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.

Brent Alexander

As long as we keep the play in front of us, we can make the QB hold the ball a little longer, and that plays to our advantage. The biggest key is the strength that our front four has given us all year long.

A. Hodge

As long as they had some kind of ball in their hand or watching some sporting event on television, they were pretty happy.

Marcel Jones

As long as he can carry us, I'll jump on for the ride. We don't have a superstar on the team right now, but he's definitely stepped up and making it hard for defenses. He's a big-time player. He wants the ball down the stretch.

Melinda Fischer

Offensively I thought Tricia, Randi and Stacy had a really good day. We did some nice things defensively, but our three, four and five hitters really struggled putting the bat on the ball. Plus our bench didn't really help us today and that's something that we've been able to count on usually.

Dave Starling

Nos. 1-9 in the batting order will move the baseball. Defensively we'll be as solid as we've ever been. Matt can overpower people and keep us in the game with anyone.

Johnny Damon

Normally, our bats will get us back in it, but that didn't happen today.

David Mazouz

I've always been a huge fan of the Batman universe and Batman, since I was born really. I think the reasoning for that is because he doesn't have a superpower - he has no special ability. He's just a regular person, a regular human.

Jonathan Ogden

Strength is important. But the No. 1 thing is knowing your opponent. If you know your opponent and what they like to do, and you try to take that away from them, force them to another move, then that's half the battle right there.

Jack McDevitt

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

Allison Merzon

It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up.

Joe Urso

It was about 70 percent for wanting to go at night. With the way our hitters are swinging the bat right now, we didn't want them taking any extra time off. It's also nice getting under the lights to practice for once.

Jay Edwards

These buildings are the history of the community and they represent the human history of the community, ... There is just so much going on in Old South Baton Rouge that the rest of the community doesn't appreciate, and it's because they don't know.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Paul Hewitt

People seem to understand even in the NBA when a really good team loses its players it's going to be a struggle,

Gary Robb

People still need to use good judgement. The river is still pretty treacherous out there.

Jeremy Jaramillo

People are starved for this kind of service. The level of outreach we have now makes people feel good that they can say, 'I have answers.' It's immediate. You don't need an appointment or insurance.

Jack Mintz

People don't understand productivity but they do understand if you have a job with a good level of pay, it's better over the long run.

Phil Cowell

People don't need a good telescope. Just wander outside and look up.

Jim Jenkins

People don't have to wait here. She has a good method. If they're a regular customer, we already have their prescription filled.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Sue Wilson

This is one of the first things we learn to do.

Author unknown

You're never too old to learn something stupid.

Jacob Tamme

You may not be able to listen like I do, but you can learn just like I do.

Harry Tholen

Norris has been opportunistic. Every time he pitches we score runs.

Tracy Sutton

The more he pitches the better he is. If he has a very long lay-off, it takes him a while to get back into the rhythm, so we throw him as much as possible. He's a rhythm man. ... today, he threw pretty good.

Ivan Rodriguez

I should take more walks. But I'm very aggressive. In the off-season, I'm going to work on taking more pitches and being more selective. If I'm more selective, I can have some better numbers.

Dusty Baker

You want him to go out and pitch the way he has pitched before.

Suzy Buchholtz

Boom, boom, boom, boom, and at 7:40 everyone's gone. Everyone pitches in.

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.

Chris Carpenter

I sat there watching him pitch those two years in Toronto (in 1997 and '98) and it was amazing,

Willie Randolph

Listen, when he pitches if I don't see what I like to see I'm not going to be totally patient. You go by your track record.

Koby Clemens

I wish I could talk to Satchel Paige and find out what he did to pitch at 50,

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jim Lett

You're starting to be real competitive, aren't you?

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Bob Henricks

We are at a better starting place than Sweetwater was.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Ringo Starr

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Torin Francis

Right about now, it's all or nothing. We know we had to get two starting tonight.

M. Wolfe

The more participants we have, the better we can be. I think we can have a real strength in numbers.

Jeff Carnazzo

The strength of our team has been our defense.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Ifereimi Tawake

There's no underestimation but we'll use this strength to our advantage.

Ani Difranco

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jane Fonda

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Jane Fonda

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

Arthur Ashe

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Adolf Hitler

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Alexander Hamilton

A promise must never be broken.

Alex Haley

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

David Platt

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

Curt Siodmak

People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.

Marcus Williams

I waited it out, but I was tired.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Willie Randolph

Right now, we just have to wait and see. But it doesn't look too good.

Brian Austin Green

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.