Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Burris

Their fans back the 'Riders with as much passion as any fan base in all of sports,

Jo Bonner

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.

E. O. Wilson

The fact the race is so based on name recognition only, those that can raise enough money to buy billboards and commercials will make it, ... and those people don't always necessarily have the city in their best interests. Those of us who may not have the resources to do it, fight for the little votes out there, and we end up dragging ourselves down.

David Cone

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

Muhammad Yunus

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

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.

Jermaine Dye

What we play is a National League-style of baseball. This is the way baseball should be played.

Clint Hurdle

What we need to do is play better baseball. And then there won't be a section closed down. There will be a section opened up.

There are policy implications in any state that hands out money based on town income. We need better measures of town income.

There are persistent reports that Leandro Aragoncillo has been paid by some popular personalities here in this country. We would like to investigate whether there are bases or evidence to prove these reports.

Manny Acta

There are no favorites in baseball. You can do it in basketball or hockey or any other sport, but in baseball there are no favorites. Our country expects a winning team and we are OK with that. We are going to go round-by-round, but we don't want to let our country down.

Scott Rolen

There are some things I need to work on just to get a feel back. I haven't played baseball for a while. I need to get some timing ... get some feel back. That stuff is going to be done in the cage and out here with coaches BP. This is a big test for me. I made contact. A lot of good things happened today.

Brad Ausmus

There are some nuances to hitting in the eight hole. It's nothing that thousands of players haven't done throughout the course of baseball history. Sometimes you don't get much to hit, but there are other times when they come right at you. I've hit there enough that I usually know the situation, but sometimes it surprises you.

There are some names out there, like Wyeth, for example, that, you know, the base business is in good enough shape, where they actually don't need much coming out of the pipeline,

The only yardstick of objectively assessing, evaluating and commenting on (the deal) is India's national interest. Based on this, it is our view that the government has surrendered on two important counts.

Kofi Annan

The only way to escape from the present downward spiral lies through ending the violence and resuming negotiations aimed at comprehensive peaceful settlement based on relevant United Nations resolutions,

There are a lot of reasons why, looking further out, a broadened base for the U.S. dollar would be positive. It would be good for the U.S. because it will make those countries more prosperous, more responsible, more stable. At the same time it does make us more responsible for them, which is a pretty big task to take on.

We decide on what items to replace based on the demand and popularity of the item and also if it is our only copy of it. We are not going to replace CDs, however, since they are a large ticket item. As you can see, this causes a problem because we cannot replace everything and that means that our community will have to do without.

Steve Winwood

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.

It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled - based on one occasion out of hundreds.

Gioconda Belli

We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.

Sean Casey

We're playing real good baseball right now, ... The bottom line is we are getting real good starting pitching. If you get that and some timely hitting, you win ballgames.

Ned Yost

We're playing pretty sound, fundamentally. We're going from first to third when we need to. We're picking up big runs. We're running the bases good. We're doing a lot of little things right.

Ozzie Guillen

We're playing lousy baseball on the bases, pitching, everything. There's no doubt about it. We really flat-out stink. It's not the same team I've been watching all year.

We're playing good baseball right now. We've just got to keep it up and stay consistent.

We're playing good baseball, but most importantly are learning about the game of baseball.

Johnny Damon

We're playing baseball now. We were definitely embarrassed the way we were playing the game earlier in the season.

John Scofield

We sharply limited the number we would consider, based on good government reform. The fewer coming in, the better you can scrub the ones coming in.

Elgin Baylor

After long and careful consideration, we have elected not to match the offer sheet presented to us by Lamar Odom, ... In the final analysis, the decision was based on issues of character and other risks involved.

Reggie Jackson

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is