Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitey Ford

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Gabe Paul

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

Ron Eastman

The pollsters tell me it's because of Kyle that we're picked so high. And he's definitely a huge part of that. But we have a strong group this year. One person can't do it all. It certainly helps to have him back, but he knows that baseball is a team sport. And he's on a great team.

Jim Murphy

The picture of the caboose was a no-brainer. The railroad helped build this city. As far as the baseball scene is concerned, you have to look at what people were doing a hundred years in Oneonta. Everyone played baseball.

Mark Gorris

The overall number of seats doesn't change. Those are pre- and post-game seats, not baseball seats. But we think it's worth the investment.

Nathan Stevens

The past two games, we've played five innings of good baseball. They continued to put pressure on us, and we just didn't make the plays.

Dennis Goldford

The outside baseball is a public perception of disarray. This isn't a bunch of Democratic Howard Deans out there saying this (about Rumsfeld). This is a bunch of respected people in the military. ... And certainly the evidence that people see is of a lack of success in Iraq.

Don Yaeger

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

CC Sabathia

Baseball is a game-I just go out there and enjoy it.

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

Ian Mckellen

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Gene Ween

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

Emilia Fox

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Horsey

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Christopher Guest

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Thorstein Veblen

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Gloria Gaither

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Bill Hader

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

Bill Bruford

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Mike Ferguson

We were hearing that it was short-squeezes and index buying.

Michael Garcia

You'll be hearing about pain, pain that this defendant caused, ... Listen to what the victims lost that day, the day the defendant killed.

Harry Reid

I thought it'd all work out, and we'd have a pleasant hearing and conservatives would give each other high fives,

Casey Hoeft

Just hearing all the parts come together just making one sound, sounds beautiful.

Eric Witkoski

I'm so tired of hearing we're going to have all this stuff, and nothing happens.

Estelle

I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Pat Robertson

I'm hearing from the Lord that it's going to be like a blow-out election.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Yayoi Kusama

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

Richard Rohr

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

Mark Patton

I thought I'd be an extra. Then it comes to this. I'm honored to be a part of it.

Angie Harmon

I'm so thrilled and honored to stand here with America's first lady, Laura Bush.

Katie King

I won the state championship and I got nominated and that was enough for me. I always want to win, but I was just honored to be here.

Trevor Hoffman

I was honored to have that opportunity to go out and get it done,

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Charles Chafer

We're pleased that he selected us and we're honored to have him,

Peter Schaffer

He has nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Wilson and would be honored to interview for such a prestigious job.

Vanessa Hudgens

That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

Justin Gatlin

The Penn Relays is the only meet in the world where, when I walk into the stadium, I get chills.

Chris Jericho

Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants!

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Jeb Bush

We have ample resources to meet whatever comes,

Ken Fields

We could meet the needs of New York State.

Jinny Sims

We could get to a table within hours. We could meet overnight and we could avert tomorrow.

Patricia McBride

It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

Donna Hayes

We were here all year. We were ready, willing and able to meet and now it's too late.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.