Famous Quotes & Sayings

Indra Nooyi

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

I don't know how many yards they got, but they didn't do too much of anything. We went in there the same way; we didn't do anything special.

Gwyneth Paltrow

We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.

Daniel Dennett

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

Rob Andrew

It wasn't even borderline, it was about two yards forward.

Judith Butler

I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

Jimmy Swaggart

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

Reggie Jackson

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

Mark Leyner

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Mickey Mantle

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

Mickey Mantle

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.

Mark Teixeira

I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!

Mark Teixeira

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

Mark Teixeira

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

Nick Johnson

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

Frederick W. Smith

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

Johnny Damon

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

Johnny Damon

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

Johnny Damon

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

Orlando Hernandez

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

Joe Torre

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

Joe Torre

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

James St. James

I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.

O. Henry

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

Terry Butcher

Veggard Heggem, my word, he must have a Yamaha down his shorts.

Sean Hannity

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

Sean Paul

CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG.....NAW EAT NO YAM...NO STEAM FISH....NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..

Peter Salovey

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

Pierre Trudeau

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

Phyllis Diller

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Henry Ford

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Jorge Posada

He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

Jorge Posada

I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.