Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

(Day's) command was poor. His changeup was too hard. He threw a lot of changeups that were not squaring up.

Curt Schilling

I used all my pitches like I did as a starter and we located well. I had good command and I pitched.

Michael Brown

You see, I get it when it comes to incident command systems, ... I get it when it comes to emergency management. I know what it's all about.

Eric Roberts

There is a simple, three-step way of doing things. Give the dog a simple command - just one word, no rambling on - and explain what you have done and get the result. For example, tell the dog to sit, push its rear down and then give him lots of praise when he does it. He'll get it in the end.

Tyra Banks

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

Martin Scorsese

Etta James' voice is just as commanding as it was when she was young, but it's different -- deeper, tougher. How could it not be? That's what life can do to you.

Doug Waechter

As soon as it gets cooler out you feel like you want to hit somebody. It's just a game that you can't really forget. I mean it's so much fun getting the pads on and practicing with all the guys. You go into game day and all the excitement about it. The band's playing, just getting in there. Being able to throw passes and command an offense. I mean, everything about it. I love it. I love the sport.

Mark Shapiro

At some point this year he's going to help us in the bullpen. He's come a long way in the last year and had a good training camp. He just needs to work on commanding his fastball better.

John Powell

Communications is the linchpin. You can't have command and control without communications.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

Paula Creamer

Annika's at the place I want to be. I think that's helping me. I have to work harder than her. I have to get stronger than her.

George Foster

Anything that's on the lower end of the pay scale would probably be harder to fill.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Dick Bartholdi

Some people thought we were going to lie down and lose 15-0. But our kids don't do that. I'm biased, but I think our kids work harder than anybody.

Kameron Loe

Pretty shaky on my part in the fielding. But my fielders really picked me up. I made it a lot harder on myself.

R. L. Stine

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

E. Hicks

They always come out to play us tough. Tonight, they played harder than we did, but we were able to get the win.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Mark O'Connor

The music is addictive, ... When it's going well, you feel like you're hitting home runs all night.

Calvin Brock

Sam is a very powerful, strong man, ... If he hits you, he hurts you. He can knock out any man on Earth. I can't see any man taking one of those big shots and standing up.

Carol Davis

Schools we don't hit this year, we'll start with next year.

Stan Hyman

The scouts who have been looking at (Shore) for three years have been waiting for this, he's been hitting all his spots recently. This is his third promising showing in a row.

Tom Watson

I've worked with it. I took three putts and hit the first one about 3 inches fat. The second one, I hit it; and I hit the third 15 inches fat. That was it.

Bubba Crosby

I've never hit a walk-off homer ever, anywhere, even in Little League, in my life. And to hit one here at Yankee Stadium, this time of year, when it counts, it doesn't get any better than that.

Carlos Alberto

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Shawn Marion

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

Juvenal

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Bobby Sherman

I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

Edward Norton

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Danny Miller

We go out and do our best, ... but we have to move on to our next missing person.

Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

E. L. Konigsburg

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

David Stewart

It's going to be tougher in the rain,

Bob Henriquez

I truly have never, ever had a tougher kid. His toughness is, for me, legendary.

Arthur C. Clarke

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Chris Crutcher

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Edward Snowden

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

Bernie Sanders

So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

David Foster Wallace

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

Ronald Fisher

The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution of species, must cause this zone to be crossed and perhaps recrossed relatively rapidly in the course of evolutionary change, so that many possible gene substitutions may have a fluctuating history of advance and regression before the final balance of selective advantage is determined.

Tig Notaro

As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.

Steven Strogatz

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

Sam Harris

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.