Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Brooking

Just to be dead honest with you, a lot of it I think was on us, the linebackers.

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Algernon Swinburne

Here, where the world is quiet;/ Here, where all trouble seems/ Dead winds' and spent waves' riot/ In doubtful dreams of dreams.

Phil Garner

He's hot. We all know he's a dead fastball hitter.

Jeff Pustina

I think we might have to extend the deadline tonight.

Herb Brodarick

In the 18 years I've been down here, I've worked with many a good person who's gotten discouraged when they run into dead ends or are told no. That doesn't necessarily stop him. He doesn't give up.

Robert Rosen

In the '90s, with all those people saying the mainframe was dead ... it really killed people entering the field.

Roy Williams

I quit in eighth grade 'cause this one pitcher had no control, hit me dead in the side.

Christopher Bond

If your vote is canceled by the vote of a dog or a dead person it's as if you didn't have the right to vote.

Dema Guinn

He could do the work of any grown man by the time he was in the eighth grade.

Ross Stitt

I thought he could win but he finished eighth so I wasn't in a hurry to come back.

Pat Riley

I was confident. I haven't had to use my legs since the eighth grade. I just want to go to states and place.

Russ Moore

He's played well and helped us gain our legs. It's nice to have an eighth grader who can play as well as he is playing right now. It's nice to have that luxury.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Mariano Rivera

They called me in the eighth to be ready, ... I said, 'I'm ready.'

Steve Simmons

They'll be looking to make up for last year's game. We're ranked eighth in the Midwest and this weekend is a tremendous opportunity to make an impression regionally and nationally.

Allen Iverson

It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

Bob Newton

No, it's his feet. He's always had the skills, he hasn't always been as big. But when I first saw him as an eighth grader, his feet could move. A lot of times, eighth graders stumble around. But he moved.

Keith Todd

In the end, test scores and grades are not the only factor.

Dr. House

In smaller learning communities, students do better academically and socially. Students make better grades and graduation rates are a lot higher.

Jerry Spinelli

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

Bob Stanley

I knew him a lot of years in grade school,

Steve Snapp

The guy said, 'You probably don't remember me, but we went to first grade together,' ... Then he said, 'Can you help me find a ticket?' I told him, 'You're right, I don't remember you. And I can't help you get a ticket either.'

Brenda Taylor

These people are going to be judging you, and no matter what I say, these grades are going to be final. I need all of your attention. I need 120 percent of your effort.

Frank Raffone

That means more kids have passed it before getting to 12th grade and don't have it hanging over their head right now.

Tom Ricks

It's like letting students grade their own papers.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Janet Leigh

I was in that shower for seven days-70 set-ups. At least Hitchcock made sure that the water was warm.

Lori Cooper

Kim may also play some outside hitter for us this season.

Sue Adams

Kim hits a 3, and all of a sudden everyone just started playing.

Ryan Zimmerman

I wouldn't say I am a power hitter. I am a gap-to-gap guy. If I hit one like I did today, so be it.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Jackson hit a lot of big shots. I thought that everyone stepped up. This was a big win for us.

Allison Johnson

Just like practice. I knew I just had to hit it hard.

Ron Whitehurst

Katy was hitting all her spots. She was able to pitch it inside and outside.

William McBride

He used to say he would rather lie down in the middle of the street and get hit by a truck than play bingo,

Bruce Bochy

Jake's a gamer. He's a big-game pitcher with an outstanding future.

Jamey Shouppe

He's a true pitcher in every sense of the word. He makes it look easy. He doesn't have the wow factor. He just competes. He locates, but he doesn't have that one pitch.

Randy Johnson

He saw a lot of things that sometimes you don't see when you're a pitcher out there, and that's mechanics.

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.

Nick Ursitti

I'm a smarter pitcher now. With more pitches to rely on, I've been a lot more effective.

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.

Casey Stengel

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Winston Churchill

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Zig Ziglar

Quit counting time and start making time count

Mack Brown

Relax and be yourself and quit worrying about all the stuff around you. (Forget about) your throwing motion, who you look like or whatever.