Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Don Baylor

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Don Drysdale

Where do you want it?

Don Drysdale

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Dylan O'Brien

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

Andrea Tantaros

The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Lastings Milledge

I thought about it every day. It got crazy at the trade deadline, thinking of all the possibilities where I could have gone. But nothing's done until they call you and say, 'You're traded.' I feel like I'm here, and as of now, I'm going to stay until they make a decision.

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know

Rob Judson

That was a tough second half for us. Our screening and passing weren't there, and our shots weren't falling. It's like the second half was a complete reversal of the first.

Toby Hall

Look at these other teams and wonder why they won 30 more games than us, or how'd they lose 40 less than us. It's pretty self-explanatory when you look at the complete rosters of every team. That's what Lou has dealt with,

Pete Kendall

I think one hand washes the other. The protection was good, but we were able to complete passes on short drops.

Rasim Ljajic

We handed them a complete file, which is a concrete evidence of cooperation with the tribunal and fulfillment of obligations that we took upon ourselves.

Grant Wistrom

We had yet to come out and play well in the second half, offensively or defensively. And if you're going to win in this league you have to play a complete football game.

Scott Paluch

I think he'll make it for sure. I don't think there's any question he'll have his day in the National Hockey League. He has the complete package.

Annika Sorenstam

I thought I could get complete relief. I thought that was the rule, ... They said, 'No, it's a straight shot.' So we disagreed.

John Stanton

While we still have a long way to go, we remain optimistic that we will complete the merger late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2001,

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Michael Allen

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.

Kathleen Tierney

More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island; there was nowhere to go. They didn't know when help was going to come. Law enforcement was rendered ineffective. They didn't know when they'd see another meal.

Paul Lanclos

I wish he'd stick to the script more. But when you have that type of athlete, nine out of 10 times when he does things like that he's going to help you.

MaryEllen Elia

She's been very positive. That will help her and help other people realize, hey this can happen.

Tom Jones

Shannon did a nice job today. We had some rabbits out there to help her out there on the track. I'm very pleased with her.

Peerless Price

I feel like I can help us win games.

Robin Walker

That was misinformation on our part. We apologize. The important thing to remember is that thanks to the help of the community, a suspected killer has been taken off the streets.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Weber

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Alfred Nobel

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Alfred Jarry

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Alexander Pope

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Alexa Chung

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

E. L. Konigsburg

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Donna Karan

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Urban Meyer

But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

Rogers Hornsby

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

Warren Moon

I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well.

Will Oldham

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Zakk Wylde

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

William Golding

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Robert Herjavec

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

Richard Branson

I learnt from an early age the need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Steve Case

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

Thomas Boswell

Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

Viktor Yushchenko

I have excellent relationships with Jewish organizations and participate every year in a Hanukkah celebration with my family. There haven't been any anti-Semitic tendencies in my team for a long time.

Vin Scully

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Vince Carter

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Mark Gorman

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Adepero Oduye

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

Anna Torv

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Andrew Niccol

Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Ann Coulter

According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens.