Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Adams

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

Curt Schilling

The bottom line is that the ball should not have hit him. You've got to be able to get out of the way of that pitch. I threw a ball in and jammed him the pitch before. I threw in a couple of times during his first at-bat. That's just the way it goes. I'm not trying to hit anybody in the head. Everybody I have been on the field with knows I play the game the way it's supposed to be played.

Jeremy Affeldt

The bottom line is I blew it. It was a routine double play. I can't look anybody in the eye right now. It was an embarrassment.

Gary Sheffield

The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?

Dale Mays

The boys were just 15, 16 years old, cutting up when we walked into the room. It got a little quieter when they saw us. Then James said something and gave them a look, and that's all it took. Everybody got quiet. I never knew anybody who was as respected by his peers. He didn't demand respect. He commanded it. The great ones have that. They have a presence.

Steve Duwel

The boys competition I think is a lot more of a level playing field. And I think the fact that we won last year was just a tribute to the boys stepping up and racing. I don't think anybody thought we were going to win that.

Kev Reynolds

Autumn is a fabulous time. The walking is great, the snows haven't really started to descend then, there's hardly anybody about, wildlife is abundant.

Lloyd Carr

At some point he will be considered with the very, very best offensive linemen that have ever played here and that's high praise. He is so talented athletically and he is so tough mentally. For anybody who was going to start a football team, Jake Long would be a great place to start.

Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer

Kate Bush

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

Eddie Campbell

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

Tina Turner

I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

Andy Reid

Did I get bothered by it? No. I'd get bothered if he said he didn't want the ball.

Tony Camillucci

We had a great first quarter, the press really bothered them. I was really pleased with our defensive effort tonight.

Greta Susteren

We could certainly do more. You can never do enough. I'm not going to say we're perfect on that; I wish we did more on missing minorities. But I'm not going to be bothered by the critics.

Michelle Jones

There was a boy in the class who was, I think, Pakistani, and his mother saw me a couple days later and she was so thankful. There was a certain discomfort, the way people responded to them. I was bothered by that.

Billy Steed

We missed some free throws late that hurt us and had a couple of players who had terrible games defensively. We're not good enough to win tight games right now. We've got a few guys who aren't bothered by losing games, but it bothers me. I hate to lose.

Mose Allison

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Julie Burchill

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

Liz Ryan

Are they all 50-year-old white men? Did they all come from the same set of companies?

Samuel Barnett

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

Bible Bible

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Lindsey Graham

putting too much pressure on the men and women in uniform.

Daniel Yergin

This has been pointed out ... even in thrillers.

Pete Carroll

This is the time of year that we've pointed toward. It's happened, and it's at the Rose Bowl, and it just can't get any better for the USC Trojans.