Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Bowles

I would still be making bets that would hurt me. If I woke up and everything was comfortable, there were no problems, it would probably be too easy.

Konstantin Kosachev

I would welcome more flexibility from Tehran in connection with the well-known Russian proposal on joint uranium enrichment, and not place bets on the demonstration of some new types of weapons.

Frank Fahrenkopf

What you have is illegal student bookies on every major college campus in this country taking illegal bets from students on those campuses on NCAA sanctioned events,

John LaMattina

We're of a size and can do enough different things that we're not putting all our bets on one specific area,

Mark Oliver

When they're no more good for bets and fights, they cut 'em loose.

Daniel Negreanu

He has ace-queen, which really surprised me. He played it the only way he could to get all my chips, because if he bets the flop like he was kind of supposed to, then I would've just folded.

James Paulsen

This was not a year for macro-sector bets whoever bet on sectors, or indexes other than energy, got extremely frustrated. This was the year of individual stocks.

Minoru Shioiri

Investors have taken risky one-sided bets on a rising dollar this year. Some will likely continue cutting dollar holdings through the holiday period. That's limiting the yen's losses.

Stephen Briggs

If you were to have heightened trouble at Grasberg, all bets are off.

John Nichols

Our media seem to be waiting for Fitzgerald to do all the work. What if during Watergate we left things up to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox?

Lord Byron

Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?

Tom Farnquist

The legend still seems to be growing. I'm surprised the Fitzgerald is still as popular as it is.

Robert Littell

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Mahatma Gandhi

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

George Herbert

You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Robert Cormier

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

Richard Dawkins

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

Russell Baker

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Ruben Hinojosa

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Ron Atkinson

His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

Truman Capote

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.