Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mackey Sasser

The bottom line is, their pitchers were better than our hitters tonight. We had our chance but we couldn't get the job done. It's the same old thing we've seen all year. We have a runner at third base with less than two outs and we can't him in.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Rob Parish

Normally we wouldn't race two times in three days, but we wanted to cover our bases and preview the course.

Jim Gilligan

Once we get it all done, it will be better than it's ever been. Our baseball park and our baseball team are going to get better every single day... Right up to the end of the season, the field will get better.

Tom Woodruff

(Cody) didn't run the bases really well, but we we'll take what he did at the plate and what he did on defense any day. That was a good trade off.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

J. J. Johnson

Coming off those three losses, it's nice to have a win.

David Kopp

Coming off the starts that I had, I wasn't where I needed to be. We needed this one.

Christian Fauria

Coming off the loss to Carolina, having a really tough game, we just knew this was going to be a challenge. Do we have it or do we not have it?

Paul G. Thomas

Coming off the holiday break, it seems that the Conservatives have had a series of good breaks, notably the RCMP investigation of the Liberals.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Flex Plexico

Prior to returning this detainee to Egypt, the United States received appropriate assurances from the government of Egypt regarding this detainee's treatment upon his return to Egypt. This includes assurances that this individual will continue to be treated humanely, in accordance with Egyptian and international legal obligations, while he remains in Egypt,

Eddie Jones

Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Michael Lee

After rising sharply since their trough in 2003, office rents are likely to go up steadily this year as demand will continue to outstrip supply.

Robert Peck

After returning from our trip to China, we think that eBay will need to continue to invest in 2006, potentially pushing off any rebound in near-term margins,

Herb Boydstun

The name changes. But our customers will continue to receive the same great service they expect from the same bankers.

Michael Woolfolk

The monthly GDP report fed into underlying CAD strength. With political risk subsiding, rising interest rates and fundamental economic strength are prompting CAD buying, which is expected to continue through year-end as USD/CAD heads for the 1.10 mark.

David Geffen

DreamWorks is going on. We are going to continue to make movies, the same number of movies as we made in past. They will be DreamWorks movies, with the same logo as before. Nothing will change.

Tommy Thompson

What we're going to do as a department is to collaborate and to cooperate and partnership with the people of Iraq to rebuild that medical system back to what it was in the 1970s,

Pete Carroll

We'll cooperate fully and do whatever we can to assist.

Mark Geragos

I don't see any reason in the world not to cooperate at this point, because I think this is going to exonerate him. And that's what he's looking for.

Kofi Annan

I was encouraged by what he said in the speech that he will cooperate with the U.N. investigation. I think that is essential and is good for Syria to cooperate. It is good for the region and the international system so I am happy that he did indicate he would cooperate,

Jeff Tedford

He's been one that has been cooperating. None of our players have been implicated with any wrongdoing. We're doing everything we can to cooperate with the investigation.

Ibrahim Jaafari

I hope they will cooperate with us now,

John Ostrem

Not only do we want to reduce the fragmentation of Linux, but we also want to reduce the fragmentation of the standardization groups around Linux. So we're all trying to talk and find a way that we can all cooperate together and work towards one platform and one solution -- that's an ongoing effort.

Chris Peterson

The point we're at now is we're not taking any options off the table, but I can tell you one thing: We're not moving the school. I think there's always room for discussion, and we definitely want to cooperate as much as possible.

Nicholas Graham

We have been approached by investigators. We did cooperate and provided information that was requested.

Michael Mahoney

Applications are the only place where you can get the type of growth to justify a premium multiple for Oracle's stock. Going forward, Oracle will get 10 percent growth out of the database side at best.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Geoff Kendrick

The risks are now skewed to the upside (on U.S. interest rates). 4.75 may be a done deal (in March) and depending on how the data goes, 5 percent may become a done deal as well.

Michael Englund

This data will tell us little about the economy going forward,

Ben Parr

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

Steven Wood

While these data will be welcome by the (Fed), two key questions remain. Will the second quarter spending slow down extend through the rest of the year? Economic fundamentals suggest they will. And will the spending slowdown be sufficient to relieve pressure on labor markets and inflation? At this point, that is still an open question.

Steven Wood

While these data will be welcome by the (Fed), two key questions remain, ... Will the second quarter spending slow down extend through the rest of the year? Economic fundamentals suggest they will. And will the spending slowdown be sufficient to relieve pressure on labor markets and inflation? At this point, that is still an open question.

Tony Crescenzi

While the results of the September jobs report are impressive and seem to suggest that the underlying strength in labor demand has been unaffected by recent events, the strength could well reflect the lagged effects of past strength in the economy and the data therefore provide much less guidance about the future than might seem obvious.

Makoto Yamashita

While there is lingering view that interest rates in Japan will not stay effectively at zero after the end of the five-year-old 'quantitative easing' last week, stronger-than-expected non-farm payroll data enhanced worries about further rate increases in the US.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

William Henderson

This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that.

John Gould

That's going to be hopefully a big money producer.

Ken Klee

We got a point tonight but we needed two and we know that. Hopefully we're going to start to go in the right direction. We need to.

Susan Goldstein

to get these people out of our neighborhoods and hopefully out of our state.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Rob Enderle

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple's market share dramatically.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Alan King

We could see a small increase as a result of that.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Todd Tiahrt

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

Steve Kennedy

I am uncomfortable voting to increase anybody's taxes.

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Alberto Manguel

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Tom Cail

A very nice guy, very nice. Oswaldo had a lot of friends in here after he started meeting all of us.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Kansas City

After a disappointing January, we are meeting our expectations.

Art Hogan

The rhetoric from the meeting will be the most important catalyst,

David Akin

This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.

Michael Vaughan

This is so special to come to the palace, meeting the queen here and being here with all the rest of the boys.

Evan Bayh

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.