Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth McClung

I'm just trying to pitch and listen to what (pitching coach Mike) Butcher and Joe tell me." ()

Robert Bruno

The neighborhood butcher wouldn't have sold meat to you. You would be shunned at church.

Konrad Adenauer

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

Author unknown

I told the butcher I'd give him $10 if he got the meat down off the top shelf. He said he couldn't. The steaks were too high.

Leigh Steinberg

Ultimately, it will get done. If you peer into the apocalypse, there?s too much pain and chaos and consternation not to do a new (agreement). This sport is about to move into the greatest era of peace and prosperity of any entertainment form in America. Who wants to be the butcher that kills this?

Kenneth Langone

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

Rory Kinnear

I used to go to Sheen High Street with my dad on a Saturday, and there was a butcher next door to the fishmonger. I hated the smell of the fishmonger, but I found the smell of the butcher's much more appealing. And I liked the big knives. I thought it looked like a decent job.

Bertolt Brecht

You want justice, but do you want to pay for it, hm? When you go to a butcher you know you have to pay, but you people go to a judge as if you were off to a funeral supper.

Mary Poole

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Lupita Nyong'o

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Lee Raymond

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

Maya MacGuineas

To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.

John Scalzi

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

Mike Brey

He does a good job drawing fouls. He's crafty like that.

Virginia Woolf

Life stand still here.

Ryan Tedder

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

Saul Bellow

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Ken Salazar

In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Ramsey Clark

History will prove that Slobodan Milosevic was right.

David McGrew

History will look back and say it was very worthwhile.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Mitchell Corwin

I think that this means that the sales process is not going well.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

William Banting

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Isak Dinesen

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.