Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melinda Fischer

Offensively I thought Tricia, Randi and Stacy had a really good day. We did some nice things defensively, but our three, four and five hitters really struggled putting the bat on the ball. Plus our bench didn't really help us today and that's something that we've been able to count on usually.

Dave Starling

Nos. 1-9 in the batting order will move the baseball. Defensively we'll be as solid as we've ever been. Matt can overpower people and keep us in the game with anyone.

David Mazouz

I've always been a huge fan of the Batman universe and Batman, since I was born really. I think the reasoning for that is because he doesn't have a superpower - he has no special ability. He's just a regular person, a regular human.

Jonathan Ogden

Strength is important. But the No. 1 thing is knowing your opponent. If you know your opponent and what they like to do, and you try to take that away from them, force them to another move, then that's half the battle right there.

Jack McDevitt

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

Jay Edwards

These buildings are the history of the community and they represent the human history of the community, ... There is just so much going on in Old South Baton Rouge that the rest of the community doesn't appreciate, and it's because they don't know.

Kyle Lohse

I've been out there battling my butt off all year,

Keith Dixon

We're handing the baton off and letting someone else take the next leg of this important race.

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Don Bohanan

These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully complete them can do college-level work.

Ruth Johnson

The writing contest is a way for teachers to get kids writing. It gives them a purpose, a real-world experience. They get feedback from others and not just from me as their classroom teacher. They have a wider audience.

S. Walker

This is great news for The Johnnie Walker Classic and is a true reflection of its standing as one of the most competitive, international and high profile tournaments in the world.

Gary Blair

This is the deepest recruiting class that the Big 12 has ever had, top to bottom. These freshmen can play.

Bobby Cox

That's why he's classified as one of the big young hitters in the entire Minor League system. They tagged him right, that's for sure.

Aretha Franklin

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Art Buchwald

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Brian Henson

"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.

Benjamin Disraeli

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Kirsten Nelson

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

Kristin Gore

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Gerry Anderson

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

Josh Duell

We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.

Rashad Anderson

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Source Unknown

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Bronc Platt

I've been stepped on, but that's about it, knock wood. But even that, you can feel it. You know you've been stepped on. Still, I was out there riding the next week.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Elton Brand

At that time, it doesn't matter what he's shooting - 0-for-10, 0-for-20 - he's going to knock down a big shot for us.

Tom Pecora

We had to go to the rope-a-dope a while, kind of get ourselves back in the fight, but they didn't knock us out, and I'm proud of that.

Graham Motion

This was the perfect prep. He does well with time between races. Knock on wood, we can keep him sound.

Richard Zurek

We got the capabilities that will knock your socks off.

Rick Spring

We got some open looks, but we just couldn't knock them down.

Ray Rice

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Pete Madland

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

John Talbot

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

Dana Stabenow

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

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Katarina Witt

She took a day of rest, which is fine. She is physically prepared, and maybe she doesn't need that day of pressure with everyone watching her.

Ken Woods

People wouldn't stop talking to us. I don't know why that was. Maybe it's the way we approached them.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Jonah Raskin

Poets now read all over the place, but at that time they didn't - if they were famous, they maybe read at the Museum of Modern Art.

Joanna Lumley

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Sean McGuire

A seed that he planted 40 years ago ... I think he would be very pleased,

Mike Hayes

The seeds germinated, but as it leafed, it died, ... You'd come back a day later, and it would be dead.

Deepak Chopra

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Clara Blair

She planted the seed about two years ago.

Jean Brault

It was the first time that I would say I sowed, as we say in the business, a little seed to get one of these non-conventional contracts.

Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

Tim Kaine

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Hillary Clinton

Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,

Bob Brown

The weight of it was all on his shoulders, and he responded well.

Augusten Burroughs

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Andrew Weil

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

Mark Teixeira

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Maria Sharapova

I don't do heavy weights at all.

Martina McBride

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight.

Ernie Isley

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

George Steinbrenner

If you don't have a hernia yet then you're not pulling your own weight!

Brian Tracy

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Channing Tatum

You can't fake wrestling. We can fake punch, but with wrestling you just have to go ahead and do it. You really need to see the hand hit the face, the head butting and everything.

Dwayne Johnson

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

Dwayne Johnson

I'm gonna stick your head so far up your *ss your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see!

Stacy Keibler

It's almost like my career has been [based on voting]. I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. And then on Dancing with the Stars, fans were voting.

Steve King

I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans would advocate that advocating for comprehensive immigration reform is somehow a political solution for the Republicans losing a percentage of Hispanics. I probably have less appetite for this than either the Senate or colleagues in the House, certainly the Democrats and most likely members of the Republican Conference. They are still wrestling with trying to get their education up to a level where they can actually advocate for policy.

Shawn Michaels

I will give you a show that you've never ever seen before, why?...Because I can

Rafael Nadal

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

Scott Steiner

I don't have 30 days and 30 nights to show you why all the hoochies say there's nothing finer...than Scott Steiner.