Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jim Gilligan

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

Tim Wakefield

After playing the Yankees and coming here, we're the most important team in baseball right now,

Stubby Clapp

The most significant in Canadian baseball history, the finishing touch to Stern's inside-the-park homer. It was a drive which brought the Dream Team to its knees.

Higinio Velez

The most important thing is that baseball and the sport won. The quality of Cuban baseball was demonstrated.

Frank Zappa

Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon

Tim Dorsey

Somebody pinch me. Cardinals baseball is an institution. It is St. Louis.

Johnny Damon

So there's not much comfort right now. We know we have to go play good baseball or we know our season is going to be over.

Bob DuPuy

November does not work at all. Not a single one of the 16 baseball federations involved expressed the view that November was a better time.

Augustus

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.

Celia Rivenbark

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

Al Gini

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

Charles Clarke

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Desi Arnaz

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Connie Willis

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

Charles Spurgeon

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Edward Sapir

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.