Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bouton

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Tracy Austin

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

Tony Oliva

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

Juan Marichal

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Thomas Hearns

I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.

Thomas Hearns

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Greg Anderson

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Jim Coleman

Born in Baltimore, I lived there 1 month.

Ty Votaw

So you combine the performance side of things with the personality and the appearance and the approachability, it's a pretty potent combination.

John Conyers

This does, sometimes to some people, begin to take on the appearance of a coup. We're talking about a polite, paper-exchanging, voting process in which we rip out the 42nd president of the United States.

Juvenal

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Blaise Pascal

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Ed Peper

As if the Corvette Z06 needed help in looking fast, the intricate paintwork of the pace car gives it the appearance of tremendous speed. It is one of the most elaborate and stunning vehicle designs we've created.

Richard Walter

We figured since there was a festival downtown, we'd make an appearance.

Walt Byrd

There's some perception in our community that we invest more in our newer schools. Their appearance makes them look dated.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

Hari Kondabolu

January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Crystal Eastman

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

Andre Maurois

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

Albert Camus

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

Donald Kettl

As catastrophic an event as 9/11 was, it was at least geographically bounded,

Steve Roukis

a one-time event but part of doing business, so if you split the difference, (profit per share) is 99 cents.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Ann Williams

The water was waist deep, ... We grabbed all the kids and held them up because the water eventually got up to our necks.

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Chris Morris

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Mary Kuehn

We did fine over there (previous location), but eventually we got too much stuff. With everything more spread out, people will be able see what we've got.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Dweezil Zappa

As far as solo records, there's ten years between it. As far as other releases, there's, I don't know, four or five years between it.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Rod Thorn

As far as we were concerned, we had a good season, with a real nice run at the end. But now, things start over.

Granth Sahib

The Society of the Guru is not obtained like this, by trying to be near or far away.

Ralph Krueger

The team is mature. You're going to see that here, we've by far not reached our goals yet. We have Germany tomorrow. There's no time to sit on this. They can look back on this period for the rest of their life and they should do that with pride but they're not going to do that right now. I know that.

Mark Rey

The supporters have been far quieter than the people who have found problems with it.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Simon Schama

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Herman Edwards

Warrick was with us in Tampa so I've known him since he was a rookie,

Rita Ora

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Anna Held

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

Alice Walker

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

Mary E. Pearson

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

John Smith

Obviously, he had the limitations, but you would have never known it. There was never a time that he let that be a hindrance. I thought that was just tremendous on his behalf. And he loved every minute of it. He always had a smile on his face.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Larry Marshall

She has truly been remarkable in every respect.

Phil Jackson

That was something to behold. That was at another level. I've seen some remarkable things before, but I've never seen anything like that.

John Banville

I thought it was remarkable on his part to be so generous.

Isaac Asimov

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

Bobby Cox

He's been outstanding from day one, ... He's done a remarkable job.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Joe Shields

We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.