Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Kielty

Sometimes that's a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw a good pitch to hit and I was able to capitalize on it.

David Samson

Right now we are working with the officials of Hialeah, and we're working with the mayor there. He's a great man. He's got vision. He wants to see baseball there. He's doing his work; we're doing our work. We hope to meet again in the next couple of weeks. We're exploring other cities with the focus still on Florida. We'll see how the year progresses.

Robin Cook

President Milosevic has once again made clear his attitude toward the truth -- he's terrified of it,

Tapan Munroe

San Francisco is coming back. Corporations are once again locating in The City and a rebound in Silicon Valley is helping the entire Bay Area. San Francisco's position as a gateway to Asia is also advantageous given the strength in the Asian economy.

Mark Albrecht

Satellite-delivered HDTV is driving the business for many of our customers, ... We are delighted to again help DIRECTV connect with its customers and expand its services in the United States.

Bill McLaughlin

Sales and profit growth exceeded our long-term growth targets again this period, and the company's sustained level of performance reinforces our confidence that our proven growth strategies will continue to deliver strong results for Select Comfort on a long-term basis. Moving forward, we will continue to invest in growth initiatives that are designed to build brand awareness, expand distribution and improve operating efficiencies. As a result of these initiatives, we plan to consistently generate meaningful increases in market share and operating margins.

Ulrika Jonsson

School runs, lost gym kits, oh my lord it's all kicking off again but I wouldn't have it any other way,

Yosef Lapid

saves Israel again from the embarrassment that the haste of the government has caused throughout the world and from the feeling we have imposed unnecessary injustices on many Palestinians.

B. R. Hayden

Protest politics has been vibrant against Bush and the war in Iraq, but it's been intergenerational. This doesn't seem to be a resurgence of student activism.

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Alice Walker

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

Ali Partovi

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

Albert Camus

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

Albert Camus

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

Albert Camus

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Amanda Palmer

There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.

Amanda Palmer

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

Amanda Palmer

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

I bet when neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, 'Don't forget the thick, heavy brows.' Then they would get all embarrassed because they remembered they had the big husky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.

I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar.

I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.

If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.

I hope if dogs take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Joe Faraldo

This is a reasonable solution. We'll both lose some things through arbitration, but that's what a negotiation is.

Joe Biden

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Tim O'Malley

This gives us another race early in the season and plus, it's a great tradition with us and McBain. Overall, I thought both our teams did well today.

Barbara Walters

This gives her the opportunity to do both - to be in television, to not have to do everything. It also means that she can finish at noon and pick her kids up from school.

Frank Brothers

This game is 'what have you done for me lately?' in all phases of it. I would say yeah, he probably is a little under the radar. I thought both of his races this year were tremendous races but he hasn't run in six weeks.

Patricio Navia

This country is much better off now than when Lagos first came in, both in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction.

James Paulsen

This economic recovery, both in the United States and globally, is staying stronger and more durable than what people thought. That means that profits are going to keep coming in better for longer, and that's pushing stock prices up.

Fred Zerza

This does show a willingness by both parties to compromise. It is encouraging.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Mark Twain

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

Jean-Claude Juncker

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

Jean Philippe Rameau

Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

Jesse Metcalfe

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

Jesse Jackson

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Jackie Stewart

Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.

Christopher Lasch

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Gary Zukav

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.