Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curt Schilling

Warming up for the second inning, I threw my split-finger and everything clicked. The first two starts, I haven't felt like I've been consistently bearing the pitch well and I didn't feel like I've been throwing it at a good angle. And I threw it and it was exactly what I wanted it to be from a feel standpoint. And mentally, I was like, 'There it is.' From that point on, when I needed a strikeout, I felt very comfortable about command, fastball-wise, and about the fact I could bury my split in the ground.

We are very happy. If we win, it will have quite a major bearing on this case.

We had similar situations with the Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears and they responded quickly with our requests to stop using our Twelfth Man trademark. But Seattle has been slow-rolling us.

The timing of the TBI has no bearing on the case whatsoever.

Francis Collins

The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer. Waiting another two years would have been too long. The biological research planets are aligned.

P. J. O'Rourke

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

Mark Foley

I've been telling my colleagues sooner or later we would face a catastrophe unfathomable in financial terms and the insurance companies would not be able to bear it,

I've been playing since I was in fifth grade. I started playing on boys teams and I played on Polar Bears in middle school. I still play for the Polar Bears. I love everything about hockey. I love skating and I haven't gotten sick of playing. The girls on the team are awesome.

Matt Parker

I've never grown a beard in my life. This is just a fun thing we have going. We hope we don't have to pick up a razor the rest of the year.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

We talked to them about it, and it has no bearing on our discussions regarding the East Hartford site.

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

Brent Sopel

We talked about it. We've been giving up too many chances and we have to bear down if we want to win games and want to be a playoff contending team. Tonight we did a pretty good job of that.

We just had to bear down. Once we got that first goal (in the third period), it took some pressure off and we just played our game.

Chuck D.

When a hunter kills an elk, you need to start your stopwatch. The longer you wait, the more likely a bear will show up.

Michael Leunig

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

With less and less industrial development, we have smaller manufacturing, smaller industrial. So when you have a development the scope of this one, with the significant tax-revenue implications, it certainly bears close scrutiny, so that we can do what we can to encourage these kinds of projects to come to Waynesboro.

There are seminal points in economies, and they're reached rarely, ... We reached one in the 1990s, and we will not go back to an economy that bears any resemblance to the one before.

There are questions about who will pay for all of this, but our premise has been to get people the help they need first and worry about who will pay for this later, ... In particular, we know the feds will bear much of the brunt.

While the plan is reasonable and may potentially bear fruit, we believe it will take several quarters to materialize.

William Shakespeare

You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.

Tony Blair has been party to prosecuting an illegal war and it's important for people to bear witness to that.

WOZA was started to give Zimbabwean women a voice and platform with which to exercise their rights. At this time in Zimbabwe, where things are very tough economically, socially, politically we felt that women were bearing the brunt of that crisis and should have the loudest voice in shouting out and holding the political leaders accountable for what they've unleashed.

Marian Gaborik

We got some rebounds out there. We've got to bear down on them and bury one.

We choose to play at that time so whatever the consequences are, we bear them.

We think it is up to the people who live in each of these towns to bring pressure to bear on elected officials (about problems that need attention).

Reggie Sanders

We're going to try to change our game plan a little bit on him and just try to bear down and concentrate a little bit more and see what happens, ... That's all we can do. He has given us trouble, but hopefully this go-round we can do what we need to do.

We're going to be fine. It's going to take some time. People need to bear with us. It's not easy.

Chuck D.

You have to remember that about half of all grizzly bear deaths are management removals.

You expect that out of your senior pitchers. They know when they have to bear down and get outs. He got outs when he needed to.

Jim Kelly

At this point I don't see this as a big looming health threat, but it certainly bears more investigation.

Copper continues to defy gravity and crush bears like me. There's no rhyme or reason for it -- but tell that to our margin calls.

Don't just cross a river--cross it bearing fire!.