Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ritchson

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Al Pacino

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Ken Hildahl

We want to see football in Ottawa. It's a great fan base and has some fabulous potential. But having said that, there's also reality.

Chris Berman

Back, back, back, back... Gone!

Barry Bonds

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Barry Bonds

It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

Barry Bonds

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

Barry Bonds

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball

Jeff Neal

We are looking into whether this lawsuit may constitute a SLAPP suit.

Nina Olson

At a minimum, this procedure constitutes an extraordinary violation of fundamental taxpayer rights and fairness. In our view, it may also constitute a violation of due process of law.

Charles Bakaly

As required by the Ethics and Government Act, and with the authorization of the court supervising independent counsels, the Office of Independent Counsel submitted a referral to the House of Representatives containing substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for impeachment of the president of the United States,

David Marks

This doesn't come as an earth-shattering piece of news. Certainly, we know that ADHD has pretty far-reaching consequences. It does constitute a very substantial health burden.

Eugene Kennedy

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

Terry Eagleton

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Sam Dash

As independent counsel you have only one narrow duty under the statute relating to the House's power of impeachment. That one duty ... is to objectively provide for the House substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for impeachment.

Thomas Howard

Sacraments, like the Incarnation itself, constitute physical points at which the eternal touches time, or the unseen touches the seen, or grace touches nature. It is the Gnostics and Manicheans who want a purely disembodied religion.

Charles Kennedy

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

Jamey Wright

We are a little more comfortable and have a little more continuity than we did at this point last season.

Andrew Friedman

With these young players and the different paces of their maturation processes and with the success we enjoyed in the second half last season, anything can happen. I think there will be improvement over last year and that this will be a very exciting team to watch; the core of that team we expect to have significant continuity for seasons to come.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

John Thorn

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

Dick Wright

There's a lot of continuity here. It's an embarrassment of riches.

Blake Irving

There's continuity even if they move to a new community. This will follow them for the rest of their lives.

Dan Flynn

It was real important to fill the date, ... The kids deserve a nine-game schedule. This also keeps the continuity of our season going. For us, there was lots of improvement and we got to play a lot of kids.

Dave Edmunds

It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

Mettrie L.

Death should not be feared. It's just the continuity of life.

Jeb Bush

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Doug Barry

We want people to see us as part of the cultural vitality of the greater Hilton Head area.

Patrick Stump

We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

Krisztina Nagy

The region needs peace, economic development and real exercise of cultural rights for Kurds.

Stephen Lewis

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Tom Lake

Working there, excavating, is truly like taking a ride in a time machine as you uncover cultural artifacts that see the light of day for the first time in thousands of years.

Steve Biko

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

Tim Callahan

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

David Brin

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

Antonin Artaud

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Suresh Kalmadi

The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games.

Patrick Arnold

We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

Gil Cates

There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.

Kim Picciola

It seems that Sears would want a merchant running the business, and it would be investing more money into enhancing the shopping experience at its stores.

David Blunkett

Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.

Peter Yesawich

People expect to see something a little nicer in a hotel room than they have at home. During the past five to seven years, people have spent a lot on enhancing their homes. So it is harder for hotel operators to keep up with things that people have installed in their own houses.

Madeleine Albright

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

Maxine Clark

These stores are part of our strategy to take Build-A-Bear Workshop to wherever families go to have fun. We look forward to being a part of more ballparks and of enhancing that family fun.

Dean Nelson

We've heard why people from around the world come to Gay Ski Week, and we are maintaining and enhancing those events that make the trip unique.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.

Jon Oringer

Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense.

Jim Hackett

Looking ahead, our focus will remain on accelerating sales growth and enhancing shareholder value by implementing the record number of new product introductions and leveraging the strategic acquisitions initiated this year,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Tom Lubin

We're providing a service that's very valuable to students, ... It's free to students and free to schools with scholarships. We're filling an essential need.

Marcus Samuelsson

It's key to know which essential foods will keep you going and help your body recover after hard work.

George Packer

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

Tsutomu Takebe

It's essential to have all the four islands returned to Japan.

Madeline Albright

It's essential that we stay there and finish the job, ... The American military that I met with when I was there, they understood why they were there and understood the value of peacekeeping.

Nick Russo

We want to preserve and protect Mississippi's rich architectural and archaeological heritage as communities restore and rebuild.

David Wong

When we went to them and told them that we want to do a heritage tour of Hong Kong, a lot of them were very skeptical,

Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Scott Williams

American Heritage is the favorite, but it's going to be a battle.

Mike Phillips

This is part of our heritage -- it made us who we are. We need to protect that heritage.

Brian Sandoval

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

Catherine Ponder

When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

Allan Cunningham

While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.

Bible Bible

There is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage

Dan Stevenson

He just has that intangible that you can't really put a word on. He's got 'it'.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Jane Austen

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Peter Mueller

We want this Bolkestein directive off the table. Social protection will be its only victim.

Robert Asprin

To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

Tim Holden

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Marcus Garvey

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Michael Reagan

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Hillary Clinton

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.