Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Torre

He cares. I'm not saying Barry doesn't care. But (Giambi) tried to keep an upbeat attitude, and it's not easy to do. He's been as open as he could be.

Tom Hall

Hands, the perfect metaphor for Barry Avrich's visual masturbation,

Shaquille O'Neal

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

Marty Schottenheimer

He's got great stop-and-start quickness. As a runner he's hard to find. I'm not going to put him in his category but skill-wise he's like Barry Sanders. His stop-and-start quickness reminds me of that.

Randy Winn

His track record speaks for itself. He's got Gold Gloves, hit big home runs, played in the World Series. .. . He's a real quality guy. With Barry and Mo being our number 4 and 5 hitters, it's great that he can not only play the outfield, but he can fill in the missing offense.

Cheech Marin

I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. I'm the new Barry Fitzgerald, except with a Mexican accent.

Felipe Alou

The concern is the knee, and the knee is big-time strong. I expect Barry to come back after the weekend and play.

Tom Reeves

We set a date of Sept. 15 for Barry Cohen to take down his bridge. That date has now passed.

LaVell Edwards

After the season, Barry (Switzer) sent me a telegram and said, 'Congratulations on doing something only five other teams have done,'

Walter Mosley

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Raymond Chandler

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

Virginia Woolf

But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.

Woody Hayes

Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

Louis Cataldie

Being in the water that long makes visual identification essentially an impossibility,

Annie Lennox

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.