Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

Bob Lilly

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

Phil Savage

We felt like we made a lot of strides and are beginning to put some things in place that are going to help us become a winning team. We know we have a long way to go. Being in a tough division with Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cincinnati will elevate our play and elevate our standards. In order for us to compete in our own division, we're going to have to get a lot better and a lot quicker.

Jerome Holtzman

Years later, I was in Baltimore one day and I talked to (then-manager) Johnny Oates. He said, 'You changed the game. You created the ninth-inning pitcher.' I said, 'It was the managers who did it. They started holding back their best relief pitchers to get saves.'

James Cook

There are more and more talented women conductors around the world and they're going to make their mark. I would think Baltimore would be happy to have Alsop, she's an fine conductor.

Kevin Byrne

Getting games such as this to Baltimore is difficult because Maryland wants home games and Navy wants home games and they both want them at their own facilities,

Tim Wakefield

Kevin will be missed. He was the guy that always kept things light and humorous and funny. Baltimore is getting a pretty good hitter and a great teammate, a guy that makes things fun.

Mink Stole

John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.

Cynthia Payne

I was living in Baltimore and had a 30-minute commute, but now I live in Charlottesville, and I only have to drive 10 minutes to the office,

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

John Chrysostom

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

Trey Gowdy

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

George Fox

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

Chris Witty

I felt guilty. This was a neighbor my parents entrusted me with. He was a great guy, as far as they knew.

Boris Johnson

I've always known my life would be turned into a farce. I'm just glad it's been entrusted to two such distinguished men of letters.

Oscar Goodman

They just need to be able to recover so they can go back and do what the Lord has entrusted them to do,

Ali Alatas

I come here this time as the special envoy of the secretary general on UN reform only, not as someone who is entrusted with the task of talking about the situation in Myanmar.

Rep. Andrews

I am prepared to serve the people of our state in whatever position I am entrusted to hold.

Carl Snowden

We want to remind voters how precious the franchise is.

Jeffrey Lurie

The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.

Jack Kelly

I think the (brand) franchise is very much intact. However, I think they have to start performing.

Derrick Brooks

For whatever reason, as a team, we haven't been able to get it done, ... It's one of the things we talked about in training camp, doing things that this franchise has never done before.

Sage Rosenfels

Hopefully this will turn things around and get this franchise back to its winning ways.

Shane Battier

Pau played a man's game tonight. That's what a franchise player does.

Gary Bettman

Long term for all franchises, especially for a well-run franchise like the Avalanche, having a predictable, stable system is better.

Donnie Nelson

Michael has played a huge role in rebuilding this franchise and taking it to where it is today.

Steve Kelley

He saved this franchise really. I think this franchise would be in L.A now if it weren't for him.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Eden Phillpotts

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

John Prendergast

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

Bryant H. McGill

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Aristotle

The greatest victory is over self.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Joker Phillips

We've seen a different John Logan this week. He practiced like he knew he was going to play, which is good, because we need him.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Dick Cheney

Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people,

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Diane Watson

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

August Wilson

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Bjarne Stroustrup

Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Maya Angelou

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Al Davis

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Arlen Specter

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Louie Perez

We ran with them in the first half. We picked up fouls and we couldn't press.

Robin Hobb

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Billy Tubbs

There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too.

Will Shortz

Well, you could have picked Salem, your capital, but Scio works.

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alain Vigneault

I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy.

Al Kaline

All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

Al Hirt

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

Al Barlick

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

Chris Christie

Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

Chris Bosh

I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be.

Chris Bosh

When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.