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.

Reggie Sanders

That was a ball that just kept carrying, and for me, I didn't want the wall to play me; I wanted to play the wall, ... So I just wanted to jump up and use the wall as a crutch, and that's all I really could do on that particular play.

Ray Olive

That's where we had our inning where we made four of our eight errors. (Joseph) Landry pitched the sixth and seventh and we made three more errors. You can't win ball games like that.

Ken Slappy

That's where the game turned. Just the pressure of us running the ball up the floor every time put the pressure on them to stop us. I think it got to them in the third quarter.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Julius Peppers

People think they really know, but they really don't have a clue what they're talking about, ... I could really care less about who's complaining about me not having sacks.

John Maxwell

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Terry Anthony

People forget sometimes that he's a kid, because he's so big. It's different, though, because at school he's a kid but then he has to go home and take care of himself like an adult.

Rita Forrester

This is grass roots at its best. It's powerful stuff.

Andre Agassi

The wear and tear of the clay-court season is something that has set me back in the past in terms of the grass-court season, and the grass is something that I don't want to miss again.

Katherine Harris

We've had some negative hits, but we've had an overwhelming response from grass roots and leadership around the state that are saying, 'Go for it,' and that's what we're doing.

Will Kirkpatrick

You have a better feel with the lighter weight. With the heavier weight you are going to hang up on the grass or brush. You never know what you are going to hang up on out there.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

Tia Carrere

I can't sit on grass without a blanket.

Victor Hugo

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

Alastair Campbell

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.

O. J. Simpson

It was tough. Some of the greens hold well and then some of them release. I think the greens are tough to putt, at least for me. I made my short ones, but those 15- to 20-footers are tough.

Nancy Walker

Mainly, we just want the green space with the openness,

Hannah Reiff

He told me I had the green light to shoot whenever I wanted. It's kind of a leadership role I had to take on. It's not like I was trying to get all of the points. That's just the way it worked out.

Carin Koch

I didn't putt like I did yesterday, but the greens were beautiful. If you get it on the right line, the right speed, the greens are really true. They'll go in.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Green are the leaves I leave in Mirkwood.

Paula Creamer

I could not see it. People up at the green saw it.

Dan Green

What we do not get are the names of those people peering out from those lush, green trees.

Wayne Smith

Had results been fair, it is possible that we may have even seen a different government. The Liberals, NDP and Greens represent a majority, and together they would have held a majority of seats.

Tracy Sutton

I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited.

Tom Carper

We wandered over to the speaker's office, but it was locked up,

Joe Girardi

Miguel seems to be right where he always is -- locked in.

Moises Alou

I know if someone could do what he's doing, it's going to be him, but I didn't think he'd be locked in that quick.

Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Isabel Allende

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Richard Roby

Right now, I'm playing for Colorado, and that's my focus.

Antawn Jamison

Phenomenal. He's playing the way he's been playing all year. He got it going and he tried to let Caron (Butler) and myself get it going. We kind of struggled a little bit, but the guy's playing awesome, man.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Anne Bishop

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.

Anthony Doerr

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Jascha Heifetz

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.