Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernie Harwell

McDonough said, referring to the Hall-of-Fame announcer who spent more than four decades as the voice of the Detroit Tigers. ''I thought I'd be with the Red Sox all my career. Really, it's the only play-by-play job I ever wanted.

Michael Crowley

One would be hard-pressed to find an announcer who served as the lead play-by-play voice for three major sports franchises for as long as Bill.

Dan Gilroy

I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

Ernie Harwell

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

Ed Goren

When we began to consider the type of play-by-play announcer that we wanted to lead our BCS coverage, we knew we needed someone that would look at this as something more than a job, and for that, we didn't have to look very far. Thom's passion and enthusiasm for college football, combined with his big-game voice, made him the perfect choice. I am positive that college football fans from coast-to-coast will enjoy listening to him next January.

Ernie Harwell

What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.

Dave Wright

We're always thrilled when we get ex-big leaguers to play for us. Now, we're getting a former major league announcer to work for us.

Greg Mattison

Bryan told an Iowa announcer earlier in the year that if UF played Iowa, Mom would root for Iowa because she loves her son more. There's probably a good chance of that. I don't know. The thing I keep in mind with her is the car she drives is being paid by Florida.

George Bernard Shaw

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Lawrence Sivils

Meeting Kobe Bryant is a great feeling. I've got family here, I've got all my friends. It's just a great honor that I'll never forget.

Jeff Solomon

I can't predict what will happen in the future because it is in the club's control. But Bryan loves it there.

W. S. Gilbert

Because so many people have been displaced from the hurricane, I understand there are about 300 people in Benton and 300 in Bryant who are without anything.

Joel Kinnaman

I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.

Ted Saskin

I have spoken with Bryan and he expressed great remorse. I remain confident that this is an isolated occurrence in our sport.

Ted Saskin

I have spoken with Bryan and he expressed great remorse.

Andre Iguodala

I didn't really know that. Fans really get hold of that type of information when you pass on a guy. Kobe Bryant was the 13th pick, Tracy McGrady was the ninth pick. You never really know until you step on the court, so you really can't fault them.

Valerie Azlynn

If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

Donnie Wilson

We'd love to stay in downtown Bryan and be a part of its rebirth. I think we'd be a valuable resource and reason for people to come to downtown Bryan.

Alexandra Paul

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Alexandra Paul

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

Alexandra Paul

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

Itzhak Perlman

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

Israel Horovitz

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Richard Rogers

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Richard Rogers

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Richard P. Feynman

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Robert Kazinsky

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

Kyler Hall

We're not disappointed in A.J. at all. He's our teammate and he's our brother. You never want to see one of teammates get in a situation like that. I haven't had the chance to speak with him, but I would like a chance to before the game, just to let him know that we're all with him. I'm pretty sure he knows that already though.

Dick Vermeil

We're not concerned about the playoffs. Right now our concern is playing well Saturday. That's all that matters. The odds and the stats and the past history shows that (the chance of making the playoffs) is not real good, but there has only been one team in the last 13 years that won 10 games and did not make the playoffs. We have a chance to win 10, but you can't do that until you win No. 9. For us, it's all about Saturday.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Scott Sickau

Like I always tell my girls, a lot of people always wish they could go do something but they never get the chance of doing it. I may never get rich, but it's like getting on the back of a stallion with no saddle. You get on and hang on and see where it's going to take you.

Oronde Gadsden

Like everyone else in here, I hope those two moves are the moves that help us get past that playoff level to the next level. They had a chance to get Ricky, and they went out and did it. And it's like everybody says, we're going to ride him until the wheels fall off.

Dick LeBeau

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

Phil Simms

Make Denver make the decision here. In other words, put pressure on Mike Shanahan. What's he gonna do? Is he gonna run it and maybe waste a down because it might not gain a lot of yards, or does he take the chance and throw it and if it's incomplete it stops the clock. That's what the Patriots are hoping for.

Carlos Zambrano

Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.

Frank Sinatra

Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it

John Monroe

One-terabyte hard drives will be standard repositories for movies, music and games in the home.

Geoff Pemble

My day job is as a lawyer and I enjoy my job very much. But I think I've known for most of my life that in my heart, I'm a musician and music is what really drives me.

Jennifer Young

My husband drives 150 miles round trip to work everyday to Sheridan...biggest thing with the gas.

Alex Rodriguez

Obviously, October is something I need to improve on this year. Winning a World Series, that drives me to the core.

Twyla Tharp

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Jerramy Stevens

If we had a short field, some of those drives would have been scoring drives. We just played on the wrong side of the field today.

Ron Hamm

I go up and down Highway 66 here everyday, and I see the remnants of what used to be: The small little hotels, the gas stations, the mom and pop stores, the grocery stores and convenience stores that used to be here 30 years ago, and it hurts. The population is increasing in the area, but everyone drives to Barstow.

Elizabeth Darger

She's a terrific shooter that has a long range. She also uses the backboard well, drives well and has a sense for the basket.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's our heart and soul. Her spirit and enthusiasm are what drives us.

Robert Rainy

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Bret Tuetken

Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier today that someone is going to get open shots.

Omar Abdullah

Let them repeat what they have already told the prime minister in earlier meetings but they must show their presence.

Kevin Parker

Looks to me like we'll have to light it earlier than we thought.

Tracy Mullin

Many stores opened earlier than ever before and retailers offered unbelievable sales and discounts to get people shopping.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the robust pace seen earlier this year.

John Ryan

One time when I was working, earlier in the night we had been given notice by the UP to be on the lookout for a gentleman who was possibly stealing bikes. It was around 2:45 in the morning that we actually saw him. As soon as we went to radio it into base, the UP surrounded Epsilon (where we saw him at).

Richard Carmona

More teens are using marijuana at earlier ages, ... We really need to stop these trends.

Matthew Ashford

Now we go out to eat earlier - at 5 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. It's better that way, especially when you have little kids who want to run around.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Joe Trippi

Look, we haven't won Iowa or New Hampshire, a vote hasn't been cast,

Terry Brands

To Tom, the Iowa job means something he's been working for his whole life.

Terry Branstad

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

Al Sharpton

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

Al Sharpton

The GOP`s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

Buffalo Bill

My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.

Chuck Grassley

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

Chuck Grassley

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

Bob Bowlsby

Many have Iowa ties, but not everyone. My preference is someone with Iowa ties and roots.

James M. Barrie

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Paola Mendoza

From what she tells me, she loves school and can't wait to go every day.

Gail Simmons

I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

Richard Hatch

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

Laura Moore

She's so in shape and she loves sports.

Curtis Jackson

She's a typical girl. She loves shoes. She loves going shoe shopping, right in mom's closet.

Sally Zimmerman

She's been doing that all year. She did it in the district. She loves this type of atmosphere. It's in her blood. She doesn't have any fear.

Jennifer Gray

She has a lot of social stimulation and she loves music, so she has singing activities, ... She's safe and well-cared for - I know that.

Joe Martin

She always wanted to do music, she loves performing and composition.

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Ciara

Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.

Brian Kirshon

Mom has very strong religious beliefs, and that was not something she would entertain.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.

Brent White

Mom didn't have breast cancer, it was another form. Still, this was all about them.

Lisa Klofkorn

Mom can't get that, she's up on the ladder.

Jack Straw

one of the appropriate moments to make this clear.

Matthew Taylor

Odd. I will remember that moment till the day I die.

Don McCormack

Now the momentum is in our favor, ... We will just try to ride it as long as we can because we are on a roll.

Aaron Brown

New Orleans dodged a bullet. It was the moment for viewers and in some respects for me that we understood it was not getting better, it was getting worse.

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Dave Ramsey

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Walter Dean Myers

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

Lela Rochon

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

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.

Kenko Yoshida

Love. Its roots are deep. Its source unknowable.

Charles Olson

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Dennis Prager

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done...

Gary Beach

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

Elizabeth Blackwell

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Deepak Chopra

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

Alan Cohen

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

Alexandra Adornetto

How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Chris Cornell

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Chris Cornell

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

Chris Cornell

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Chris Cornell

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

Chris Cornell

Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.

Chris Cornell

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

Chris Cornell

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.