Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Wallop

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Finally, this day has come. I look forward to seeing how I improve as a baseball player through overcoming various barriers.

First base and shortstop are the only places where we lost players from last year.

Anne Dudley

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

The real rivalry is intense, but this is minor-league baseball. It's supposed to be fun.

There are a lot of myths about what the evidence is in this case, ... Some of them are misunderstandings based upon erroneous media reports, some spring from confusion in the evidence itself, and some are the result of concerted partisan distortion.

There are a lot of guys who dip and when you see someone dipping on a baseball field, you just don't think anything of it. But (smoking) is the same thing.

There are many exciting opportunities surrounding the Rocky franchise, and we are delighted to have found a partner with the toy expertise and passion to create a compelling line of products based on the iconic film stars.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

Frank Luntz

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

Clarence Thomas

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

Howard Stern

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.

Howard Schultz

You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory.

Howard Schultz

Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.

Gabrielle Union

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

Francis Collins

If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.

Sydney Smith

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Barry Ritholtz

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

Mike Sweeney

We came close tonight, but in baseball that's not good enough. Tough loss.

We built a model based on all the different things they're browsing to predict what should be the content of the message.

We only have the information that has been in the media and based on that we understand that he is recovering and is likely to be released.

We only had 10 hits but we could have easily had 20 because we scalded the baseball today. I thought our at bats were very good today so I'm was pleased with that.

We obviously know he has been in Durham. Based on the identification, we believe it was him but it's not 100 percent sure.

Damon Lindelof

We obviously come up with these ideas based on the storytelling, what's cool to us. But then our masters will provide us with resources to do this stuff if there's a potential revenue stream down the line. So we're scratching each other's backs.

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Carl Everett

We'll just have to get to Cleveland and play a little better baseball.

Richard Daley

Well, I wore a Cubs hat, ... Remember, these are baseball games.

Bill Callahan

When Jon first left, we were taken aback. He made a decision that was based and predicated on what was best for him and his family. We understood it the best we could, and we moved on.

Karen Carpenter

While Richard was listening to music in the basement, I was out playing baseball and football, and playing with my machine gun! I was very tomboyish, quite a character, I hear!

Brandon Watson

With a guy in front of you, it's that much easier. I can still lay it down and get him to second, or if I get a base hit, it's first and second. First, second. it doesn't matter.

Ben Howland

Who we start Thursday (at center) will be based solely on practice the next two days. It'll be based on rebounds, who sets the best screens and blocks.

Roger Clemens

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.