Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Neil Strauss

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Nikolai Gogol

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Pico Iyer

In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Willie Bloomquist

We were half a stride away today. Jose made a great play, but the guy just barely was safe.

Garrett Smith

We've had Boy Scout projects to clean up that bike lane many times. The street is barely wide enough for cars.

Mitchell Baker

We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.

Helen Roberts

My body has held up like I can barely believe,

Simon Walker

Mike and I barely talked during the race,

Timothy Noah

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

M. Wolfe

We have three teams and 54 kids in the program. To have four batting cages inside, we're really blessed and thankful.

Scott Reifert

We wanted to make sure that people could get out to see batting practice and take part in all the ceremonies that surround such a special event.

Jack Williams

We've done batting practice in Chicago a couple of times in the playoffs, but we haven't considered it regularly. To do it game in and game out, I don't see it.

Pete Rose

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

Rahul Dravid

I thought it was a very professional performance from our boys. The key was the bowling. They bowled really well on a good batting track.

Jason Giambi

Johnny and I spoke a few times over the last week and I strongly encouraged him to sign with the Yankees. It is good to know that our lineup next year will include a natural leadoff hitter whose presence allows Jeter and A-Rod to return to their preferred places in the batting order. Johnny is a good friend and a great guy to have in the clubhouse. I am very excited about having him as a teammate again.

Garrett Atkins

It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.

Habibul Bashar

We have a very flexible batting line and any one can bat anywhere.

Will Champlin

I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

Becky G

Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

H. Hart

That was the most fun game I've had all year. I was caught in a spot where I wasn't needed at all, pretty much. I was just kinda sitting there.

Russell Robinson

That was the first time we'd faced a zone. They caught us at a good time. But we've faced different types of zone since then, and we have the concept down now. We'll be ready for it.

Seneca Wallace

That was the first pass I caught since (Sacramento) City College.

Greg Gibson

We have caught them and we should be pretty competitive the rest of the year. It's taken four years, but we are really happy with where the program is at.

Levon Kendall

We've done a good job of improving consistently all the way from the freshmen to the seniors. The coaches do not let us get caught up in winning.

Ralph Merkle

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Peter Jackson

I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish. The shoulder, elbow, and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals.

Richard Platt

We are particularly interested in recognizing unusual patterns of illness at the earliest possible time.

Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Paul Theroux

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

Adam Clayton

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

Sam Walker

It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years.

David Sanborn

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

Margot Asquith

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Dejan Delic

We're really good friends. We used to go out all the time in the middle of winter and play (basketball) with our gloves on.

Annette Brown

We provide the gloves if they want to touch it (which many do).

Jimmy Rollins

I had two good swings there. That's part of baseball. You don't get rewarded for good swings all the time. You have guys there with gloves and that's what they're paid to do is get you out.

George Foreman

It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.

Vincent Tan

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.

Adrian Grenier

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.

Dick DeGuerin

Now we can really take the gloves off.

Pat Bowlin

She struggled. She started good, but then she put on these wool gloves and got a rash. Her hands turned raw. We had to tape her hands up for her to play.

Paul Bliss

We give them gloves and put them right in there. We don't pull any punches.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Barbara Kerr

The ($3 billion) should be paid back, and then we talk about programs. Hit and miss is not the way it should be done.

Gwen Stefani

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Joe Girardi

That was the kind of player I had to be. I had to do the little things to win, and they have to do a lot of them. They have to hit and run, they have to steal, they have to squeeze some,

Carolyn Brown

That would hit the majority of our members. Most would be in the 25 (employees-and-under) range.

John Krawczyk

That would be a big hit to the budget.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.

Aaron Small

Please, somebody pinch me when it's all over.

Laura Osnes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Bruce Bochy

Obviously, we'd like to start getting some pinch hits.

Craig Heller

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up.

Rachel Joyce

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

Bob Livingston

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Jack Phelps

This may start to pinch some consumers' wallets.

Renee James

If you can make it so that I could touch somebody remotely through a wearable because it has haptic feedback - like, I could give a hug and it would touch you or pinch you - that would be killer.

Huston Street

The first time I had to pinch myself was walking into (big-league) spring training,

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.