Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Collison

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

Patrick Kavanagh

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

Pat Gillick

When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

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.

Pauly Shore

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

Marco Rubio

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

Ray Comfort

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

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.

Richard MacDonald

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.

We hadn't got the lead off batter on base all day. The lead off is huge. That puts pressure on the other team.

We'll play the game and prepare for it like any other game. It's a little down the road, but I'm sure the kids won't forget what happened. We have to keep our emotions in check and I think our kids can do that. Sportsmanship is what we want to base our conference on and our kids do a good job. They are pretty good character-wise.

We'll pitch certain guys based on the scouting reports and position ourselves accordingly, just like always, ... We play defense as a team. It won't be any different.

We have the opportunity to climb Everest. We're at the base camp. We've got the best equipment. We've got the best guides -- people who have been there before. And the weather forecast looks great. The question is, can we actually do it?

Jason Hill

We have the capability of doing everything we did today, ... We have good pitching and hitting. We run the bases well. With all those things combined, when we put it together, we're a very tough team.

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

David Hawkins

We were getting hits tonight. The bottom line was we were getting runners on base then not getting production from guys when we needed it.

Carl Everett

We were solid the whole time. Our pitching was great, we had great defense and it showed tonight. Uribe came up so clutch. He's the best shortstop in the league right there. Without him tonight, we'd still be playing.

We were sitting in the basement and we heard this deafening crash.

We work hard to be family-affordable entertainment. Baseball is the only major-league pro sport that is geared to families, which we at the Indians take very seriously. There are food items, souvenirs and ticket plans to fit every person's pocketbook.

We worked very closely with World Baseball Classic and the State Department.

We want to make a late season rush and be playing our best baseball when that time comes.

We want to have one last hurrah at Busch Stadium with the best fans in baseball. The weekend will be filled with heartfelt tributes to the most memorable athletes, coaches, broadcasters and plays that have made Cardinals baseball the tradition that it is today.

We believed, based on the evidence, a four-year suspension would have been a just result. We are very pleased these two are held accountable. At the end of the day it is hard for them to hold their head high knowing they forced us to spend this much time and effort.

We believe, based on studies we have done, it will work even better.

We believe, based on everything we see today, that we will fulfill our plans for production into the foreseeable future.

Robert Scoble

We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.

Peter Salovey

We are making sure that these are students -- based on their past work -- who are capable of doing work in Yale College.

Abel Ferrara

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Robert Owen

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Roxane Gay

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.

Ravi Shankar

There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.