Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Dwyane Wade

Just the right place at the right time. Some nights are like that. I was able to get in a couple passing lanes and get some picks, but for the most part, it was just being in the right place at the right time.

Chuck Grant

Jon pitched a very good game, but there were two innings when we gave them five outs. We're a pretty young team, and we were missing a couple of players today, but that's no excuse for mental errors. We have to improve in that area, and it's my job to see that we do.

Mary Roach

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Saladeem Dewberry

I talked to him and I told him that no matter what it is, you just have to get past it. I just tried to give him a couple of inspirational comments.

Brian Woods

I talked to Alecia only a couple of days prior to the accident. The smile that everyone has been talking about was so evident even over the phone. ... Alecia Good has taught me some things that I will never let myself forget, to always be yourself and laugh when something's funny, be kind even when you don't want to be and most of all take everything you can from all your minutes in this life!

Larry Hagman

I drank my liver out.

John Hurt

The drink was effecting me badly. I was feeling lousy especially in the morning. Now I have a much fuller time with people. The more you don't drink the more you find you can be high as a kite anyway. I had huge fun when I was drinking. But towards the end I was not genuinely enjoying it. I drank mainly for enthusiasm, to prolong the night and the laughter and the conversation.

Anton Chekhov

It's a long time since I drank champagne.

Sam Torrance

What a team. I led them to the water and they drank copiously.

Billy Joel

Went off to school, and learned to serve the state.Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight.The only way to live was 'drown the hate'.The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.

John McCarthy

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

John Czwartacki

It is a little like a reformed alcoholic taking little drinks - pretty soon, you have a real problem on your hands.

Frank Lloyd

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward

Meg Rosoff

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

Nelson Peltz

After Cadbury, the candy company, separated from Dr. Pepper, the soft drinks maker, Cadbury was able to substantially lower its debt load. The profits of Cadbury, the candy company, zoomed.

Chris Liddell

So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.

Benjamin Jaffe

This is an improvisational period. If we have to sell drinks to stay open, we'll sell drinks.

Ibrahim Jaafari

Don't take any drinks or food from people you do not know.

John Sicher

Energy drinks are enjoying phenomenal growth and Hansen has done a terrific job with its brands.

Rose Rougeau

What I'm hearing is that more and more we are topping the $3 a gallon mark in Texas.

John Townsend

Because it translates into real dollars. Here's why: a $3 gallon over 15,000 miles per year, you're talking about savings of $750. That's a lot of money.

Sandy Howard

It's more than just a gallon or two. I can't really even estimate, but it's a pretty good amount.

Cathy Keefe

It looks like we'll probably sustain $3 a gallon gas throughout the summer.

Jeff Lenard

When gas is $3 a gallon the retailer is responsible for about 4 percent of the cost, but they are getting 100 percent of the abuse.

David Champion

It's an unrealistic sales and marketing tool that they are actually using. They are saying you're going to get 35 miles per gallon and you're really only going to get 21.

John Bryant

We know where every gallon of liquid goes to.

Evan Smith

With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas.

Tom Kloza

We will probably see some states this week with retail gasoline prices of $2 a gallon or lower.

Andrew Cooper

We feel it would be inappropriate for us to race.

Alex Jones

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

Rebecca West

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

William J. Clinton

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

William James

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Richard M. Nixon

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

Yoweri Museveni

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Dennis Erlich

I like those scores -- everything in the 30s. Those are the types of scores we're going to need the rest of the season.

Bruce Willis

Just Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Ashraf Nubani

Just stop the pain, I'll say anything, ... one lash after another.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

James Rubin

I don't know who talked first. Let's just stop it, okay?

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Robert Schumann

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Darrent Williams

I tried to give him encouragement. At times he was down because he was used to starting.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Wallace Stevens

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Walter de La Mare

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.