Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Scioscia

Kenny's a fine manager. He was my vote for manager of the year.

David Walker

I think in the run game, we'll be fine and I think we'll be able to have some success with it -- we really need to, in order to help the passing game out,

John Diamond

He was a fine teacher in the classroom. The worst thing that he could have done for me was to retire.

Brandon Roy

Guys made shots tonight. It didn't have to be a 'Brandon Roy makes shots down the stretch' night, and that's fine with me.

Larry Sandburg

Have you ever seen a shortstop play a finer game than that. She probably saved two or three runs.

Chris Kitchen

He's a finesse player who understands the game. He's not a true guard or a true post, but he's a nice combination of both.

Stan Gundy

He's a guy that if you tell me, 'You've got an injury or whatever and you've got to play Wayne 24 minutes a game,' I'm fine with that.

Adlai Stevenson

Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.

Phil Garner

He's a second-time 20-game winner and you don't hear much about it. Roy himself is not a self-promoter. He's very laid-back. He's very comfortable being in the back room. You have great personalities like the Rocket (Roger Clemens) and (Andy) Pettitte, who have done some wonderful things, so I think (the attention) naturally gravitates in their direction. But Roy has done a fine job for us and he's going to go down as one of the great pitchers in this decade.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Jim Fuller

Jake had a great meet. We kind of ran him to death, too.

Joe Archuleta

Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.

Marlon Anderson

I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' ... He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right. ... I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

Laura Stromberg

I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Demming

Jack himself has been working the phone lines and speaking with shareholders this morning. People's money is safe here, there's no question about that.

Jeff Holland

Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific.

Tony Benshoof

He did a video of himself wishing me luck. It was pretty cool.

Roger Williams

He can't survive day after day after day without some improvement occurring. He's keeping himself alive.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Dusty Baker

He knows himself and how much he needs.

Jim Tracy

He is on a mission to pitch himself into this rotation, and right now he is succeeding.

James Gray

He sees himself as a real hero, a star,

Hank Sheinkopf

He showed himself to be a wartime leader. He rallied the people and he didn't buckle.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

Chris Chambers

It'll make it look like a naturally occurring wooded area.

Mark Billingham

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Dave Schreiner

We do these things naturally and we don't talk about them.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Pat Rafter

He's naturally very gifted. Scotty's always been very unique in that way.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

Rich Aurilia

I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.

Brian Sabean

He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough.

Jason Bay

A lot of it probably has to do with the pitchers that they've had.

Mark Mulder

There's a lot of pitchers who've got it. That's an out pitch for them. It's a big pitch.

Clint Hurdle

We've got Day in place. We've got Fogg in place. We've got pitchers to step up if they need to step up.

Augie Garrido

We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down.

Mike Reagan

Didn't throw a strike. (Miller) was all over the place.I don't think I have seen an inning like that inning in the first inning. Our pitchers didn't get it done today.

Sean Casey

This was a frustrating series for us. Their pitchers really shut us down.

Don Cooper

There's not too many matchups that we don't feel comfortable with because our pitchers can do some things.

John Carmack

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Elizabeth Moon

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Brad Bird

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel

Bill Gates

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

Charlie Sheen

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

Mike Jensen

The single solid rocket booster does look like a unique configuration and a little off balance.

Allan Paull

The rocket motors worked well and the nominal trajectory was executed as planned.

Marc Warren

I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.

Daniel Snyder

There's no reason we shouldn't have 15 or 20 Johnny Rockets in Dubai.

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Pierre Corneille

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

Prince Charles

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Sharon Horgan

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

John E. Walker

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Ben Braun

Roy took them over the hump. He put them on his back.

Phil Garner

What Roy did tonight, he set a tone right from the get-go,

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

William Arthur Ward

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.

Simon Frith

I never ever think we have got a winner wrong.

Ted Musgrave

Put everything on the table, winner take all.

Jan Ullrich

I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners

Ang Lee

There's no winner. I think we're all winners because we're blessed. We're filmmakers. What a life.

Alfonso Ribeiro

We are all winners here.

Rick Ross

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

Michael Winner

Winner knows nothing about food.

Jeffrey Gitomer

You can't be a winner if you're a whiner...wiener.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Robert Stack

It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky.