Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rutherford

It's a good building block to get these two really good young players.

Greg Maddux

I took some time to reflect back on my experiences here because I guess you're going to blow it up once the season is over. Great fans, and all that. I'm sure they'll be the same fans just a block down the road or whatever.

Michael Strahan

It was a punch to the face. There are other ways to block people. He said it was an accident, so I'll have to take him at his word. But it's dangerous to go at somebody's head to stop them. You can end somebody's career by poking them in the eye. But I'll be okay.

Dick Enberg

On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.

Adam Leipzig

When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.

Gregg Harris

Two men were shot right there, ... One was shot in the back, the other in the leg, and the third I was told made it a block and a half before he died in the street. I did not go down to see the body.

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.

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.

Donatella Versace

I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.

Donovan Bailey

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Colin Wilson

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Elyn Saks

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Martin Lee

The governments in the past week have done everything they can to keep the numbers down.