Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Van Dyke

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

Dana Wagner

From top to bottom, one through 12, our kids are very talented. We have 12 softball players, which is a nice feeling. A lot of them have played together on Perry's summer league (Northern Illinois Thunder) team.

Nancy Barr

To us, it's novel. In Illinois (where we are from), this would not sell. They don't like this style.

Dick Durbin

Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it"?

Bill Lipinski

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Bill Robinson

What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

Steve Rauschenberger

What he's going to do I think is stretch out the payment cycle. What he's going to do is essentially make the providers of the state of Illinois pay for it by paying them more re-imbursements and more slowly.

Carol Moseley Braun

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Bruce Rauner

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Laurence Steinberg

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

Steve Mullins

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Jennifer Ebelhar

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

E. Hicks

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Ned Yost

Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.

Tim Giel

Last year, we had only six kids wrestle at the section tournament. This year, we have 11 kids entered.

Andy Coulombe

Last year when we came, we had some kids who went two-and-out, but this year every kid won a match.

Steven Jackson

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

Frank Haith

Obviously we're disappointed. But we've got to get ourselves emotionally ready to come back. That's what this league is all about. This league is that good.

Rocky Nelson

Now we are ready to open our Middlesex League season. This worked out well and this is where I thought we would be.

Dennis Eckersley

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

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Bill Belichick

There are only three teams in the league that have a better record than they do.

Byron Scott

(NBA commissioner David) Stern and the league put us all in a bind. We understand the situation. We're going to play another year in Oklahoma City, and then after that we have no idea what's going to happen.

Mat Sprague

I would have rather had a league title for the school and the kids, but it's an accomplishment I'm proud of.

Ebenezer Ekuban

I'm at a loss for words. I've been in the league seven years and I've never experienced anything like it before.

George Carlin

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people

Winston Churchill

My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,

John Shepard

Now that Andrew's over his hamstring injury, it's nice to have him,

Joe Thornton

Obviously it would have been nice to win that game, but we've got to go right back at it (tonight).

Tom Selleck

Obviously, it's one passion of mine. I mean, I don't always want to do westerns, but it's nice to always kind of have one in the works.

Steven Smith

Obviously it's nice to win, but people are in it for the exposure.

Charles Olson

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

Diane Lane

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Diane Kruger

When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

Chris Evert

Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Michael Wolff

When the source is a story. That's a softball question.

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Alan Jackson

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

Dave Barry

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

Catherine Bell

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

David Duval

Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Charlaine Harris

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

Chris Frantz

When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

Charles Spurgeon

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Charles Morgan

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Dennis Quaid

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

Deborah Smith

Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure and privilege to know her as a person as it is to translate her work. She's been over for two UK publicity tours, which means lots of time to chat on trains etc., and she was hear all last summer for a writer's residency in Norwich, where I got to meet her son too.

Deborah Smith

I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.

Dean Smith

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sound loves to revel in a summer night.

Edgar Allan Poe

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

Chris Crocker

No. No, no, no. We thought we were good. We just wanted to put it all together. Put it together and play together as a team.

Patrick Sheehan

Now we'll have to get together and work out what to do,

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Dennis Quaid

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Edgar Allan Poe

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

Eddie Vedder

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence...

Ed Miliband

The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Eric Clapton

Musically, Nathan is in the Top 3 as a bassist.

Anne Byrn

Now that would be way too much for the top of a cake.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).