Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Delgado

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Carlos Beltran

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Carlos Beltran

I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

Carlos Beltran

When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Carl Everett

As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

Carl Crawford

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Harold Gehman

We have no savings and we're essentially moving the airplanes from one very very good base to another very very good base.

John Brain

We have named our team based on our pre-season friendlies and feel that it is a strong line up to take on Gloucester,

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Mike Royer

We know from the Redmond game that we can't overlook any team. It's nice to play Bend after Pendleton does, but we need to take care of business on our home floor (against Crook County).

Lin Stadler

We did exactly what we wanted to do defensively bend but don't break.

Brene Brown

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I urge the U.N. not to bend to U.S. pressure,

Scott Stewart

We bend to the degree that we can bend, but he still must get his work done.

Art Pulaski

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Brady Quinn

Like he?s been saying all week, we?re here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we?re prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

Dan Hopkins

The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.

Joseph Biden

Ultimately, all the federal government does is not going to be able to get the job done without your aid.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Carol Leifer

If you thought you didn't like some people on land...

C. S. Lewis

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

Abba Eban

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

Charles Dickens

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

Charles Stross

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Shia LaBeouf

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Michael Duffy

The poorer performance of the stock market relative to the land market makes it attractive.

Dave Freudenthal

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

Miah Wheeler

She just kind of locked in. You watched the guy's finals, and 50 percent of them fell.

Chris Kearney

Like every other private psychiatric hospital, we are a locked and secure facility, but not 'maximum security.

David Shearer

I can't remember (the West Bank) being that locked down for such a long period of time.

Mack Strong

With Darrell back, we got all of our weapons; we are locked and loaded. We are ready for whoever comes in here next Sunday.

Isabel Allende

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Stan Wasowski

We are locked into a weather pattern right now.

John Bryan

I think it has merit and I'm not locked into it, but until somebody shows me something better, I like it.

Greg Walker

He seemed to really get locked in. Once he got on a roll, it was obvious. We were like, 'That's him.' We just pat him on the back now.

Sharon Taylor

Me and him are always in touch -- always in touch. This is the longest I have ever been without in touch with my son.

Rich McKay

Seventy-six? Seventy-six was the longest 17 years of my life,

Benjamin Whichcote

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

Bikram Choudhury

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

Allyn Rachel

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

Damon Albarn

I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

Pete Vasil

If someone told me they'd have 27 (by halftime), we'd take it. But we were stuck at 11 for the longest time.

Christine Benz

He has one of the longest records, he's more a pure quant investor, ... He's got a phenomenal record.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

John Rhys-Davies

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

Bruce Robinson

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

Paul Levitz

Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Jeff Burton

We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour.

Mark Calcavecchia

Obviously, money is not an issue. They don't need the money, which is nice to be in that position. But it's just golf, you know? It's not a marathon. It's not the Ironman out here, swim 26 miles or something. It's just golf. Take next month off.

Tom Stoppard

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Jeong Kim

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Kara Walker

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Rick Peterson

This puts him on track to open all our options.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

David Toms

It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.

Janet Fitch

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

Bob Berg

It's up to people, whatever recreation they're doing, to do it responsibly.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Mike Vaughn

This remains a tire issue, not a vehicle issue.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Alan Lee

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

David Giuntoli

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that.

David R. Brower

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

David R. Brower

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

David R. Brower

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

Buffalo Bill

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Cesar Pelli

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

Vandana Shiva

When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.

Chief Seattle

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

Eduardo Najera

I'm sure it's going to be pretty wild. Sacramento is wild, regardless. We know it.

Ron Artest

It's cool. That's what they're supposed to do. I'm a Sacramento King, and if you come to Arco Arena, you already know how it's going to be.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.