Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

Charles Foster

What good decision-makers do is really surprising. There is all that stuff, but they think about the one thing that is most important, and that's what they base their decision on.

Mike Fox

What a story Henry is - going from third base to their starting rotation. He's just been unbelievable. He just doesn't walk people.

Walt Jocketty

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season plan.

Harvey Pekar

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Shek Borkowski

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Jim Press

Everybody is coming out with new hardware. We work for our customers, we build for our customers, and I think they recognize that.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Gus Logie

At the moment, there is much to be proud of and also much we can still build on.

Donald Smithburg

We are going to build newer, more modern facilities that will withstand the test of time. They will withstand the next storm, and the one after that.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Bruce Merrill

This whole education fight is clearly a proxy for the immigration debate. A lot of people here feel if you don't build it, they won't come.

Michael Goldberg

The response has been overwhelming. We can't build them fast enough.

Dan Spranger

There's some talent down there and they're doing a great job developing the kids. We want to build from the ground up.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Alexander Milinkevich

If we are not registered we will continue all the work we have already planned as if we were registered. We'll go out to the people, travelling as much as we can around the country.

Stanley Asumnu

Just getting wins. Wins are the most important thing. They (fans) want to look at that win column. So far we're doing a good job. We just have to work hard and continue to be successful each day.

Jeff Jaffe

SUSE Linux users, who number in the millions worldwide, continue to show their support by installing the software in great numbers and seeking more opportunities to collaborate with Novell.

Lars Tiffany

Steven is a fierce athlete. He has the speed and lateral quickness to continue to be an aggressive, physical defenseman at the collegiate level.

Ronald Valdiserri

STDs continue to take a heavy toll on our nation's health,

Peja Stojakovic

Stephen and I are still feeling each other out, finding out what each other does and when we do well continue to get better and better and the team will get better and better. We just need to keep playing good defense, looking for each other, playing hard and helping each other out. Very important win.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Quin Snyder

Tucker took the game over. No matter who guarded him, he was tough for us to handle.

Ben Olsen

Yes, yes a lot. I was probably more nervous for this game than I have been in a long time. Nerves help sometimes, though.

Bob Shinkan

Todd and I have already talked about this. This will be the game we play here every year.

Mike Davis

You can just see it in their faces. It's not the same team. Because we lost one game or two games on the road and it was like the end of the year. When you think about that, it doesn't make sense. At all.

Eric Schmidt

We had a solid season. Obviously, we were one game short of where you want to end up. You always want more until you can be the champion.

Jon Raker

We wanted to be .500 at worst at this point (of the season), and now we're three and five. That makes it an uphill battle. You make it tough on yourself when you score 10 runs in a game and don't win.

Matt Creamer

We wanted to tempo the game defensively to get some run outs. We wanted them to play fast.

Gillian Apps

We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.

Sebastian Horsley

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

Rain

Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

Rain

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?

Mary J. Blige

When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.

Andrew Lau

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

Gian Carlo Menotti

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

Fabiola Gianotti

For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

Tyrone Willingham

We're trying to get them to understand it's perfect practice that gives you good performance, ... practices have been up and down.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Dusty Baker

At this point, it's hard to imagine him not pitching forever.

Terri Lemos

(Diver) Ryan Jones qualified for State in El Dorado last weekend. So Cody is working hard so he can qualify for State.

Rob Sanderson

DirecTV is having a hard time getting compensated appropriately for what they've delivered,

Mark Greenberg

Could they be a little more aggressive? Yes. Should they be a lot more aggressive? It's hard to say.

Patty Griffin

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Paul Arden

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Robert Allenby

Towels are the worst. They're hard to sign and the strings get stuck on the pen. Then the next one you sign is smudged.

Zach Malvik

This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today).

Albert Lin

But they need to improve their relationship with Motorola for this product to succeed.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Plato

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Eudora Welty

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Nathan Myhrvold

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

Elyn Saks

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Bo Burnham

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

Martin Lee

The governments in the past week have done everything they can to keep the numbers down.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Steve Case

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

Thomas Boswell

Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

Viktor Yushchenko

I have excellent relationships with Jewish organizations and participate every year in a Hanukkah celebration with my family. There haven't been any anti-Semitic tendencies in my team for a long time.

Vin Scully

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Vince Carter

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

Vince Cable

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

Vin Diesel

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Anna Torv

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Andrew Niccol

Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Alex Rodriguez

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

Alec Issigonis

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.