Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Kaline

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Al McGuire

Live in the moment that you are in.

Al McGuire

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Al McGuire

You better have great practices.

Al McGuire

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Al McGuire

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

Al McGuire

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Mitt Romney

I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.

Del Ali

Missouri voters really aren't sure what's going on with the president.

Stacie Temple

Really, Missouri has some pretty strong identification requirements in place as it is.

Matt Braeuer

I just think we played really well, under all the scrutiny of the Missouri Valley -- we pretty much shoved it right back in their face.

Larry Blakeney

I'm worried more about Troy than I am Missouri and they're probably worried more about Missouri than they are with Troy.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

David Wain

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

Diablo Cody

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Louis C. K.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Cat Deeley

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

Charlie Cox

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Bruno Heller

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

Caroline Corr

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Thomas Friedman

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Spencer Johnson

Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.

Spencer Johnson

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Chris Hughes

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Garth Stein

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Benh Zeitlin

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Audrey Hepburn

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Arthur Rimbaud

Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!

Aaron Tveit

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

Charlie Daniels

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

Chetan Bhagat

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Chaim Potok

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

Billy West

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.