Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Girardi

Let's let the pitchers concentrate on pitching for a while and then we'll get them their at-bats. Pitchers are getting plenty of batting practice, but we can't win if they don't get people out.

Shane Watson

My batting is up to being in the top six and my bowling is on the improve,

Michael Clarke

My batting at the moment is a lot better than it has been, both mentally and technically.

Kevin Clark

My dad is my everything - my coach, batting instructor, encouragement and motivation. When I go into a situation, I take him with me.

Chris Broad

Obviously they like batting with each other. They're the sort of people who enjoy being out in the middle and the challenge,

Phil Jaques

Obviously my preference is to open the batting but I just hope I'm not seen by people as purely an opener. When I play overseas I rarely open the batting. I batted number four for Yorkshire for most of the season and, in one-day games, I often move into number three ... if the selectors can't find a place for me as an opener, that's fine, I'll take any opportunity in the order.

Graeme Smith

Obviously, Jacques gives us another bowling option, and he'll (also) give us a lot of stability somewhere in the batting order.

Jim Reiland

I can't say enough about the middle of the batting order. (But) another kid that's come through the last couple games is Griffin.

Keith Lieppman

Freddie has been in big-league camp before, but he was never much of a factor. But you have some guys who are late bloomers, and he's one of them. His name seems to pop up every day, whether it's about a play he made out on the field, or how he looked during batting practice.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

C. K. Williams

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Alex Thiermann

French authorities should be encouraged for reporting this so quickly and this allows them, as well as local farmers, to take extra monitoring precautions.

Richard Baker

I was surprised to learn that Puccini wrote The Marriage of Figaro, but much encouraged by the substantial support for the teaching of music in schools.

Doug Thornton

I'm a little more encouraged after walking through it a second time.

Terry McLaughlin

I'm a lot more encouraged than I was a year ago or even a few months ago.

S. Truett Cathy

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

David Bell

I feel great today. I?m really encouraged by the way I feel right now.

Jim Simpson

I feel encouraged by our latest news of the steps the mayor is taking.

Jill Carroll

One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.

Eleanor Porter

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

Deepak Chopra

Challenges arise to make us aware of our inner purpose.

Deepak Chopra

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

Dionne Warwick

I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.

Dave Ramsey

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

Abdul Kalam

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

P. Parks

I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it.

Jim Tunney

We're not disappointed at all. We're excited Bode is there in the first place. We're still very proud of him.

Rob Jordan

Like everything else, you have success, and you like to be recognized for it. I don't know if it necessarily translates into anything on the field, but the kids are excited about it, and it's a neat experience.

Peter Cohan

Mainframes just don't get people excited any more.

Leslie Feist

Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.

Jimmie Johnson

Last year's experience showed me that so much can go on, ... There's no need to get too excited yet.

Stanley Asumnu

Last year, we weren't getting this many people to our games. We're excited that the fans are happy, so we're just happy to give them something to see.

Larry Coker

Selfishly speaking, having Kirby is a tremendous lift for our football team. I'm probably more excited about Kirby now than maybe I've ever been.

Philippe Perrin

So, I thought it was very interesting, very challenging, and I personally like being challenged. So, I overall, I was more excited than anything else.

Brian Kapusta

Mike is excited about heading to states. It's tough to make states even once. I didn't make it until my junior year. He's focused and hungry.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

David Grayson

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Jamaican Proverb

Make a friend when you don't need one

Bill Bradley

Lowell has been a friend for many years. He is someone I respect. I think he is someone who is respected in American life as a stand-up guy,

Dennis Flynn

Leroy Marsh and John Friend made me what I am today,

John Jamison

Mike is a guy who trusts his friends.

Olindo Mare

Matt was a good buddy. He got hurt, though. I don't think it really mattered, friendship or no friendship. You can't punt when you're hurt. That's why they got Donnie, and Donnie had a good game.

Will Rogers

Mayor Scott and I go to the same church. He's a friend of mine ... I just think I can provide stronger leadership.

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.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Matt Birk

Like him or not, say what you want about him, but the guy makes plays. He said he was going to make up for last week, and go out and make some plays. He showed up today.

Clint Hurdle

Luis is having some difficulties getting anything going at the plate. He's not where he needs to be or where he can be offensively, yet. He's 0-for-7 off this guy lifetime. It's a manager's decision.

Dale Lennon

Mac Schneider went down with an injury. The first guy Tyler went against, if I remember right, was an All-American nose guard. Fortunately, we had the lead.

Pudge Rodriguez

(Leyland) is the manager we need. He's a guy I respect very much. We're going to play hard for him.

Frank Robinson

Let's see what has kept this guy where he's been, ... Is he a usable part for next year?

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Fred Funk

Obviously I'm not a power hitter at all,

Stacey Sullivan

She's shown us through the last six months that she can play. She can do it all. She's quick on the bases, she a smart hitter and a talented infielder.

Randy Wilstead

She's one of the most pure hitters I've had.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Tom Seaver

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Lori Cooper

Kim may also play some outside hitter for us this season.

Laura Williams

What I like about this team is that they never give up. We are not big at the net and we need another hitter to step up, but if we stay tough and remain focused, then we'll be competitive.

Ned Yost

He's going to be a 3, 4, 5 hitter throughout his career. He's not going to sit in the seventh spot. And I don't know if you've noticed lately but we haven't been winning too many games, so something's broke.

Ozzie Guillen

Hopefully we can get somebody who can run. I want a second hitter so we can put Iguchi down in the sixth or seventh spot to get more (run production) out of him.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Dan Landon

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Octavio Paz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Cherie Blair

If we're going to truly solve the problems of the world, we've got to share our information whenever we can and strategically include one another in or efforts.

Brian Young

If we included this in the price of our room, it could put us at a competitive disadvantage.

Stella Young

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Jonathan Cherry

She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.

Brandon Flowers

U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about it.

Jai Courtney

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

Heinrich Hoffman

Look at little Johnny there, / Little Johnny Head-In-Air.

Johnny Weir

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

Gabe Kapler

There's not a man in here who doesn't realize Johnny Damon makes us go. He's very important to us.

Gabe Kapler

There's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny makes us go. He's the catalyst.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Johnny Vegas

People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'

Casey Stengel

Johnny Sain doesn't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

William Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.

Tom Chillemi

Left-handers have a natural hook. They really have an advantage.

Mat Iandolo

Obviously, there is a revenge factor. (Indiana is) obviously our natural rival.

Dave Ramsey

Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

A. N. Wilson

She was a natural leader, ... You know when there's a group, somebody always seems to be a leader? She was that.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Michael Redd

Oh, yeah, naturally it's going to be disappointing,

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

William Masters

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Al Reynolds

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.

Jake Gyllenhaal

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

Craig Bradshaw

One more chance. Next season, we have one more chance.

Ed Belfour

One minute, you're a slug. And the next minute, you're a hero.

Sal Mineo

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sidney Ponson

One at a time. The next one after one is two. It's not 10.

Laurence Barron

One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.

Chad Knaus

Obviously, we're parked right next to each other in the garage,

Cory Doctorow

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Charlie Morgan

One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example.

Sam Bush

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Tom Adams

More of this stuff, ... and transportation to places downtown.

Darrel Hoffman

When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.

Dave Ramsey

There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work!

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Dean Atkins

If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to squint to read it.

Tony Domenech

There are other places students can live, and if you want an investment, go to a condo.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Laurie Graham

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Greg Chappell

It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so. What else can I say at this stage?

Angelina Jolie

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Josh Beekman

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Neil LeBlanc

I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferable.

Adrian Lackay

In general, SARS is seen as a preferred creditor.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Jeff Fisher

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

Buck Showalter

The presence of someone like that, really in what should be the prime of his career, is exciting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Nancy Young

We're still going to have a significant presence in Alabama.

Odette Annable

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

Jane Austen

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

David Nicholls

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Mark Jones

My granddad always said, 'Until you have a signed deal, you don't have a deal.'

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

Eugene Levy

No, you don't understand. We want you to sign it now.

David Trimble

Now winter is here and there is still no sign of spring.

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Abdul Kalam

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Alain Wertheimer

I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.

Arne Glimcher

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Alison Bechdel

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Matthew Cooper

Before I spoke to Mr. Rove I didn't know about Wilson having a wife. And he was the one who suggested to me that she worked at the agency,

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Jim Haslett

I don't know that his teammates would actually want him back for what he did.

David Castillo

We want to let him know we're here for him as teammates and family.

Jonathan Toews

When you see him up close, you see all the little things he does and as a teammate it is appreciated.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

Allen Iverson

How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!

Jerome Bettis

My teammates put me on their back and wouldn't let me down.

Dwight Howard

I want to be held accountable. I want my teammates and my coaches to push me to be the best that I can be.

Dwight Howard

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.

Dwight Howard

I know who I am and what kind of teammate I've always been.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Bobby Petrino

No, no, we don't like having the bye week right after the opener,

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

S. Walker

If we play like that every week we will win a lot of games.

Scott Collie

She will be out for at least a week ? anything after that is just speculation at this point.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Charlie Batch

I don't know. You just have to take it week by week, day by day at this point. All I can do is just be ready.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

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.