Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curt Young

Outstanding. Even though he's still feeling a little bit under the weather from the food poison, he threw the baseball very well. He'll be good to go on Friday.

We'd like everyone who is still here to contact the Chamber (566-2294) to let us know they're here, let us know what their needs are. When everyone was in hotels, it was easy for us to communicate with them because we simply used the hotels as our base of communication.

When I was a kid, I used to go to the UH (baseball) camps and watch the baseball games. Being able to play on the field I used to watch games, it's pretty special.

We didn't play well enough to win. We had a 7-2 lead. We had the bases loaded. They did a better job and deserved to win.

Brandi Carlile

When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.

Branford Marsalis

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.

Becki Newton

When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?

Tony La Russa

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

Tyrese Gibson

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

We were able to run the bases well and we did some other things right as well.

We were able to put Greg out on (Pasco) in the fourth quarter and I think that certainly had something to do with it. Oz (Hopewell) had him for the first three or four minutes of the fourth, then when it was crunch time and we were going to win or lose based upon what they did on their offensive end, we wanted to make sure Greg was on him.

We're losing so much revenue from General Cable, ... Water and franchise fees are going way down and next year it's going to be worse. The only thing you can do is hope that somebody else moves in here or that the tax base goes up enough. I don't have a solution. I just know it's a tough deal. There's nothing else to cut except employees.

William McDonough

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

David A. Bednar

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

Yeah, but you should have seen what his hand looked like. After the game it looked like he had a baseball glove on it.

(Yancey) had a real good fall for us. He runs the bases real well. He'll definitely be in the lineup somewhere.

Wayne Allard

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

William T. Vollmann

Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.

We could not get a base hit with runners in scoring position; we just could not buy a big base hit.

We know that St. Louis is a baseball town and the city loves its Cardinals. It wouldn't be right if the fans - the people who support the Cardinals year after year - were not a part of the voting process.

George Romero

We have two kids, so our family life is very sort of mundane... take the kids to school, ballet, baseball and all of that. I like to go see movies, travel... but I love being with the family... going to Disney or something like that.

Paula Creamer

An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.

Ryan Coogler

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

We were going off based on what we knew (from the summer) and grapevine stuff. We had to make in-game adjustments.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

Vinny Castilla

To know the whole country's watching you, it's going to be a great experience. Baseball in Mexico is not as big as soccer, but people love it, especially in the northern part of (the country).

Kenny Anderson

We had to play in it; they had to play in it. We really beat ourselves. It was not a base-running clinic. We had way to many base running errors (Thursday). So, I'm disappointed.

Marvin Minsky

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

We had to react immediately because in December we were beginning to lose customers who were seeing a slowdown in service, ... I'm estimating that we lost 25% of our customer base over the next five months because they got hit with much higher phone connection charges.

We've looked at it. If they go into restructuring, the fallout in the supply base happens very quickly.

We're working together with the Derby development team, and we'll provide a complete open-source solution based on Derby and Cloudscape in six to nine months.

Michael Martinez

Voters tend to decide based upon the information that they have. If personal information about a candidate is all they have, voters may use it as an indication of how they might behave in office.