Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Jason Abercrombie

The kid (catcher) had him blocked off at the plate and he went to the outside and was able to sneak by there before the catcher got the tag on him.

Jerry Sloan

Andrei was terrific in helping our people. His seven blocked shots were lifesaving coming down the stretch. Their momentum picked up there at the end and we looked a little tired, but he kept us out of trouble.

Jerry Sloan

Andrei was terrific in helping our people (defensively). He had seven blocked shots which was really life saving coming down the stretch because their momentum picked up there at the end.

Rock Cartwright

The Eagles blocked a field goal and ran it back,

Malcolm Deans

(Webb) blocked a shot and sent it back into the stands after play had already stopped on a personal foul. It was an accident; he didn't mean to do it. But the call on him really fired our crowd up, which got us going.

Paul Jerrard

Everyone chipped in and blocked shots and battled. (The difference) was persistence.

Tyrus Thomas

Everybody's going to play bad. I was a little frustrated and aggravated. My first shot got blocked and I hadn't had that happen all year. The team kept motivating me and picking me up.

John Doherty

The blocked extra points were huge, ... Especially the one in overtime.

Randy Johnson

I think it's important that the catcher realize that even if you think something is going well and it really isn't but you're convinced it is, that he still try to get you through the game when things aren't going well.

J. Salinger

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are. - The Catcher in the Rye

Mike Griffin

Playing catcher wore me out last year. I wouldn't mind still playing, but as long as I'm in the lineup and helping the team.

Jason Kendall

I'm just the catcher guy, so I have no control over how much I'm going to play. But I like to play a lot, so I'll be ready to play a lot.

Clint Hurdle

The (improvement) starts with the bullpen. That is a pretty good group for us, one of the better groups we have had. And at catcher we have depth there where before it was a fragile position for us.

Joe Torre

A catcher and a left-handed pitcher, ... Those are the no-brainers. The rest of it, we'll figure out.

Rod Barajas

It's a quality pitch. I had a hard time catching it, and that's a good sign. When a catcher struggles trying to hold on to the knuckleball, that's what you want. That's tells you it's a good pitch.

Willie Randolph

That's just the way it falls. I told you earlier I wasn't going to get into that personal catcher thing.

Libba Bray

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

Kelly Shackelford

Kids are being told they can't mention God.

Lionel Anderson

Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, people are doing little things to show support. It's really great.

Linda Jones

Kids today need to know that people think they're special. Each day and each thing that they do is so precious.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Barbara Ward

Just to know what the kids were talking about in school was more meaningful than anything I could write in a parent newsletter,

William Lewis

Just tell my wife and kid I love them.

Jim Whitesell

I think it's a Catch-22. You're always going to run into one kid who says, 'I want to go to Ames, Iowa, or Cedar Falls.' Then there some who want to stay home. You have to find the right one.

Mike Pardon

I actually thought our kids battled well. South just has so many weapons. They?d go on spurts here and spurts there. They?re so tall and so skilled. It was too much for us.

Shelton Quarles

He couldn't be home, that's why he always had his kids around.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

Amit Hazan

I like the strategy they're taking, which is to consolidate the smaller players outside the U.S. to become a stronger player,

Taylor Momsen

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

Rob Sims

It sits outside the realm of the DBA and application provider.

Dan Patrick

It's time for outside thinking. It's time for an outside viewpoint. And it's time for the people to have a voice in Austin.

Natalie Hall

It's freezing. If I always had to stand outside to smoke I would understand, too.

Kristen Johnston

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Joan Didion

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Patton Oswalt

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Tom McKenna

He stepped up to the plate and took this like a man.

Phil Gordon

Without hesitation, not only would we step quickly to the plate to participate, but for any request to make changes, we will make those changes,

Steve Sullivan

I was able to get a break. I was able to go 5-hole yesterday on Manny. I think I tried to show him the 5-hole and deke it around him and I was able to sneak it by.

Kami Garcia

The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.

Chris Evans

I like wet hair and sweatpants. I like sneakers and ponytails.

Missy Elliot

I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

Jamie Ullman

She was trying to sneak out. She was trying to go out the back way.

Debbie Carter

We don't know if the tag is just not there or if it deteriorated.