bowden

Joe is not with us and that's all that I can say about it.

Grant Stevenson

I knew I had Joe on the flank there with me.

Brad Buckman

It was something I had to at least try because Joe is such a load down low. He's so physical, you've got to do anything you can.

Muhammad Ali

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Fonda

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Catherine Keener

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

Catherine Ponder

I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

Charles R. Swindoll

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.

Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Brett Favre

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Brett Favre

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.