Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bouton

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Tracy Austin

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

Tony Oliva

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

Juan Marichal

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Thomas Hearns

I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.

Thomas Hearns

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Greg Anderson

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Greg Anderson

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Brian Andreas

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

Ben E. King

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Blaise Pascal

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.

Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristotle

Friendship is communion.

Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Elizabeth Bowen

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Aravind Adiga

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ann Aguirre

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Simon Sinek

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Susan Jeffers

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

Sherilyn Fenn

They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!

Sissy Spacek

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

James D'arcy

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Grady Jackson

I'll be ready for Detroit. I just have to get the footwork down, get used to pushing and everything again.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Adam Carolla

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show.

Christopher Paolini

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Robert McNamara

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Raquel Zimmermann

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Simone de Beauvoir

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Timothy Radcliffe

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Robert A. Heinlein

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

David Attenborough

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

Studs Terkel

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

Patricia Briggs

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Paulo Coelho

Never save the best for later. You don't know what tomorrow holds.

Mort Sahl

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Merv Griffin

I will not be back after these messages

Cassandra Clare

Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.

Francois Pinault

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.