Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Tracy

We know what kind of defensive center fielder Chris Duffy is. To get him going offensively, it's not going to do us a lot of good, eight games in, to keep going back and forth.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, this will be a financial decision. Do we move all operations to Pittsburgh, (because) the Phoenix center is not big enough so we might have to purchase land. Or do we look at a third location. Eventually, we will concentrate the centers.

Jeffery McManus

Ultimately it is our objective to provide a language-specific development center for every language that matters. It's just a matter of which ones we get to first.

Michael Specter

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Monica Lewinsky

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing a rising increase in children coming through our children's emergency center with injuries.

Allison Watson

We started the push by presenting to partners the importance of people being at the center of how Microsoft delivers value in research and development and for customers.

Heywood Sanders

We're talking about a market where convention centers are giving their space away. There clearly will be winners and losers.

Don Haddox

We start a lot form Tom's feet at center back. Stefan takes over at the midfield and controls things from that point on. He's more or less the distribution source for everything. And Jon and Steve are just really solid workhorses in the midfield. They could play in every minute of every game and through overtime. They're just real fit specimens.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.

Andrew Kerr

We started out really good and were just pounding them, going straight down and having some quality passing, and intensity was high, and then we started to slack off, but then the last 15 to 20 minutes of the second half we started checking and working together.

John Zupanc

We spent the last couple of weeks getting everything in order, checking out the equipment and the timing system. So, I think we're all set. I think everything is in great condition and we're ready to go.

Henry Samueli

We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.

Simon Helberg

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

Mike Stevenson

We're real happy for her, especially for the shot put. (Gilson) threw real far in the first meet and is back up where she needs to be. The weight throw has some improving to do; she kind of declined on it and is real frustrated. She has been watching film on her technique and checking to see if there is anything visible to see if she has some kind of problem throwing it.

Britt Beemer

Shoppers won't just be at the mall this weekend, but they will be checking things out online. Where they find the better deal is where they might actually make the purchase.

Nathaniel Brazill

I can't really remember. I think I pulled out the gun. I was like checking the lock. I was already holding it, and I was fixing to drop it, and I didn't know what was going to happen if I would have dropped it. It all went from there.

Ken Hitchcock

I thought we were a little lethargic during the first two periods with all the travel we've done. Our timing was better and our checking a lot better in the third period. We did a better job of getting ourselves into a scoring position later in the game.

Jo Beverley

Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can make for some very exciting walks. And I love Halifax, a great place with all the modern things you could want, plus a wonderful sense of history, and, of course, the sea.

David Wright

We've got Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Cliff Floyd, guys that have a lot of power.

Masatoshi Sato

U.S. stocks have settled down, but data on the economy is getting worse. Investors are increasingly worried the U.S. economy will fall off a cliff and pull Japan over with it.

Johnny Gimble

When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.

Stacey Widlitz

When the industry was falling off a cliff they made a huge acquisition which was a huge mistake. That's what's driving them into bankruptcy.

The Bride

LOOK You see, The Cliffs of Insanity, Hurry up move the thing, and, and that other thing, MOVE IT

Susan Bewley

There is a sense that we are healthier than we have ever been and it's OK to wait, but as obstetricians we see people falling off the cliff and it saddens me.

John Burnside

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

Peter MacKay

I would say they've got their foot on the gas and they are about to head off a cliff because they are not willing to talk, they are not willing to compromise.

Tommy Amaker

We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.

Bill Trumbo

We were in a hole early. We just couldn't let Williams shoot anymore. I was really pleased with the way we played defensively in the second half.

Nigerian Proverb

When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby

Mark Reiland

We didn't want to be in a hole in the last round, but we really stepped up in a lot of places. Those are pretty big wins for those three.

Ashley Knoll

I think I realized around hole 14 that Virginia wasn't going to mess up. She was playing steady; she was playing safe. I started playing for second (place) around there.

Brad Soderberg

It always seems to be the hole in the dike.

Tom Romance

Kyle has a lot of tournament experience, but it has always been as an individual playing various tours. It's a little different going to a different school with teammates and on relatively different courses. He doesn't have many holes in his game.

George Clooney

What you learn after you're 40 is it's just about plugging up holes in the boat,

Jim Cassidy

I don't want to be in the one hole or the 13 hole because you have to do things you don't want to do.

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

David Cross

I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

David Suzuki

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

Mark Adams

We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,

William Shakespeare

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Bill Rodgers

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

Bernie Mac

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Nick Clooney

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.

Marc Ward

For years people had never seen a nest hatch, but they're seeing them now. It's incredible.

Alice Munro

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Rich Ballinger

We're really proud that our students can go play Raven Nest for $5 on weekdays and $8 on weekends.

Mick Shutt

At least we got the nest out of there.

Jack Hanna

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

George W. Bush

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Horace

Hatched in the same nest.

Alexander Milinkevich

This is a sheer farce, this is not a real trial.

Ron Faust

The sheer volume of Vietnam veterans now is overwhelming.

Harvey Fierstein

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Rhett Miller

We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Chris Carmack

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

Caitlin Kittredge

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

James Patterson

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

William Shakespeare

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

Kurt Vonnegut

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Kurt Vonnegut

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

Bob Mould

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.