Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gordon

I was looking to be a closer again. That was the biggest thing.

Marcus Williams

I was always around. I ended up talking to him a lot and got really cool with him. But the biggest thing with me was, I wanted to get away from home and grow and build myself up somewhere else.

Mark Martin

Just to be able to put an exclamation point on Richmond was the biggest goal, but in hindsight, knowing that when you have a chance to win the last regular-season race, it just propels you right into the Chase.

Yasser Arafat

is very important for the international peace all over the world, which means it is very important for the biggest power all over the world -- America.

Aaron Gray

Guys are putting too much stress on the offensive end and not enough stress on the defensive end. I think that showed in the last game. We also have to cut down on turnovers. The biggest part of the meeting was cutting down on the little things. People don't understand that one possession, one breakdown can lead to you winning or losing the game. We've confronted those issues and hopefully we'll learn from them.

Vicki Phillips

Having heard about this, my biggest concern is that we should go back and look at all of the projects he did ... to be sure there isn't anything we should have a concern about, ... Out of fairness to the citizens ... that's the only prudent thing to do.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big part of Hockey Canada, he's probably the biggest part, and it's great that he's coming over to lead our team again.

Richard Smith

Here you have one of the biggest name-brand corporations on the planet getting into what many people in other circumstances would consider hacking. That's just not acceptable.

Scott Hoyt

Going forward, sales growth will be more modest and inconsistent. Fundamentals are mixed. The biggest drag is high and rising gasoline and other energy prices.

Randy Johnson

I think it's important that the catcher realize that even if you think something is going well and it really isn't but you're convinced it is, that he still try to get you through the game when things aren't going well.

J. Salinger

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are. - The Catcher in the Rye

Mike Griffin

Playing catcher wore me out last year. I wouldn't mind still playing, but as long as I'm in the lineup and helping the team.

Jason Kendall

I'm just the catcher guy, so I have no control over how much I'm going to play. But I like to play a lot, so I'll be ready to play a lot.

Clint Hurdle

The (improvement) starts with the bullpen. That is a pretty good group for us, one of the better groups we have had. And at catcher we have depth there where before it was a fragile position for us.

Joe Torre

A catcher and a left-handed pitcher, ... Those are the no-brainers. The rest of it, we'll figure out.

Rod Barajas

It's a quality pitch. I had a hard time catching it, and that's a good sign. When a catcher struggles trying to hold on to the knuckleball, that's what you want. That's tells you it's a good pitch.

Willie Randolph

That's just the way it falls. I told you earlier I wasn't going to get into that personal catcher thing.

Libba Bray

'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.

Monica Johnson

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Paul Gillis

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

R. Inge

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

Paul Rothstein

It is a big message to Washington officials that if you only would come clean you would probably be OK.

Tracy Bowen

It isn't getting better. We just keep cleaning it up every year.

Patrick Brady

If we could come up with a technology that works like that, at even a fraction of that level, the cost to clean water would come down dramatically.

Atharva Veda

I have conquered and cleaned thee out (?); I have also gained thy reserve. As the wolf plucks to pieces the sheep, thus do I pluck thy winnings.

Slim Whitman

I'd like the people to remember me as having a good voice and a clean suit.

Sen. Lundby

I'd like to see clean water in my lifetime.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

Christian Backman

I don't even know what I was thinking. I just threw all my stuff up and skated around on the ice. When I got the gold medal around my neck, it was hard to hold back your tears.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

William Jennings Bryan

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Will Ferrell

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

Robert Turner

I'm not proud of how we played, but I do see this as a learning opportunity,

Micky Dolenz

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Khalil Gibran

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

Jack Welch

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

John C. Maxwell

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Mark Mulder

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

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.

Chuck Hernandez

I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.

Jeff Blauser

Our pitchers have pitched well from our starters to our bullpen. We have a tight pitch-count program here and every one of the pitchers has pitched well. I am proud of them.

Alex Rodriguez

We need to just take what the pitchers give us.

Kate Robinson

Yeah, I would like more pitching time, but our (starting) pitchers are doing well, so wherever I'm needed, wherever there's an opening.

Gene Lamont

The players and pitchers keep themselves in better shape year-round. They never let themselves get out of shape.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

William Garay

You've got to realize that water is probably 50 or 60 degrees.

Chris Paul

It just seemed like we were scoring and they were scoring, we were scoring and they were scoring. And it can't be like that. We realize that we can score at times at will, but at the same time they were scoring every time.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Brian Silverman

It's like a dream. I never realized how big it is.

Audrey Rust

It makes you realize how important it is to do this well.

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Julia Child

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Phyllis Diller

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

John M. McHugh

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

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.

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.

Walt Disney

The wonders of nature are endless...

Sarah Hall

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

Sarah Dessen

When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?