Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gulseth

Offensively, we've been struggling early in the year. We didn't have a lot of guys on base. When we do get hits, we don't have guys on base. We made a lot of mistakes and there were plays we should have made. We can't blame it on the weather. They made all the plays and we didn't.

Paul Gascoigne

And that way, I don't blame other people. I'm the one that has to keep off the drink. I'm taking responsibility for my life on everything.

Scot McCloughan

The thing that stands out the most is a big-time playmaker on offense. Brandon (Lloyd) has made some big plays, and he has the potential to be a good receiver, but you don't have the guy who's the go-to guy on third down and he's going to make the play. That's the one thing that stands out the most. There are good football players here, but the depth wasn't as much as you'd like. There was a reason they had the record that they had. You don't blame all that on the coaching." ()

Mary Jordan

Sometimes things happen around here and you know, we get blamed for it.

Mark Twain

You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy

Shar Jackson

You should never blame the other woman, never. There is life after Kevin, and I'm living it!

Jeffrey Benjamin

You succeed at being a failure when you blame someone else.

Luke Lanno

You're nervous. You block everything out except maybe for your father and your coach. There's no one to blame but yourself.

Ed Gillespie

This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Sen. Kerry's record. I guess I can't blame them for that. We as a party cannot sink to their level. We must stick to the truth in this race.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Steve McKinney

The thing you notice about Domanick, like all great backs, when he's in there, he makes things happen. The line is blocking the same as they do with other backs, but for some reason when he's in there, you gain yards.

John Timoney

The one fortunate thing in this very tragic situation is that when it was happening, there were two officers from our SWAT unit just a block away, so they got here quite fast and were able to evacuate people from the scene,

Grant McCasland

South Plains has a talented wing in Harley but it looks like they've had other guys step up and play better for them. They're a team that can only get better. Our recipe for success no matter what is to get to the block and play inside-out.

Louise Arbour

Rules that block persons with disabilities from obtaining personal documentation or from voting in elections can be modified, often at little expense.

Ari Fleischer

Right now, this is the building block phase, the legal phase, the fund-raising phase.

David Novak

Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.

David Perlmutter

Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It's certainly interesting to consider that one of the richest sources of saturated fat in nature is human breast milk.

Paul Steinhardt

The search for a structure that blocks the passage of light in all directions has fascinated physicists and engineers for the past two decades.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Gore Vidal

This is not at all bad, except as prose.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Larry Bell

We ran really well, ... We worked them really hard Monday, looking ahead, except for one kid who wasn't there, and it's pretty obvious who it was. She had her legs today, and that was a big part of it.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

David Todd

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Pete Madland

A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.

Michael Gambon

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Tim Raines

Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs,

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Ellen Borakove

The work on the roof has only just started, so maybe there will be more discoveries to come as the work progresses.

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Rick Beggs

You might recover some hardware, buttons, maybe the back of a skull.

Golshifteh Farahani

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.