Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

Sam Allen

We want to show that we're just like our neighbors. We go to ball games, we go to the grocery store, we go to church. We just happen to be Democrats.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Buddy Ebsen

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

Camille Paglia

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

C. L. R. James

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Eric Foust

The other thing that killed us was that punt. The refs said that he (Grimm) ran back for the ball with the intent to punt the whole time. How's our kid supposed to know that that this guy's intention is to punt? That was the turning point in the football game.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Charles Spurgeon

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

Chita Rivera

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh

Chinua Achebe

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

David Crystal

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Dave Barry

Actually, there are people from all ove - not just Latin America, certainly not just Cuba, but all over Europe, all over the United States. I like that. I like knowing a lot of different types of people. And I can afford to live in a relatively safe part of Miami.

Carl Sagan

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Cesar Romero

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Cesar Romero

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

Carter G. Woodson

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Bruce Barber

We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

Richard Smallwood

The person recovered after two weeks and was well when released from hospital. There was no spread of SARS from this patient to his contacts.

Billy Joe Saunders

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

Bernard Levin

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Leo Bokeria

Unfortunately it is banal, utterly banal. A patient who was not treated has died. That is all there is to say.

Rick Colby

Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue.

Jane Goodall

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

Eli Broad

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

Austin O'Malley

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Dwight Freeman

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

Mike Carey

We're just not comfortable with our go-to players in the stretch.

Pat Gillick

We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Richard Watson

We didn't strike to give up more and get less, but that's what happened.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Arnold Palmer

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Tim Donovan

Whether you have to go to Groveland or Timbuktu, ... there should always be an official. It's tough to find volunteers.

Avery Johnson

We're making progress, but it was just a tough loss.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know (what to do), ... If we have to make a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know, ... If it's a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision. But I don't know what we're going to do. Mel has written it down all the way to the end of the season, but there are a lot of scratch-outs.