Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Bernard Cornwell

I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree.

Erron Kinney

I think the biggest difference is (Dungy) has had people in key positions that have been there and understand the system. When they have plays they make them. It used to be they did a lot of stunting and got caught up out of position. They're playing straight up with a lot of speed and they rally to the ball.

Mark Brunell

He gives 110 percent. What impresses me the most about Clinton is when he doesn't have the ball. It's when he's protecting the passer, when he's blocking for a receiver downfield. He's always going. It's very impressive. He's not the biggest guy (5-11, 205), yet he plays like a big guy. He can do everything.

Jody Bass

He does all the intangible stuff. That's his biggest role in the grand scheme of things - drawing charges, getting rebounds, setting picks, diving for loose balls, putting a body on people.

David Garcia

He may not be on this Earth anymore, but I know he'll be up there in heaven watching every play, ... He was my biggest fan, and I know he still is.

Paige Sheehan

Henderson County is the biggest trouble spot with 10,700 outages. Crews and contractors are on the scene working to restore power.

Jan Egeland

Our biggest concern now is that we will have tremendous bottlenecks. Every day there are 60 to 100 trucks coming in from all over Pakistan.

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Robby Reasonover

We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.

Andy Rooney

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

Donna Favors

When we show concern for the happiness in others, we ultimately enhance the happiness in ourselves.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Alex Gibney

One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.

Alex Gibney

Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.

Albert Pujols

I don't know why people say I'm not supposed to be doing what I'm doing. I'm just trying to do my job. I'm blessed, and I'm glad that I'm blessed.

Albert Pujols

Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the author himself David Stockton. The theory suggests that if we take care of the people at the top, if we cut taxes for the wealthy, if we make sure they are doing really well, then the investments that they make in the economy and the jobs that will create, will make everything grow and it will have a trickle down effect on the rest of us.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W.] Bush administration.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.