Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isobelle Carmody

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

Frank Thomas

That would be a tremendous career achievement. If batter does that, he enters one of the elite groups of baseball.

Tom Barrett

We were going to run the battery labels down there. Delphi ended up selling that particular business to Johnson Controls in Milwaukee.

Robert Eenhoorn

We were going to give him one more batter to try to get the double play.

John Mendel

To make it really work, the cost has to be cut in half. The cost of the batteries is very high. We fortunately control the cost of the CPU, the electric motor.

Paul Nolasco

With the exception of the battery and the converter-inverter device, everything is made at Toyota.

Mikey Way

Were really greedy about the electricity in our iPods. We hoard it. Were like, Yo, Im only on half a f**k battery and I have a plane ride!

Frank Bauer

Will the suit overheat? How long will the batteries last? Can we get a clear transmission if the suit tumbles?

Janet Echelman

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.

Garry Hynes

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

Sam Madison

We have a lot of young corners that are ready to play. They've prepared well. They're ready. I've done some great things over the last nine years here, and it's part of the business. It just happens sometimes.

Dave Gomo

When the corners started to slick up I just lifted before they did. The exhaust helped, I could hear the wheels spin.

Levi Jones

We can be on the sidelines watching the corners and he can tell you exactly what the corner did wrong.

Felix Hernandez

I was told that harder wasn't necessarily better, and that batters were just sitting there looking for the fastball. I had to go back to pitching, hitting the corners and mixing up my stuff.

Polly Lawrence

We played better in the second half, even though we didn't score. We dominated. They had several corners in a row, and we held on.

Robert Brown

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!

Aaron Rowand

His sinker today was ridiculous. Some days, he's left it over the plate of late and gotten a few of them hit. He was hitting the corners all day and keeping them off balance. He threw a heck of a game.

Jon Gruden

With Milloy and Troy Vincent and the corners they have to go with this front seven, they're dangerous.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Isamu Akasaki

In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

Bryan Kelly

That was huge. It really deflates a team when you score late in the half.

Dave Thompson

We wanted to have this done already. Better late then never.

Paul McManus

We have been working on that a lot lately in practice.

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

William Shakespeare

to early seen unknown...and known to late

John Travolta

I would love to do that, ... We're planning on doing that in the near future, perhaps later this year.

C. S. Lewis

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

Cecelia Ahern

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone

Carrie Brownstein

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

Carrie Brownstein

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

Carrie Brownstein

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

Carrie Fisher

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

Carrie Underwood

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

Carrie Underwood

The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.

Christopher Wheeldon

Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Lyle Overbay

That was typical Bagwell. You're never safe, even if he hasn't seen live pitching for two years or two months.

Alex Rodriguez

We need to just take what the pitchers give us.

Joe Torre

with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.

Dave Littlefield

We need to preserve our starting pitching depth.

Lisa Peifer

We haven't seen as skilled of a pitcher as her.

A.J. Burnett

Wherever they want me to throw 90 pitches I'm up for it.

Bobby Cox

I thought he would pitch better than this. I don't know what happened.

Adam Dunn

I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands? Where's this, where's that? Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm.

Greg Bee

We have a way to go to become competitive at the plate. On the positive side, our pitching was good. Unfortunately, we wasted two quality starting performances.

Richard Madden

I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

Chris Cox

It doesn't surprise me. That's the type of person Sam is.

Paul Jacobs

We'll do sampling by the end of the year.

Roger Penske

Having Sam on this team has been tremendous,

Jake Palluzzi

He (Healy) really stepped up his game. He took the team on his back, trying to take up the slack with Sam (Barnes) out with a sprained ankle.

James Cronin

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

Cobi Jones

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

Kid Cudi

I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it to where it's more of a reimagining of a track. The songs that I do utilize samples on, most of it you wouldn't even be able to tell what it was unless I told you.

Elon Musk

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Richard Watson

We didn't strike to give up more and get less, but that's what happened.

Kevin McCarthy

That was thrown on us, so we'll look at it and see which way we go about doing it.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Yasmin Sewell

You can even throw them in the washing machine.

Pete Eliades

I thought if I did big increments, I'd throw him off. I just started him up, and he couldn't stop.

Mack Brown

Justin's really good. He's big and strong. And he can throw it all over the lot,

Gregg Brandon

We don't have Omar anymore. We know Omar can throw a lot of touchdown passes. We don't know that about our quarterbacks now.

Henry Beard

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.