Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Bob Bote

When he first came up as a sophomore he wasn't a very good hitter. He was weak and he had really slow bat speed. He batted in the nine hole as a sophomore.

Pat Merrill

We wanted to win the battles all over the floor and that's what we did.

Joey Eischen

We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no wind left in our sails because of our schedule. Twenty-two extra road games beats you down.

Michael Vaughan

We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series.

Tara King

We were trying to do that with Battle Mountain, and I think we needed to slow it down. We weren't being smart with our passes.

John Blackburn

We were tougher today in facing the adversity, knowing that it is going to come and how you deal with it. A good example was in the two doubles match and Chris Thomas pulled a muscle in his abs. He didn't quit and kept battling and that was probably one of the biggest matches today.

J. Horton

We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.

Sen Brownlee

We have protected the state of Kansas from her and her ideas as best we can. Now, there will be that battle of who's really done what and who gets credit for it.

Emily Martin

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

Jack White

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

Mike Lero

We're still a young team. Hopefully, this carries over to next year if we get the same group out and even more kids.

Mike Marsden

Until you need the service, you don't understand and the implication of someone that's in need of help carries a long response time. When people realize it and understand it, I want to convey that message.

Matt Mullenweg

There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets.

Michael Phelps

When we have a home crowd like this and the excitement that we have, it carries us a long way, ... We knew it was going to be tough. The Aussies weren't going to roll over and let us dominate. That's how they are, and how they've always been.

David Olson

Mr. Page is the real story of this season. The way he carries himself, the way he inspires people. He may not always see us, but we all see him.

M. Wolfe

Motion carries and Mr. Bird's here for another six years,

Randy Smith

Mr. Cook generally carries a knife and he was that day.

Laura Halldorson

We have to focus on playing solid defense to minimize scoring opportunities for our opponents because we probably aren't going to put up the numbers we put up last year. But winning by one or two is the same result as winning by four or five.

Junior Seau

Whenever the defense needed to get off the field, we didn't execute. We recognize that, and hopefully it won't happen again.

Jeff Gundy

When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots.

Charles Tillman

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Alan Bennett

We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our defense is better this year. If we play better in the second half of the game this year, we'll do better.

Adam Kennedy

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Ted Cruz

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

Rashad Anderson

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

Manny Legace

We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.

Ronald Coleman

We have to go up there and have another defensive mindset and get the job done.

Jeff Herron

We have to force them to be one dimensional. We need to take away the run, put them in passing situations and then let our defensive line and secondary do what they do best. We've had a good pass rush, and we have a good secondary.

Gary Moody

We have some depth on the defensive line. We just don't have any game experience.

Rich Conover

We wanted to try to set the tone on the defensive end and really take it to Albany early. We felt like we wanted to establish our presence here at home and I thought we did a great job of that early on.

Shanna Zolman

We were trying to make our defensive pressure so great to put pressure on them.

Lindy Ruff

This was as good a game as I've seen us put together from an offensive standpoint and defensive standpoint.

P. J. Harvey

We did not have enough effort at the defensive end of the floor in the first half. We did a better job in the second half. We had to do a better job defensively. They were rotating and their kids were running hard through the screens. (Nolan) does a nice job running their sets.

Greg Garmen

We did not have any zip in our step all night and it really showed up on the defensive end of the floor.

Kaylee Brown

We did not do well on the defensive end. We gave them a lot of uncontested three's. We just didn't defend.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Steve Lemke

Now we're taking what we had and putting it on steroids,

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

David Seabury

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Elie Wiesel

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Denise Levertov

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance....

Kiki Nesbitt

That was one of the sparks for the show itself.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Alice Munro

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

Ryan Hendrick

It was your TV 'Cops,' sparks all over the place.

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.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Lorenzo Bundy

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

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

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.

Rigoberto Medina

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

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.

Dan Nobbs

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