Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Connolly

I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.

John Updike

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

Larry Rothschild

He's a young guy. It's like Billy Martin said -- if you tell him 10 times, tell him 11. Hopefully, that's the one that catches. He's gotten better and better at a lot of things. Obviously, there's room for improvement in concentration and not getting distracted by things. That's something we'll keep striving for. A lot of pitchers face that. Hopefully, we'll get through that.

Ned Yost

He got a pitch in on Carlos that Carlos hit out of the park, and Billy drove a pitch out over the plate, but other than that we couldn't muster much offense off him.

Natalie Merchant

I just wanted to get all this stuff in one place, ... A lot of it was scattered around or out of print. There are songs here that I thought would never get heard, the ones with Billy Bragg, for instance. The lyrics are kind of embarrassing - we wrote them in the middle of the night during these song-writing marathons - but I feel they are still documents of my work and that this is the place to let people hear them.

Willie Randolph

I'm legit now. I won't be breaking Billy Martin's or Earl Weaver's records, but that's been building up for a long time. I don't want to get a reputation, but I want to protect my players.

Patrick Swayze

I'm sorry, but I thought I was the sickest most irreverent person in the whole world -- Billy Bob just won that contest. You put Patrick Swayze and Billy Bob Thornton together and something's gonna happen.

Lon Kruger

I'm very excited for them. What (coach) Billy (Donovan) has done is remarkable. Two Final Four appearances in six years? That's a great accomplishment.

Buzzie Bavasi

I learned that from Mr. Rickey, ... and I hope Billy learned that from me.

Mike Krzyzewski

I love Collins; he's unflappable. For them to win, I think they needed Collins to be who Collins is and one of those other two guys have a good night. Just Collins had that night, and that's one of the reasons that we won.

Amy Carlson

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

Tom Chillemi

He told me to never give up. Collins said the game is more mental than physical.

Harry Kampenga

Well, it got me a smile from you. She had a cushy job, working in that office. Figured she should have flowers. I was working at R. W. Collins Excavating Co. Worked there driving a truck for 26 years.

Dave Auday

Fort Collins is a good team, and playing a team like this will make us a very, very good team.

Vonnie Holliday

We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.

Anupam Kher

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

Wilbur Ross

We would be interested in bidding if Collins & Aikman in the U.S. were to come up for sale,

Randy Kriewall

Just unbelievable. I don't even know how to describe it. I'm so proud. And relieved.

Rose Rosetree

Joyful, as he experiments. And 'experiment' is an important word to describe that.

Stieg Larsson

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Sufjan Stevens

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

J. Horton

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

Don Morrow

I think you could probably describe our play for the whole season as skittish; that's the word I've been using. We have moments of doing spectacular things, and then we have moments where we turn around and shoot ourselves in the foot pretty good. We're trying, I swear, to get over that.

Malcolm Turnbull

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

Carine Roitfeld

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

Stephen Breyer

I have to, of course, describe the views of those who disagree with my approach.

Michelle Phillips

He could prod you gently or kick you in the ass,

Jim Vogel

You?d be surprised what kind of marketplace there is for gently used equipment.

Phil Jackson

I've been nudging him gently in the right direction, hopefully, and I think he's ready to turn the corner,