Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Eric Schmidt

Bagley did a good job of controlling the ball and slowing the game down for the first five minutes. They played a defense that we haven't seen yet this year and it took some time for us to get organized.

Brock Berryhill

As long as you can stop the running game, you have a chance. They can throw for 400 yards, but if they can't run the ball, you have a good chance. Someone's going to drop the ball or you'll get a knockdown on third down. Stopping the run comes first. As long as we can do that, we'll be successful.

Geno Auriemma

As long as we play defense like that and keep people in the 50s we'll be all right. Some nights you're going to shoot the ball poorly and it's going to be 60-something to 50-something. Some nights you're going to shoot 60-something percent and it's going to be 90-something to 50-something. But you've got to be able to play with the game on the line, which I think we showed (Saturday).

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Karen Best

The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nonsense because I don't understand how cancer, asthma, rhinitis or conjunctivitis falls into that category. We understand that it is a phenomenon, but it cannot be attributed to what is happening at Louis Lynch School.

Larry Coker

A fifth-year senior quarterback cannot give the opponent a touchdown before the half. That's totally a foolish play we can't have.

Mahela Jayawardene

The one-day series is gone and we cannot dwell on that.

Johnnie Burton

The oil from the platforms might be at 95 percent of pre- storm levels within 30 days or so. That doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere. There are terminals they cannot get to. There are refineries that are not ready to take the product.

O. Singh

After he danced his way through TV channels on Saturday dressed up as a woman and gave interviews in which he addressed himself in feminine gender, we cannot ignore the issue any longer.

Jeffrey Bryant

A culture that pushes God out of its world cannot expect to feel secure as if God were in it.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Babe Ruth

What the hell difference does it make?

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Barbara Mikulski

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

James Weldon Johnson

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Benjamin Franklin

Ay, we must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately

Cecily Brown

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't.

Stephanie Adams

After the first summer, I just had so much fun, ... It's one of the only places you can get paid to be a kid and hang out. It's all I talked about the rest of the year, so I thought maybe I should do it again.

Steve Bietau

The tennis team is kind of like a second family. We hang out together and live together, so we have to be close.

Matt Hasselbeck

The thing's hanging on top of the Space Needle.

Michael Campbell

I wanted to hang on to that lead.

Steve Nash

It would be nice if we were up 3-2. But, at least we can go to LA and let it all hang out.

Jordan Reese

It was the toughest match I've had all year. The mental part (was the toughest); I had to get in my head I could hang with him.

Wayne Taylor

These are superstars here. I just want to hang out in the back and wave to everybody.

Ronnie Arnold

These allegations are disturbing. It was improper and unprofessional, but you see these things out there where kids are harmed emotionally and physically every day.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Shaheed Saleem

I've been here before but none of these kids have. This team is already winners because of what they have accomplished this season.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Harv Bainter

You saw how many different looks we had. We played up to 20 some kids tonight.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Ben Marcus

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Aziz Ansari

Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

James Wolcott

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Tom Lehrer

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

Ray Henderson

It was big; we were preaching it all week that we wanted the shutout, ... so we went out and we did what we had to do.

Leo Ellerbee

We did the little things. We always preach doing the little things every day.

Conor Oberst

I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.

Randy Moss

There's no telling what you are going to see,

Anne Frank

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Charles Bishop

No! ... You're telling me if three commissioners tell me I've got to sign, I've got to sign? I don't think so.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Foxy Brown

It feels so good to tell the truth

Emily Saliers

Always tell the truth and be true.

Greg Cox

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

Grover Cleveland

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.