Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Halladay

The way Randy Johnson pitched his last time out was a good sign for New York. I've got to give the Yankees the edge in the wild card, Boston is better suited to win the division.

Thomas Gold Appleton

Boston is a state of mind.

Kevin Starr

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

John McDonnell

The two-mile was stacked with a lot of great runners. It was similar to the 1,000 in that it didn't start on a very good pace either. They went out a little too fast. Mottram is a great runner and Alistair and Daniel were right there in the hunt until the end. Alistair has had a lot of success in Boston and I think they were watching for him tonight.

Joe Rogan

One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

Jimmy Fallon

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

James Taylor

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it.

Ken Perrotte

As with all good New Englanders, your solemn duty was to love the Boston Red Sox.

Damien Woody

A lot of people around the country don't realize Boston College is known for putting up good linemen.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Irene Toner

We cannot have people just breaking in and taking weapons and ammunition. That's something no one even thought about until we watched the news from New Orleans.

Ken Livingston

Those police were actually breaking the law as they took those banners away. We are not having any of that.

Steny Hoyer

We are breaking a promise, and that is unfair to the people who fought so long and so hard for this legislation.

Gregg Davis

Voice-over-IP was breaking up. The pipe was only so big.

Jenny Mack

We don't want you to be caught off-guard. The first time you find out about a new law should not be when you're getting a ticket for breaking it.

David Garis

There's little headroom for inflation to move up from here without breaking through the Reserve Bank's 2 percent to 3 percent target range.

Vincent Simeone

The tree was 95 percent dead. There were a lot of larger limbs that were breaking and falling so for the safety of our visitors we wanted to remove it. The tree has been in serious decline for two or three years ...

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Jay Paterno

The thing I was really looking for in spring was, does he know where he's going with the ball, does he know why going there, and he really did. He's made great strides there.

Chris Samuels

I've never been in a position like this since being with the Redskins. Since I've been here, we really haven't had a really great season yet. This year, though, I think we're handling it well.

Julie Bowen

I've loved doing 'E.R.' for the quality of the writing and the great people I get to work with.

Gin Wigmore

I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.

Stephen F. Lynch

To have no one on the ground is just inexcusable, sir.

Kazimierz Krzowski

There is a low possibility that people are still trapped under there. The parts of the structure that are not lying on the ground are a threat.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Owen Miller

Ole Miss has a lot of potential. They've won there before. Is it going to be easy? No. There's no magic formula. You're just going to have to work every day. You've got to recruit. In the end, that's what it comes down to. We've got to hit the ground running.

Tom DeLay

He's taken the moral high ground to show how his opponents have taken the moral low ground.

Joe Moore

It is always interesting to put seed into the ground and see what comes up,

Frank Lepore

Surface, or ground level, is where the people are and so that wind speed is what you want to know.

Mark Buehrle

My velocity was back up, which I was happy to see that. I was getting ground balls, which was nice to see.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

John Williams

The plans have been put on hold for the time being.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Walter Winchell

No, I'll hold it. It'll make the show better.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Steve Cummings

If you are going to sit on it, you want it to hold you.

Kendra Todd

If it's a condominium now, what makes it special? I see a lot of conversions; they look like rentals. They're not going to hold their value as well.

Gary Nelson

He was well off the rail, and he looked pretty awesome. (Solis) had such a hold on him.

Robert Mahon

I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Seth Godin

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Chris Grayling

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media,

Jake T. Austin

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

Jeremy Rifkin

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

Iris Chang

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Bob McNair

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

Willie Wieck

Every opportunity that comes along, you have to make use of it.

Meshach Taylor

That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.