Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Dylan O'Brien

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

Rod Schwarz

We were just talking about how baseball can chew you up if you let it. One day this can happens and the next day can be totally opposite. That won't happen, though, if you hang your head and feel sorry for yourself. You have to come back and get after it.

Vin Scully

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

Vin Scully

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

Vida Blue

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

Vida Blue

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Vida Blue

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Usher

I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.

Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Rick Warren

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Adam Ant

People tend to keep their distance.

Philip Toy

Transportation time and costs, for instance, are impacted by distance and geography.

David Mendez

Yeah, the distance girls are helping us out a lot. People shouldn't forget that we're a small school and we are hanging in with the big ones.

Brian Lempola

We needed to make some plays that we missed in order to win. We had a few mental mistakes, but I was happy that we were within striking distance to win as the guys played hard.

Dane Cook

You can try to steal the thunder all you want, it just reminds people I'm the lightning. You rumble in the distance. I light up the sky.

Dallas Willard

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

David Byrne

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Christopher Reeve

You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.

Christopher Reeve

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

Anne Campbell

You can plant a dream.

Ambrose Bierce

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Anthony Hopkins

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Alice Walker

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Alice Munro

In dreams you can have the feeling that you've had this dream before, that you have this dream over and over again, and you know that it's really nothing that simple. You know that there's a whole underground system that you call 'dreams,' having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar - where you are now, where you've always been.

Peta Todd

I've been supporting Help for Heroes for many years - I actually rode in their first-ever official fundraiser back in 2008. I have witnessed the great work that Help for Heroes do to support those who have suffered life-changing injuries and illnesses, and I want to do all I can to help raise as much as possible.

Peter Gould

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.

Peter Forsberg

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Peter Uihlein

As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.

Paul Coffey

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

Patrick Wilson

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

Merritt Patterson

Being outside and being in the sun is great for me.

Maisie Williams

'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Danny Huston

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

Anne Heche

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.

Anne Lamott

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Anne Lamott

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

Anne Lamott

I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

Ann Voskamp

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Ann Voskamp

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.