Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Delgado

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Carlos Beltran

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Carlos Beltran

I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

Carlos Beltran

When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Carl Everett

As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.

Carl Crawford

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Harold Gehman

We have no savings and we're essentially moving the airplanes from one very very good base to another very very good base.

John Brain

We have named our team based on our pre-season friendlies and feel that it is a strong line up to take on Gloucester,

Carol Moseley Braun

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Carol Vorderman

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Carl Andre

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

C. S. Lewis

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

C. S. Lewis

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

Mats Sundin

We have to get away from that. We have to cut down on the breakdowns in our end.

Todd Steiner

We have new folks moving in who don't understand the proper etiquette for being a good neighbor to the fish. People move to the forest and then cut down the trees around their lot so they can have more sunlight.

Dwayne Jarrett

When he got the ball, he ran to his right, spinning off two defenders. At the same time he was spinning away, more (defensive help) was coming. And just when one guy had him, (Bush) cut to his left and the guy dove to the right. I never saw anything like it. We watched it a million times ... even put it in slow motion. It was all instinct.

Jeff Sessions

... When he elevates terrorists over other people who may well deserve pardons much more, or having their sentence cut much more, he has abused his power and abused his office,

Ed Koch

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Eve Plumb

I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

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.

Frank Hamblen

Right now it isn't realistic. This franchise has had a lot of success for a long time, and they're redoing it. Sometimes you have to pay the piper, and we're going to have to pay the piper for a while. That's the way it is.

Stan Chesley

No outsider has ever seen the profit and loss statement of a franchise or of the league itself.

Gary Green

One-third young guys, one-third in the middle and one-third experienced. It's how you keep a franchise consistently good.

Bob McNair

A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

Jeffrey Lurie

When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.

Don Fertman

We're talking about how every franchisee counts. Any franchise owner can talk to Fred and make his or her ideas known.

Tim Duncan

We had a great season, a franchise record. It's all gone now.

Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

Ma Kai

The outline reflects the general will of the public.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

John Noble

'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

John Eaton

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Brian Schweitzer

When he goes out to meet people, he doesn't come off real,

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Jessica Biel

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Uzo Aduba

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Jimmy Swaggart

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Bill Brewer

We want that little patch that goes on our (letter) jackets.

John Fredriksen

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Arun Jaitley

We have narrowed down the differences and are hopeful of reaching an understanding very soon.

Dee Bell

We have so many weapons on this team, we hope they'll just pick their poison on defense.

Tom DeLay

What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.

Steve Forbes

What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race.

Laura Bush

When you see all these people working on it, I feel hopeful that people will be reunited,

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Megan Snow

We want our furniture. If we can't get our furniture, we hope to get our money back.

Howard Schultz

We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).

Chris Cooper

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone

Louis Honore

We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days.

Chad Hitchen

We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.

Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Holly Holm

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

Demi Lovato

The more active I am, the better I feel and the longer I can stay onstage without losing my breath.

Vini Dawson

Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.

Lindsay Whorton

Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

John Walls

She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

Christine McVie

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Floyd Skloot

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Bhagavad Gita

Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Simon Schama

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Todd Graham

This (program) was tough to turn around, but that's what I do.

Jan Karon

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

Scott Cross

We've got a tough draw, but what the heck. They're all tough at this point.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Demi Lovato

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

Agnes Varda

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Ricky Gervais

I like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Don Cheadle

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.