Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Adams

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that the ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch. I threw a ball in and jammed him the pitch before. I threw in a couple of times during his first at-bat. That's just the way it goes. I'm not trying to hit anybody in the head. Everybody I have been on the field with knows I play the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Jeremy Affeldt

The bottom line is I blew it. It was a routine double play. I can't look anybody in the eye right now. It was an embarrassment.

Gary Sheffield

The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?

Dale Mays

The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quieter when they saw us. Then James said something and gave them a look, and that's all it took. Everybody got quiet. I never knew anybody who was as respected by his peers. He didn't demand respect. He commanded it. The great ones have that. They have a presence.

Steve Duwel

The boys competition I think is a lot more of a level playing field. And I think the fact that we won last year was just a tribute to the boys stepping up and racing. I don't think anybody thought we were going to win that.

Kev Reynolds

Autumn is a fabulous time. The walking is great, the snows haven't really started to descend then, there's hardly anybody about, wildlife is abundant.

Lloyd Carr

At some point he will be considered with the very, very best offensive linemen that have ever played here and that's high praise. He is so talented athletically and he is so tough mentally. For anybody who was going to start a football team, Jake Long would be a great place to start.

Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

Rajon Rondo

That was a big key. We broke their pressure with patience. They didn't make us play up-tempo like they wanted.

Greg Gibson

Ramon ran very well. He broke 17 minutes for the first time.

Sara Paxton

Really good comedic roles for women are far and between, with the exception of 'Bridesmaids,' where everyone said it broke down so many doors for women - and it did. I would like to do something like that. I think it would be really great!

Fred Armisen

Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to only like punk for a while, and I had all these rules for what kinds of groups were cool, and who was not cool, but as soon as I saw this one Prince video... It just broke all those rules. I was like, 'I love this no matter what.'

Scott Nykerk

Our serve receive wasn't that strong, so we struggled with that a little. It shifted our momentum back and forth every time our serve receive broke down.

Wayne Grant

Our defense just broke down and didn't tackle. That score should've never happened.

Stephen Graham Jones

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Reggie White

The thing I love about Ashley, especially this year, is she tries to make everybody better.

Ruth Reichl

The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

Ben Carson

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

David Gibbs

I've always been on the field. The guys I grew up under always did it. The guys who taught me what I know were on-the-field guys. That's my background. I don't know the other way. I guess everybody here has been upstairs.

Joe Biden

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Gary Qualls

The ones that are over here whining and crying, all they're doing is proving they're not winners, they're whiners. Most of everybody over there has never had anything to do with the military service.

Don Waddell

The oldest guy in the tournament was one of our better players. Unfortunately not everybody had the jump that he had. If we did, we'd probably be talking about something differently.

Voltaire

No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible.

Nate Clements

(Defensive coordinator) Jerry Gray feels the same way I feel,

John Greene

DB2 Express-C just feels like a much more profound piece of software.

Hillel Hillel

a place that feels like family, the warmth of home.

Lawrence Rita

The secretary doesn't feel this is push back. He feels it's an important clarification.

Andy Anderson

The speed on the water feels like 200 miles per hour.

Frank Anderson

The task force feels this is the most important point.

Tim Miles

I've never been through anything like that in my life. It was humiliating. That's what we talked about (at halftime), what it feels like to be humiliated.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

Bill Keefer

Any game without a strikeout, I'm happy with.

John Chaney

Any game we win is an ugly win.

Ron Dayne

Any road game is going to be tough. We just have to get our mind right and be ready to play.

George Khoury

Any poultry on sale in an unregulated market and any pigeons or game are now culled.

Bill Belichick

Any players that haven't been in the playoffs need to do everything they've done before and more to try to prepare. You can't simulate a playoff game in practice. You can't simulate it anywhere.

Clint Hurdle

as good a game as you will see here

Kevin Osnes

As a team, we have to understand that the game starts inside-out.

Curt Grottenthaler

As a team, it was a real good, solid performance to start the season out. It's good to get on the positive side of things in the first game and start getting a little confidence.

Jonte Flowers

As a team, we stay loose and really take it one game at a time. We know how important each game is. We just go out there and have fun.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Michael W. Smith

Really, I could care less if there's a Second Decade record.

Michael Stang

Any other place, it would be way less important.

Colin White

Anything less than a win is not acceptable.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal after the protesters vented their steam by targeting us.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Rick Riordan

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

Chantalle Rye

Actually, I would've thought there would be less tears, but there wasn't. There was just as many tears, but this time they were tears of joy.

Charles Emery

Some studies say that obese people are more tolerant of pain, while other studies say they are less tolerant.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Arnold Palmer

Tell you what ... I'll wear it at the next tournament I play in.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Mike Lamb

This is one of the most resilient teams I've been on. Whether we get shut out, whether we lose, whether we win this team the next day, it doesn't faze them,

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

James Payn

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

Mary Quant

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

Joshua Malina

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Michael Jones

So she's got that anti-art school thing going on.

Dean Winters

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand.

James Dodson

The school was only on lockdown for about 20 to 30 minutes.

Rashida Jones

The school reassured us that everything would be replaced.

Kevin Morris

The school is going from 600 to 800 students capacity,

Jeff Kinney

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important step after the withdrawal will be how we protect, rebuild.

Mickael Pietrus

It was tough for us tonight and we're really going to try to step up on Wednesday and try to get a W before the break. It's very important to get a win on Wednesday.

Bill Worsham

This is a really significant and unexpected step in our development.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Janet Napolitano

This is a step in the right direction, but we really need more resources.

Richard Hasen

This could be an important first step toward undermining (the 2003 ruling) without overruling it.

Tom Blake

That's where your upperclassmen and tri-captains step up. That's what they're supposed to do.

Caron Butler

Right now we're winning games. That's all that matters.

Jon Sim

That's important. We want to be a winning franchise, and to do that, first you've got to have a winning season.

Joshua Katcher

That's more what we should be about than winning or losing.

Marquand Manuel

You're one of us. We're part of winning here.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Ayn Rand

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

Ayn Rand

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.