Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

Agnes Repplier

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

Alan Kay

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

Alan Keyes

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

Melissa McCarthy

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

Larry Robinson

The reality is that we have eight new guys in our lineup. We have to get them on the same page as everyone else.

Eric Hamilton

The people in Washington were very impressed with the eight different municipalities all working together on this.

Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.

Taylor Lautner

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

Tom Hicks

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Terry Francona

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

Brian Clough

Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships,

Alan Moore

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.

Cassandra Peterson

My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.

Dennis Eckersley

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

Gus Frerotte

Since Ricky has been in the league there has been a fascination,

Steven Jackson

let the league know the Rams are planning to do something this year.

Jim Cameron

She's in a league all of her own.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Phil Rosenthal

We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years.

Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Brian Robertson

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.