Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Dan Netto

It's never really been a place where we allowed the public access.

Khaled Fadl

They are not allowed to deviate from the curriculum that the government sets for them.

John Simley

They've been very well received with shoppers and people don't have problems with the new technology. We wanted to give customers a choice at the front end so that they could pay and leave quickly. The self-checkout has also allowed us to move staff away from registers and improve service in other areas of the store.

Mike Shanahan

They've allowed 2.9 yards (rushing) per game in the second half of the season. That's unprecedented. You always want to play your best going into the playoffs, and that's what they've been doing.

Karl Dorrell

They tried pressuring us quite a bit in the first half, and Drew saw most of the pressure that was coming and threw the ball to the right person, ... He played well. Our offensive line has played well and protected him well and has allowed some running room for our running backs.

Eric Ross

They still have plenty of cash. They're not going to spend $25 billion on the first day. This is just what they're allowed to buy back if they feel the timing right.

Mike Ryan

It's not that he stepped into the lineup and won games by himself. But he allowed us to move things around. He can play the point on the power play, he kills penalties and is in terrific shape so he can double shift and that messes up the line combinations for the other team.

Bob Hartley

It's not like one player out of 600 is playing with an illegal stick. The list of guys playing with illegal sticks is pretty known around the league. It's like speeding on the road. You're not allowed to speed, but sit beside the 55-mph sign on I-85 at night and put your radar on it. Many people will easily go over.

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.

Albert Pujols

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Albert Pujols

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Douglas MacArthur

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

Doug Flutie

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

Don Larsen

I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

Don Mattingly

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

Don Mattingly

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

Don Baylor

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Allen Kenitzer

This was very minor, based on the report, but we look into all crashes whether there are injuries or not.

Jon Mills

This was an unfortunate outcome but, based on the facts and circumstances that our providers had at the time of the case, their response and care were completely appropriate.

Casey Luskin

This was an unfortunate decision based on false fears. These people want to censor information from students.

Tom Kelly

We try use the right level of security based on each individual branch.

Bill Martin

We try to sell what we have based on the fact that it is a good deal. If someone's looking for a (gold) piece, now would be a better time to bargain-shop.

David Chon

With long-bond volatility , the dollar all over the map, and the Dow swinging from one extreme to the other based on perception of macroeconomic numbers, the question becomes how much (of) Latin equities do you want to trade in that kind of environment?

Patricia Ireland

We do not intend to encourage higher courts to consider and possibly create legal precedent that would injure everyday women in the workplace, based on the allegations and evidence of a politically charged case,

Kevin Towers

We felt we had a chance to compete based on the rest of the division,

I bet when neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, 'Don't forget the thick, heavy brows.' Then they would get all embarrassed because they remembered they had the big husky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.

I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar.

I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.

If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.

I hope if dogs take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.

David Schwartz

It's big. They'll bet for the same reason people who don't even like football tune into the game: It's a big spectacle.

Melissa McCarthy

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

Mark Calcavecchia

But only because I had to go inside and register,

Robert Kiyosaki

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.